The destruction of Romulus in the novelverse

[Voth commando1]

As I understand the novels are beginning to encroach on the year 2387 when the Hobus star goes supernova.

Are there any plans or rumors for addressing this issue in the prime timeline-novelverse. Will it be ignored? Or what?

 

[The Wormhole]

As has already been covered in length many times before, Pocket Books currently can not touch anything from the Abrams movies, and that includes the destruction of Romulus. So there won't be any novels on the matter for the foreseeable future.

 

[Voth commando1]

As has already been covered in length many times before, Pocket Books currently can not touch anything from the Abrams movies, and that includes the destruction of Romulus. So there won't be any novels on the matter for the foreseeable future.

Okay didn't know but their reaching that point in the timeline will they invalidate it and carry on with Romulus existing or just ignore the subject?

 

[F. King Daniel]

Okay didn't know but their reaching that point in the timeline will they invalidate it and carry on with Romulus existing or just ignore the subject?

My understanding is that they're going to draw out 2386 for as long as possible in the hope something will change and they'll be able to feature the destruction of Romulus per canon.

 

[The Wormhole]

Okay didn't know but their reaching that point in the timeline will they invalidate it and carry on with Romulus existing or just ignore the subject?

Novel continuity is only in the first half of 2386 at the moment, and we have no idea when in 2387 the Hobus stuff goes down. This is an issue Pocket can avoid for quite a few years yet, longer if they cut down on how many 24th century Typhon Pact era novels they do.

 

[ryan123450]

And even longer if they hadn't rushed at a pointless and crazy speed through the previous half decade of story time.

 

[Idran]

Okay didn't know but their reaching that point in the timeline will they invalidate it and carry on with Romulus existing or just ignore the subject?

Novel continuity is only in the first half of 2386 at the moment, and we have no idea when in 2387 the Hobus stuff goes down. This is an issue Pocket can avoid for quite a few years yet, longer if they cut down on how many 24th century Typhon Pact era novels they do.

They definitely won't invalidate it, though; they aren't allowed to do that either.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

It's a Catch-22, really: The novels can't mention the destruction of Romulus, but they also can't ignore it (there's no way to just gloss over something like this, the Romulan Empire is way too involved in interstellar politics).

So all they can really do is hope that a new licensing agreement can be worked out before the novels slam up against the 2387 wall.

 

[Voth commando1]

Is there any chance a new licensing agreement will let them continue the prime timeline while acknowledging Romulus' destruction?

 

[Idran]

Is there any chance a new licensing agreement will let them continue the prime timeline while acknowledging Romulus' destruction?

Yep, that's what @Ríu ríu chíu meant. That's all they would need to do to resolve the issue, in fact.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

I suppose until then, they could just go back and create stories about the past, or other regions of Federation space. Maybe it'll even lead to series era books for TNG, DS9 and VOY again.

 

[DimesDan]

Well to be honest, Voyager is a long way off from this, both in timescale and in galactic terms.

 

[Voth commando1]

Yep, that's what @Ríu ríu chíu meant. That's all they would need to do to resolve the issue, in fact.

I'm asking how possible in the near to medium future is a new agreement likely to occur?

 

[DimesDan]

I'm asking how possible in the near to medium future is a new agreement likely to occur?

How long is a piece of string, or your guess is as good as any of ours.

 

[Voth commando1]

Well to be honest, Voyager is a long way off from this, both in timescale and in galactic terms.

Isn't the project full circle mission roughly continuous with what's going on in say the Typhon Novels?

 

[DimesDan]

Isn't the project full circle mission roughly continuous with what's going on in say the Typhon Novels?

Yes and no, the Pact has been around for several years now where as Full Circle is only a year into its mission.

 

[Jinn]

Isn't the project full circle mission roughly continuous with what's going on in say the Typhon Novels?

Most VGR books take about two months and they are currently in 2382. The other novels are in 2386, the Typhon Pact mini-series went from 2382-2383. I think I calculated once that we still have about 20 novels until Hobus.

 

[Voth commando1]

Do any of you think the novelverse will reach the year 2400?

 

[Allyn Gibson]

My understanding is that they're going to draw out 2386 for as long as possible in the hope something will change and they'll be able to feature the destruction of Romulus per canon.

Not unlike Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey and Maturin novels, where twelve of the novels take place during 1813. As Wikipedia puts it: "the series then enters a kind of fantasy-time in which it takes another dozen novels to progress to November 1813. Much of this period is spent at sea, with little or no connection to real-world years, and the events of the novels take up substantially more time than the few months 'available'." O'Brian himself acknowledged that the books took place in "hypothetical years" (his words).

 

[Voth commando1]

Eventually there going to have resolve the impasse at some point won't they?