For the 50th time

I just finished Federation. what a great book. i love it more each time but it makes me sad.

is there a trek book out there as good and sweeping as this one? i would love to find it.

 

I'd say Imzadi comes close in terms of scope and heart, although it's only one crew.

 

I don't know if you've read it yet, but I would definitely describe the Destiny trilogy as good and sweeping.

 

The Q Continuum Trilogy by Greg Cox is quite sweeping.
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So is the Millennium Trilogy by Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens
The Fall of Terok Nor
The War of the Prophets
Inferno

Both trilogies are quite good and quite sweeping.

 

Destiny certainly qualifies as "good and sweeping," and is probably along the lines of what you're looking for, but any thread asking for TrekLit recommendations needs a gratuitous Articles of the Federation mention.

 

I read Federation, Imzadi, and Sarek all around the same time, and they all were fantastic. Sarek even made me cry.

 

You also might want to check out Excelsior: Forged in Fire.

 

It invlolves the Ent-B under Harriman and Demora Sulu, but Serpents Among the Ruins is a pretty epic and sweeping. Same goes for the next Lost Era book, The Art of the Impossible.

 

And if you want some epic, sweeping Cardassian history, A Stitch In Time.

 

No. No, it's not. "Swept under a rug" perhaps?

 

^ Ooh, I like that trilogy. But then, I really like Q and it's extraordinarily Q-ish. Don't read it unless you love Q.

I'm not sure I'd call it sweeping...I mean, it hippity-hops through vast quanties of galactic history, but now that I think about it, I'm not sure I can define "sweeping." I fear that's one of those things you recognize when you see it but find difficult to put into words.

 

I had the same problem TBH, so I was just thinking of big epid books, and the two I recommened were the first to pop into my head.

 

And if you want some epic, sweeping Cardassian and Bajoran history, read the Terok Nor trilogy:

Day of the Vipers
Night of the Wolves
Dawn of the Eagles

 

for recent stuff the Destiny Trilogy is very, very good. Earlier stuff Federation I really liked and actually brought back with me from my parents to read. Imzadi is another one that even my Mum who likes Trek but doesn't read it loves. Also liked Prime Directive that was a good story of the original crew. Dark Mirror was an interesting one

 

The stories in the Mirror and Myirad Universes books are also pretty epic.
Especially The Sorrows of Empire from the first MU book, which covers events from the end of Mirror, Mirror all the way through to around the same time as Undiscovered Country and the opening of Generations in the main universe.

 

yeah the mirror universe/myriad universe books are quite good, give us different perspectives on the Trek Universe

 

I hope you weren't serious with that 50th time thing.

I read it twice and could do it once more I guess. I read Imzadi 3 times and Vendetta twice.

 

Sweeping? The Life and Times of Khan Noonian Singh, or something very close to that. The Greg Cox books about Khan. (Sorry, Greg, I'm terrible with names/titles). They are epic in scope. Epic.

 

I could take or leave the first two, but the 3rd book "To Reign In Hell" (which is more stand-alone) was fantastic!

The Exile books (blanking on the names of them all, but the Romulan Exodus trilogy), was excellent as well

 

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