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None of the Star Trek novels I see on the 2020 schedule seem to be connected to this continuing story. However, while new Trek novels will apparently continue, David Mack’s novel Collateral Damage looks like it might be that last novel set within this post- Nemesis continuity. After a lengthy hiatus, I was delighted when Pocket books began publishing new Star Trek fiction again last spring, with Dayton Ward’s novel Available Light. I am excited for Picard ( I thought the first episode was great) but I am certain that this new show will contradict huge swaths of the post- Nemesis story that has been crafted for Picard and the other TNG characters in these novels. I wonder if, behind the scenes, with the new Picard series in the works, there was also a question of how and if these Star Trek novels could continue. No formal explanation was ever offered, to my knowledge, though comments from some sources indicated that the contract with Paramount/CBS was being renegotiated. I love continuity and I love epic stories, and these Star Trek novels have together represented a hugely entertaining saga that has given me so much enjoyment over the past two decades.Īfter November, 2017, Pocket Books temporarily ceased publication of new Star Trek fiction.

I have written about a great many of those novels on this site. Most of the novels were stand-alone stories, but together they fit into a wonderfully expansive tapestry.

Characters from different series would appear in various books, and character arcs and other storylines would continue from book to book, sometimes crossing between series. In the years that followed, a vast tapestry of connected novels developed, and grew to include novels set across all the Trek series, including the Original Series, Voyager, and Enterprise.

It continued with the “A Time To…” novels, a nine-book series published in 2004, that were set in the months prior to 2002’s Star Trek: Nemesis, the final Star Trek: The Next Generation film. Perry’s Avatar, which launched a series of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine novels that carried forward the characters’ stories, following the DS9 finale, which aired in 1999. It began in 2001 with the publication of S.D. David Mack’s new Star Trek novel, Collateral Damage, looks to me like it might represent the conclusion of an amazing, almost two-decade-long experiment on the part of Pocket Books to create a connected continuity of Star Trek novels.