Spoilers TOS: Living Memory by Christopher L. Bennett - Review Thread

[indianatrekker26]

Yeah, basically. But again, none of this is real anyway. Readers today still enjoy Trek novels that were contradicted by canon decades ago, like The Final Reflection or Federation. I'm disappointed that I probably won't get to continue the post-TMP series from this point, but I hope readers will still enjoy Living Memory as a story on its own terms.

At this point, given that Coda has defined pretty much the whole novelverse after First Contact as distinct from the canon timeline, I'd say my only books that could still be considered consistent are Rise of the Federation, my TOS books other than Living Memory (though Forgotten History is iffy due to its 24th-century DTI elements), The Buried Age, and arguably Places of Exile, as well as my short stories in various anthologies. That's still the majority of my Trek output, but less than 2/3 of the total. And it's probably only a matter of time before canon contradicts more of it. I knew that going in, like all tie-in writers to ongoing franchises. It's just the nature of the business.

Yup you said it best, Christopher. A good story is still a good story. To this day, Federation is still one of my favorite trek books of all time, I could care less if it's no longer canon.

 

[nightwind1]

I suggest John Winston Matthew Thomas Kyle Crosby Stills Nash Young Merrill Lynch Pierce Sacco Vanzetti Gambolputty de von Ausfern-schplenden-schlitter-crasscrenbon-fried-digger-dingle-dangle-dongle-dungle-burstein-von-knacker-thrasher-apple-banger-horowitz-ticolensic-grander-knotty-spelltinkle-grandlich-grumblemeyer-spelterwasser-kurstlich-himbleeisen-bahnwagen-gutenabend-bitte-ein-nürnburger-bratwustle-gerspurten-mitzweimache-luber-hundsfut-gumberaber-shönendanker-kalbsfleisch-mittler-aucher von Hautkopft of Ulm

But it's pronounced Throatwarbler Mangrove.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

But it's pronounced Throatwarbler Mangrove.

You're a very silly man and I'm not going to interview you.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

I suggest John Winston Matthew Thomas Kyle Crosby Stills Nash Young Merrill Lynch Pierce Sacco Vanzetti . . .

Hey! Sacco and Vanzetti!

(I've got the same George Carlin record. On vinyl. I'm not a vinyl snob; that's just how long I've had it. And I've been known to refer to a local organ of mixed parentage as a "Murray Harris, Aeolian-Skinner, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Sacco & Vanzetti.")

 

[EDX]

As part of a fundraising effort, I offered donors the opportunity to suggest names for places, ships, etc. that I'd incorporate into the manuscript, since I'd already done the more basic Tuckerization thing (inserting donors' own names) in The Higher Frontier and the Arachne duology and I wanted to try something different.

What he said - and honi soit qui mal y pense!

 

[EDX]

Yeah, basically. But again, none of this is real anyway. Readers today still enjoy Trek novels that were contradicted by canon decades ago, like The Final Reflection or Federation. I'm disappointed that I probably won't get to continue the post-TMP series from this point, but I hope readers will still enjoy Living Memory as a story on its own terms.

At this point, given that Coda has defined pretty much the whole novelverse after First Contact as distinct from the canon timeline, I'd say my only books that could still be considered consistent are Rise of the Federation, my TOS books other than Living Memory (though Forgotten History is iffy due to its 24th-century DTI elements), The Buried Age, and arguably Places of Exile, as well as my short stories in various anthologies. That's still the majority of my Trek output, but less than 2/3 of the total. And it's probably only a matter of time before canon contradicts more of it. I knew that going in, like all tie-in writers to ongoing franchises. It's just the nature of the business.

I just hope the Concerned Parties have the good sense (and the Good Taste) to retain old favourites to fill in the gaps for this Bold New Continuity ...