If they have to destroy Romulus, I hope at least they do not use the countdown comics but just what was on screen and create their own back story.
[SPECULATION] After The Fall - the next major event?
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The novelverse is pretty well displaced from where the Countdown comics had the universe - Data has come back, but not through B-4, and he's not in Starfleet, Picard is still in command of the Enterprise and married to Doctor Crusher, Worf hasn't left Starfleet for the Klingon Defense Fleet... There's pretty much no way that the Countdown comics and the novelverse can be reconciled to be set in the same universe at this point, until 2486 drastically changes things, which I doubt.
I can see it now:
Tuvok gets an ingrowing toenail, Janeway rewrites history to save her friend. This results in the unfortunate deaths of Data and various other people as well as the return of the Borg, but as they say, you can't make an omelette...
I can see how you mean that it comes acros as insulting, and it wasn't ment to be. If anyone feels insulted, please accept my sincere apologies.
What I ment was...
For 13 years TrekLit has been great, superb, fantasticly written with amazing character development and good new characters.
However, I and others, have felt that the huge political upheavel novels and stories dealing with planets and societies being destroyed, huge threats to life as we know it and always the Enterprise crew coming to save the day has been repeated a lot.
Look at The Light Fantastic. Amazing writing, fantastic plot, good solid character work. But the threat level, even though extremely high, was mostly personal. And I loved that. Something was also true for One Constant Star.
Part of that change is already here, with more containt novels being released, and plotlines spanning over several books being done less, appereantly.
But now, I think it's time to do even more. A new era, a new ship, a new crew. Go boldly. I think TrekLit can take it. I think fans would get behind it. It was a gamble for New Frontier, but it work. Sure, they stayed in the 24th century, but they did everything else. Vanguard was a blast to the past instead of forward, but other then that, I think it was one of TrekLit's finest hours!
Yes, when I said that TrekLit had not been daring in the last few years, I was wrong. It has been. But in a way, some things have been played safe. Sticking with Picard and the Big E is one. I mean, they decided to get loose DS9, make a new station, a new captain (well, Ro was in command of the old station already, but still) and mostly a new crew. But overall, people seem quite enthusiastic.
So why could something similair not work for TNG? End it, re-invent it. Give it a shot. I think their stories are told, and new ones are ready to be written.
Or maybe I'm just rambling on to much and should go and get a cup of coffee.
"2486"?
It's a typo dude. 2386, the year before countdown/hobus.
As Trek books are not, in the official sense, "canon" - don't really want to make the thread go boom - why not take advantage of both that and Trek's multiverse nature and not reflect it at all?
As far as the films are concerned? A Spock travels back in time from a future that has Romulus destroyed. That's all, plenty of timey-wimey holes to move around in!
As far as the films are concerned? A Spock travels back in time from a future that has Romulus destroyed. That's all, plenty of timey-wimey holes to move around in!
^Sounds like a great idea. I have a feeling that the powers that be would object though.
Books may not be canon, but they have to adhere to the films and shows which are.
Exactly, and since the Official Word from Paramount is that the older Spock played by Nimoy comes from the universe that was depicted in all previous Trek shows and movies (which we now call the "Prime Universe") than any Trek noel set after 2387 has to have Romulus destroyed and Spock mysteriously disappeared.
They do not actually have to chronicle these events in a novel, and really I hope they don't. Simply because there are other things I want to read about. Although, I have to admit, the aftermath is certainly ripe ground to cover, particularly what the loss of Romulus will mean for the Typhon Pact.
Personally, I'm eager to read Pocket's take on the Hobus Event and hope they con't skip over it. That would create a noodle incident á la the Ascendant Crisis.
No it doesn't. That's just what happened from the view of spock and nero.
There's tons of things whichever author covers this can do to keep the status quo if that's what pocket choose to do.
What does that mean? Spock and Nero did disappear in 2387, so any novel set after that can't feature them. And they both witnessed the destruction of Romulus, kind of hard to pretend that didn't happen. Especially since Nero ranted that IT HAPPENED!!!
I really hope they don't try to weasel out of the destruction of Romulus. It already feels like death is a temporary condition in the Trek universe.
I'm not fussed. ST11 was rubbish so I'm not particularly worried if everything from it is ignored, sidestepped or rolled straight over.
There are alot of people who say that about various parts of the franchise. It happened on film and the novels should be forced to roll with it. They're already short on credibility with me for rolling back the deaths of so many characters. I don't think it makes much sense to ignore a film that was very popular.
wasn't very star trek though
I could see the idea of the Romulans needing a new home and the Federation helping them being an awesome story line for the novels.
Having watched Trek since 1975, I thought both Abrams films were very much "Star Trek".
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