Coda infuriated me because "everyone dies horrifically, none of it matters, genocide is the correct response" is the exact opposite of Star Trek. It wasn't a tribute, it was a slap in the face. It was a particularly bloody Warhammer 40K pastiche featuring fan-favourite Star Trek characters getting mutilated.
For that matter, Coda didn't even succeed in its stated goal of "concluding" cliffhangers; the Full Circle Fleet never returns home, Rebecca's Prophet-related abilities will never be explained, Altek Dans never actually does anything, Taurik's future-knowledge is irrelevant, we'll never get any fallout from the Section 31 trials (and the loss of what must have been a major chunk of Starfleet's command structure and the Federation government), there'll be no resolution to Garak's work to bring Cardassia into the Federation, or Weyoun and his Dominion refugees, or Moriarty and his family, or how Naomi Wildman ended up working with Starfleet Intelligence. The Typhon Pact is namedropped in the first book then never mentioned again, parts of "Collateral Damage" (the epilogue, taking place in 2389) are retroactively erased. . .
Even within the trilogy itself, K'Ehleyr and Alexander never speak two words to each other on the page, despite the whole Worf/K'Ehleyr subplot. For that matter, Alexander himself is barely an extra once he joins the cast; we get no scenes at all from his POV.
Plus it never needed to be done in the first place: it only exists because commentators were comparing Picard to the Disney buy-out that ended the Star Wars EU, but that's a false dichotomy; Star Wars has always presented itself as a single narrative continuity (as far back as "Splinter of the Mind's Eye" in 1978), but Star Trek has always embraced the idea of alternate timelines and parallel universes, ever since TOS (arguably) codified the idea of a "Mirror Universe" into pop culture. Even if no further books could chronicle it, there is absolutely no reason why the Relaunch Timeline couldn't persist as a valid alternate timeline --just as Star Trek Online is, despite being just as irreconcilable.
There's no reason a future writer couldn't have done a Picard (or Prodigy, or even Lower Decks) story where the characters get a glimpse of another timeline featuring President Bacco, or Admiral Akaar, or a wildly redesigned DS9, or the USS Aventine commanded by Captain Dax.
Hell, if they wanted to "realign" the publishing imprint, they could just as easily have copied a trick from the Abramsverse and have a Relaunch character get shifted into the Picard timeline, letting us explore the new canon through their eyes.
For that matter, Coda didn't even succeed in its stated goal of "concluding" cliffhangers; the Full Circle Fleet never returns home, Rebecca's Prophet-related abilities will never be explained, Altek Dans never actually does anything, Taurik's future-knowledge is irrelevant, we'll never get any fallout from the Section 31 trials (and the loss of what must have been a major chunk of Starfleet's command structure and the Federation government), there'll be no resolution to Garak's work to bring Cardassia into the Federation, or Weyoun and his Dominion refugees, or Moriarty and his family, or how Naomi Wildman ended up working with Starfleet Intelligence. The Typhon Pact is namedropped in the first book then never mentioned again, parts of "Collateral Damage" (the epilogue, taking place in 2389) are retroactively erased. . .
Even within the trilogy itself, K'Ehleyr and Alexander never speak two words to each other on the page, despite the whole Worf/K'Ehleyr subplot. For that matter, Alexander himself is barely an extra once he joins the cast; we get no scenes at all from his POV.
Plus it never needed to be done in the first place: it only exists because commentators were comparing Picard to the Disney buy-out that ended the Star Wars EU, but that's a false dichotomy; Star Wars has always presented itself as a single narrative continuity (as far back as "Splinter of the Mind's Eye" in 1978), but Star Trek has always embraced the idea of alternate timelines and parallel universes, ever since TOS (arguably) codified the idea of a "Mirror Universe" into pop culture. Even if no further books could chronicle it, there is absolutely no reason why the Relaunch Timeline couldn't persist as a valid alternate timeline --just as Star Trek Online is, despite being just as irreconcilable.
There's no reason a future writer couldn't have done a Picard (or Prodigy, or even Lower Decks) story where the characters get a glimpse of another timeline featuring President Bacco, or Admiral Akaar, or a wildly redesigned DS9, or the USS Aventine commanded by Captain Dax.
Hell, if they wanted to "realign" the publishing imprint, they could just as easily have copied a trick from the Abramsverse and have a Relaunch character get shifted into the Picard timeline, letting us explore the new canon through their eyes.
