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

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.

 

I thought Jessica Fletcher wrote them?

 

Jessica Fletcher is the series' main character played by Angela Lansbury.

 

Or "ENTERPRISE: The First Adventure" for that matter.

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.

 

https://www.instagram.com/p/BnKdUPJh35j/?hl=en&taken-by=michael.chabon

 

Interesting. That could be interpreted a few ways.

 

Fed space is bigger than that

 

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.

 

I wish I could blame autocorrect, but that was just me screwing up. In my defense, I wrote that book a LONG time ago.

 

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.

 

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.....

 

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/

 

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.

 

Just keep with the on screen stuff. No need to complicate it.