Articles of the Federation by Keith R.A. DeCandido

backlash that leads future courts in the 2380s and 2390s refusing to apply the B-4 ruling as precedent. So I can plausibly imagine the Federation entering a period of anti-A.I. and then, two years after that, we have the Mars Attack. infects the USS Protostar and an armada of ships sent to intercept it, causing what is almost certainly thousands of deaths and nearly spreading to the rest of Starfleet. Not to say that elements couldn't manage to migrate into new novels or even canon itself (as other elements have), but Articles of the Federation doesn't fit current canon.Īn A.I.

Nope, Articles of the Federation is pretty solidly a feature only of the Novelverse as it was prior to Picard. To say nothing of the implicit foul of the Tezwa affair itself. And, of course, this is the novel where Donatra established the Imperial Romulan State, a political entity that has had no signs of existing in Lower Decks, Prodigy (particularly those two), or Picard. And with this novel coming after the Titan novel establishing Remus becoming a Klingon protectorate and that relocation effort, it surely would have been spoken of with regards to Picard and the efforts surrounding the Romulan supernova. After all, it features Maddox defending B4 having personhood rights in Federation courts and winning, which is at odds with him being disassembled in Daystrom - hell, if that court battle going in his favor were a part of canon, it almost certainly would have caused issues to the development of the synths used at Utopia Planitia in the first place, as it would have established the legal precedence for their own personhood.

Articles of the Federation by Keith R.A. DeCandido