{"id":18515,"date":"2022-01-22T21:10:54","date_gmt":"2022-01-23T02:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=18515"},"modified":"2022-01-22T21:10:54","modified_gmt":"2022-01-23T02:10:54","slug":"the-end-of-a-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/the-end-of-a-universe\/","title":{"rendered":"The end of a universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All of the <strong>Star Trek<\/strong> novels that take place in the 24th century have been part of a shared, consistent universe for the last 20 years. These novels take place after <strong>Nemesis<\/strong>, after &#8220;What You Leave Behind,&#8221; and after &#8220;Endgame.&#8221; They fall into the novel series <strong>The Next Generation<\/strong>, <strong>Titan<\/strong>, <strong>Deep Space Nine<\/strong>, <strong>Voyager<\/strong>, and various crossover miniseries.<\/p>\n<p>As has happened in other universes, this one is coming to an end &#8212; the <strong>Coda<\/strong> trilogy forms the conclusion. Subsequent novels, at least for now, will take place during the series &#8212; such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/star-trek-tng-shadows-have-offended\/\"><strong>TNG: Shadows Have Offended<\/strong><\/a>. The <strong>TOS<\/strong> and <strong>Enterprise<\/strong> lines of books shouldn&#8217;t be affected, but we&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n<p>This is disappointing, as the novels that take place after the series are, in general, better. I have read the vast majority of these novels. They tend to be more interesting because they can leave the characters in a different place than where they started.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s David Mack, one of the authors of the <strong>Coda<\/strong> trilogy, discussing the subject:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davidmack.pro\/blog\/2021\/09\/07\/star-trek-coda-the-end-is-nigh\/\">STAR TREK: CODA \u2013 The End Is Nigh<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All of the Star Trek novels that take place in the 24th century have been part of a shared, consistent universe for the last 20 years. These novels take place after Nemesis, after &#8220;What You Leave Behind,&#8221; and after &#8220;Endgame.&#8221; They fall into the novel series The Next Generation, Titan, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,22],"tags":[7,59],"class_list":["post-18515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-web","category-my-thoughts","tag-book","tag-star-trek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18515"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18517,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18515\/revisions\/18517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}