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The Millenium Trilogy and compatible novels

This. And what Christopher said about flexibility in interpreting said prologue. EDIT: IIRC, the epilogue is a little fuzzy about its own dating. Furthermore, it definitely does not explicitly say that Sisko has not returned from the wormhole. So, if you want, you can read it as referring to Sisko temporarily being off-planet.

I wonder if it could work for Sisko's status as of Rough Beasts of Empire, though the child would be several years old by then and I'm not sure that's compatible.

Hmm, I'd never thought of that... let's see,
Rebecca would be about 5 years old at the time of RBOE (according to Memory Beta). IIRC, the descriptions in Inferno suggest Rebecca as an infant sleeping in Kasidy's arms (I seem to recall something about "cooing".) But I suppose you could have a very sleepy 5 year old asleep in your arms... though it would really be more like a 5 year old asleep on your shoulders.

Also, it's not clear to me that Kasidy really would have any positive feelings towards Ben post-RBOE, which she does seem to have in the epilogue. (Although I may be misinterpreting/misunderstanding what happens in Rough Beasts of Empire.)

I agree that the epilogue can be interpreted in a compatible way, but I do also agree that you need to be flexible.
 
Is there any 24th Century stuff that builds on the 'Continuity of Days Gone By' but that wasn't adjusted to fit the newer Canon/continuity info we got from TNG, etc.?
 
Is there any 24th Century stuff that builds on the 'Continuity of Days Gone By' but that wasn't adjusted to fit the newer Canon/continuity info we got from TNG, etc.?

There's quite a bit of stuff that builds on old Trek lit concepts, but it's always been adjusted to fit with the current version of Trek (i.e. with the latest round of retcons in effect and up-to-date "facts")
 
Is there any 24th Century stuff that builds on the 'Continuity of Days Gone By' but that wasn't adjusted to fit the newer Canon/continuity info we got from TNG, etc.?

As a rule, the novels and other tie-ins are obligated to stay consistent with known canon, so not adjusting to fit wouldn't be an option. The one exception would be Diane Duane's more recent Rihannsu novels, which were published under a disclaimer that they were distinct from modern Trek continuity.

There are newer works that pay homage to ideas from earlier works without necessarily treating those works as in-continuity, like reviving vocabulary and concepts from John M. Ford's Klingons or Duane's Romulans/Rihannsu.
 
Okay. I didn't think I'd find anything, but I thought I'd ask anyway.

Does anybody have suggestions for 24th Century stuff that would be a good 'middle ground' between the old and new, 'adjusted' chronologies/continuities? I was thinking that Diane Duane's TNG novels and the novel Kahless would work, but I'm not entirely sure.
 
If you want a kind of alternate TNG, give Diane Carey's "Ghost Ship" a try. It was written before the series premiered, and features several elements from the TNG writers' bible which never made it into the series itself, such as Riker's distain for Data.
 
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