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Anonymous asked:

Can you explain that novelverse fix please?

short answer: official record of what happened.

long answer: captain nog visits jake with some newly declassified materials from that era (think The Visitor setting, cozy house and all). The attack was staged, to “kill” Trip (which also explains the “bad acting” in the holographic version and any say inconsistencies). Trip was recruited by the precursor to section 31 introduced in S4, to go to Romulus and, iirc, delay/sabotage their warp 7 program. Best engineer in the fleet. Of course it’s only temporary, he’ll get back etc etc, but, he doesn’t. He spends most of the Romulan War surgically disguised as a Romulan scientist’s assistant (I’m going from memory here). Reed and Archer are the only ones that know initially, and T'Pol finds out through their strong psychic connection. Eventually the rest of the crew finds out one by one (spread out over the course of the Romulan War books). The lead-up and war changes the dynamic of the crew (i.e. Mayweather gets promoted to a new ship and has I believe three of them shot down from under him and is considered a bad omen). Without spoiling the ending of it, I was pleased with the ending. (and a couple of postwar novels since too, catching up on dangling threads like the Aliens from Silent Enemy and what was behind the self-repairing station from Dead Stop). Not everything works (maybe a little too on the nose on why TOS looks like that) but worth the reads.

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This is how the Star Trek Novelverse ends. Beginning in 2001 with DS9: Avatar (and along the way grandfathering novels as far back as the 1980's) and spanning hundreds of books expanding and continuing TNG, DS9 and Voyager, it's all coming down to the Temporal Apocalypse which will presumably leave everything as we see it in Star Trek: Picard and the rest of the current Star Trek Universe of shows. I cannot wait for the Star Trek: Coda trilogy. It's been one hell of a ride.

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I’m having FEELINGS about this.

I know that the Trek Novelverse inter-continuity line existed in a seperate beta canon line from a bunch of the old standalone episodic Pocket novels of earlier eras, and that it existed standalone of Star Trek Online, and that it existed standalone from whatever would come next in the post 24th century. Which is what we finally get in Star Trek: Picard.

But I love the Novelverse that spanned post-Nemesis and kept things going for more than 20 years in and out of universe. I loved following Voyager’s Full Circle. I loved finding out about the Caeliar and the fate of and origins of the Borg. I loved the DS9 exploration of the Gamma Quadrant - and the wild shit with the Orbs and the wormhole and Kira and Taran’atar and Iliana Ghemor. I loved the continuing adventures of the USS Titan, and seeing the Typhon Pact rise and Federation and their alliance politics with an equal alliance of rival powers in a cold war. There were so many characters and plotlines I loved. The Andorian reproductive crisis; the symbiont issue; what happened with Control and Julian Bashir.

 My heart hopes the Coda wraps things up in a way we could still see Novelverse adventures. I’m sure we won’t for publishing realities; they’re doing 6 Trek books a year now, so if they want to do 1 for each live-action airing series that’s 2 now and 3 when Strange New Worlds comes out, then at least 2 classic books (probably an annual TOS and then one set in the 24th century shows).

But I long for them to go back to the glory days of Trek publishing when it was 1 or 2 Trek prose novels a year, and when we got the continuing novelverse lines and they were going radical where they got things like the Vanguard and Titan spinoff novels based around characters who were largely new people! who hadn’t appeared on screen! and we could fall in love with and fear for them and some truly creative shit went down! I would love those days to come back, but I don’t think they are.

what I hope for now is maybe with the Temporal Apocalypse, it’ll wrap up in a way that some of the Novelverse aspects wind up reflected over in main TV canon. Give us a Captain Dax of the Aventine; give us Castellan Garak; canonize 4-sexed Andorians with the prefixed last names. Heck, have some of them dimension-shifted there and recall a timeline-that-wasn’t, that’d be wild.

I’m a veteran of long, tangled expanded universes and their dissolutions. I lived through the SWEU wipe when Disney bought it and cleared the path. I have lived through the arguments of  “well they aren’t Really killing anything, you’ll still have all those books to read” - yes, I will, but I won’t have more of it and it’ll be snipped off into a bubble timeline and I won’t get to see more. when any story or series ends, there is a sadness.

