2025 Novel Releases

[Steve Roby]

People are complaining that there are not enough new Star Trek novels, but when I asked if anyone's read them all, only one person had.

I've read, I would estimate, more than 90% of the novels. I own all of the officially licenced novels. I've read a similar percentage of the comics, though these days I wait until the collected editions come out, instead of buying individual issues.

It's a shame that we aren't getting more novels, especially with so many series going underrepresented, but it's not 1996 any more. (There were more than 30 regular and YA Star Trek novels that year.) That was just about the peak of Star Trek's mainstream popularity. There were 24 original Doctor Who novels that year, and we don't get many of them now either. The world's changed.

 

[Ronald Held]

IMO, Not too much to ask for a novel a month.

 

[The Wormhole]

IMO, Not too much to ask for a novel a month.

It's been explained multiple times now that the novels are TPBs one every month is never happening. And really, who has $240 a year to spend on Star Trek novels?

 

[Christopher]

It's been explained multiple times now that the novels are TPBs one every month is never happening.

Which is why I think it would be nice if S&S got back into publishing e-book-exclusive Trek novels or novellas, since those have pretty much taken over the niche that mass-market paperbacks used to occupy.

 

[Csalem]

Canadian Amazon has a listing for an SNW novel titled Heaven's Vault by David Mack due out August 26, though that's the extent of the information available, no blurb to provide plot details or anything else. Curiously, the S&S website currently has no listing for it.

Amazon US now listing this as Ring of Fire.

 

[DarrenTR1970]

Which is why I think it would be nice if S&S got back into publishing e-book-exclusive Trek novels or novellas, since those have pretty much taken over the niche that mass-market paperbacks used to occupy.

I have so many Star Trek ebooks on my Fire Tablet that I've never read, because I used to be a completist; however, I don't want to delete them because I know they'll never be compiled in a paperback edition.
I'm happy with fewer books because I can choose what to add to my collection.

 

[youngtrek]

So, in 2023, we got two “grown up” novels (not including some Prodigy ya novels): one Strange New Worlds (The High Country) and one Discovery (Somewhere To Belong).

It 2024, we got four novels: one Picard (Firewall), one TNG* (Pliable Truths), and one TOS (Lost to Eternity), and one Strange New Worlds (Asylum). (Officially TNG but actually a great TNG/DS9 crossover.)

As of right now, there are three novels announced for 2025: two Strange New Worlds (Toward the Night and Ring of Fire).

Now, I love Strange New Worlds. And I get that it’s the current show airing right now and probably most popular one overall of the newer series. However, I do sincerely hope that we get at least one more novel in 2025, and that it’s something other than Strange New Worlds. Three in a row is enough of that. As someone else earlier in the thread, a TOS novel would be nice. I’m always game for a TNG novel, too.

Or, if someone would write a Picard novel showing Worf’s last mission on the Enterprise-E, that’d be cool. They set things up for that novel perfectly on the show.

Deep Space Nine, Voyager, or Enterprise would be cool, too, but seems unlikely (especially Enterprise). Except 2025 is Voyager’s thirtieth anniversary. It’d be nice to get a new Voyager novel to commemorate that.

— David Young

 

[The Wormhole]

SNW is a TV series currently in production, which makes sense that it would be prioritized for novels. Add to that that its episodic nature makes it easier to insert an adventure between episodes, as opposed to Disco and Picard where the serialized nature of those shows basically necessitated all their novels be set between seasons, so of course there'd be more SNW novels than there were for those two shows.

That said, I agree if there is a third novel in 2025 it likely won't be SNW. Probably TOS or TNG. I'd actually lean more towards TNG, given how few Trek novels there are now, it wouldn't surprise me if they intentionally withhold a TOS novel until 2026 for the anniversary.

