Any TOS recommendations?

[Eliczo]

Any recommendations for a good read as I have just finished reading DTI's Forgotten History which I really enjoyed. It's only the 2nd ST book I've read in recent years other Shatner's The Return ages ago (Watching the Clock being the first.

I am thinking either one of the three DTI novella's or something else set during TOS or their films

 

[Jinn]

Personally, I rather enjoyed the Errand of Vengeance and Errand of Fury trilogies, as well as the recent time travel stuff from Greg Cox and Dayton Ward (The Rings of Time, From History's Shadow and Elusive Salvation). Also, the Legacies trilogy was really good, so I recommend that too if you want something recent.

 

[JD]

I haven't read a lot of TOS, but all of the TOS stuff I've read I enjoyed and would recommend.
Mee Anarchy: A miniseries originally released as six e-book novellas, it was later collected in a single trade paperback. It follows the TOS crew's visits to a single planet thrououtght their careers. Each book takes place at a different point in the TOS timeline.

1. Things Fall Apart by Dayton Ward and Kevin Dilmore: Before Where No Man Has Gone Before
2. The Center Cannot Hold by Mike W. Barr: TV series era
3. Shadows of the Indignant by Dave Galanter: Between the TV series and The Motion Picture.
4. The Darkness Drops Again by Christopher L. Bennett: Between TMP and The Wrath of Khan.
5. The Blood Dimmed Tide by Howard Weinstein: Between The Final Frontier and The Undiscovered Country
6. It's Hour Come Round by Margaret Wander Bonnano: After the Generations prologue.

Troublsome Minds by Dave Galanter: A TV series era story focused on a first contact with a telepathic bird like race. Focuses a lot on Spock.
Spock's World by Diane Duane: One of the all time Trek Lit classics. It cuts between a TMP era story dealing with Vulcan threatening to leave the Federation, and the history of Vulcan going all the way back to their prehistoric era and up to Sarek and Amanda.
Strangers from the Sky: TMP era, and a little hard to explain. It involves time travel, a book, and a secret first contact between humans and Vulcans in the 21st Century. Not consistent with First Contact (the movie) or the bits and pieces of Vulcan history built up by the other series.

 

[Christopher]

Strangers from the Sky: TMP era

More like pre-TWOK era, about a year before that movie. And that's just the frame story; the main story is set before "Where No Man" and features Mitchell, Dehner, and Kelso.

 

[Mysterion]

Anything by Diane Duane including, but not limited to:

The Wounded Sky
My Enemy, My Ally
Spock's World
Doctor's Orders
The Romulan Way (and the rest of the "Rihannsu" books)

 

[ryan123450]

Both Burning Dreams and Discovery: Desperate Hours will be quite relevant if you’re looking forward to Discovery season 2. And both are good reads.

 

[Jinn]

Both Burning Dreams and Discovery: Desperate Hours will be quite relevant if you’re looking forward to Discovery season 2. And both are good reads.

I second Burning Dreams (I haven't finished Desperate Hours yet, Dayton Ward forgive me).

 

[Dayton Ward]

Why are you apologizing to me? I wrote the other one.

 

[tomswift2002]

Some suggestions are

The Vulcan Academy Murders
Spectre
Dark Victory
Preserver
Engines of Destiny

 

[Eliczo]

Cheers for the recommendations, I will see what I decided to read. Might get round to continue watching Discovery, I've only seen the first 3 episodes of S1

 

[Jinn]

Why are you apologizing to me? I wrote the other one.

I fucked up. I read Desperate Hours. I didn't read the other one. Can I now ask for forgiveness?

 

[Quimby]

I would recommend the Crucible books. Especially the McCoy one.

 

[tomswift2002]

Oh yeah, the Procrustean Petard from New Voyages 2 is a very good TOS short story.

 

[historypeats]

If you're OK with books that go their own way, and that can take a little while to get going, I can't recommend the Crucible books highly enough. If you're looking for a more standard Star Trek story, one I've always loved but don't often see praised around here is William Leisner's The Shocks of Adversity. Out of all the various TOS novels, it remains my favorite "episode-style" book. My other recommendations are pretty par-for-the-course in the forum (The Wounded Sky, Ex Machina), but I also have a lot of catching up to do with the TOS line!

 

[F. King Daniel]

Prime Directive
My Enemy, My Ally (and the entire Rihannsu series)
Spock's World
The Time Trap
Enterprise: The First Adventure
The Abode of Life/Chain of Attack/Final Nexus
Final Frontier (although it's a prequel mostly about Captain April and George Kirk and doesn't fit canon anymore, it's awesome)

 

[Eliczo]

Right plenty of books to look into, I might read the Crucible trilogy.

Cheers

 

[Damian]

I would definitely read the other DTI stories. They follow one another and are all good stories. The e-book DTI stories are about 100 pages roughly so they don't take long to read.

I always throw Chain of Attack by Gene DeWeese out there. It's from the late 1980's but it was really the first Star Trek book I read that I couldn't put down (I was a newbie fan at the time and had only read a handful of books by that point). The Enterprise gets stranded in a distant galaxy and finds evidence of an ancient war raging. It has a good sense of foreboding as it begins and it shows the crew at their best when they try the two sides to negotiate after centuries of warfare.

Another is "To Reign in Hell: The Exile of Khan Noonien Singh" which tells the story of his exile on Ceti Alpha V and ties Space Seed together with TWOK. It resolves inconsistencies between the two, but that's not what makes it a great book. The story is an excellent story that depicts the explosion of Ceti Alpha VI just as Khan and his crew establish their new colony, and the struggle to survive after. It also give a basis for Khan's need for vengeance and why it was all consuming by TWOK. It wasn't something that happened overnight, but it festered and McGiver's dying was the last straw. Technically it's the 3rd book of Cox's Khan trilogy, but I think you could read "To Reign in Hell" as a standalone without much problem (though the other 2 were great books also, TRIH was my personal favorite of the 3 though).

Frankly, there are tons of great Star Trek books from the original series (including many noted above). I could go on and on for pages probably. But these are just 2 books that come to mind as my personal favorites.

 

[Reanok]

Child of two worlds by Greg Cox.

 

[Cymriu]

Prime Directive the ultimate Star Trek novel, IMHO.

Also Crucible:McCoy is a book you cant put down...

 

[Leto_II]

^ Gotta agree with Prime Directive, there. It's completely standalone, yet utterly engrossing, and a helluva tale.