Spoilers NO SPOILERS FOR CODA - A Lit-verse Grand Finale...What We Know (Spoilers for Entire Lit-verse)

[Greg Cox]

Thanks. I knew you'd done a few of them, but honestly all of those more recent Crises tend to blur together in my head now. (And my sympathies for you trying to make sense out of Final Crisis. I'd been reading DC for 30 years by that point, and I was pretty much lost. I gave up the comics series around issue 3 or 4. Grant Morrison is a talented writer, but his stories can get incomprehensible at times.)

I admit that sometimes I would have to study Morrison's scripts pretty carefully to figure them out, and I ended up telling the final chapters of the book in a much more linear fashion than in the original comic version 'cause I wasn't sure how to pull off all that non-linear storytelling in prose. It was a fun challenge, though, and how often does one get paid to write a fight between a brainwashed Wonder Woman and the Frankenstein Monster?

 

[Allyn Gibson]

So you may be thinking of Captain Carrot and the Final Ark, which tied in with 2009's Final Crisis storyline. (@Greg Cox, was that one that you novelized?)

That's fair -- same with the Deadman thing. It's been twenty-five years minimum since I last read Crisis, and things blur together and get jumbled about.

 

[TJ Sinclair]

No, there really is a hollow moon which plays a part in the DS9 novels.

And again, I ask, which novel? The joking is fun, but I am actually asking because I've either missed it or not come to it yet...

 

[Stevil2001]

And again, I ask, which novel? The joking is fun, but I am actually asking because I've either missed it or not come to it yet...

The Endalla storyline (MB link with a slightly outdated spoiler summery) was first teased in "Rough Beasts of Empire" and "Revelation and Dust," and kicks off in more detail in "Sacraments of Fire" and "Ascendance."

 

[Paul Weaver]

"Elias Vaughn was also involved in events"

Of course he was

 

[Enterprise1701]

And again, I ask, which novel? The joking is fun, but I am actually asking because I've either missed it or not come to it yet...

As Stevil pointed out, David cgc answered you days ago.

The Endalla storyline (MB link with a slightly outdated spoiler summery) was first teased in "Rough Beasts of Empire" and "Revelation and Dust," and kicks off in more detail in "Sacraments of Fire" and "Ascendance."

I will also add that Ascendance continued in The Long Mirage, which to date is the final novel exploring David R. George III's Bajor storyline.

 

[David cgc]

I will also add that Ascendance continued in The Long Mirage, which to date is the final novel exploring David R. George III's Bajor storyline.

I thought that was too few books, but I kept thinking "The Long Mirage" was one of the wacky Quark'n'Odo adventures novellas.

 

[TJ Sinclair]

Thank you, gentlebeings. When I was reading through the replies yesterday, I somehow missed David's original reply to me.

 

[DS9forever]

I missed the fact that Sisko is Coda! Brilliant!

 

[ToddCam]

My dime version would be -- ancient evil from dawn of time out to destroy the universe, heroes unite to fight evil, heroes fall in fight, heroes fail in fight, more heroes come in to fight, universe gets rebooted, heroes make one final stand, ancient evil defeated. Vastly oversimplified.

I'd say the only aspect that would need to be cleaned up so as to not be inaccurate in that super base synopsis is that the ancient evil is out to destroy all universes and that the universe that is "rebooted" is in fact a merged form of the final few universes that had survived to that point, replacing their distinct existences.

 

[ToddCam]

As much as I liked Vaughn, if there were to be a Power Girl-type character, I'd prefer Prynn Tenmei, since she wouldn't exist in a Vaughn-less universe.

 

[JWolf]

In comic book "reboot the universe" crossover events, there's usually a character or two who remembers the universe that was -- Psycho-Pirate in Crisis, Superman and the Wally West Flash in Rebirth, Blade in the upcoming Heroes Reborn. Even Spock in the Kelvinverse movies. So if the Litverse is rebooting to align with Picard, maybe there will be a character who remembers it all.

We had Guinan in Yesterday's Enterprise who has an inkling that something was wrong with the timeline.

 

[WebLurker]

So, has it been confirmed yet if this trilogy is a de facto conclusion to the LitVerse, NovelVerse, or whatever before we switch over exclusively to books solely based on the post-DSC Star Trek universe or are the brass making the the decisions going to find some way to continue the LitVerse and "fudge" through the way that DSC and PIC pretty much overwrote a bunch of stuff?

