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Spoilers New Picard TV Series and Litverse Continuity (may contain TV show spoilers)

Sure, but even with crime series, it's still pretty note worth for a tie-in line to last this long past the show it's based on.

I wonder if the MSW novels are still the formulaic murder-of-the-week sort, or if they've evolved into greater complexity. (And also I wonder how Jessica keeps getting away with it.)
 
The Murder, She Wrote series seems to be primarily the work of one author (Donald Bain) who passed away last October. He wrote an average of two novels a year beginning in 1994, for a total of 47 novels. He was a ghostwriter most famous (or not) for writing all of Margaret Truman's novels.

If Bain decided not to write any Murder, She Wrote novels, and stick to his own fiction instead or other ghostwriting opportunities, there would be no Murder, She Wrote expanded universe.
 
Jessica Fletcher is the series' main character played by Angela Lansbury.
 
No more than "Final Frontier" the giant novel and and the novelisation of "ST V: The Final Frontier".
Or "ENTERPRISE: The First Adventure" for that matter.
Jessica Fletcher is the series' main character played by Angela Lansbury.
Donald Bain also writes the novels under the pseudonym Jessica Fletcher as (I presume) part of the licensing agreement, a metafictional conceit because the TV series' main character (of the same name) is a mystery novel author who writes stories either directly or partly inspired by her real life experience "solving" crimes.

ABC did the same thing releasing novels written by "Richard Castle" as a tie-in to Castle which follows a somewhat similar premise, except for the part where it is heavily implied in the later seasons that the protagonist has been the murderer all along.
 
There's also God Hates Us All, which is credited to the fictional main character of Californication, Hank Moody. I watched part of the first season a while ago, and the book is a big part of the show since Hank is supposed to be a one hit wonder author, with GHUA being that one hit.
 
There's also God Hates Us All, which is credited to the fictional main character of Californication, Hank Moody. I watched part of the first season a while ago, and the book is a big part of the show since Hank is supposed to be a one hit wonder author, with GHUA being that one hit.
Plus there was the manuscript Sawyer was reading in Lost, which was published "posthumously as the author died on Flight 815".

Then the writers of the show found out how rubbish it was, so decided the author was the guy who got sucked into the plane engine in the pilot.
 
Lotta marker happening around the tri-border between the Federation, Klingons, and Romulans.

I was talking to a friend about all the "Destiny" hubub, and I basically settled on "The people in charge have yet to close any avenue of speculation." Everything could still mean anything, which is exciting, in a tense sort of way.

Everything on that map except Borg space is smaller than that.

Destiny as a miniseries huh? Interesting possibility.

He edited the description of the image to say that this map of the Galaxy as of the end of Voyager.
 
He edited the description of the image to say that this map of the Galaxy as of the end of Voyager.

With a big arrow coming from Borg space to the alpha quadrant, and something rubbed out with a finger in the middle of Borg space.
And a lot of other arrows.....
 
With a big arrow coming from Borg space to the alpha quadran
Probably voyager coming home and the unimatrix being destroyed.

Considering how rough it is, I imagine it was drawn while Kirsten was talking, the map would only make sense if you were there while it was being drawn.
 
This NYCC interview with Alex Kurtzman on Digital Spy feels like he's speaking exactly to this whole thread - http://www.digitalspy.com/tv/star-t...68679/star-trek-boss-impossible-to-fix-canon/

"Everybody is always trying to maintain continuity," Kurtzman told us. "But given the 50 plus years of Star Trek, it literally becomes impossible because people decide that they want to follow a character in a book series after the show has been cancelled, and so they'll invent stories.

"And then 15 years later, a new show will come on that will take that character back and you can't be consistent with everything. Our goal is always to try, always, always to try and never to negate what has existed in the novels and graphic novels but it is a literal impossibility.

"And part of what has kept Trek going for so long is everyone's wonderful imagination to keep writing books and keep making graphic novels and keep making shows. And at a certain point, given the volume of things that are out there it's just impossible for everything to sync up perfectly. So we give it our best effort."
 
It isn’t that hard to keep continuity. You just hire super fans to go through it.

Given we have three separate and entirely different post-Nemesis continuities (the novels, the IDW post-Nemesis stories like Countdown, Hive, and Picard's appearance in Q Gambit, and Star Trek Online) and that different fans subscribe to different ideas about which of those continuities has precedence, I don't think that it's easy at all.
 
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