Maybe a silly question, but since I'm not all that up on international military history: are there any good "local" examples of militaries merging like that here on Earth, and what happened with their uniforms, traditions, and the like?
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Maybe a silly question, but since I'm not all that up on international military history: are there any good "local" examples of militaries merging like that here on Earth, and what happened with their uniforms, traditions, and the like?
Well, during the Revolutionary War, several states had their own militia and their own navies that then merged to form the United States Army and United States Navy after the adoption of the Constitution.
After the Acts of Union, the militaries of the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland merged to form the British Army and the Royal Navy of the Kingdom of Great Britain.
That what was announced at first, but the title was changed quite a while ago.
In British and Commonwealth armies like Canada and Australia, "Golden Threads" are very common. A good example is here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Regiment_of_Scotland
The local Militia regiment where I live in Canada, the Hastings Prince Edward Regiment, wears a red patch behind its beret badge. It perpetuates the 1st Battalion Canadian Expeditionary Force, Canada's first infantry battalion raised in the First World War.
So yes, mixed traditions in mergers is very realistic.
This has been covered elsewhere, but the unofficial plan by the author and editor Margaret Clark was a trilogy. "In Shariel's Jaws" would have been book two and "To Brave the Storm" was to be the conclusion. After Clark was down-sized from Pocket following the publishing of the first book, Martin was asked to finish the story in one book instead. So the stories were merged and condensed and some of what would have appeared in "In Shariel's Jaws" was abandoned. "To Brave the Storm" finishes the Romulan War story.
Shows how much attention i've been paying.
Okay, I've heard before that Mike Martin said he was planning a trilogy, but this is the first I'm hearing that To Brave the Storm was intended to be the title of book 3. Source?
Jumping in late on the NX-01 refit, but here I go anyway. While I like the design, I'd prefer it not to show up in the novels unless it's a Myriad Universe story. Partially for the reasons that Sci gave, but mostly because I feel it's too radical a departure from the NX design and would be closer to a new design altogether. (Yeah, you can argue that about the 1701 refit as well, but adding an entire secondary hull is a lot bigger change than swapping out the nacelles, imho.)
Well, there are a lot more changes in the 1701 refit than just swapping out the nacelles. Both hulls of the ship were substantially reshaped and the technology was pretty much replaced wholesale. There's not a single part of it that's exactly like the TOS version. It's alleged to be the same ship after a massive reconstruction, but it might as well have been a totally separate ship designed along roughly the same lines. The NX-01 refit is pretty much just the exact same ship we had before but with an extra piece attached (although the thingy between the nacelles in the original has been moved down to the secondary hull in the new one). So in that sense, it's a less radical departure, because pretty much everything that was there before is still present and unchanged.
Same here, I'm also curious as to how the war wraps up and what stories we can get between the war and the Federation founding.
