When the economic crash hit in December 2008, the publishing industry was hit hard, and Simon & Schuster had to lay off many editors, including Marco Palmieri. Margaret Clark, who had shared the Trek-lit workload with Marco, became responsible for the entire line. Less than a year later, another round of layoffs cost Margaret her job, and Jaime Costas took over the Trek line, commissioning most of the books upcoming for 2011. Jaime then went on maternity leave, and a few months later she decided to resign to be with her family. The current editor prefers to keep a low public profile.
I find it odd that, in the example of DS9, that an editorial shift resulted in the necessity to `jump` 5 years into the future for Typhon Pact.
That's not exactly what happened. Even before Marco's layoff, some fans were unhappy about DS9 being so far behind the rest of the 24th-century books and wanted it to be moved forward. While Marco was in charge, he preferred to keep it where it was and let it continue to develop at its own pace. As a result,
Destiny largely had to avoid mentioning anything about most of DS9's characters, and a lot of readers found it frustrating that such a big part of the Trek universe had to be left out of such a big event. There were valid arguments on both sides of the question, but it had to go one way or the other, and Marco felt that it was best for DS9 to proceed at the pace that worked best for it. But when Margaret took over, she decided that
Destiny had changed the Trek Lit universe and made it more unified, so it was time to bring DS9 forward as well and let its characters participate in that new state of affairs, rather than continuing to be isolated and left out of the big events. So when the decision to do a
Typhon Pact miniseries came along thereafter, the DS9 characters were now available for inclusion.
