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* AuthorsSavingThrow: ''The Ashes of Tomorrow'' is one for the ''Titan'' readership, as James Swallow ''finally'' resolves the Andorian clone storyline from ''Fallen Gods''. This is a plot thread that has been left hanging for nearly a decade because of Michael A. Martin leaving the series (and also ''Titan'' then becoming caught up in ''The Fall'' and its aftermath). The ''Titan'' readers have been complaining about it ever since and with ''Coda'' being the last chance to tie it up, Swallow mentions in passing that the cloning scandal has been exposed.
** By admission, this is something of the point of the trilogy itself, as the novel continuity of the last twenty years has to give way to the new canon of the current crop of shows - the authors explicitly compare the situation to the abrupt ending of Franchise/StarWarsLegends and how they wanted the fans to have more closure than was offered there, and set about wrapping up as many various plot threads as they could, even if it just amounted to a single line of text.
** By admission, this is something of the point of the trilogy itself, as the novel continuity of the last twenty years has to give way to the new canon of the current crop of shows - the authors explicitly compare the situation to the abrupt ending of Franchise/StarWarsLegends and how they wanted the fans to have more closure than was offered there, and set about wrapping up as many various plot threads as they could, even if it just amounted to a single line of text.
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* RealitySubtext: Ward, Swallow, and Mack were writing the trilogy throughout 2020, i.e. at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. So, it's arguably not hard to see the events of that year reflected in the plot as the Starfleet characters struggle with isolation, mental illness, unprecedented death and destruction, governmental dysfunction, etc.
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* RealitySubtext: Ward, Swallow, and Mack were writing the trilogy throughout 2020, i.e. at the height start of the COVID-19 pandemic. So, it's arguably not hard to see the events of that year reflected in the plot as the Starfleet characters struggle with isolation, mental illness, unprecedented death and destruction, governmental dysfunction, etc.
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* FollowTheLeader: Meta example. Like ''Star Wars'', the Novel Verse is ending due to the unanticipated resumption of canon multimedia projects (''Picard'' in this case, not to mention ''Lower Decks'' and ''Prodigy'', plus ''Discovery'' changing its setting from pre-''TOS'' to the far future, allowing it to draw from ''Picard'' plot points). ''Unlike'' the Galaxy Far, Far Away, however, Pocket Books and the creative team took note of the backlash to the abrupt termination of the pre-Disney Expanded Universe and set out to give ''their'' Expanded Universe a proper sendoff.
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* FollowTheLeader: Meta example. Like ''Star Wars'', the Novel Verse is ending due to the unanticipated resumption of canon multimedia projects (''Picard'' in this case, not to mention ''Lower Decks'' and ''Prodigy'', plus ''Discovery'' changing its setting from pre-''TOS'' to the far future, allowing it to draw from ''Picard'' plot points). ''Unlike'' the Galaxy Far, Far Away, however, Pocket Books and the creative team took note of the backlash to the abrupt termination of the pre-Disney Expanded Universe and set out to give ''their'' Expanded Universe a proper sendoff. Dayton Ward [[https://blog.trekcore.com/2021/09/interview-dayton-ward-star-trek-coda-trilogy discusses]] this in an interview:
-->'''Ward''': When we first started to get a sense of just what was involved in realigning the book lines with the new shows, we said we don’t want to do a ''Star Wars''. We definitely don’t want to tell people who’ve been buying these books for 20 years, “None of this counts, none of this matters, you wasted all your time and your money. Oh, and by the way, buy our new books which are tied back into the show now!” How do you sell that? You don’t.
-->'''Ward''': When we first started to get a sense of just what was involved in realigning the book lines with the new shows, we said we don’t want to do a ''Star Wars''. We definitely don’t want to tell people who’ve been buying these books for 20 years, “None of this counts, none of this matters, you wasted all your time and your money. Oh, and by the way, buy our new books which are tied back into the show now!” How do you sell that? You don’t.
