What to read/see before Coda?

[theblitz]

I am buying the Coda trilogy and want to know what books are a must read and what TV is a must see before Coda.
I have read all the Voyager novels excluding To Lose the Earth (which I am also buying).
I have read all the post-series DS9 books and, of course, Destiny.

Is there anything else I need to read?

 

[Brendan Moody]

The books explain everything you need to know about the background, so nothing is “must read” in that sense, but David Mack’s Cold Equations trilogy, his Section 31 novels, and the Mirror Universe books set up some of the general context of Coda.

 

[David Mack]

I am buying the Coda trilogy and want to know what books are a must read and what TV is a must see before Coda.
I have read all the Voyager novels excluding To Lose the Earth (which I am also buying).
I have read all the post-series DS9 books and, of course, Destiny.

Is there anything else I need to read?

I'd recommend you check out the novels that relate to Bashir's long-term story arc:

Section 31: ABYSS
Typhon Pact: ZERO SUM GAME
The Fall: A CEREMONY OF LOSSES
Section 31: DISAVOWED
Section 31: CONTROL (especially this one)​

I'd also suggest you read these Mirror Universe novels/anthologies:

THE SORROWS OF EMPIRE (full novel version)
GLASS EMPIRES (skip earlier version of "Sorrows")
OBSIDIAN ALLIANCES (especially SATURN’S CHILDREN)
SHARDS & SHADOWS
RISE LIKE LIONS​

The TNG: Cold Equations trilogy, for Data's story:

THE PERSISTENCE OF MEMORY
SILENT WEAPONS (read before Section 31: DISAVOWED)
THE BODY ELECTRIC​

I'd also recommend you check out the rest of the 5-book miniseries THE FALL, as well as the TITAN novels, the TNG novels THE LIGHT FANTASTIC, ARMAGEDDON’S ARROW, HEADLONG FLIGHT, HEARTS AND MINDS, AVAILABLE LIGHT, and COLLATERAL DAMAGE (the last novel in Treklit continuity before CODA).

If you're obsessive about reading everything, you might also check out the DTI (Department of Temporal Investigations) novels, the 9-book miniseries A TIME TO…, the IKS GORKON books, and the standalone novel ARTICLES OF THE FEDERATION. For more information on how they all link together, check out The Almighty Star Trek Lit-verse Reading Order Flow Chart.

 

[theblitz]

Awesome list. Thanks.
Luckily I keep, what I thought is, a very detailed list of what I own and have read.
The first lot I have read.
From the second lot I am sure I have read them all but none of them appear in my (I guess, not so detailed) list.
Going to have to find them.

Definitely haven't read Cold Equations but do have it (together with the other over 550 books)
I have read most of the rest in the list.
So, I guess I am almost ready to go.

 

[JWolf]

I am buying the Coda trilogy and want to know what books are a must read and what TV is a must see before Coda.
I have read all the Voyager novels excluding To Lose the Earth (which I am also buying).
I have read all the post-series DS9 books and, of course, Destiny.

Is there anything else I need to read?

Start with Death in Winter by Jan Micheal Freedman and read everything published from there except for TOS, Discovery, and Picard books. Read in published order. This incorporates the books listed earlier in this thread. This way you get to read all of the books that take place after the movie Nemesis.

 

[theblitz]

When you say "everything" are you talking about all of Titan too?
I read all DS9 and Voyager (except To Lose the Earth) and everything listed as "crossovers" (except a couple of Gateways).

 

[F. King Daniel]

For whatever it's worth, when I read Coda I was several books behind in TNG, DS9 and VOY. I hadn't read any of the mirror universe stuff. And I didn't feel like I was missing anything, all that I needed to know was explained in the books themselves. I'm gradually working my way back and filling in the gaps, which I'm enjoying

Spoiler: Coda

If finding quite tragic

I had read all of David's listed Bashir-backstory books at least, and I'm glad I did so I could appreciate his arc fully.

 

[JWolf]

When you say "everything" are you talking about all of Titan too?
I read all DS9 and Voyager (except To Lose the Earth) and everything listed as "crossovers" (except a couple of Gateways).

Yes, Titan is included in everything.

 

[100Pic]

It really depends how much you want to read! Here are a couple of lists I’ve been using:

https://startreklitverse.com/simple-post-nemesis-reading-list.php

https://www.shastrix.com/books/star-trek-reading-order.php

 

[theblitz]

It really depends how much you want to read! Here are a couple of lists I’ve been using:

https://startreklitverse.com/simple-post-nemesis-reading-list.php

https://www.shastrix.com/books/star-trek-reading-order.php

Wow.
I seem to have read major parts out of order.
For example, I read the Destiny books some time ago.
Also read all of The Fall books.
But have skipped a lot of the intermediate books though I have read many of them.

Time to fill in a LOT of gaps.
Think I might be a couple of years to go before I get to Coda.

 

[theblitz]

So, it took "only" four months to read everything - including Coda.

My final take?
Sad to see the litverse go but it had a good run.

TBH, it was probably time to move on anyway.
Not saying that the stories were boring or anything - far from it.
But it was getting to be to far away from the TV series.

Just my two-cents worth.

 

[DGCatAniSiri]

My big regret with seeing the Novelverse go was the way that, in the later years, it started seeming to suffer from an “event” focus over a “character” focus. Not that there was no character development or anything, but that it started seeming like we were only visiting the characters during major crises, and not getting to see them in smaller scale instances that gave the characters both new and old time to shine.

For instance, characters like Joanna Faur and Dina Elfiki were around for years, but I don’t really think they ended up getting a distinct voice. To say nothing of how lacking the post-Destiny DS9 crew felt, since so many of them felt interchangeable.

It is sad to see the ‘verse go, but I’m still glad we actually got a proper conclusion. It may not have been to exeryone’s tastes, but I’ll still take a conclusion over the vague whimper that was the end of the Star Wars Legends line.