Well then, that's an egregious error.
TOS "relaunch"
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Well, it was a common belief in fandom for decades that Spock was the first Vulcan in Starfleet, and Inception is set years before The Immunity Syndrome. So while it's not very probable, it's not unprecedented. And remember, the Earth Starfleet of ENT is not the same as the Federation Starfleet (although of course I do have T'Pol remain part of the UFP Starfleet in Rise of the Federation).
In order to have a TOS-R, the time frame of the books has to be AFTER the launch of the Enterprise-B. So all of those books listed that take place before then don't actually count. Sorry, but they don't fit in the correct time frame.
A relaunch is AFTER a certain point in time in the series in question, not before. So if the books are before the E-B's launch, then they are before and not eligible for part of a TOS-R. Do any of the Voy-R or DS9-R or TNG-R take place during the TV series? No, do they take place during the movies (Voy-R doesn't count here)? No. So TOS-R books would not take place duing the TV series/movies.
The timeline is the launch of the E-B. So place revise your lists to books that only take place after that.
A relaunch is AFTER a certain point in time in the series in question, not before. So if the books are before the E-B's launch, then they are before and not eligible for part of a TOS-R. Do any of the Voy-R or DS9-R or TNG-R take place during the TV series? No, do they take place during the movies (Voy-R doesn't count here)? No. So TOS-R books would not take place duing the TV series/movies.
The timeline is the launch of the E-B. So place revise your lists to books that only take place after that.
But relaunch is the word used, so we should follow the meaning of the word. I don't recall the names of the TOS books that take place after the launch of the E-B. Does anyone have the list?
^ You really shouldn't presume you know what I was looking for here because you are totally clueless on that front. I was looking for suggestions of novels that could be used to form a cohesive - or relatively cohesive - continuity in the same vein as the Enterprise, TNG, DS9, and Voyager relaunch continuities, and placed the word in single quotes in order to demonstrate that I was aware that it was not an official designation for what I was looking for here.
Can you please provide your citation for this definition of "relaunch"?
It's the wrong definition. Strictly speaking, the term "Deep Space Nine Relaunch" referred only to the initial promotional push at the beginning of the post-finale DS9 series. The word "launch," of course, means to start or initiate something -- in this case, in the sense of a product launch, the product being the book series, which was being started up again, i.e. relaunched, with a new direction. But by association, fans came to apply the term inaccurately to the entire post-finale series, and then to other post-finale series as well.
One could say that usage is at least figuratively applicable, since these book series were all restarted with new directions. But literally or figuratively, the term is a reference to the books themselves as publications and products, and to the editorial direction behind them, rather than to in-universe chronology. Yes, for TNG, DS9, and VGR, and I suppose for ENT, the "relaunches" were post-finale series, but that's because those respective book series all had books published during the run of those series and therefore restricted in their storytelling freedom and prone to being contradicted and overwritten. So having the opportunity to tell stories set after the series, unburdened by their continuity, definitely constituted a fresh start and allowed a fresh approach. It's the difference between standalone books that didn't really count and interconnected books that do count, insofar as they affect each other.
But TOS isn't like that, since aside from Mission to Horatius, all of its original novels were published after the series had ended. Not to mention that TOS never had a series finale in the same sense as the others, and has enormous gaps of time between various movies. So if Pocket did want to relaunch the TOS novel line -- i.e. begin a new dedicated series of books with their own distinct focus, continuity, and approach -- it would make no sense to base it on the same kind of during/after dichotomy that applies to the other series. It could easily go in the gap between TMP and TWOK, or between TFF and TUC.
One could say that usage is at least figuratively applicable, since these book series were all restarted with new directions. But literally or figuratively, the term is a reference to the books themselves as publications and products, and to the editorial direction behind them, rather than to in-universe chronology. Yes, for TNG, DS9, and VGR, and I suppose for ENT, the "relaunches" were post-finale series, but that's because those respective book series all had books published during the run of those series and therefore restricted in their storytelling freedom and prone to being contradicted and overwritten. So having the opportunity to tell stories set after the series, unburdened by their continuity, definitely constituted a fresh start and allowed a fresh approach. It's the difference between standalone books that didn't really count and interconnected books that do count, insofar as they affect each other.
But TOS isn't like that, since aside from Mission to Horatius, all of its original novels were published after the series had ended. Not to mention that TOS never had a series finale in the same sense as the others, and has enormous gaps of time between various movies. So if Pocket did want to relaunch the TOS novel line -- i.e. begin a new dedicated series of books with their own distinct focus, continuity, and approach -- it would make no sense to base it on the same kind of during/after dichotomy that applies to the other series. It could easily go in the gap between TMP and TWOK, or between TFF and TUC.
Having continuity doesn't mean abandoning "the stand alone nature of TOS".
Of course not, but in general, the stand alone nature of TOS seemed to preclude nearly any continuity between stories.
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