Funnily enough, it's been within the last few years that the Trek novels have started their own general canon of agreed upon events. Probably as a response to the death/abandonment of the prime timeline to JJTrek.

DuracellEnergizer said:

Cancel all the ongoing Star Wars comic series and replace them with a single SW series -- an anthology series containing multiple stories per issue focused on a wide variety of characters from various timeframes.

Ever read Dark Horses Star Wars Tales line? It was precisely this.