Which other novels used Final Reflection continuity?
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Process of elimination from clues in the book strongly indicated to me that Krenn has a bumpy forehead, and the cover is inaccurate.
The novel The IDIC Epidemic is the first book I can recall that defines the distinction that bumpy headed Klingons are the Imperial Race, and TOS TV series types are non-Imperial Klingons. Was there an earlier book before that used the Imperial Race designation? I don't remember it from TFR.
Memory Beta says:
"Due to the secrecy of politics associated with holding court with Klingon lines and the dominant Great Houses, very little information about Krenn's life is verifiable. Ostensibly, he was an officer in the Klingon Navy, with heritage as a 'fusion', the genetically damaged Klingons prevalent in the late 22nd and early 23rd centuries.
"Krenn's life came into the spotlight of Federation popular culture when novelist and historian J.M. Ford learned of Krenn's life and wrote 'The Final Reflection', a book that had Krenn as the central character in a dramatization of early 23rd century Klingon politics. The book was a dramatic retelling of the controversy of the Klingon delegation to a Federation conference in the 2240s decade. Since Ford interviewed many personalities involved in those events, including Emanuel Tagore, a friend of Krenn's, a great deal of the information may bear some degree of truth. Spock, who is described as meeting Krenn in the novel, has stated that the meeting did in fact occur, but that the details are fiction."
John M. Ford's work and The Final Reflection get a nod from me in The Ashes of Tomorrow...
At one point Krenn says "My mother...was not of my father's race". FWIW.
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