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

Sci said:
I mean, all I can say here is that we have seen the Federation make decisions based upon fear, and we have seen Picard lead them to the light. I think PIC will be doing that basic arc again, but in a more complex, realistic manner that will have more consequences and costs than, say, Picard pretending to leave Starfleet to save the Ba'ku and then everything turning out fine in the end like in INS.

As Picard himself is the same man we've always known and loved. He's a man of such high ethical principles that he refused to serve an organization that would turn their backs on billions of innocent Romulans and cast them to the wolves, and who is now trying to fight the isolationism and chauvinism that has infected Federation politics.
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I hope that's where the show goes. It's just with all the stuff going on around the world it'd be nice to have a show that's opposite of all that. A show where the 'system' is a positive and not a negative. But we'll see where it goes I guess.
 
If we get some sort of arc (multi-volume, but single would do), that would combine elements from across TrekLit i.e. DTI, (the real) Control, etc, that would necessitate "rewriting" the timeline (a-la DC Comics various "Crisis" stories) and consequently erase Control's influence (remaking it into the DSC Control?) and creating the DSC/PIC timeline we see onscreen, I would be more than content :)

Then the novels can focus on the modern shows (and TOS), with new adventures aligned to the chain of events depicted onscreen. Win-Win :)
 
RonG said:
If we get some sort of arc (multi-volume, but single would do), that would combine elements from across TrekLit i.e. DTI, (the real) Control, etc, that would necessitate "rewriting" the timeline (a-la DC Comics various "Crisis" stories) and consequently erase Control's influence (remaking it into the DSC Control?) and creating the DSC/PIC timeline we see onscreen, I would be more than content :)


Then the novels can focus on the modern shows (and TOS), with new adventures aligned to the chain of events depicted onscreen. Win-Win :)
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No story ideas, right?
 
Strictly speaking, I am not sure you need that kind of sendoff. Unlike Star Wars, Star Trek has literally been established as existing as a vast multiverse where ant number of realities happily coexist. Nothing prohibits the post-1990s novelverse from continuing to coexist alongside the main timeline of televised Trek. That quantum reality just happens to be no longer being actively explored.
 
Well, I'm glad to hear that 'the plan' hasn't been abandoned. I was wondering since 'the plan' was floated last year that things had changed--mainly because it seems Picard is so far off course of where the novels are at right now.

And of course David Mack's interview about "Collateral Damage" indicated they were at least thinking about how to move things forward gave me a slither of hope.

Ideally--and this is just me, I honestly don't know how many feel the same--I'd love to see the litverse continue as a parallel universe unaltered. I liked where TNG was as of 2386-2387--with a Federation and Starfleet unshackled from Section 31 and moving in a hopeful direction, along with the Enterprise continuing its mission of exploration. BUT....first of all is S&S (and even CBS as the owners) open to that as it would break from past practices to a large degree when it comes to Star Trek.

AND...does it make marketing sense? Do they sell enough novels in the relaunch(es) to make it worth their while? That I don't know. We all know books sell to a small niche market as it is. If the PTBs feel there's a market that will continue to buy these books then they probably wouldn't care about past practices.

And of course, 'the plan' may have absolutely nothing to do with any of that. It may simply be a plan to reorient the continuing litverse to the show, something like "Yesterday's Enterprise" where some anomaly causes them to shift into the current Picard universe, or just take limited elements from the litverse….or a million other things.

Apparently 'the plan' is on a need to know basis right now. I'll try to call on one of my Kzinti telepath friends to pry it out of his mind....though I imagine David Mack will just think of green leaves and vegetables to thwart my evil plan :ack:
 
RonG said:
If we get some sort of arc (multi-volume, but single would do), that would combine elements from across TrekLit i.e. DTI, (the real) Control, etc, that would necessitate "rewriting" the timeline (a-la DC Comics various "Crisis" stories) and consequently erase Control's influence (remaking it into the DSC Control?) and creating the DSC/PIC timeline we see onscreen, I would be more than content :)

Then the novels can focus on the modern shows (and TOS), with new adventures aligned to the chain of events depicted onscreen. Win-Win :)
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This is now my dream.
 
King Daniel Beyond said:
I hope any further novelverse adventures have a Vendetta/Starfleet: Year One/The Empty Chair/Collision Course -style disclaimer:p
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If it was to be sustained ... The thing is, there is already a lot of confusion between the Kelvin Timeline and the main Trek timeline. I see so many questions on Quora written by confused people, so many articles, that I fear a multiverse is something that cannot be easily understood.

The Kelvin Timeline, at least, has been a relatively lucrative business enterprise that has brought in hundreds of millions of dollars. The novelverse, despite its creative achievements, brings in nowhere near that level of income. I am not sure there is a case for its continuance.

Would it be a problem if Collision Course actually was the last novel, or at least the chronologically latest? It is a fine book that does a broad survey of the multiverse, visiting most of the TNG crew and then some; it tidies up some of the most outstanding loose ends; it leaves our heroes in relatively good places. More, the theme of the rebirth of Nausicaan society, achieved substantially through the Federation in the person of Worf living up to Federation values, is an inspiring one.

The Trek universe of the novelverse is in a very good place, far more ready to handle unexpected crises than the main universe—if the Romulan star ever went supernova, I am quite sure that the well-connected, relatively open, and competent regime of Praetor Kamemor would be able to manage the relocations very effectively.
 
King Daniel Beyond said:
I hope any further novelverse adventures have a Vendetta/Starfleet: Year One/The Empty Chair/Collision Course -style disclaimer:p
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Because those have gone over so well in the past. In fact, it was because of that disclaimer on Collision Course that Shatner refuses to write any more Trek novels.
 
The Wormhole said:
Because those have gone over so well in the past. In fact, it was because of that disclaimer on Collision Course that Shatner refuses to write any more Trek novels.
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Uh, I think it was Pocket who ended the Shatnerverse, not Shatner. Do you have any evidence for the claim that he “refused” to write any more Trek novels?
 
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