Published by Simon & Schuster in paperback, ebook, and audiobookīefore I delve deeply into spoiler territory, here’s my top-level opinion: Oblivion’s Gate is a rousing tear-jerker of an action story that shows many of the characters we have loved for 55 years at their finest hour–making the ultimate sacrifice.

The only questions that remain before us now are: Shall we cling to selfishness and die in vain? Or shall we take up the mantle of heroes, and die so that others may live? Any questions beyond those are now, I fear, entirely moot.” Star Trek Coda: Oblivion’s Gate Spock answered without hesitation… “Nothing we do or fail to do at this point will prevent the imminent demise of our cosmos.

Now, in Book 3, by David Mack, our heroes battle impossible odds and fight to their last drop of blood to make their sacrifice a meaningful one, making it possible for countless billions to live. And it also outlined the cost – our heroes determined that their timeline was not the Prime one, and would need to be sacrificed to make this work. Book 2, by James Swallow, detailed the last-ditch plan, hatched by Jean-Luc Picard, Benjamin Sisko, Ambassador Spock, and their associates, to stop these hostile aliens before they could end every life in every universe. And unless they were stopped, they would gain sufficient power to collapse the Prime Universe itself, feeding on the death throes of all existence. Book 1, by Dayton Ward, set up the premise: a hostile alien force was somehow pruning alternate timelines from the main branch of the Prime Universe, collapsing them and absorbing the death energies of an entire universe of life-forms to feed their insatiable hunger. The result has been Star Trek Coda, a three-book epic adventure across time, space, and dimensions, weaving together the canonical and non-canonical characters, ships, and situations that had proliferated in the lit-verse into one last hurrah. But authors David Mack, Dayton Ward, and James Swallow concocted a way to give the post- Nemesis literature universe (aka “lit-verse”) a heroic send-off, for it to continue to have meaning for Trek fans, even after the lights were turned off for the final time.

With the launch of Star Trek: Picard in 2019, it became clear to the writers and editors of the post- Nemesis Star Trek novels that the continuity they had painstakingly and lovingly built over almost twenty years would not fit into the new canon coming from the new series, including Lower Decks and even Discovery.

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