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Rank Your Favorite Trek Literature

Also not ranked, but there are the ones that pop into my head as Trek books I loved enough that I have re-read them, or eventually will do so, just for the pleasure:

STTNG: Metamorphosis -Jean Lorrah
STTNG: Survivors - Jean Lorrah
Imzadi - Peter David
The Lives of Dax - ed. Marco Palmieri
Pathways and Mosaic - Jeri Taylor (I tend to think of these as one big book, even though they're not)

Not sure about Triangle: Imzadi II -- will have to re-read to check whether it makes my personal "hall of fame"!

I still need to read A Stitch in Time, and I strongly suspect it will become one of my favorites.
 
Haven't read a lot recently...

1. Mission Twilight: Gamma
2. Millennium Trilogy
3. Q-Squared
4. Federation
5. Imzadi
6. Behind Enemy Lines / Tunnel Through the Stars
7. Fire Ship
 
1. Ex Machina
2. NF: Stone and Anvil
3. The Entropy Effect
4. TNG: Immortal Coil
5. Andor: Paradigm (in WoDS9, Book 1)
6. Crucible: McCoy
7. DS9: Fallen Heroes
8. The Wounded Sky
9. The Motion Picture novelization
10. ST II novelization
11. ST III novelization
12. Uhura's Song
13. TNG: Metamorphosis
14. Final Frontier
15. Strangers From the Sky
16. NF: Once Burned
17. VOY: Fire Ship
18: NF: Cold Wars
19: Double Helix: Red Sector
20. DS9: Rising Son.

but this is not a definitive order.

If new "Signature Edition" omnibuses were to come out, I'd love to see a Data-centred "Metamorphosis/Immortal Coil" edition, and a "Motion Picture/Ex Machina" edition. And "Uhura's Song" (with the new Afterword for it, from the late Janet Kagan's "Hellspark") teamed with another strong first contact story.
 
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1 - The Vulcan Academy Murders by Jean Lorrah
2 - Spock's World by Diane Duane
3 - Yesterday's Son by Ann C. Crispin
4 - Time For Yesterday by Ann C. Crispin
5 - Sarek by Ann C. Crispin
6 - Strangers From The Sky by Margaret Wander Bonanno
7 - The Entropy Effect by Vonda N. McIntyre

Well, those were the really easy ones, but there are just so many wonderful stories . . .

ME
 
And thanks to everybody who mentioned the Khan books--and DEVIL IN THE SKY. I admit I was pleasantly surprised to see the latter get a nod since that was my very first TREK booK. That seems like such a long time ago now!
 
1) Federation
2) Titan: Orion's Hounds
3) Strangers from the Sky
4) Reign in Hell
5) Vanguard: Reap the Whirlwind
6) Destiny: Lost Souls
7) Mirror Universe - Glass Empires - The Sorrows of Empire
8) Myriad Universes - Infinity's Prism - Seeds of Dissent
 
Nerys Ghemor said:
I don't see a lot of love for the numbered novels. I wonder if there's a preponderance of recent readers here?

Maybe I should start a "how long have you been reading Treklit" poll?
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Began reading Treklit 1982 - my local library had a couple Trek compilations and I knew I had died and gone to heaven! I hadn't known such a thing existed before then!
 
Not really ranked, but here are some of my favorites....I think some of these are a little under the radar as far as what other fans enjoy or like.

Masks
Fallen Heros
Objective Bajor
The Final Reflection
Imzadi
Q Squared
Chain of Attack
Wildfire
Echoes
 
Glad to see someone else who liked Objective: Bajor! :)

I even ended up writing John Peel about that one, to ask if there was a tie between it and an incident from one of his kids' books. Remember Prisoners of Peace? Well, if so, then you've seen Gul Gavron before, as well as Tak. I couldn't help wondering how Tak wound up with that awful assignment... As it turned out, he hadn't envisioned the connection, but seemed to think it made sense.

Oh...and since you liked the old, numbered novels, do you happen to remember Betrayal?
 
1. Imzadi
2. Q Squared
3. The Pandora Principle
4. The Art of the Impossible
5. Vendetta
6. A Rock and a Hard Place
7. Ashes of Eden
8. Objective: Bajor
9. Serpents Among the Ruins
10. Federation

Honorable Mentions:
Left Hand of Destiny
Abyss
Cloak
Harbinger
War Path
House of Cards
Last Full Measure
Missing in Action
The Devil's Heart
Sarek
The Return
Wrath of Khan novelization
The Final Frontier novelization
Relics novelization
The Rift
The Captain's Daughter
Infiltrator
Death in Winter
Resistance
Destiny trilogy
 
1. Dreadnought! - Diane Carey
2. Battlestations! - Diane Carey
3. Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country - adapted by J.M. Dillard
4. The Wounded Sky - Diane Duane
5. Vulcan's Glory - D.C. Fontana
6. Errand of Fury - Book Three - Kevin Ryan
7. Greater Than The Sum - Christopher L. Bennett
8. Ghost Ship - Diane Carey
9. Vendetta - Peter David
10. My Enemy, My Ally - Diane Duane
 
Is it wrong I have read most of the books in these lists?

In no particular order, and if I got the author wrong please let me know before they find out :)

Wildfire - David Mack
Articles of the Federation - KRAD
A Time To ... - All of them
DS9 #22 - The author was Welsh
Vanguard series - All of them

Honerable mentions
*All the books I've left out that are in my bookcase with the exception of the 'TNG:Dyson Sphere' atrocity

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That should read TNG: Dyson Sphere ..... dang emoticons!
 
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^ I think the DS9 novel you're trying to remember was Fallen Heroes by Daffyd ab Hugh. And I agree, that was a fantastic novel. :)
 
^ It was indeed Vengeance. I think I even read it once then immediately read it again.

Its the line "Not many commanders would attack an angry Klingon with several thousand photon torpedoes in his pocket", its stayed with me since the first time I read it and it makes me laugh just thinking what a drunk Worf would do with several thousand torpedoes :D
 
Nerys Ghemor said:
Glad to see someone else who liked Objective: Bajor! :)
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It has been a long time since I read the book, but I have always thought it was a great story that fits right before "The Way of The Warrior". On screen I always thought Cardassian space was taken over a little too quickly by the Klingon invasion. I understand there were events which rationalize the Cardassian lack of resistance, with the events of late 3rd season (DS9) and the over throw of the military....

But I have always believed the events of Objective Bajor help explain why Cardassian space was so vulnerable to a Klingon invasion.
 
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