Books that are prequel or sequels to episodes

[Nathan]

I just finished watching DS9 episode of "A Time to Stand" (to recap, Sisko and company use a captured JemHadar ship into Dominion/Cardassian territory and destroy a valuable stockpile of Ketracel White.)

I remember the throw away from Admiral Ross saying how the Federation captured a JemHadar ship got me to thinking of Star Wars and Rogue One how the Rogue One movie was based on the Mon Mothma throw away line how the rebels got the Death Star Plans thanks to the Bothan spies.

Which further got me to thinking how much I enjoy Trek Lit where a book is a based off a episode (prequel or sequel) from an episode. Of course, it a bonus if I really enjoyed the episode.

Just seeing how much folks enjoy a prequel/sequel book based on the episode. Of course its a given that the book is written well.

 

[Nyotarules]

M y favourite sequel is the TOS book - Devil's Bargain follow up from Devil in the dark

 

[seigezunt]

I think there are a number of books that aren't really a direct sequel to an episode, but will have characters from previous episodes. I recall a Horta shows up in some books as a crew member, but is not really central to the book.

 

[DS9forever]

Hollow Men, a sequel to "In the Pale Moonlight".

 

[Kilana2]

Crucible: McCoy - Provenance of Shadows is related to "City on the Edge of Forever". One of my all time favorites.

 

[David Mack]

I remember the throw away from Admiral Ross saying how the Federation captured a JemHadar ship got me to thinking of Star Wars and Rogue One how the Rogue One movie was based on the Mon Mothma throw away line how the rebels got the Death Star Plans thanks to the Bothan spies.

The line "Many Bothan spies died to bring us these plans" was from The Return of the Jedi, and referred to the second Death Star.

 

[tomswift2002]

“Gateways #1: One Small Step/Gateways #7: What Lay Beond: One Giant Leap” are direct sequels to the TOS episode “That Which Survives”. Literally, Gateways 1 starts as the episode ends.

TNG #50 “Dyson Sphere” is a sequel to the TNG episode “Relics” and a quasi-sequel to the TOS episode “Devil In The Dark”.

But I think one big prequel/sequel story arc is the “Day Of Honor” arc. The TNG, DS9 (adult), DS9 (YA) and Voyager novels (Voyager Had 2 novels in the arc: the novelization Of The Season 4 episode and a novel set about 1 year earlier when Voyager was still in Kazon space) are only connected by the holiday, but the TOS novel explains how the holiday came to be.

 

[Nyotarules]

The A time to series tries to explain a few things shown in TNG Nemesis

 

[marlboro]

Ex Machina would count as a sequel to TMP, I think.

 

[Therin of Andor]

There are lots. A good way to find one related to an episode you like is to check the episode listing in "Memory Beta". Links to relevant prequels and sequels have usually been noted.

 

[F. King Daniel]

TNG: Immortal Coil probably takes the biscuit, being the sequel to the most episodes at once. That or DTI: Watching the Clock.

 

[KRAD]

The Art of the Impossible was an explanation of the throwaway lines Garak and Bashir had in "The Way of the Warrior," referring briefly to the Betreka Nebula Incident. Always loved getting a 100,000-word novel out of a thirty-second conversation that was never referenced ever again....

We did a couple of episode sequels in the Starfleet Corps of Engineers series. Foundations Book 1 by Dayton Ward & Kevin Dilmore was a direct sequel to "Return of the Archons," and Caveat Emptor by Ian Edginton & Mike Collins was a more indirect sequel. William Leisner's Out of the Cocoon was a sequel to "Up the Long Ladder." Ward & Dilmore's Interphase was a sequel to "The Tholian Web," and their Where Time Stands Still was a sequel to "The Time Trap."

 

[Enterprise1701]

"Assignment: Earth" has been strongly followed up by Assignment: Eternity, the Eugenics Wars duology, and even the latter has influenced more novels following the source: The Rings of Time and the trilogy of From History's Shadow, Elusive Salvation, and Hearts and Minds.

Basically, thank @Greg Cox and @Dayton Ward for Gary Seven / Roberta Lincoln adventures!

 

[David Mack]

My Star Trek Titan novel Fortune of War was a sequel to the TNG third-season episode "The Survivors." Most of Star Trek Vanguard can be considered a prequel to the second, fifth, and sixth Star Trek feature films. My Mirror Universe novels The Sorrows of Empire and Saturn's Children (written under pseudonym) were written to bridge the change in status quo from the end of "Mirror, Mirror" to where we found the MU during the DS9 era. So those books are both sequels and prequels to episodes.

 

[JD]

One of the older books I've got in my to read pile is a midquel between to episodes. Double Helix: Quarantine explains how Thomas Riker ended up with the Maquis, so it is both a sequel to Second Chances, and a prequel to Defiant.
TOS: Inception deals with Kirk's relationship with Carol Marcus and Spock's relationship with Leila Kalomi, so it could be considered a prequel to Wrath of Khan and This Side of Paradise.

 

[DrCorby]

The Art of the Impossible was an explanation of the throwaway lines Garak and Bashir had in "The Way of the Warrior," referring briefly to the Betreka Nebula Incident. Always loved getting a 100,000-word novel out of a thirty-second conversation that was never referenced ever again....

We did a couple of episode sequels in the Starfleet Corps of Engineers series. Foundations Book 1 by Dayton Ward & Kevin Dilmore was a direct sequel to "Return of the Archons," and Caveat Emptor by Ian Edginton & Mike Collins was a more indirect sequel. William Leisner's Out of the Cocoon was a sequel to "Up the Long Ladder." Ward & Dilmore's Interphase was a sequel to "The Tholian Web," and their Where Time Stands Still was a sequel to "The Time Trap."

The SCE novel Signs From Heaven by Phaedra Weldon features the floating city of Stratos, so is a sequel to "The Cloud Minders".

 

[tomswift2002]

“Mudd’s Angels/Mudd’s Enterprise” by J.A. Lawrence contains the novelizations for the two TOS Mudd episodes plus a sequel in the same book.

 

[marlboro]

We did a couple of episode sequels in the Starfleet Corps of Engineers series. Foundations Book 1 by Dayton Ward & Kevin Dilmore was a direct sequel to "Return of the Archons,"

I think it was book #2. Book 1 was about Scotty removing the warp core from a station near the Romulan neutral zone.

 

[JD]

A Time to Sow/Hate together are a sequel to

Spoiler

Conundrum

Takedown is a sequel to

Spoiler

The Nth Degree

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I haven't read them, so I don't know the details, but I believe the Voyager: Dark Matters trilogy is all together a sequel to Eye of the Needle.

 

[KRAD]

I think it was book #2. Book 1 was about Scotty removing the warp core from a station near the Romulan neutral zone.

Derp! You're right......