Spoilers New Picard TV Series and Litverse Continuity (may contain TV show spoilers)
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Dayton Ward has posted a more fleshed-out version of David Mack's and his prior statement on his Facebook.
That (continues to) indicate that there's not going to be hard-stop switchover to a post-Picard world the way there was with Star Wars, and it's probably not going to be one of those "secret finales" where a series that ends unexpectedly has its storylines tied up in a sister series, with Old Picard musing in some novel about... oh, what's the stupidest possible thing that would never happen... the other space-probe fantasy life he lived just after Data died that presented a fairly plausible and surprisingly wide-reaching version of the next seven or eight years.
That (continues to) indicate that there's not going to be hard-stop switchover to a post-Picard world the way there was with Star Wars, and it's probably not going to be one of those "secret finales" where a series that ends unexpectedly has its storylines tied up in a sister series, with Old Picard musing in some novel about... oh, what's the stupidest possible thing that would never happen... the other space-probe fantasy life he lived just after Data died that presented a fairly plausible and surprisingly wide-reaching version of the next seven or eight years.
You should post this in the 2020 release thread too.
That’s just a reference to the Section 31 story, not the whole novel verse
so sounds like they are pulling a LSG (Lucasfilm Story Group) and they are going to be really figuring out how to incorporate new novels into the Star Trek canon
This is just my own personal theory, but I am assuming they do a time jump from current continuity to Picard era with a hand wave of some of the major differences, and then publish books set there as the new main continuity and some self contained Next Gen books (along with Discovery and original Trek books). Discovery, Picard, and Original Trek would not find it hard to eat at up twelve book slots a year between them...
You'd need a pretty big handwave given Picard left the Enterprise-E five years before the books still had him having adventures!
It’s ok. Things were getting close to needing a handwave anyway, and there’s big prophets-related machine in orbit of Bajor than can probably just let the prophets do a big roll back. The question is, who remembers what and how, and if Worf is stuck remembering everything, he’s going to be very surprised when the ‘deceased’ status in his little black PADD goes beep and turns off.
Maybe the best way to connect the Novelverse with the Picard show would be a new DTI novel written by @Christopher 
As long as they don't release novels like...
Riker glanced at Picard's trophy shelf, remembering that time Starfleet messed up and gave Jean-Luc a retirement trophy with the wrong year on it.
. . .
By "retired nearly 2 decades ago" Picard clearly meant he retired 2 months ago, and everyone was just too polite to inform the nice Romulan lady that he was never really an Admiral in Starfleet, but an unofficial Commodore.
Riker glanced at Picard's trophy shelf, remembering that time Starfleet messed up and gave Jean-Luc a retirement trophy with the wrong year on it.
. . .
By "retired nearly 2 decades ago" Picard clearly meant he retired 2 months ago, and everyone was just too polite to inform the nice Romulan lady that he was never really an Admiral in Starfleet, but an unofficial Commodore.
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:: revises notes ::
Shit. Plan B.
:: revises notes ::
Shit. Plan B.
‘I’ve just had the strangest dream Number One...must have been that cheese. Or perhaps...’
Picard looks pensively at his dog, looks out of the window before sniffing the wine glass.
‘Perhaps we should have burnt the crop that year after all. Still. Walkies! Engage!’
Because risk is part of the game, if he wanted to ferment in that chair.
When THE X-FILES: SEASON 10 & SEASON 11 comic books were rendered apocryphal by the TV series coming back to FOX, SEASON 11 had a final issue where Mulder looks into a rip in reality. In this tear between dimensions, Mulder sees a parallel version of himself and this double is wearing the jacket that Mulder wore in FOX's Season 10 premiere. It was a simple, pleasant way to say that the comics were set in their own timeline and that the live action revival was unfolding on a separate and parallel track.
The STO Prequel novel did something similar, one of the DTI agents saw the events of Destiny and other novels happening in another timeline.
That is COOL.
(It's respectful, generous, kind, deferential, humble, and it embraces other stories while establishing the independence of the one the writer is telling with STO. That's very, very cool.)
Gets even more confusing...after that, but between the new seasons, the actors did the audio play version of those comics I think.
He was in a mental health hospital, and Q was the nurse. Just for added umph.
