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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] In addition to Okuda, Dixon and personal preferences (plus outdated stuff like the SFC), there's another player in town now. A team that includes Alex Rosenzweig and some PsiPhi.org activists has formulated a timeline for the official Trek novels: it's printed on the back of at least the softcover "Gateways: What Lay Beyond" (a surprisingly stupid book with a few highlights, but at least it wasn't expensive). The novel timeline builds on Okuda's chronology but pays attention to the recent developments (like "Q2") and the problems of TOS dating. There are brief notes on the most glaring internal dating errors presented by the novels themselves, and on what the team took at face value and what they dropped, which is rather helpful. The team has the slightly odd practice of giving "corrected", speculative stardates to books that give obviously incompatible ones (a bit like our unsolicited re-registering and re-naming of the "Zuhkov"), but otherwise the work seems free of silly bias. Like Dixon's work, this one includes ALL the novels. Not all the comics or the RPGs, though, which is a relief - but WildStorm's more recent Trek "graphic novels" ARE included there. IMHO, fittingly so, because they are chronologically quite palatable. Heck, "Double Time" even was specifically created in order to correct a chronology mistake! All in all, I think the novel business nowadays is a lot more internally and "inter-bookly" consistent than it used to be - and often better so than the actual episodes. All hail Ordover, I guess... Or DeCandido, who loves this sort of detail work. Or Peter David, who (as mentioned) creates entire storylines to set right continuity mistakes. Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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