I just bought the new fiction novel based on the online game. STAR TREK ONLINE: THE NEEDS OF THE MANY
I have just started it but i love the idea of the book. Its a collection of interviews by Jake Sisko recalling the events currently unfolding with Undine war. And the back of the book contains the entire timeline for the the road to 2410 that apparantly cryptic did not feel obligated to finnish on the website.
Before the beta was finished I was keeping up to all of Cryptic's updates on the time line (Path to 2409) but they stopped around 2392 (i think). I really wanted to know what happened afterward but it only appeared in Star Trek magazine, and again only up til 2392 or so. Luckily I work at a bookstore part time so I've been able to read the time line finally. Personally, if I didn't work at a bookstore, I'd buy the book just for the time line. That being said, I did buy it for the story, which isn't half bad, if you like a Studs Terkel/World War Z kind of read.
The interviews all take place before what is currently unfolding in the game. The timeline after the interviews fills that in.
Actully that is not true. I read a dev quote on this that said the undine war jake talks about takes place after STOs current setting. We are just now discovering the undine and their infiltration so it makes sense that the war has not happened yet.
STO takes place DURING the long war vs. the Undine. Jake Sisco's first interview was in 2423.
Prior to 2409, the Undine were setting the seeds of war bewteen the Klingon Empire and the UFP. The Undine had already been fighting the Borg, and they would have been defeated if it weren't for Janeway's hand in the matter (I did not get that far into the book, so I don't have all of the details).
In STO we already see the Romulans using Borg technology to be used against or to aid the Undine, not sure which yet......
Anyway, it is an interesting read and it will probably taker a reread of a few of the chapters to really get a sense of what is going on.
Actully that is not true. I read a dev quote on this that said the undine war jake talks about takes place after STOs current setting. We are just now discovering the undine and their infiltration so it makes sense that the war has not happened yet.
By definition, the infiltrations referred to in the book date back to 2387 and before... And Cryptic's own Path to 2409 has Data and Jake discussing the Undine, which Data is aware of but not at liberty to discuss, clearly.
But Worf's encounter with the Undine dates back to the day after Spock and Nero disappeared.
The war's been going on for decades but Starfleet has been suppressing it and, worse, is probably so badly compromised with infiltrators by now that it's hard to say whether the supression of information has even been for the public good. The Klingons are much more open about the war.
Basically, the book itself is written about ten years in our future BUT the interviews discuss events ranging from Data's return through Spock's disappearance through the early 2400s. And arguably some of the interviews are "old" interviews that Jake's "editor" slapped in out of chronological order. (Michael A. Martin KNEW that Quark left DS9 so the Quark chapter has to take place prior to that.)
I think the best interpretation is that the book is a bunch of interviews from different times and places that Jake and Martin stitched together in a non-linear portrait of the war in 2423 or so. Some take place after the game but they're spliced in with old interviews Jake did.
Actully that is not true. I read a dev quote on this that said the undine war jake talks about takes place after STOs current setting. We are just now discovering the undine and their infiltration so it makes sense that the war has not happened yet.
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The interviews all take place before what is currently unfolding in the game. The timeline after the interviews fills that in.
Actully that is not true. I read a dev quote on this that said the undine war jake talks about takes place after STOs current setting. We are just now discovering the undine and their infiltration so it makes sense that the war has not happened yet.
Prior to 2409, the Undine were setting the seeds of war bewteen the Klingon Empire and the UFP. The Undine had already been fighting the Borg, and they would have been defeated if it weren't for Janeway's hand in the matter (I did not get that far into the book, so I don't have all of the details).
In STO we already see the Romulans using Borg technology to be used against or to aid the Undine, not sure which yet......
Anyway, it is an interesting read and it will probably taker a reread of a few of the chapters to really get a sense of what is going on.
By definition, the infiltrations referred to in the book date back to 2387 and before... And Cryptic's own Path to 2409 has Data and Jake discussing the Undine, which Data is aware of but not at liberty to discuss, clearly.
But Worf's encounter with the Undine dates back to the day after Spock and Nero disappeared.
The war's been going on for decades but Starfleet has been suppressing it and, worse, is probably so badly compromised with infiltrators by now that it's hard to say whether the supression of information has even been for the public good. The Klingons are much more open about the war.
I think the best interpretation is that the book is a bunch of interviews from different times and places that Jake and Martin stitched together in a non-linear portrait of the war in 2423 or so. Some take place after the game but they're spliced in with old interviews Jake did.
Read the stardates IN the book.