List of books starting with Voyager Homecoming

[rfmcdpei]

The OP shouldn't read this, because it does contain spoilers, but on a whim I wrote a little humorous recap of the journey from Homecoming through to Indistinguishable From Magic...

[Brilliance!]

Nice!

But what about Death in Winter?

 

[Therin of Andor]

DS9/TNG comic book miniseries, Divided We Fall: I managed to track down the individual issues

http://www.startrekcomics.info/wildstormtngdsndivided.html

now it is also included on the Comics Collection DVD.

And it never received an English-language trade omnibus, either, although there were two foreign language translations, such as the German "Symbiose" and Spanish "Divide y vencerás".

http://www.startrekcomics.info/wildstormtngtpb.html

 

[Thrawn]

Some definite errors there.



Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Worlds of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Volume Three: The Dominion and Ferenginar
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Warpath

While not errors as such, this list was missing the Mirror Universe books. I know Jon asked that they not be included but the mirror universe figures heavily in the later DS9 novels and, while not quite necessary, reading these helps fill in the back story considerably.

It would change the reading list as follows:

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Worlds of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Volume Three: The Dominion and Ferenginar
Star Trek: Mirror Universe: Glass Empires
Star Trek: Mirror Universe: Obsidian Alliances
Star Trek: Mirror Universe: Shards and Shadows
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Warpath

That makes sense, but if we're going to do that, then we should really put the expanded Sorrows of Empire in there, too...

...and when we have that, why not throw in Rise Like Lions, to end it off, too?



So: fine. Click here for the whole list.

Spoiler: All of it.

First, Vanguard:

Star Trek: Vanguard: Harbinger
Star Trek: Vanguard: Summon the Thunder
Star Trek: Vanguard: Reap the Whirlwind
Star Trek: Vanguard: Open Secrets
Star Trek: Vanguard: Precipice
Star Trek: Vanguard: Declassified
Star Trek: Vanguard: What Judgments Come
Star Trek: Vanguard: Storming Heaven (coming early 2012)

Then, the DS9 Relaunch, with some optional lead-ins:

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Lives of Dax (optional)
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: A Stitch In Time (optional)
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Left Hand of Destiny Book One (optional)
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Left Hand of Destiny Book Two (optional) <-- these two were released later, but chronologically here

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Avatar Book One
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Avatar Book Two
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Section 31: Abyss
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Gateways: Demons of Air and Darkness
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Gateways: What Lay Beyond: "Horn & Ivory"
(NOTE: The above 5 books are all available as "Twist of Faith")
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Mission Gamma Book One: Twilight
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Mission Gamma Book Two: This Gray Spirit
(NOTE: The above 2 books are available as "These Haunted Seas")
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Mission Gamma Book Three: Cathedral
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Mission Gamma Book Four: Lesser Evil
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Rising Son
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Unity
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Worlds of Deep Space Nine Volume One: Cardassia and Andor
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Worlds of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Volume Two: Trill and Bajor
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Worlds of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Volume Three: The Dominion and Ferenginar

Then, catch up on the MU, and let that lead into the final Marco-edited DS9 Relaunch books, and finish the MU off as well:

Star Trek: Mirror Universe: Glass Empires, book 1
Star Trek: Mirror Universe: The Sorrows of Empire (replaces Glass Empires book 2)
Star Trek: Mirror Universe: Glass Empires, book 3
Star Trek: Mirror Universe: Obsidian Alliances
Star Trek: Mirror Universe: Shards and Shadows
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Warpath
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Fearful Symmetry
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Soul Key
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Never-Ending Sacrifice (optional)
Star Trek: Mirror Universe: Rise Like Lions

Then, the short lived first Voyager relaunch:

Homecoming
The Farther Shore
Spirit Walk: Old Wounds
Spirit Walk: Enemy of my Enemy

Then, A Time To...

A Time To Be Born
A Time to Die
A Time to Sow
A Time to Harvest
A Time to Love
A Time to Hate
A Time to Kill
A Time to Heal
A Time for War, A Time for Peace

Then, all the books from Nemesis to Destiny and Destiny's immediate follow-ups:

TNG: Death In Winter
Titan: Taking Wing
Titan: The Red King
Articles of the Federation
Titan: Orion's Hounds
TNG: Resistance
TNG: Q and A
TNG: Before Dishonor
Titan: Sword of Damocles
TNG: Greater Than the Sum
Destiny: Gods of Night
Destiny: Mere Mortals
Destiny: Lost Souls
TNG: Losing The Peace
A Singular Destiny

Then, the new Voyager relaunch:

Full Circle
Unworthy
Children of the Storm
Upcoming Voyager book The Eternal Tide

Then, the various novels covering the rest of 2381 and into 2382 (and 2383 in the new stuff this year?), mostly Typhon Pact:

Titan: Over A Torrent Sea
Titan: Synthesis
DTI: Watching the Clock
Typhon Pact: Zero Sum Game
Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire
Typhon Pact: Seize the Fire
Typhon Pact: Paths of Disharmony
Typhon Pact: The Struggle Within (Novella)
Upcoming Titan: Fallen Gods
TNG: Indistinguishable From Magic
Upcoming Typhon Pact books - Plagues of Night, Raise the Dawn.

77 novels (including each MU short novel as its own), 2 novellas, and 2 short story collections. That oughta last a while.

 

[Christopher]

The original poster specifically asked for alternate-universe books to be excluded. I think that the only Mirror Universe work that's directly relevant to the Prime-universe/DS9 continuity is Obsidian Alliances: Saturn's Children by "Sarah Shaw" (recently revealed to be a pseudonym of David Mack), which explains the changes in MU status quo between "The Emperor's New Cloak" and Warpath.