As TNG itself says, All Good Things come to an end... but god, I want to see what happens. I wish these versions, of these crews, a fitting final adventure worthy of 20 years of love and investment that I’ve given them.

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Why is Ezri wearing red?

Divided We Fall, as well as N-Vector, are are of the novelverse canon. Divided We Fall happens after the DS9 Relaunch novels Avatar 1&2 where she switches to Command Track. Memory Beta doesn’t place the comics exactly but here’s the gist of Avatar for Ezri:

In April of 2376, Dax was onboard the USS Defiant when a surprise attack by the Jem'Hadar killed the ship’s new CO, Commander Tiris Jast. Drawing on the memories of Dax’s previous hosts, Ezri took command and defeated the attacking Jem'Hadar. The experience made Ezri realize that she was capable of so much more now that she was joined, and made the switch to the Command Track. It also earned her a nomination to receive the Starfleet Citation for Conspicuous Gallantry.

I mean, within five year’s she’s commanding Starfleet’s first slipstream-drive starship Aventine, and it’s been fun to watch her in charge.

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#Airy reblob#star trek#tng#gif#this guy was interesting#the other two thawed people less so#but he still had really useful skills#he basically did Deanna’s job when he was on the bridge#sensing tension in the Romulans because of his negotiation experience#even if business is no longer big business in the Federation there are plenty of places where it still is#or he could be useful in the diplomatic service

In the novelverse Ralph Offenhouse  became a diplomat-at-large! As I recall he was first reintroduced in TNG#30 “Debtor’s Planet” Where he squares off against the Ferengi (this was published when TNG was still on the air) 

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I don’t remember much from this one as I haven’t read it in near 20 years. But I do remember that he has a top hat! (I want to say he has a cane and cravat too).

Anyway he’s brought back somewhat recently in the cohesive novelverse, still as an ambassador.

Claire Raymond, the “homemaker” was seen both in the second book of The Rise of Khan, where she’s at a conference targeted by terrorists following Khan’s teachings (as I recall). She’s also seen working for the Department of Temporal Investigation ( i want to say in the first DTI book) where what she thinks her vaulted 90s acceptance has prepared her for everything including aliens, she realizes she’s having trouble accepting a gay couple in her extended family and brings her up short. Aliens? sure. Alien interspecies relationships? eeeh.

I think Sonny Clemons got a record out.

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I’d also recently red the first Enterprise: Rise of the Federation novel. Made good use of the creepy aliens from Silent Enemy and made them rather interesting in a very Trekkian fashion. Also used the aliens from Civilization to a…decent effect. But most importantly it revisited (however briefly) Archer’s role in the The Communicator (where he denies that they’re aliens which such vehemence and convinces them they’re from an enemy country and triggers a world war). The story itself was good but still mostly setup for the next one (which just got released)

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Warning: the following contains spoilers for the post-Nemesis, post-Destiny novelverse TNG novelverse!

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Some spoilery thoughts on TNG Cold equations book one:

That’s how you bring back Data! I thought that was very well done. He’s not quite the same, but (so far) in all that matters, he is Data.

Data with a mission. In a twist, Data here understands why his father didn’t want him to join Starfleet and he feels he owes it to him to explore other possibilities. But now he’s on the hunt for Flint and his reactivated mother. His ultimate purpose now is to bring Lal back to life. As was shown in previous novels he’d kept All’s body, Lore’s body (his brain basically destroyed when big D crashed in Generations) and the three nameless prototypes. When Data died, all those and poor B-4 were turned over to the Days from Institute (setting the stage for this book)

Data now has Lal’s memories, Lore’s, and Doctor Soong’s. Meanwhile B-4 has some actual progression to make as Soong improves what he could on an android that wasn’t meant to last. I wonder how that’ll turn out.

Worf, poor Worf. I’m not sure how I feel about them offing Choudhury, I get that everyone happy makes boring storytelling but still. The manner of her death also clearly rankles Worf. He’s becoming a black widow Carter.

And we have a freighter full of program less Lores just running around. Not good.

But good stuff. A lot has now happened in the 4 year span since Nemesis (or 9 since WYLB). I love it

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