Spoilers TNG: Q&A by Keith R.A. DeCandido Review Thread

[Christopher]

So after I'm done with Control this week, I'm thinking of going back and reading all the original Section 31 books that I missed. I'm assuming that they are all part of the current litverse canon?

I know that three of them are. DS9: Abyss was part of the Relaunch continuity; TNG: Rogue was the debut of Ranul Keru and has been referenced elsewhere; and I referenced TOS: Cloak myself in Ex Machina. But I can't think of anything that's referenced VGR: Shadow.

 

[Burning Hearts of Qo'nos]

Wonderful! Discovering the litverse has been a dream come true to this continuity druggy.

A random side note, but as a kid I read a single ST book, Rogue Saucer. I was in fourth grade and I really liked it. Later on I just assumed that all ST books were just like that; stand-alone stories that could be consumed like an episode.

Finding out I was wrong literally took me from reading 1 book or less a year to to a couple every month!

 

[JD]

Well, the books were all standalone, outside of miniseries and New Frontier, until around 2001 when the DS9 R started. A few older books from before then have been retroactively added to the Litverse, but they weren't written with that in mind.

 

[David cgc]

A random side note, but as a kid I read a single ST book, Rogue Saucer. I was in fourth grade and I really liked it. Later on I just assumed that all ST books were just like that; stand-alone stories that could be consumed like an episode.

Heh. That was one of my first, too, at around the same age. I don't remember the precise order, but the other ones that got me started were "The Return" and the Voyager book in the "Invasion" miniseries.

 

[Burning Hearts of Qo'nos]

Well, the books were all standalone, outside of miniseries and New Frontier, until around 2001 when the DS9 R started. A few older books from before then have been retroactively added to the Litverse, but they weren't written with that in mind.

I hadn't known that the books had post-series stories (to say nothing of a shared, on-going progressive continuity) until a year ago. I always just figured the books still did their little episodic adventures. My history with ST books consisted of Rogue Saucer, about 20-odd years ago to....Takedown somewhat around the time it came out. It popped on Amazon for me and I was like, "ADMIRAL Riker?! What is this??"

 

[thribs]

Just finished it. It was pretty good by I’m a bit confused what Picard did that saved him. He proved that he had a sense of humour that made him more interesting?
Speaking of which, could these beings that are more powerful than the Q be the R’s from Spock vs Q: The Sequel?
Or was it the P’s? It’s been a while.

 

[Jinn]

Just finished it. It was pretty good by I’m a bit confused what Picard did that saved him. He proved that he had a sense of humour that made him more interesting?

Yep, I think that's pretty much it.

Speaking of which, could these beings that are more powerful than the Q be the R’s from Spock vs Q: The Sequel?
Or was it the P’s? It’s been a while.

I think it was P. I doubt it as Q always referred to them as "Them" and not Ps. "They" seemed, to me, to be a bit higher in the cosmic hierarchy. Like, to put it in Marvel terms, Q is Eternity, P is the Living Tribunal and "They" are the One-Above-All. Or maybe I'm totally off