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Novels

Too many timelines

TO CLARIFY: NONE OF THE NOVELS ARE CANON

The shows and movies are, for the most part, set in the prime timeline. Exceptions are the mirror universe episodes of TOS, DS9, ENT, DIS; and the Kelvin-timeline movies.

The shows tend to ignore the novels entirely, i.e. not mention them or their events, but usually we have no evidence they don't happen in the prime timeline. Key word being 'usually':

So many little continuity errors exist, and so many massive ones as well, especially in the 70s and 80s books. Things like Spock Must Die where the Organians sentence the Klingons to 1000 years without warp drive. But one era that I've talked about with other like-minded fans before is the gap between TOS and TMP. Before the Star Trek Chronology, many fans and writers may have assumed there was a bigger gap between the two, rather than such a large gap between TMP and TWOK. I've theorized with others before about the option of there being a divergent timeline in this area of history where Kirk has two five year missions (or just an undefined extended one) pre-TMP.

Ryan of Star Trek Litverse Reading Guide, pers. comm., edited for clarity/brevity

And because of Star Trek: Picard (and less so Prodigy), which both have their own associated novels, some of the novels have to be shoved into a branch of the novel timeline so there are no clashes. This is achieved with the Coda trilogy, which retroactively puts all the novels between First Contact and the 2387 Romulan Supernova into what is referred to in-universe as the First Splinter.

Cross-references have a slight color background.

Series Title Timespan
ENT (and occasionally the USS Columbia) 2151 - 2166
ENT By the Book ? 2151
ENT What Price Honor? [sic] February 2152
ENT Surak's Soul ? 2152
ENT Daedalus ? 2153
ENT Daedalus's Children ? 2153
ENT Last Full Measure ? 2153?
ENT Rosetta ? 2155
ENT The Good That Men Do January - March, 2155 (framed in 2400s)
ENT Kobayashi Maru May - July, 2155
ENT The Romulan War Beneath the Raptor's Wing July 2151 - 2156
Pre-jump DIS & SNW tie-ins 2233? - 2259
DIS Drastic Measures ? 2246 - 2247
DIS The Way to the Stars ? 2249
DIS Fear Itself ? 2252
DIS Desperate Hours May 2255 (contradicted by s2)
DIS season 1 May 2256 - ? 2257
DIS The Enterprise War ? 2256 - 2257
DIS Die Standing ? 2257?
DIS season 2 eps. 1-4 ? 2257
DIS Dead Endless ? 2257 (this one's weird)
DIS season 2 eps. 5-14 ? 2257 - 2258
SNW season 1 ? 2259
SNW The High Country ??
SNW season 2 ? 2260?
TOS era 2266? - 2293
TOS Harm's Way July 2267
Prologue of Star Trek: Generations ? 2293
Lost Era, etc. 2293 - 2363
TNG era 2364 (prime) - 2387 (First Splinter)
TNG season 3 eps. 1-19 February 15 - September 29, 2366 (43125.8 - 43745.2)
TNG #17 Boogeymen September 30, 2366 (43747.3)
TNG season 7, excl. finale January - December 2370
TNG Shadows Have Offended December 2370
TNG "All Good Things..." December 2370
Star Trek: Generations August 2371
DS9 Revenant ? 2372
Star Trek: First Contact November 2373
Start of First Splinter timeline
Star Trek: Insurrection ? 2375 (prime)
Star Trek: Nemesis November 2379 (prime)
Destiny Gods of Night February 2381
Destiny Mere Mortals February 2381
Destiny Lost Souls February 2381
A Singular Destiny April - May 2381
VOY Full Circle September 2378 - June 2381
VOY Unworthy June 2381
VOY Children of the Storm May - July 2381
VOY The Eternal Tide August - September 2381
VOY Protectors September 2381 - January 2382
VOY Acts of Contrition January - February 2382
VOY Atonement March - May 2382
VOY A Pocket Full of Lies June - July 2382
VOY Architects of Infinity August 2382
VOY To Lose the Earth ? 2382
Prometheus Fire with Fire October - November 2385
Prometheus The Root of All Rage November 2385
Prometheus In the Heart of Chaos November - December 2385
TNG Available Light ? 2386
TNG Collateral Damage January 2387
Coda Moments Asunder ? 2387
Coda The Ashes of Tomorrow ? 2387
Coda Oblivion's Gate ? 2387
End of First Splinter timeline
Kelvin timeline things 2233 - 2263
Star Trek 2009 ? 2387 (prime) → January 2233 (Kelvin) - February 2258
The Unsettling Stars ? 2258
More Beautiful Than Death ? 2258
Star Trek Into Darkness February - ? 2259
Star Trek Beyond January - ? 2263
PIC & PRO tie-ins 2381 - 2401 (prime)
PIC The Last Best Hope ? 2381 - 2385
PRO season 1 February - April? 2384
PIC The Dark Veil ? 2385
PIC Firewall "a couple years after" 2377
PIC Rogue Elements ? 2391 - 2393
PIC season 1 ? 2399
PIC No Man's Land (aud.) ? 2399?
PIC Second Self September 2399
PIC season 2 ? 2401
PIC season 3 March 2401 - ? 2402
Post-jump DIS tie-ins 3188 - 3189
DIS season 3 ep. 1 ? 3188
DIS Wonderlands ? 3188 - March? 3189
The rest of DIS season 3 March? - ? 3189
DIS Somewhere to Belong ? 3189
DIS season 4 ? - October? 3189