I mean, we’ve been working on it for about five years at this point... it started smaller, it really did!

The real answer here is that it doesn’t - nothing on this flowchart refers to it or uses it as background, just like most of the other books written around the same time, when TNG was still on the air.

Yes, they are :-)

Yeah - there are so many Star Trek books it’s not really possible to put them all on something like this. Since each series has ended, the continuations have all been in continuity with each other, and the novel-only series and some earlier books that’ve been used for background are connected through those. About…