The Star Trek: Coda trilogy will push forward Star Trek’s 20-year-old literary continuity this fall. Since 2001’s Avatar picked up where Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’s finale left off, authors have told new tales starring characters from Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: The Next Generation, and Star Trek: Voyager in a shared universe of interconnected novels. Those novels told new stories in the 24th century, sometimes with drastic changes to the Star Trek universe’s status quo. With no new movies or shows set after Star Trek: Nemesis, the authors were free to be as bold as they liked (within licensor approval, of course) with these characters and their universe. That changed when Star Trek: Picard debuted with its official canon version of Star Trek’s post-Nemesis future, which does not match up with that of the novels. Could the Star Trek literary universe survive alongside Picard’s new future? Dayton Ward hinted to ComicBook.com last year that he and other Star Trek authors had a plan to see that happen. Now, that plan is starting to take shape.
