Rihannsu: ch'Havran in novels vs Remus in Nem

[Cadet49]

I was just re-reading the Bloodwing Voyages and the Empty Chair, and was so impressed by these novels. I know that Star Trek: Nemesis presented a very different environment and environment from the way it was described in Diane Duane's novels.

Could the differences be explained by saying that ch'Havran and Remus are two different worlds in the Eisn Star System, put perhaps they have both been designated "Remus" at different points in history by Terran astronomers? Perhaps, by the 24th century, the Federation came to realize that Remus (home of the Remans) and the class M ch'Havran are actually two different worlds, or one is designated "Remus I" and the other "Remus II" in some Federation created Star charts ... I believe one novel said that Romulus was the third planet in that system, but that there were ten planets orbiting Eisn, the Romulan star...

 

[DorkBoy [TM]]

There was a pretty good trilogy by Sherman and Schwartz called "Vulcan's Soul" in the mid-'00s that explored the origins of the Remans as depicted in Nemesis.

What was interesting about it was that it tied in (as much as possible) with the prior novels about Vulcan and Romulus such as Spock's World and the Rihhansu novels. Obviously it had to contradict Diane Duane's books, because as you said the environment was totally different from what was shown in Nemesis, but it felt (at least to me) like it was in the same vein as what had been written before.

 

[F. King Daniel]

There are a few novels that describe Remus as a lush, green world. Dwellers in the Crucible is one - and that uses the name "Remus" not Duane's naitive name.

Crossover kept mentioning a planet called Remii, a weird Tuvix of Remus and Romii (from the screen graphic in "Balance of Terror")

Personally, I'm not bothered by the big Remus rewrite introduced in Nemesis. Vulcan's been through some interesting reimaginings (see: orginal TMP vs. TMP-DE) too. IMO Duane Remus fits into the "vague history" of Trek about as well as anything else. As long as you don't look too closely!

 

[rfmcdpei]

There are a few novels that describe Remus as a lush, green world. Dwellers in the Crucible is one - and that uses the name "Remus" not Duane's naitive name.

Crossover kept mentioning a planet called Remii, a weird Tuvix of Remus and Romii (from the screen graphic in "Balance of Terror")

Personally, I'm not bothered by the big Remus rewrite introduced in Nemesis. Vulcan's been through some interesting reimaginings (see: orginal TMP vs. TMP-DE) too. IMO Duane Remus fits into the "vague history" of Trek about as well as anything else. As long as you don't look too closely!

One possible fix might be to have "Romii" play a Remus-like role as a secondary homeworld of sorts, the first Romulan extrasolar colony or something like that. That's only if you really want to have something like the Duaneverse ch'Havran, that. I'm fine without it in the current novelverse.