It's canon until someone asks the question "is it canon?" and then because it's observed, it becomes non-canon.
What I Learned From TrekLit...
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It's canon until someone asks the question "is it canon?" and then because it's observed, it becomes non-canon.
There is more to Earth than just the former United States of America.
Also, the Enterprise A had about a dozen adventures directly after TUC.
I'm making my way through the Excelsior stories at a casual pace. I love how a group of invading saber-rattling aliens "storm and capture" the ship, because they want Captain Kirk of the Enterprise, and find themselves a little put out when Kirk corrects them that their information is very badly out-of-date! I love the "Excelsior" era, since they didn't go that route in the movies with Saavik and Excelsior as genuine changes, it's nice to have the comics play it out in spirit.
The Stiles family careers revolved around Starfleet for generations
T'Pol married a Wraith.
McCoy takes decades to get the girl and sometimes there is no girl to get
T'Pol married a Wraith.
McCoy takes decades to get the girl and sometimes there is no girl to get
SarekAnd they were *all* the "final mission"!
Shadows on the Sun
The Fearful Summons
The Ashes of Eden
The Last Roundup
Plus several comics I'm probably missing... I believe by "The Last Roundup" that squeezing post-TUC adventures in was starting to become ridiculous, and I hear that wasn't that good of a novel, either.
Spock is not the only crewmember whose name is at least partly unpronounceable.
There is a comic called Mission's End. Subtle, I know.
Peter David pulled the same unpronouncable name trick on both Number One in The Rift and on Calhoun in the New Frontier series.
Starfleet had diversity issues
The framing stories of "Best Destiny" and "War Dragons," too, IIRC. I believe BD even added a bit at the end where Starfleet gave the Enterprise-A a stay of execution, presumably to make room for the already-proliferating post-TUC adventures. Oh, and there was that time-travel SNW story where the guy from the future wanted to fight Kirk so they did it on the trip from Khitomer to Earth so it wouldn't matter if the ship was destroyed (though they didn't seem to think through the crew's future contributions to history).
I doubt that. Best Destiny was the first of those post-TUC novels by a fair margin (9 months ahead of the second), and in fact the next one, Shadows on the Sun, directly contradicted it. BD arbitrarily reversed the ship's retirement (something I was shocked Paramount let Carey get away with), but SotS was explicitly the last mission before that retirement (and I found it quite depressing as the last adventure, though it was good otherwise). And the next one after that, Sarek, also contradicted its predecessor; it had the Enterprise-A still in service and completely ignored the whole retirement issue. Remember, continuity in the books wasn't a thing at that time. I'm a bit surprised Carey was even allowed to do a sequel. Aside from that, everything was completely standalone and not tied in to any other books.
Although at the time, I tried to reconcile the three by flopping SotS and Sarek -- I assumed that the stay at the end of BD was temporary while Starfleet studied the issue, then Sarek took place during that study period, and then they decided to retire the ship after all and that's when SotS happened. But that was years before any of the others came out. And those weren't in continuity with each other or with the first three either.
That the Romulan Commander from "The Enterprise Incident" has at least four(?) separate names that I've read of (although I'm years behind Trek Lit), which I think might have influenced Diane Duanes' Rihansuu naming convention?
