Star Trek: Online & Post-DESTINY universe?

[comicbookwriter]

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With a significantly weakened Federation still standing at the end of the third Destiny novel I am wondering if this helps to set up the Star Trek universe for the beginning of the Star Trek: Online game?

If you don't know, ST:O takes place in the 25th century and the Khitomer accords are gone and the Klingon Empire is at war with the Federation. Alliances have shifted in the Alpha and Beta quadrants with the Dominion and Cardassians being wild card races in the galactic political scene.

I am wondering if CBS/Paramount and Cryptic Studios put together the scenario for Destiny to help lead into the status quo of Star Trek: Online? It seems that a fractured 25th century Federation has been something discussed for a very long time in the form of rumors and industry scuttlebutt for Star Trek.

I know several of the writers who post here and I wanted to see if there was any collusion between the game developers and the editors at CBS?

CBW

 

[David Mack]

^ No, there was absolutely no coordination with the online-game producers on the Pocket Books side. And the only person who "put together the scenario" for the Destiny trilogy was me, with input from my editors.

 

[nx1701g]

If you look on the Star Trek: Online website the events of 2381 are already much different than what we have in the Destiny Trilogy.

 

[Christopher]

From what's been revealed about ST Online's future history, there are some clear inconsistencies with the post-Destiny novel timeframe, most notably the fact that

Spoiler: key difference from DESTINY

the Borg still exist.

I see no possible way that Destiny could lead into ST:O's version of 2409, especially since their version of 2379-81 has some clear differences from the book continuity. Though some elements are cherrypicked from the books, others are incompatible.

 

[-Brett-]

Cryptic's been pretty clear from the beginning that, although they might borrow some ideas from Pocket, the two continuities are not the same.

If you look at the STO timeline on Cryptics website, there are already some discrepancies. Gul Macet wasn't the progressive he is in the novels. He's basically a Dukat clone. Ro Laren didn't go back to Bajor, get posted to DS9 and eventually rejoin Starfleet. She went to prison.

More recently, the Borg are made extinct at the end of Destiny, where their ships appear in a number of screenshots and videos of STO.

 

[comicbookwriter]

^ No, there was absolutely no coordination with the online-game producers on the Pocket Books side. And the only person who "put together the scenario" for the Destiny trilogy was me, with input from my editors.

Cool.

Just wondering.

I wasn't trying to take anything away from your work in terms of credit. The Destiny books were cool as heck. I was just wondering if the two had a common meeting point as a jump-off for future storylines.

I see now that these two projects have divergent continuities.

CBW

 

[Chris McCarver]

Ro Laren didn't go back to Bajor, get posted to DS9 and eventually rejoin Starfleet. She went to prison.

Just saw that Cryptic posted their next year's worth of backstory. Looks like they're trying to tie it in tighter to the Pocket canon, at least tangentially, since Ro's portrayed as having done her time and taking the job with the Militia as DS9's new security chief, albeit seven years later.

 

[Julio Angel Ortiz]

From what's been revealed about ST Online's future history, there are some clear inconsistencies with the post-Destiny novel timeframe, most notably the fact that

Spoiler: key difference from DESTINY

the Borg still exist.

I see no possible way that Destiny could lead into ST:O's version of 2409, especially since their version of 2379-81 has some clear differences from the book continuity. Though some elements are cherrypicked from the books, others are incompatible.

I don't know why I thought this was interesting from their story post:

But not all of Starfleet’s energies are directed toward military concerns. On stardate 58839.03, Starfleet celebrates the start of construction of the USS Stargazer-A at the San Francisco Fleet Yards. The Stargazer-A and her sister ships will be the first of a new class of starships designed for scientific research and exploration.

Basically, the Luna class of the ST:O universe?

I'll be checking out the game, assuming this one actually gets released. And given past track records on Trek games, I'll keep my expectations fairly low.