00:00Listen, we as writers, we love to read, okay? And sometimes books don't always...
00:05Always get the love that they should, despite the amount of stuff that's going on.
00:10And I'm specifically talking about Star Trek Beta Canon.
00:15So, without further ado, I'm Sean Ferdig for Trek Culture, and here are the 10 biggest...
00:20Secrets Revealed in Star Trek Novels.
00:23Number 10.
00:24Tre...
00:25Elaine's true nature, Q-squared.
00:28Peter David's novel...
00:30It finally confirms what most people sort of assumed since the arrival of John the...
00:35Nancy's Q. Namely, that Trelane from the original series episode The Squire of Gotham...
00:40...was, in fact, a member of the Continuum.
00:42As I say, this had been assumed for quite a...
00:45...a long time in canon, but this was the first time it was actually out and outstated.
00:49And not only...
00:50...was he a member of the Continuum, but he was one who had gone rogue.
00:54In the novel...
00:55Q seeks Picard's help to help track down, and basically take down...
01:00...Trelane.
01:01William Campbell's Trelane set the...
01:03...it set the template for a lot of...
01:05...of what the Q would become afterwards.
01:07So, to see this finally confirmed...
01:10...in the novel was a great way of tying the original series episode into future...
01:15...Versions.
01:16Number 9.
01:17Kirk's middle name, and a new type of Klingon ship, Star Trek...
01:20...the motion picture novelization.
01:23Gene Roddenberry wrote the full novel...
01:25...of Star Trek the motion picture, with a story credit going to Alan Dean Foster as well.
01:29In...
01:30...in this novelization, it's the first time that Tiberius was confirmed...
01:35...as Kirk's middle name.
01:37You might be sitting there going...
01:39Sean, you absolutely...
01:40...absolute idiot.
01:41That was said in the animated series.
01:43And, you would be right...
01:45...but you must consider that in 1979, the animated series was not considered.
01:50...canon.
01:51That is because Gene Roddenberry...
01:52...kind of walks through life going...
01:54...yeah...
01:55...and follow that rule today...
01:56...maybe that rule tomorrow...
01:57...that rule can go and flip itself.
01:59So...
02:00...this was Roddenberry finally confirming...
02:02...yeah...
02:03...right...
02:04...Tiberius's name.
02:05This was explained away in the novel that Kirk's grandfather had this...
02:08...obsession with ancient Rome...
02:10...and particularly the Caesars of Rome.
02:13So this is where Tiberius came from.
02:15It's also the first time that Kettinga was confirmed as the name of the Klingon...
02:20...Battlecruiser that first began appearing in the motion picture and onwards.
02:25Which was, of course, the D7 beefed up with a motion picture budget.
02:30Where was Geordi?
02:31Star Trek Picard, the last best hope.
02:33Dr. Una McCormick's...
02:35...novel is a prequel to Star Trek Picard's first season...
02:38...and it deals with...
02:40...what led up to the synth attack on Mars.
02:43We get a little bit of backstory...
02:45...expanding on Bruce Maddox in this novel.
02:48We get to see...
02:50...a little bit more of Rafi...
02:51...and understand what led to the breakdown of her marriage and her...
02:55...relationship with her son.
02:56Now what we also get is the crucial bit of information of...
02:59...where was Geordi?
03:00When everything was going down.
03:01Now as we know, Geordi LaForge was in control of the entire...
03:04...
03:05...mechanical side of the rescue mission to evacuate Romulus.
03:09You would think he'd be...
03:10...a fairly large player.
03:11So where the heck was he in season one?
03:13And that is...
03:15...something that still annoys me at the first season of Picard.
03:17You could have at least shown the man surviving.
03:19Number seven...
03:20Uhura's first name...
03:22...Star Trek II...
03:24...by...
03:25...in this...
03:25...novel.
03:26This is set just after the events of the motion picture.
03:28We have a...
03:29...a beautifully...
03:30...he...
03:33...Kikaru would only be said...
03:35...for the first time in Star Trek VI The Undiscovered Country...
03:38...which followed...
03:40...was being used in print for the decade.
03:45...leading up to the release of The Undiscovered Country.
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