Yeah. There will still be Star Trek novels by our favourite authors in the years to come. I, for one, am optimistic for the future of Treklit.
Spoilers New Picard TV Series and Litverse Continuity (may contain TV show spoilers)
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Let's all be like teenage girls and don't cry because it's over, but smile because it happened. We've been blessed with 15? more years of books featuring Picard. And they really haven't been spectacular or anything, to be honest. It's been fun to see some of the crew keep existing, but I don't think the TNG novels have ever been consistently good to the characters like DS9 and VOY have.
24th century Lit Con has been active for 18 years, starting with Avatar in 2001. And even then, they built on things from some novels released a year or so prior. And eighteen year run isn't anything to sneeze at, and even if there were no Picard show or a revival of 24th century Star Trek, it would have eventually ended anyway on the simple basis that everything ends, nothing is permanent or forever. So rather a glum situation where the 24th century Lit Con ends because Pocket gave up the license due to poor sales, we are in a situation where the Lit Con is ending because we're getting a 24th century revival on screen, definitely the best possible scenario we could have hoped for. The fact this revival is also returning Picard to our screens is an added bonus.
Besides, anyone who thinks they would have two separate novel continuities going simply does not understand the realities of tie-in novels. At all.
Don't rule out the possibility that, like in Del Rey's "canon" Star Wars novels, characters from the previous continuity could be reintroduced in time into the new continuity tie-ins, if there's a place or a need for them in the story.
Actually, all of "All Good Things" never happened, except the very ending....
Does that exhibit date really count, without onscreen citation?
Aakar recently stated Picard will never make admiral. I suppose he could be overridden. BTW, in the 2009 JJ movie, Picard was an ambassador?
Aakar recently stated Picard will never make admiral. I suppose he could be overridden. BTW, in the 2009 JJ movie, Picard was an ambassador?
Picard was never mentioned in ST09.
You're thinking of the non-canon Countdown comic.
Yes this right here.
Thanks. I did not recall where I read that. Wasn't Countdown considered Canon for a while?
It was never canon. People just were just mislead by an interview.
It is a promotional tie-in for an upcoming show so although some of it could change, the admiral thing seemed to be completely locked in and I bet these dates are as well.
I'm pretty sure the interviewer goaded Roberto Orci into saying it was; Orci walked back that statement the next day.
That was my impression, too. The interviewer kinda put words into Orci's mouth.
"So, it's canon, right?"
"Well, you know, we wanted to be consistent with the movie we just wrote, blah, blah, blah."
"Right! So it's canon, right, right, right?"
"Um, I suppose, in a manner of speaking . . . ."
"You heard it here first, folks! It's absolutely 100% CANON!!!"
Best case scenario is we get some books to fill in between Nemesis and Picard that is more along the lines of what the writing staff want. They are churning out Discovery novels, so why not?
Or similarly as background Easter eggs - Chen could have died horrifically in a fire before the show and we see her name on a memorial wall or something.
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Yeah, there's no way we aren't going to get novels that fill in whatever gaps the show leaves.
Even though I'm disappointed the 24th Century novelverse is coming to an, I'm really not that angry, it had a great run, and gave us some great stories. I also have no hard feelings toward the writers of the Picard series, they had every right to take things in any direction they wanted.
After seeing how people reacted to Star Wars's EU ending, I'm pretty impressed with how well everyone here is handling this.
There's always a chance we could see stuff from the books pop up in the show. The books' design for Titan seems to be almost canon at this point, every time we've seen it so far has used that design. One of the early versions of Star Trek: The Exhibition even had a physical model of it, accompanied by a video clip that included Tim Russ as Tuvok, and when it popped up in the Hive comic it was the same design, and included both Tuvok and Vale in a scene on the bridge.
I wonder if we might at least get a big epic finale that ties everything from the Novelverse up in a nice little bow. Pocket could possibly even have pull a DC comics and actually uses the reset as plot point at the ending of the book/miniseries.
Even though I'm disappointed the 24th Century novelverse is coming to an, I'm really not that angry, it had a great run, and gave us some great stories. I also have no hard feelings toward the writers of the Picard series, they had every right to take things in any direction they wanted.
After seeing how people reacted to Star Wars's EU ending, I'm pretty impressed with how well everyone here is handling this.
There's always a chance we could see stuff from the books pop up in the show. The books' design for Titan seems to be almost canon at this point, every time we've seen it so far has used that design. One of the early versions of Star Trek: The Exhibition even had a physical model of it, accompanied by a video clip that included Tim Russ as Tuvok, and when it popped up in the Hive comic it was the same design, and included both Tuvok and Vale in a scene on the bridge.
I wonder if we might at least get a big epic finale that ties everything from the Novelverse up in a nice little bow. Pocket could possibly even have pull a DC comics and actually uses the reset as plot point at the ending of the book/miniseries.
There's no way they'd go to all that effort and not have it count. We'll get onscreen citation when Picard is actually broadcast.
I’ll just leave this here.
I’m happy that the two will be able to merge successfully. There are some very creative writers out there.
https://twitter.com/davidalanmack/status/1152353227154907138?s=21
I’m happy that the two will be able to merge successfully. There are some very creative writers out there.
https://twitter.com/davidalanmack/status/1152353227154907138?s=21
