1990's TNG novel recommendations

[NurseChapel39]

Since we are about to enter a relative dry spell with new novels this summer, does anyone have any recommendations for any of the numbered TNG novels that were published in the 90's? I haven't read most of them, but I collected them as they were released.

Thanks for your help.

 

[Lt. Brannigan]

Without any list right in front, I have to recommend Q-Inlaw it's a book that draws a smile from every time I read it.

 

[Therin of Andor]

does anyone have any recommendations for any of the numbered TNG novels that were published in the 90's?

Favourite characters? Tech vs relationships? Stand-alones vs sequels to episodes?

 

[NurseChapel39]

Stand alones, especially ones that feature the Romulans or Klingons. Relationships over tech.

 

[F. King Daniel]

No Romulans or Klingons in any of my picks, but I really liked The Captain's Honor. I liked that Survivors gave Tasha a decent backstory (even if the tv show would screw it up by adding a sister). I remember liking Dyson's Sphere. I'll probably think of many more later.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Stand alones, especially ones that feature the Romulans or Klingons. Relationships over tech.

Okay, that helps immeasurably.

"A Rock and a Hard Place" by Peter David - fantastic interrelationships

"Metamorphosis" by Jean Lorrah - Data becomes human. Especially good if you've already read "Survivors" (1989, outside your date parameters)

"Vendetta" by Peter David - the big Borg sequel

"Q-in-Law" by Peter David - Q vs Mrs Troi, 'nuff said!

"Reunion" by Michael Jan Friedman - Picard's backstory

"Imzadi" by Peter David - the classic Riker/Troi romance story

"War Drums" by John Vornholt - Renegade Klingons

"The Romulan Stratagem" by Robert Greenberger - Sela and Romulans

"Triangle: Imzadi II" by Peter David - the big Riker/Troi/Worf unromance story.

 

[Thrawn]

Except for Strike Zone, anything by Peter David is a no-brainer. Reunion is also wonderful.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Except for Strike Zone, anything by Peter David is a no-brainer.

I loved "Strike Zone", but it was before 1990s.

Have you read the PAD-written TOS era DC Comics that set up the scene for this novel?

 

[F. King Daniel]

If you're including non-numbered, then all the 'giant novels' are must-reads too.

 

[Thrawn]

Except for Strike Zone, anything by Peter David is a no-brainer.

I loved "Strike Zone", but it was before 1990s.

Have you read the PAD-written TOS era DC Comics that set up the scene for this novel?

Well, actually, I loved Strike Zone too, but it's definitely a little... unconventional. Sort of like he was trying to write Star Trek as if Douglas Adams had, and I think it's a charming little experiment, but not exactly as universally awesome as all his others so I hesitate to recommend it.

I haven't read the comics though, no.

 

[JD]

Reunion, and Imzadi are both great books.

FYI Reunion introduces the cast that would later appear in the Stargazer series.

 

[RonG]

Stand alones, especially ones that feature the Romulans or Klingons. Relationships over tech.

Okay, that helps immeasurably.

"A Rock and a Hard Place" by Peter David - fantastic interrelationships

"Metamorphosis" by Jean Lorrah - Data becomes human. Especially good if you've already read "Survivors" (1989, outside your date parameters)

"Vendetta" by Peter David - the big Borg sequel

"Q-in-Law" by Peter David - Q vs Mrs Troi, 'nuff said!

"Reunion" by Michael Jan Friedman - Picard's backstory

"Imzadi" by Peter David - the classic Riker/Troi romance story

"War Drums" by John Vornholt - Renegade Klingons

"The Romulan Stratagem" by Robert Greenberger - Sela and Romulans

"Triangle: Imzadi II" by Peter David - the big Riker/Troi/Worf unromance story.

Fantastic selections (Classic PAD always delivers IMO ).

I would also add "The Devil's Heart" for a great epic quest-style novel!

 

[Therin of Andor]

I would also add "The Devil's Heart" for a great epic quest-style novel!

Yeah, that was a deliberate omission on my part. It was the first ST hardcover that left me feeling really underwhelmed. Over more recent years I've read some really good critiques of it and I'd probably enjoy it more in a second read.

 

[Zatoichi]

I've not read a great deal of '90s Trek books, but I remember enjoying Greenberger's "Romulan Stratagem" being a good read. Felt very much like a TNG episode.

 

[Lonemagpie]

Vendetta
Q In Law
Q Squared
Romulan Strategem
Dark Mirror
the Q Continuum trilogy

Actually, pretty much most of them are fun- there's only one that'd I'd actively recommend avoiding, cos it's the worst book of any kind I've ever read - but it'd probably be impolite to name it now that I do this stuff myself...

 

[Allyn Gibson]

I would also add "The Devil's Heart" for a great epic quest-style novel!

I love The Devil's Heart.

There are two schools of thought on what the book is. Some say it's a riff on It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World. (And I think I have the number of "mads" wrong there.) I think it's a riff on the Grail Quest from the Arthurian mythos.

In fact, when the book came out, I thought what it was missing was an historical chapter that explicitly drew a connection between the Devil's Heart and the Grail, so I wrote that chapter myself.

The Grail motifs are definitely present in the book. The vast interstellar wasteland. The question of who or what the Devil's Heart serves. The lost royal bloodline. The ascension of the Devil's Heart.

Suffice it to say, it's one of my favorites.

 

[F. King Daniel]

^Come on! TELL US!!

Rubbish books deserve recognition too!

 

[BillJ]

Gulliver's Fugitives
Rogue Saucer

 

[tmclough]

Some say it's a riff on It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World. (And I think I have the number of "mads" wrong there.)

Actually, you do have the correct number of "mads" in there--four.

 

[NurseChapel39]

Thanks for all your suggestions, I will also try Strike Zone and Devils Heart. I should have them packed away somewhere.