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Pocket Continuities
Sep. 25th, 2012 03:15 pmHere’s a fun detail from Star Trek Online I just noticed – it considers Diane Duane’s Rihannsu novels part of its setting. Not just the Romulan backstory, either, which have been borrowed by a number of sources, but the events of the novels themselves - the “Path to 2409” backstory, created to fill in the gaps between Nemesis and the game’s setting, compares Sela’s rise to power following a civil war within the Romulan Empire to that of Ael t'Rllaillieu – implying the events of “The Empty Chair” are part of STO’s continuity.
This is kind of amusing, since the last three Rihannsu novels included disclaimers to ensure everyone was aware that Duane’s Romulan culture wasn’t consistent with the TNG-era Romulans, that the events of the novels were meant to be a separate continuity, and that they shouldn’t be considered part of the ‘main’ Trek universe, and the novel continuity hasn’t referenced their events at all.
It’s kind of nice to see that the STO writers have decided to ignore that completely, to subtly incorporate the Rihannsu novels while, at the same time, ignoring most of the nonsense the more recent novels have been coming up with. Of course, in the latter case, that’s probably less an artistic choice so much as the recent novels seemingly going to the setting with a chainsaw, and incorporating their events wouldn’t leave much still standing for the game to use...
This is kind of amusing, since the last three Rihannsu novels included disclaimers to ensure everyone was aware that Duane’s Romulan culture wasn’t consistent with the TNG-era Romulans, that the events of the novels were meant to be a separate continuity, and that they shouldn’t be considered part of the ‘main’ Trek universe, and the novel continuity hasn’t referenced their events at all.
It’s kind of nice to see that the STO writers have decided to ignore that completely, to subtly incorporate the Rihannsu novels while, at the same time, ignoring most of the nonsense the more recent novels have been coming up with. Of course, in the latter case, that’s probably less an artistic choice so much as the recent novels seemingly going to the setting with a chainsaw, and incorporating their events wouldn’t leave much still standing for the game to use...