What Star Trek book is set furthest into the future?
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Avoiding any time travel...
I think the furthest future Star Trek story is Robert Jeschonek's "Our Million Year Mission" in one of the Strange New Worlds volumes. I want to say volume 6. It's not a time travel story by any means; it's a Kirk and Picard story set way far out in the Federation's future.
The framing sequence of The Good That Men Do is probably the furthest out in the main novel line; that's mid-25th century. Still well before the Enterprise-J seen in "Azati Prime," though, which was 26th-century.
It's undateable, but somewhere in between the short story and the novel above is one of the epilogues of Federation, which would also be sometime after "Azati Prime."
I think the furthest future Star Trek story is Robert Jeschonek's "Our Million Year Mission" in one of the Strange New Worlds volumes. I want to say volume 6. It's not a time travel story by any means; it's a Kirk and Picard story set way far out in the Federation's future.
The framing sequence of The Good That Men Do is probably the furthest out in the main novel line; that's mid-25th century. Still well before the Enterprise-J seen in "Azati Prime," though, which was 26th-century.
It's undateable, but somewhere in between the short story and the novel above is one of the epilogues of Federation, which would also be sometime after "Azati Prime."
And as far as the main bulk of the Star Trek universe goes, the current 24th century books are all set in 2382 (or about three years after Nemesis).
Indistinguishable From Magic takes us into spring 2383
The Star Trek book that's the farthest out, with no questions involved as to which line or anything like that, (as far as I know, anyway) is The Needs of the Many, which is a tie-in novel to Star Trek Online, and is a deviation away from the "main" novel line.
Yeah, it's an alternate timeline, but it seems some of the Destiny stuff is heading that way...
In The Needs of the Many (set 2409-ish), Kira is Kai. She recently became Vedek in the Typhon Pact books set in 2382.
TNotM speaks of an epic war against the Undine (Species 8472). In Unworthy, we learn that Admiral Batiste was an 8472 infiltrator, part of an abandoned Undine scheme.
Geordi's captain of the USS Challenger in TnoTM, and he's set to board Challenger in Lonemagpie's forthcoming novel.
The name of Picard/Crusher's kid in the Destinyverse is from TnoTM.
TNotM speaks of an epic war against the Undine (Species 8472). In Unworthy, we learn that Admiral Batiste was an 8472 infiltrator, part of an abandoned Undine scheme.
Geordi's captain of the USS Challenger in TnoTM, and he's set to board Challenger in Lonemagpie's forthcoming novel.
The name of Picard/Crusher's kid in the Destinyverse is from TnoTM.
There are differences, yes. But there are interesting similarities, too.
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No, I think it's actually the other way around, even though it saw print first in TNoTM. I'm trying to remember when I heard the name; it doesn't seem to be in my archived e-mails, so maybe I was told it at Shore Leave or NY Comic-Con. But it was well before ST:O or TNoTM came along.
"Time travel - from my first day in the job as a Starfleet Captain, I swore that I would never get myself caught in one of these god-forsaken paradoxes, the future is the past, the past is the future, it all gives me an headache...."
- Captain Janeway
Ahem. That was meant to be "2409".
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