I'd go for EYE-nay-ooo.
Spoilers New Picard TV Series and Litverse Continuity (may contain TV show spoilers)
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I guess no Picard books will come out set after the season 3 finale unless the Seven of Nine spin-off is confirmed *not* to be happening? If the Seven show is confirmed then perhaps there will be more tie in novels and comics though leading up to the series. There is one whole year to play with from the destruction of the Borg cube at Jupiter leading up to Seven’s promotion, some of which could even be set onboard the Enterprise D once more.
And there's gaps to fill about what so and so who didn't appear in the show was doing during that time. What unseen part they may have played.
If only they, you know, released Star Trek novels these days.
Do you have a source on that? memory-alpha researches never found anything, just people claiming what you are.
They do. Pretty sure there’s a couple on the calendar
Carefully.
(I tend to pronounce it as either in-AY-ee-oo or in-AY-oo, depending on my mood. But my Denebian is really rusty!
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The only unreleased Trek novel from S&S on schedule is the new Disco novel due out end of May. Titan has the Sisko Autobiography out in October. Otherwise, that's it for the rest of the year.
Random question again. We met the Solanae again in a TTN novel. Did the Temporal Apocalypse affect fluidic space and the Solanae’s sub space realm?
When I was a kid, I assumed every “main universe” comes with its own mirror universe and fluidic space attached. But “Places of Exile” says there is one fluidic space only.
When I was a kid, I assumed every “main universe” comes with its own mirror universe and fluidic space attached. But “Places of Exile” says there is one fluidic space only.
So I remember reading about that whole Caeliar storyline with a great Borg invasion of 2381 that happened in the novels and from a purely real world perspective, which story do you feel was a better sendoff for the Borg, this novel storyline or Picard Season 3?
I was playing the PC game Star Trek Legacy a short time ago and it ends with a massive battle between the Federation and the Borg taking place after Voyager Endgame. I always had an easier time mentally removing book canon than game canon but even I have a hard time fitting this game into my headcanon in light of Picard, although *maybe* we can say T'uerell's Borg in the game is a Borg faction that, like Jurati's, somehow is disconnected from the mainstream Borg which are in a decayed state.
I was playing the PC game Star Trek Legacy a short time ago and it ends with a massive battle between the Federation and the Borg taking place after Voyager Endgame. I always had an easier time mentally removing book canon than game canon but even I have a hard time fitting this game into my headcanon in light of Picard, although *maybe* we can say T'uerell's Borg in the game is a Borg faction that, like Jurati's, somehow is disconnected from the mainstream Borg which are in a decayed state.
This is just personal opinion, but I'd have to go with Destiny. That story was epic.
I would definitely say Destiny was a better "grand finale" for the Borg than "Vox"/"The Last Generation." Both were fun, but there was a level of depth and artistic accomplishment Destiny reached that "Vox"/"The Last Generation" wasn't able to. In fairness, "Vox"/"The Last Generation" had different artistic goals than Destiny -- Destiny wasn't consciously trying to be a nostalgic "Getting the Band Back Together" story like "Vox"/"The Last Generation."
I don't particularly see that the Queen's motivations were meaningfully different in either story though. In both stories, she's starving (or, rather, in Destiny we learn that the Queen always feels as though she is starving, because she is in a state of eternal insatiable hunger as a result of the damage Sedin underwent), resentful, seeks to rule others, and is deeply lonely. It was actually really interesting to me how the two stories were similar in that regard.
I don't particularly see that the Queen's motivations were meaningfully different in either story though. In both stories, she's starving (or, rather, in Destiny we learn that the Queen always feels as though she is starving, because she is in a state of eternal insatiable hunger as a result of the damage Sedin underwent), resentful, seeks to rule others, and is deeply lonely. It was actually really interesting to me how the two stories were similar in that regard.
I was referring to the season two Borg arc and Jurati absorbing the alternate Borg Queen with empathy, which I feel corresponds more directly with the was the Borg are used in a literary sense in Destiny. The season 3 version has an uncomfortable "putting them out of their misery" aspect to the Borg Queen.
I mean, wasn't there a "putting her out of her misery" aspect to the Caeliar realizing the Queen was the decayed remnants of Sedin's consciousness and killing her?
Excellent point. If I were Alex Kurtzman, I would probably have a retcon inserted somewhere explaining that the vast majority of the drones of the Borg Collective were liberated by Janeway's neurolytic virus rather than killed. As it stands, I think the canon implies mass death but there's still some wiggle room.
I'd assume the Devidians were snacking on the life-energy of fluidic space and the Solanae realm because versions of those domains were connected to the splinter timeline; but other variants would exist connected to the prime timeline.
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Ooo, I had not noticed until now that one of the Sovereign-class ships in PIC 3.09 is the U.S.S. Warspite (NCC-74922), obviously named for the legendary H.M.S. Warspite. I wonder if this naming is a coincidence of naval fandom or if the staff read David Mack's The Fall - A Ceremony of Losses, featuring a such-named Sovereign-class vessel commanded by one of the false President Ishan's supporters in 2385.
For reference, Dave Blass noted that the Warspite is marked as number 6 in these shots of the squadron led by the Enterprise-F.
Ooo, I had not noticed until now that one of the Sovereign-class ships in PIC 3.09 is the U.S.S. Warspite (NCC-74922), obviously named for the legendary H.M.S. Warspite. I wonder if this naming is a coincidence of naval fandom or if the staff read David Mack's The Fall - A Ceremony of Losses, featuring a such-named Sovereign-class vessel commanded by one of the false President Ishan's supporters in 2385.
For reference, Dave Blass noted that the Warspite is marked as number 6 in these shots of the squadron led by the Enterprise-F.
