I'm not familiar.
Spoilers List of novelverse continuity discrepancies - errors, different authorial directions, and more
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I thought she came back to the Enterprise later. I distinctly remember her bitching to Q about how his trick on the conn officer during his first appearance messed up that officer something fierce during I think Q&A.
^It was Kadohata (who served on the D as well as the E) who talked during Q&A about knowing that officer, not Vale.
Oh shoot, you're right. My bad!
When was that used besides Imzadi and various Strange New Worlds short stories?
I think that was a joke.
I am aware of modern Irish history, but I do not think your analogy applies. TNG - "The Mind's Eye" and TNG - "The Perfect Mate" transpire only a year apart. How does it make sense that the Klingons would tolerate jeghpu'wI' fighting petty squabbles within Klingon borders? Unless you mean to tell me that "centuries of war" between the Kriosians and Valtese is a disappointingly deflating application of the term "war" by virtue of actionless cold war. And Vagh did not seem to be fighting for control of Krios on his own merit without the sanction of the High Council. In VOY - Architects of Infinity, El'nor Sal mentions visiting Krios in the 2350s at the approval of the local government, which had successfully enforced a social taboo against sharing Kriosian DNA with outsiders for a long time.
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I think a lot of colonial powers wouldn't mind squabbles if it didn't affect them, and if it diverted attention from fighting with them.
That was another weird discrepancy that I though was going to pay off in some way, but then nothing.
Well the first splinter
officially starts at First Contact, but since it's existence relies on long-past events from Destiny, time may do a wibbly-wobbly thing. I'm reminded of the last Star Trek Encyclopedia, where it's speculated that Nero's incursion may have affected events prior to 2233 in the Kelvin timeline. And Picard's speculation that the Borg may have more than one origin kinda future-proofs things against any future incompatible Borg origin stories.
That would be a weird way to introduce a divergence between the novelverse and the prime timeline, given that the novelverse had already followed up on the prime timeline version of Geordi’s mother’s disappearance in Indistinguishable from Magic.
Well, it is just a handwave for continuity inconsistencies, after all, so it's only the inconsistent parts that happened differently. The assumption is that every canonical, onscreen event up through Nemesis happened the same way in both Prime and First Splinter, but those specific things in the novels that new canon contradicts are handwaved away as happening differently in the alternate timeline.
I know that, Christopher; your ability to explain the obvious as if it’s new information remains unparalleled. What I’m saying is that if there was an intention to create additional divergences between the novelverse and the canon timeline, it would be weird to do so using a piece of canon that the novelverse had already featured semi-prominently in an unchanged way.
Oh, I see what you mean. I misunderstood which post you were responding too. Sorry.
and here i thought i was the only one who noticed
Ah, the precursor to my favourite game: develop a head-canon that explains the discrepancies to fit everything together.