Perhaps it was just the Sulu we never saw on camera...perhaps George takei should write a novel about sulus personal life, like who the heck he married and the growing up of Demora!
Your favorite Trek Novel?
- Thread starter Rush Limborg
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That's covered in Peter David's The Captain's Daughter.
A Stitch in Time by Andrew J. Robinson because it brings great insight on Garak's past and Cardassia's rich culture. Additionally, if you stripped away the Star Trek from the book, it's still a very good story.
And your point is...
If there can be Shatnerverse, why can't there be a Takeiverse?
Thank you so much! *fierce blush* I will say that Dave did quite well by Madam President in Destiny (especially in Book 2), and she gets some good scenes in ASD, if I do say so myself.
I would have to say that "The Final Reflection" by John M. Ford is my favorite. I even went the extra step and got in hardback. The book went into great detail about Klingon Culture much as the Romulan way did. I have not had the opportunity to read his other Star Trek novel, "How Much for just the Planet. I would pick "A Stitch in Time" by Andrew Robinson as my second pick. I like the background history on Garak
Kev
Kev
I didn't like the 100 pages in Forged In Fire that kept cutting back to Sulu on the Excelsior wanting to charge into action but not being able to justify it to himself, over and over and over. It was like the same exact scene, 7 times.
Personally, if I had to just pick one and one only, it'd be Stone And Anvil. I love Peter David's style when he's at his best (he reads like I think Joss Whedon would, if he wrote novels) and that one had some outstanding character development and surprises, plus the stare-down between Calhoun and Picard at the end. I was hooked from beginning to end, I loved it.
Close behind would be everything of Christopher's except GTTS, Reap The Whirlwind, PAD's 4 TNG hardcovers, This Gray Spirit, Missing In Action, Sword Of Damocles, and Articles of the Federation, all pretty much tied together for second
Add A Stitch In Time to my list, as well. I forgot to include it because I was looking at my shelf of novels when I made my list, and a couple years ago my copy of ASIT went missing. I lend a lot of books to people, and I can't for the life of me remember who would have it; it's just definitely not me.
My all-time favorite Star Trek novel remains Spock's World by Diane Duane. The work she did in creating Vulcan history, and in particular her version of Surak's story, is just incredibly epic and moving and poetic.
A close second is Articles of the Federation by Keith RA DeCandido. In spite of its mostly being set inside on building on Earth, Articles really captures, for me, the spirit of what Star Trek is all about -- the belief that, working together, we can create a better future for everyone.
A close second is Articles of the Federation by Keith RA DeCandido. In spite of its mostly being set inside on building on Earth, Articles really captures, for me, the spirit of what Star Trek is all about -- the belief that, working together, we can create a better future for everyone.
I like alot of books and some of My favorite books would be Diane Duane's My Enemy My ally ther entire Romulan book series , Uhura's song.Corona, Yesterday's Son,Time for yesterday, Vulcan's heart, The Good That men do to name afew.Ds9 Unity and A Stitch in time,Terok Nor trilogy, Emmissary.
I count A Stitch in Time and Articles of the Federation among my favorites as well.
My friend and I usually refer to A Stitch in Time as "Are you there God? Its me, Garak"
My friend and I usually refer to A Stitch in Time as "Are you there God? Its me, Garak"
My friend and I usually refer to A Stitch in Time as "Are you there God? Its me, Garak"
I gave one of my favorite Trek authors a laugh? Truly this is a glorious victory. 
My friend and I usually refer to A Stitch in Time as "Are you there God? Its me, Garak"
To be fair, it is damn funny.I gave one of my favorite Trek authors a laugh? Truly this is a glorious victory.
Well thanks, you're quite kind for a holographic construct Mr. EMH!
We've got a bunch of in jokes like that for different Trek books, I'm saving them for when the books come up in other threads though. That one is probably my personal fave though.
We've got a bunch of in jokes like that for different Trek books, I'm saving them for when the books come up in other threads though. That one is probably my personal fave though.
Mmmm. Some friends used to have great joke names for all the Marshak & Culbreath ST titles. And "Killing Time". I must see if I can recall them.
My top favourite Star Trek novel (and top book in general) is still "Once Burned" by Peter David. It shows how powerful first person books can be. It is the strongest character story I have read so far and one of the darkest Star Trek books of the time. It gripped me from start to finish and still, I am waiting that Calhoun will continue the story and we find out what happened afterwards. 
