TNG Books...who's read them?

[gillmanjr]

So I have almost every single TNG book that has been written. They have been in a box in my garage for years and I just pulled out the box and started reading them from the start. For those who aren't familiar with them there are numbered "pocket" books that I believe go up to number 63. I have every one of the numbered books and probably 80% of the non-numbered books. I plan to buy the rest just so I have the complete collection. I'll post a pic of them later, its pretty impressive.

Anyway I was wondering who here has read any of them, how many and which ones you really liked. By the way I have not read them all, not even close in fact. And the last time I read one was years ago, I don't remember any of them other than #1 and 2, which I just finished in the last few weeks.

 

[BillJ]

Strike Zone /A Rock and a Hard Place are both winners. Both are by Peter David.

Been out of the 24th century stuff for several years. But did pick up Headlong Flight by Dayton Ward for TNG's 30th Anniversary.

 

[gillmanjr]

Strike Zone /A Rock and a Hard Place are both winners. Both are by Peter David.

Been out of the 24th century stuff for several years. But did pick up Headlong Flight by Dayton Ward for TNG's 30th Anniversary.

Awesome, Strike Zone is book #5 and the other is #10, I'll get to them soon enough.

 

[Makarov]

I've got a few of them. They're like a dollar at Half Price Books. Last one I read I forget the name but it's Troi and Worf stuck on a planet solving a mystery which was cool. Detective Worf. I was dating a TNG fan at the time who said reading the books was taking it too far.

Also All Good Things novelization which was interesting since it had a different ending than the episode. I remember looking for that book as a kid and never found it in a store.

 

[Trek Survivor]

I'm a big fan, definitely of the earlier numbered books (and 'specials' that came out around the same time e.g. late 80s/early 90s).

Some of my favourites are "Dark Mirror", "Reunion", #9 A Call To Darkness, #7 Masks, #16 Contamination, #23 War Drums.

I often found Peter David's attempts at humour a bit over the top, so am not a huge fan, though I remember "Q In Law" being fun. Haven't read it - or any of these - in years, but Michael Jan Friedman (loved his TNG comic as well!) and John Vornholt were my favourites.

 

[Qonundrum]

I'd read "Q Squared" and "Vendetta".

"Vendetta" was a rip roaring read back in the day. Wish that had been made into a TV 2-part episode before "I, Borg" had. Peter had some fantastic continuation of ideas and set-pieces that really needed to be put on screen. Especially Picard trying to save Delcara. Even the connection to TOS was pretty cool, though there's still a ton of continuity bridging he's trying to write in and at the time it was all fantastic. I sold my copy but, years later, bought another first edition after scouring for a while. Might read it again one day to see how it holds up.

"Q Squared" didn't do it for me as much, from what I recall it didn't have the same natural flow. The integration connecting TNG and TOS also felt forced. It's not a bad novel, but it definitely felt like something was missing, but I'd read that long after the creme of the creme "Vendetta".

Didn't he write a Borg novel involving Janeway?

 

[DonIago]

^Before Dishonor, which has proven...contentious. I'm sure you can find the threads discussing it with a fairly elementary search.

 

[Nakita Akita]

So I have almost every single TNG book that has been written. They have been in a box in my garage for years and I just pulled out the box and started reading them from the start. For those who aren't familiar with them there are numbered "pocket" books that I believe go up to number 63. I have every one of the numbered books and probably 80% of the non-numbered books. I plan to buy the rest just so I have the complete collection. I'll post a pic of them later, its pretty impressive.

Anyway I was wondering who here has read any of them, how many and which ones you really liked. By the way I have not read them all, not even close in fact. And the last time I read one was years ago, I don't remember any of them other than #1 and 2, which I just finished in the last few weeks.

I have read WAY too many of them.
I mean the ones written in the Early 1990's.
I keep track of them by writing them down on an old paint sample card.
But I'll maintain that I'm not a Trek Nerd forever!!!!
I have some really great paintings I did of Picard, Riker and Worf.
(I'm not s Trek Nerd)
I read a really bad one about Geordie and some chick on s planet and the chick was really Whiney.
And I read another one that was really good called "Masks". Stupidly in the book, everyone on the planet wore masks, but it was a fun book to read.

 

[TrekE]

I'm not sure if it's classified as TNG or TOS, but I was a big fan of Federation.

Other TNG books I liked include Imzadi and Balance of Power.

 

[Trek Survivor]

^Before Dishonor, which has proven...contentious. I'm sure you can find the threads discussing it with a fairly elementary search.

A truly terrible book.

And I read another one that was really good called "Masks". Stupidly in the book, everyone on the planet wore masks, but it was a fun book to read.

I don't think that was a stupid idea, I thought it was a really interesting idea for the "planet of the week". I love that story.

 

[DonIago]

^Case in point on Before Dishonor. I characterize it as a book you have to be in the right mood to appreciate, and not take too seriously, but I certainly wouldn't call it "truly terrible".

 

[Shikarnov]

I've read almost all of them... I say almost because I haven't been very happy with the post-Nemesis storyline, and only read them when there's nothing else on my list.

 

[BillJ]

I would also recommend Gulliver's Fugitives.

 

[F. King Daniel]

I've read most up until the last few years. Q-Squared, Vendetta and Federation are favourites. Survivors and Metamorphosis were pretty good, too.

 

[Nakita Akita]

A truly terrible book.



I don't think that was a stupid idea, I thought it was a really interesting idea for the "planet of the week". I love that story.

I meant it was stupid that it was titled Masks and they wore Masks.
I just wished it had a better title.
I really liked the book.

 

[Sakonna]

This thread just sent me down the internet wormhole of looking up these old books. It was so fun to hunt down those numbered novels back in the day, I have such fond memories of the first 20 or 25 or so (and then I had to go be a teenager and got away from reading them)

There was one book in those first 20 or 25 that absolutely terrified me. Anyone remember if any of these were particularly scary? "Boogeymen", maybe?

I've got a few of them. They're like a dollar at Half Price Books. Last one I read I forget the name but it's Troi and Worf stuck on a planet solving a mystery which was cool. Detective Worf. I was dating a TNG fan at the time who said reading the books was taking it too far.

Was that "Nightshade"? I remember liking that one.

 

[JayTheTrekkie]

I have only read some TNG novels but never read any in years.

 

[Gordontrek]

I have a nice big chunk of them (around 30 of the numbered Pockets, a handful of non-numbered and most of the post-Nemesis), and they're ok. The best ones are no doubt by Peter David and David Mack, the rest are usually decent at best. I actually remember enjoying Debtor's Planet quite a bit, but I either don't remember how good the others are or haven't read them at all. When I first started collecting them, I admit I did it mostly because they looked good on a shelf....

 

[Nakita Akita]

I've read so many of them. Unless/maybe I read them again I could even remember them!
I get them from a second hand store near to where I live.
I read them for a while then stop, then get some more later on. I don't know how many there are, but I have to be close to reaching the end!

 

[gillmanjr]

I have a nice big chunk of them (around 30 of the numbered Pockets, a handful of non-numbered and most of the post-Nemesis), and they're ok. The best ones are no doubt by Peter David and David Mack, the rest are usually decent at best. I actually remember enjoying Debtor's Planet quite a bit, but I either don't remember how good the others are or haven't read them at all. When I first started collecting them, I admit I did it mostly because they looked good on a shelf....

Thats why I started buying them, just because I wanted to collect them all. I am on book #3 now and am finding that all of these early numbered books are in basically mint condition, I think I may have bought them brand new.