But every single The Fall novel is written by someone else. Characters like Blackmer or President Bacco are important in the books I read even though they originate in completely different novels. It seems to me like they are all vastly interconnected.
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Wooster@startrek.website 1 year agoThe numbered books tend to only have anything resembling continuity if the same author is involved. Peter David and John Vornholt come immediately to mind as ones to do that.
A Stitch in Time (By Garak’s actor) also gets referenced, but that book is an extra special case in the franchise.
Outside of the authors referencing their own work, sometimes New Frontier gets referenced: mostly in the form of Zak Kebron (The BEST character to ever happen to Trek) being Worf’s old academy roommate, or in the form of a major disaster hitting the entire quadrant and you get little cuts to various ships…
But never anything of substance.
LtLiana@startrek.website 1 year ago
Wooster@startrek.website 1 year ago
The fall was published after Nemesis, and the rules on novels were changed from being self contained to interconnected, and they abandoned the numbered novel system.
Instead of rare bursts of continuity, you get random bursts of discontinuity, as the authors have different opinions on how to portray shared OCs, or takes on an event or its significance.
alex@mstdn.ca 1 year ago
@Wooster @LtLiana There’s also the interesting examples of John M Ford’s Klingons and Diane Duane’s Romulans - both of those authors’ works became touchstones for others - until TNG sort of swept away the Klinzhai and Rihansuu