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I absolutely agree that it's fun that Niven sort of mixed "his world" with Star Trek. Why would writers have to keep their realities separate? Combining them is like expanding both with each other
Well, in bringing the Kzinti into Star Trek, Niven has enabled other writers ‘to play with his toys.’
Many novel writers aren’t really comfortable doing this, even if they get downstream royalties/residuals when their creations are used again. Niven by contrast seems to be fine.