[SPECULATION] After The Fall - the next major event?

[Mage]

I wasn't keen on their work

I have to agree. I only read one of their novels, I'll admit. But it was enough for me not to want to read the rest.

 

[Relayer1]

I read all of them.

Vulcan's Heart was O.K. but the rest varied between dull and poor.

 

[The Wormhole]

Well, until very recently, SW had a multi-tier canon system, with the movies on top, but the books were considered canonical, to a certain extent. Now, of course, they have been declared non-canonical, but future novels will be supposedly be as canonical as the movies - so yeah, it's a bit messed up.

That "multi-tiered canon" stuff was crap. While George Lucas borrowed what he wanted to from the EU, in the end the movies were the only thing he counted, and some fans will argue he didn't even stay too consistent with them. Though, I thought Disney wasn't even going to consider future novels canon, that from now on Star Wars canon is just the movies plus Clone Wars and Rebels.

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Canon#2014_reboot

Essentially, most things published after April 25, 2014 will be considered part of the new canon.

Well, I'm not going to be surprised when one of the new Star Wars movies blatantly contradicts and ignores one of the novels, even if it is one of the new one written after April 25, 2014. And nor should anyone else.

Is there any requirement for the books to have to align with the Countdown comic?

No. Pocket and IDW are required to stay consistent with on screen material, but not with each other. In fact, The Fall even has Picard stating he has no intention of retiring and becoming an ambassador, so that likely isn't going to happen in the novels.

 

[JD]

My understanding is STO, including the STO tie in novel, was a separate timeline from the main Trek lit.
As was the Crucible trilogy and the Shatner novels.

Thank you for saying this. Just because Spock disappears in 2387 doesn't meant that he disappears from the universe in which the majority of Trek novels take place. The events of Star Trek may reflect occurrences in two alternate realities rather than just one. There's no reason to assume that any books written for the 50th anniversary will spend any time detailing Spock's disappearance or Romulus' destruction.

--Sran

Except it's been made pretty clear that the main novelverse, and Spock Prime's original universe are both intended to be the same universe as every non-alternate universe story before them.
I'd say at this point there is almost no chance whatsoever of them completely ignoring what the first JJ Abrams established about the Prime Universe.
Besides, the new movies are really popular, so I don't see them voluntarily ignoring them. A few hardcore old fans not liking the new movies isn't going to be enough to convince the people responsible for the franchise to ignore them.

 

[vegaslover62]

I'd be very happy with a Spock trilogy in the vein of DRG3's Crucible series, but in line with the continuity of the novel 'verse that has been established over the last decade plus. I imagine that a 50th Anniversary of Trek Spock trilogy would probably sell quite well

This is what I meant in the other thread, that since one person is interested in reading something, they think they are somehow qualified to assert that it will be profitable for the publisher. Do these people even work for Pocket?

 

[Paris]

I'd be very happy with a Spock trilogy in the vein of DRG3's Crucible series, but in line with the continuity of the novel 'verse that has been established over the last decade plus. I imagine that a 50th Anniversary of Trek Spock trilogy would probably sell quite well

This is what I meant in the other thread, that since one person is interested in reading something, they think they are somehow qualified to assert that it will be profitable for the publisher. Do these people even work for Pocket?

I don't work for Pocket. In my quote above, I did say "I IMAGINE", which doesn't make me an expert on sales...just someone who IMAGINES that such a trilogy would sell well. As i don't work in the publishing world, it's totally possible that i'm wrong. It is a SPECULATION thread afterall. thanks for the input