When Star Trek: Picard was announced, the group of authors who had been writing the spin-off novels since 2001 decided to come up with some sort of denouement for their stories, since it was clear that the new TV shows would contradict most, if not all, of the established "canon". The authors did this (and got Pocket Books to sign off on…
When Star Trek: Picard was announced, the group of authors who had been writing the spin-off novels since 2001 decided to come up with some sort of denouement for their stories, since it was clear that the new TV shows would contradict most, if not all, of the established "canon". The authors did this (and got Pocket Books to sign off on it) in major part because they didn't want the fans who had been following their books for 20+ years to feel completely alienated, as had been observed after Disney purchased Star Wars in 2015 and declared decades' worth of shared experiences non-canon. In officially closing out the "relaunch" book series, these authors hoped to provide fans with some level of closure and validation of their investment in the project; "all good things" and so forth.
Why this seeming non sequitur? Because I've become fixated on this sentence: " 'In this situation, a ban that could upset the People of God is not recommended,' the DDF says." I wonder what lessons the DDF is seeming to have learned, and whence.
When Star Trek: Picard was announced, the group of authors who had been writing the spin-off novels since 2001 decided to come up with some sort of denouement for their stories, since it was clear that the new TV shows would contradict most, if not all, of the established "canon". The authors did this (and got Pocket Books to sign off on it) in major part because they didn't want the fans who had been following their books for 20+ years to feel completely alienated, as had been observed after Disney purchased Star Wars in 2015 and declared decades' worth of shared experiences non-canon. In officially closing out the "relaunch" book series, these authors hoped to provide fans with some level of closure and validation of their investment in the project; "all good things" and so forth.
Why this seeming non sequitur? Because I've become fixated on this sentence: " 'In this situation, a ban that could upset the People of God is not recommended,' the DDF says." I wonder what lessons the DDF is seeming to have learned, and whence.
Some of the less-solid apparitions could absolutely be described as Catholic fanfic.