Has Stuff From The Paramount+ Shows Shown Up In The Older Shows' Novels or Comics?

[JD]

I was wondering now that they've been around a while, if we've started to see stuff from the Paramount+ shows showing up in the books and comics from the older shows? Things like Uhura remembering her friendship with Hemmer in TOS novel, or a California class showing in a TNG novel or comic. I know we had Shrax in the ongoing comics, but that's the only thing like that I know of.

 

[Avro Arrow]

The title character from Picard played a major role in the last TNG novel I read.

(Apologies, I jest.)

a California class showing in a TNG novel or comic

Nog was stationed aboard the California class USS Saticoy in Coda: The Ashes of Tomorrow.

I have a thought in my head that there was also a reference to one of the new shows in a recent Greg Cox novel, but I don't remember what it is (or even if there really was such a reference).

 

[JD]

Cool, Nog on a California class is exactly the kind of thing I'm talking about.
It's shame Aaron Eisenberg died before Lower Decks started, Nog would have been a fun character to have on it.

 

[Smiley]

Una McCormack incorporated a lot of material from the streaming era into her Spock autobiography.

 

[Stevil2001]

Giorgiou was in one of those "lists of historically significant captains" they love to do in Star Trek in one of Dayton's last TNG novels (Available Light, I think).

 

[The Wormhole]

TNG Pliable Truths also features a California class ship.

I have a thought in my head that there was also a reference to one of the new shows in a recent Greg Cox novel, but I don't remember what it is (or even if there really was such a reference).

I think it's The Antares Maelstrom, which mentions someone having a model of the USS Shenzhou on display

 

[Greg Cox]

I haven't done anything substantive, but, as noted, I'll throw in a reference or two, here and there.

I think I also referenced the Klingon War in The Antares Maelstrom, and had Spock casually mention his DISCO-era beard in A Contest of Principles. ("It was not universally well-received," he recalls.)

I may also occasionally name-check a planet or alien species from the new shows, just for variety's sake.

 

[Christopher]

I referenced a fair amount from Discovery in TOS: The Higher Frontier: The "logic extremists"' attack on Spock's family, Spock's dyslexia-like L'tak Terai condition, the Malachowski class of starships, and the nominal dissolution of Section 31 at the end of DSC season 2. Living Memory referenced the First Klingon War from DSC, and nodded to Lower Decks with mentions of buffer time and research asteroids.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Cool, Nog on a California class is exactly the kind of thing I'm talking about.
It's shame Aaron Eisenberg died before Lower Decks started, Nog would have been a fun character to have on it.

As well as that, and the obvious references to ST Picard's version of Riker, the ultra-advanced mirror universe tech is Disco's programmable matter under any other name.

 

[Christopher]

the ultra-advanced mirror universe tech is Disco's programmable matter under any other name.

I'm pretty sure Dave introduced that tech in his MU novels long before Discovery came along. If not, the catoms in Dave's Destiny trilogy beat Discovery to the punch by quite a few years. What DSC calls "programmable matter" is really more like catom-style nanotech. The original use of the term, long before DSC adopted it, referred more to a material whose electron shells' quantum states could be modified to allow it to mimic the optical, thermal, conductive, tactile, and other properties of any desired element or compound, even ones not found in nature. So that, for instance, a wall could be reprogrammed to be a window or a mirror or a light source, or have its color or texture altered at will. Or a surface could be programmed to feel and behave like metal, glass, stone, rubber, or whatever.

Although I guess DSC's programmable matter is not unlike the advanced version that Wil McCarthy called "wellstone" in his novel series The Queendom of Sol. Wellstone could not only transform itself into any substance, but could replicate anything on a molecular level, and was used for a form of teleportation in which people were broken down by one slab of wellstone and reassembled by another, often with the wellstone editing their molecular patterns to cure illness or injury, prevent aging, or modify their bodies as desired.