One of the things I like best about Trek stories are the titles. What are some of your favorite titles for novels, novellas, short stories, or comics? Some of favorite novel titles are: The Pandora Principle Shadows on the Sun To Reign in Hell Serpents Among the Ruins Engines of Destiny Provenance of Shadows A Choice of Catastrophes Rough Beasts of Empire To Storm Heaven Tooth and Claw Paths of Disharmony Death in Winter Indistinguishable from Magic A Sea of Troubles The Insolence of Office Bloodletter Station Rage Day of the Vipers The Long Night Demons of Air and Darkness The Murdered Sun Bless the Beasts Armageddon Sky The Farther Shore Beneath the Raptor's Wing Fire on High
"The Mystery Of The Missing Crew" --- intriguing title (that's so Hardy Boys-esque), unfortunately the story really fell flat.
I liked Engines of Destiny, A Choice of Catastrophes and To Storm Heaven. A lot of the newer titles are great.
Agreed that the newer novels often have more interesting names; but I'd like to look further back for my favorite novel name - How Much For Just The Planet. And, a special mention for The Case Of The Colonist's Corpse, because I'm a big Perry Mason fan too!
I was always big into Shakespeare, so I liked the title Perchance to Dream. I can't remember much about the story, though. I'm also fond of The Left Hand of Destiny.
I love how poetic or classy so many Trek titles are these days. Being a Star Wars EU veteran I'm used to much simpler and blander titles.
Art of the Impossible Shadows on the Sun The Weight of Worlds Orion's Hounds Q-in-Law "Waiting for G'Doh, or, How I Learned to Stop Moving and Hate People" (short story) "Make-Believe" (short story) A Burning House Over a Torrent Sea Summon the Thunder Articles of Federation Last Full Measure
In fact, none of the original Trek novels, Bantam or Pocket, had Star Trek: as part of their title per se until Chain of Attack in 1987. Before then, the novels just had the book's title on the cover, plus text somewhere on the page that said "The new STAR TREK novel" or words to that effect. Bantam often used "The new STAR TREK experience" in a banner over the title.
Orion's hounds Sword of Damocles Over a torrent sea Places of exile Raise the dawn Revelation and dust from the old school novels: Intellivore The Murdered sun
Blind Man's Bluff Cast No Shadow Once Burned Provenance of Shadows Taking Wing The Chimes at Midnight --Sran
How Much for Just the Planet? The Wounded Sky The Last Talosian A Stitch in Time Paradigm Stone and Anvil Ex Machina . . . . . . . . Well, okay, "The Last Talosian" was a fanfic by me, set between ST II and ST IV, but I thought it was a killer title!