It's funny. Several years ago I referenced YESTERDAY'S SON in one of my TOS books, only to be caught by surprise when suddenly there was a slew of excited posts about how, omigod, YESTERDAY'S SON had been officially "restored" to the LitVerse or whatever, as though this was some sweeping executive decision that was going to affect future books down the road.

Speaking only for myself, I tend to assume that the oldest Trek novels are no longer consistent with the TV shows or in the LitVerse continuity, with the same going for the numbered ones (since a lot of those were not even designed to be in continuity with anything other then themselves and the TV shows/movies that existed at the time of publication).

Of course, seeing how the LitVerse was never as airtight as other franchise tie-in programs (like how Star Wars publications are intended to fit together into a larger whole by default), I never really gave that much thought to how many of the pre-LitVerse books could still fit into that version of of the Star Trek universe (and seeing how I liberally stole stuff from the old books during by ill-fated attempts to GM Star Trek RPG campaigns, I can certainly get borrowing an element from an older work without intending that work as a whole to be part of the world of your story or considering the implications of that.)

 

[Stevil2001]

So, has it been confirmed yet if this trilogy is a de facto conclusion to the LitVerse, NovelVerse, or whatever before we switch over exclusively to books solely based on the post-DSC Star Trek universe or are the brass making the the decisions going to find some way to continue the LitVerse and "fudge" through the way that DSC and PIC pretty much overwrote a bunch of stuff?



Speaking only for myself, I tend to assume that the oldest Trek novels are no longer consistent with the TV shows or in the LitVerse continuity, with the same going for the numbered ones (since a lot of those were not even designed to be in continuity with anything other then themselves and the TV shows/movies that existed at the time of publication).

Of course, seeing how the LitVerse was never as airtight as other franchise tie-in programs (like how Star Wars publications are intended to fit together into a larger whole by default), I never really gave that much thought to how many of the pre-LitVerse books could still fit into that version of of the Star Trek universe (and seeing how I liberally stole stuff from the old books during by ill-fated attempts to GM Star Trek RPG campaigns, I can certainly get borrowing an element from an older work without intending that work as a whole to be part of the world of your story or considering the implications of that.)

I'm not convinced you would call something "Coda" if you intended further installments!

 

[Mike Doyle]

I'm not convinced you would call something "Coda" if you intended further installments!

While I don't believe there will be a continuation I'm not sure this logic works.

Logically it may be a story about the end of a specific thing in a narrative that will continue. As an example ST: Voyager Season 3 Episode 15.

 

[Stevil2001]

While I don't believe there will be a continuation I'm not sure this logic works.

Logically it may be a story about the end of a specific thing in a narrative that will continue. As an example ST: Voyager Season 3 Episode 15.

Ha, fair enough.

 

[Ronald Held]

Guinan inside the Nexus should still exist, so the new Treklit Guinan should sense something has changed?

 

[WebLurker]

While I don't believe there will be a continuation I'm not sure this logic works.

Logically it may be a story about the end of a specific thing in a narrative that will continue. As an example ST: Voyager Season 3 Episode 15.

I've been way out of the loop as far as new novel developments go outside of the new TV tie-ins.

 

[JD]

So, has it been confirmed yet if this trilogy is a de facto conclusion to the LitVerse, NovelVerse, or whatever before we switch over exclusively to books solely based on the post-DSC Star Trek universe or are the brass making the the decisions going to find some way to continue the LitVerse and "fudge" through the way that DSC and PIC pretty much overwrote a bunch of stuff?



Speaking only for myself, I tend to assume that the oldest Trek novels are no longer consistent with the TV shows or in the LitVerse continuity, with the same going for the numbered ones (since a lot of those were not even designed to be in continuity with anything other then themselves and the TV shows/movies that existed at the time of publication).

Of course, seeing how the LitVerse was never as airtight as other franchise tie-in programs (like how Star Wars publications are intended to fit together into a larger whole by default), I never really gave that much thought to how many of the pre-LitVerse books could still fit into that version of of the Star Trek universe (and seeing how I liberally stole stuff from the old books during by ill-fated attempts to GM Star Trek RPG campaigns, I can certainly get borrowing an element from an older work without intending that work as a whole to be part of the world of your story or considering the implications of that.)

If the releases we're seeing this year are going to be the new normal, then we are going to still be getting books for the earlier shows, but they'll be going back to stand alone books set during the shows.

 

[F. King Daniel]

I wonder if any future in-series TNG/DS9 novels will include some novelverse characters who were "always there" but never came to the forefront until post-Nemesis?