 

[David cgc]

It feels like there enough plot seeds left by PIC season 3 that they could do a new TNG novel drawing on some of them. The unseen cyber-attack during BoBW, or a movie-era novel showing Geordi's marriage, one of Picard and Crusher's five affairs, or the encounter with the Hirogen. Maybe even a "Captain Worf" adventure, though I figure the studio would probably want to keep what exactly happened to the Enterprise-E in their pocket for an on-screen project, at least until the 25th century has been definitely put to bed on-screen for a few more years.

 

[youngtrek]

I think it would be cool to see a story following “The Dark Veil” teaming up Riker, Troi, and the Titan with Worf and the Enterprise-E. Although it would probably continue to stretch things by labeling it a “Star Trek: Picard” novel.

— David Young

 

[Ronald Held]

Could definitely use a TOS novel in 2025!

 

[acappellasaurus]

I think a run of novels with a TNG character from the Picard era could be interesting, similar to what we have seen done with the Lost Era or even the Section 31 novels, where the focus was on one main hero character, and then new tertiary characters introduced. I'd be really interested in adventures of Captain/Commodore/Higher Ranked LaForge, a Black Ops Worf story, Action Beverly, etc. Would be a good way to forward or expand character storylines while still being attractive to Trek lit die-hards and TNG fans.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

I think it would be cool to see a story following “The Dark Veil” teaming up Riker, Troi, and the Titan with Worf and the Enterprise-E. Although it would probably continue to stretch things by labeling it a “Star Trek: Picard” novel.

I can see labeling it either way, though I'd personally lean, purely because of the time frame, toward Picard over The Next Generation. But I think a case could be made either way, and I think Gallery would probably commission such a book and label under whichever banner they thought would help it sell best.

 

[F. King Daniel]

I think a run of novels with a TNG character from the Picard era could be interesting, similar to what we have seen done with the Lost Era or even the Section 31 novels, where the focus was on one main hero character, and then new tertiary characters introduced. I'd be really interested in adventures of Captain/Commodore/Higher Ranked LaForge, a Black Ops Worf story, Action Beverly, etc. Would be a good way to forward or expand character storylines while still being attractive to Trek lit die-hards and TNG fans.

No no no, just launch another novelverse set after Picard, since Legacy isn't going to happen.

...and then we get Coda 2: The Codaning in a few years when they decide to do a Picard follow-up after all

 

[tenmei]

...and then we get Coda 2: The Codaning in a few years when they decide to do a Picard follow-up after all

Coda 2: Quantum Boogaloo.

 

[JD]

I think a run of novels with a TNG character from the Picard era could be interesting, similar to what we have seen done with the Lost Era or even the Section 31 novels, where the focus was on one main hero character, and then new tertiary characters introduced. I'd be really interested in adventures of Captain/Commodore/Higher Ranked LaForge, a Black Ops Worf story, Action Beverly, etc. Would be a good way to forward or expand character storylines while still being attractive to Trek lit die-hards and TNG fans.

Oh yeah, there's lots of gaps to fill in there now.

 

[acappellasaurus]

Coda 2: Quantum Boogaloo.

C2da: Coda Harder.

 

[DGCatAniSiri]

At this point, my two biggest wishes would be a Voyager book (considering this is the year of Voyager's 30th) and some kind of tie-in for the 31 movie, like a character prequel of some sort. Both would be reasonable for the timing of things, since, again, Voyager having a milestone and the 31 movie about to be released.

I mean, I'd also like a 31 novelization, but I figure that's a ship that sailed ages ago, considering Beyond didn't get one.

 

[Ronald Held]

Voyager maybe S31 not likely this year. As usual, more TOS novels.

 

[JD]

At this point, my two biggest wishes would be a Voyager book (considering this is the year of Voyager's 30th) and some kind of tie-in for the 31 movie, like a character prequel of some sort. Both would be reasonable for the timing of things, since, again, Voyager having a milestone and the 31 movie about to be released.

I mean, I'd also like a 31 novelization, but I figure that's a ship that sailed ages ago, considering Beyond didn't get one.

I don't know if you read comics, but there is a Section 31 tie-in comic coming out on Feb. 12.

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