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quote:Originally posted by Omega: More points to be redeveloped: Conspiracy aliens Giant space amoeba Crystalline entity
One of the lastest Titan books deals with the various space monsters and such... but that isn't cannon, is it? Also in recent books, the Conspiracy aliens are offshots of trills, supposed...
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Isn't tying everything together after the fact (which usually seems like a bad idea to me) the exact opposite of "rebooting"?
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Tying everything together after the fact is indeed the opposite of rebooting. That's what the novels do. But I'm talking about creating an entirely new fictional history, drawing from but not tied to the Trek canon. If that's not a reboot, I don't know what is.
As for ancient races, obviously backstory would be in order, explaining the timelines for all those ancient races. I figure we can just say they were all at different times or something. And yes, I agree that some mysteries should be left unresolved so far as the Federation is concerned, either temporarily or permanently. But an explanation can still be created if not fleshed out too far.
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quote:Originally posted by Omega: As for ancient races, obviously backstory would be in order, explaining the timelines for all those ancient races. I figure we can just say they were all at different times or something.
Unless you pull a B5 & have it so that all those older races & empires were in a geopolitical situation much like the one we see in "our" time. That is to sar, as we have the UFP, RSE, IKE, Cardassians, Dominion, & the like so 500,000 years ago were the T'Kon, Sargon's people, the Kalandans, the Fabrini, etc.
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I'd thought about that too. Perhaps different "ages" of empire relationships would be in order. The Iconians obviously had enemies capable of destroying them. But then you have to wonder why none of those races are around any more, leading to approximate technological parity across the region. Gamma ray bursts? From the T'kon sun's supernova? Purposeful departure? Tribble invasion?
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quote:Originally posted by Omega: Tying everything together after the fact is indeed the opposite of rebooting. That's what the novels do. But I'm talking about creating an entirely new fictional history, drawing from but not tied to the Trek canon. If that's not a reboot, I don't know what is.
As for ancient races, obviously backstory would be in order, explaining the timelines for all those ancient races. I figure we can just say they were all at different times or something. And yes, I agree that some mysteries should be left unresolved so far as the Federation is concerned, either temporarily or permanently. But an explanation can still be created if not fleshed out too far.
Not to drive the topic bus into oncoming traffic (But i do that!)but would Battle Angel Alita: Last order be considered a reboot? as far as the Last GN of the orginal series was concerned?
and why does this topic make me think like Old school Marvel's What If series?
quote:Originally posted by Omega: I'd thought about that too. Perhaps different "ages" of empire relationships would be in order. The Iconians obviously had enemies capable of destroying them. But then you have to wonder why none of those races are around any more, leading to approximate technological parity across the region. Gamma ray bursts? From the T'kon sun's supernova? Purposeful departure? Tribble invasion?
Maybe witness the destruction of the tribbles by the Klingons.
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