What's your favorite "Shatnerverse" novel?

[issreliant]

Now i know some people dont like the trek books written by William Shatner with Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens, but i found most of them to be entertaining. So which one of the novels is your fav? My favorite is "The Return", its a great action /adventure that brings back Kirk in a way that dosent seem contrived or dumb. my runner up is "Spectre" which to me was a great return to the mirror universe.

 

[Lt. Brannigan]

up till now I had only read a few of the Shatnerverse novels, and I am in the process of reading them all since I got my hands on all 9 of the series. I will let you after I finish reading them which was my favorite.

 

[Turtletrekker]

Probably The Return.

 

[Garm Bel Iblis]

Definitely the return, it was very comic book like and then after Avenger,he turned into Super Kirk and could leap quadrants in a simple bound. Spectre was fun, but then it was rubbish from then on.

The Totality Trilogy was just....BAD

 

[Omega_Glory]

The Return.

Why do folks refer to these as "Shatnerverse"?

 

[Garm Bel Iblis]

Because they are independent canon fromthe rest of TrekLit... Kirk being alive, the borg-romulan alliance, etc...

 

[seigezunt]

Ashes of Eden. Would have made a fine movie, with some tweaking.

 

[F. King Daniel]

I don't have a perticular favourite, because I see the lot of them as one big series (except Ashes of Eden that works standalone as well, and Collision Course which is nuShatnerverse or something). The Totality trilogy is the weakest, but I still found much to enjoy in it.

 

[indianatrekker26]

For me its a three-way tie between "The Ashes of Eden" and "The Return." "Eden" would have made a great Star Trek VII. The Return is probably my favorite trek book of all time. I'm going on a vacation in a few months, and I'm taking the first 3 books with me. I don't want to be stuck on a trip with a book i dont care for, so I'm taking those. I've probably read them a good 9-10 times. Just great comic booky fun.

 

[Admiral James Kirk]

My favorite is The Ashes of Eden or as I like to think of it: Star Trek VII: The Ashes of Eden. What a wonderful end this would have been to Kirk's adventures. It was certainly a more respectful and exciting end to this character than Generations provided. I also love the comic book adaptation. Just seeing this story visualized makes the pulse pound at what could have been if Paramount had agreed to produce this flick.

 

[Garm Bel Iblis]

My favorite is The Ashes of Eden or as I like to think of it: Star Trek VII: The Ashes of Eden. What a wonderful end this would have been to Kirk's adventures. It was certainly a more respectful and exciting end to this character than Generations provided. I also love the comic book adaptation. Just seeing this story visualized makes the pulse pound at what could have been if Paramount had agreed to produce this flick.

Do you think if Shatner hadn't stunk up the franchise with STV this would have been made as a film ?

 

[Admiral James Kirk]

I don't know. He did submit a treatment for AoE after he wrapped TFF. I think if TFF had made TVH-like money he probably would have been allowed to direct again. Alas...

 

[Omega_Glory]

Because they are independent canon fromthe rest of TrekLit... Kirk being alive, the borg-romulan alliance, etc...

There must be a number of authorverse novels then because more than a few offer events that are not chronicled or hinted at in the canon history.

 

[Turtletrekker]

Because they are independent canon fromthe rest of TrekLit... Kirk being alive, the borg-romulan alliance, etc...

There must be a number of authorverse novels then because more than a few offer events that are not chronicled or hinted at in the canon history.

Garm Bel Iblis's use of the phrase "independent canon" is a bit inaccurate. Most of the books these days exist in an independent continuity based on the canon material. The Shatner-books are in yet another separate continuity that does not completely jibe with the main novel-verse continuity (Janeway's fate, Titan's mission history, Scotty's status with the SCE).

 

[Thrawn]

Right. Almost all of the rest of the books are internally consistent with each other; Shatner's books are not. A separate continuity from everything else.

 

[RonG]

My favorite Shatnerverse novels are basically the Odyssey (not so much) trilogy - Ashes of Eden, The Return and Avenger. But even these novels, which I had originally thought of as epic, don't hold up nowadays IMHO

After that, it all went downhill - while Spectre was ok, Dark Victory and Presrever were *meh* and the Totality trilogy was horrid IMO

Never even bothered with Collision Course...

 

[Therin of Andor]

"The Ashes of Eden" was an excellent page-turner, although the "fountain of youth" planet is a bit of a cliche these days. "The Return" was totally unnecessary and very self-indulgent - and to resurrect Kirk yet again in its sequel was even more annoying.

The "Mirror Universe" saga had some great segments, but what a fizzer ancient old Emperor Tiberius turned out to be.

The segments set during TOS in the "Totality" story were where the whole story needed to be. No more Picard 'n' Kirk 'n' Little Joseph/Josephine picnic adventures!

"Academy: Collision Course" was a return to page-turning success, but Teen Spock the young, outcast, petty thief playing amateur spy seemed hopelessly miscast.

 

[Judith Sisko]

I'd have to go with Ashes of Eden, but I quit reading the Shatner novels a LONG time ago.

"Super Kirk" sums them up, as does "self-indulgent."

 

[Defcon]

Ashes of Eden by far.

 

[Christopher]

"The Ashes of Eden" was an excellent page-turner, although the "fountain of youth" planet is a bit of a cliche these days.

Heck, it was a cliche at the time. ST had previously had Omega IV, and planets where people never get old had certainly been a staple of SF well before then, because it's a basic human desire that has manifested throughout our literature and mythology for thousands of years.