 

[Cybersnark]

A Time for War, A Time for Peace
Death In Winter <-- this was missing on your list

And of course, Nemesis happens between these two.

 

[Thrawn]

So, I just made a brilliant flowchart of how all of these books fit together and refer to each other. What's a good website for me to put the image on so that everyone can see it? I haven't actually done that before.

 

[captcalhoun]

"Sarah Shaw" (recently revealed to be a pseudonym of David Mack).

was it?! shit i missed that memo!

 

[Relayer1]

But please bear in mind that Homecoming, The Farther Shore, Spirit Walk: Old Wounds and Spirit Walk: Enemy of my Enemy are really truly awful...

In some people's opinion. But they evidently sold pretty well.

It's true, they did, but I read them without any preconceptions - i.e. before joining this community and discovering that they were unpopular with other people as well !

Yes, and it's your opinion that they're bad. And others share that opinion, yes, but still others disagree. For instance, I like them just fine, and I've certainly seen other posters in "this community" defend them. Don't you think people deserve the right to judge for themselves?

Well, I had that chance, so I suppose I shouldn't wish to deny others the same opportunity. It was more of a 'heads up' anyway - I don't think my statement could actually make anyone dislike these novels, but I suppose it may put someone off reading them.

I sometimes suffer from the notion that I am right ! I haven't seen much in the way of support for these novels elsewhere, but like most things, it's a matter of opinion.

 

[Thrawn]

So, I just made a brilliant flowchart of how all of these books fit together and refer to each other. What's a good website for me to put the image on so that everyone can see it? I haven't actually done that before.

Never mind, figured it out.

CHECK THIS OUT.

http://imageshack.us/f/221/treklitflowcharthl.jpg/

(Yellow lines are related but not especially important; green lines are direct follow-ups. Your opinion is probably different from mine in a couple places.)

 

[Christopher]

CHECK THIS OUT.

http://imageshack.us/f/221/treklitflowcharthl.jpg/

Cool chart.

Though as usual, the efforts of the Department of Temporal Investigations go unheralded, overshadowed by those Starfleet glory hounds... Oh, never mind... they probably prefer it that way...

 

[Defcon]

"Sarah Shaw" (recently revealed to be a pseudonym of David Mack).

was it?! shit i missed that memo!

http://www.trekbbs.com/showpost.php?p=5380683&postcount=36

 

[Thrawn]

CHECK THIS OUT.

http://imageshack.us/f/221/treklitflowcharthl.jpg/

Cool chart.

Though as usual, the efforts of the Department of Temporal Investigations go unheralded, overshadowed by those Starfleet glory hounds... Oh, never mind... they probably prefer it that way...

I actually just edited it to add that...

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/812/treklitflowchart2.jpg/

Or, if you prefer PDF: http://www.lucidchart.com/publicSegments/view/4f08c6c7-c4c8-473e-a20f-48270a6eb6d7

 

[Christopher]

Oh, no, now you've altered the past! We're in for it now!

 

[Thrawn]

Anything else on there I should change?

 

[Therin of Andor]

http://www.trekbbs.com/showpost.php?p=5380683&postcount=36

That's very cool, esp. the bit about the unexpected freedom of writing under a pseudonym!

 

[ryan123450]

CHECK THIS OUT.

http://imageshack.us/f/221/treklitflowcharthl.jpg/

Cool chart.

Though as usual, the efforts of the Department of Temporal Investigations go unheralded, overshadowed by those Starfleet glory hounds... Oh, never mind... they probably prefer it that way...

I actually just edited it to add that...

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/812/treklitflowchart2.jpg/

Or, if you prefer PDF: http://www.lucidchart.com/publicSegments/view/4f08c6c7-c4c8-473e-a20f-48270a6eb6d7

Awesome chart Thrawn. Great idea to explain and pretty conviluted subject.

 

[Deranged Nasat]

Yes, good work, Thrawn. That'll be a very useful aid to a lot of readers.

Are you going to make one adding in Klingon Empire, SCE, Lost Era, etc (if that's even possible before it gets too unwieldy)?

 

[Thrawn]

Yes, good work, Thrawn. That'll be a very useful aid to a lot of readers.

Are you going to make one adding in Klingon Empire, SCE, Lost Era, etc (if that's even possible before it gets too unwieldy)?

SCE seems like a really, really bad idea, for any semblance of readability.

Lost Era has some connections to DS9, but not much. They're good books, but I can't think of anything in them that is at all integral to any of the ongoing stories, aside from Vaughn backstory. I'm not sure that's worth the trouble, either.

Klingon Empire might be doable, though. Obviously Left Hand of Destiny would be connected to them, but what other connections would I have to add? Been too long since I've read them to remember.

 

[Thrawn]

I also left out the T'Prynn connection from Vanguard to DS9-R, and I guess I could also put Ranul Keru's story and try to add in Section 31: Rogue and another arrow from Worlds of DS9 to Titan, but I felt like both of those were too minor to be worth the formatting problems.

 

[Deranged Nasat]

SCE seems like a really, really bad idea, for any semblance of readability.

Well, you could just have a box with "entire series (optional)" and link it loosely to the DS9 Relaunch and A Singular Destiny?

Lost Era has some connections to DS9, but not much. They're good books, but I can't think of anything in them that is at all integral to any of the ongoing stories, aside from Vaughn backstory. I'm not sure that's worth the trouble, either.

On the whole I suppose you're right, but Titan: The Red King is easier to follow if you've read The Sundered. Also Terok Nor to the DS9 Relaunch? That said, I guess it's not worth trying to squeeze the whole lot in just for those. Probably my continuity-obsession getting the better of me. I think of all the references and links, however small, and want to include them all.

Klingon Empire might be doable, though. Obviously Left Hand of Destiny would be connected to them, but what other connections would I have to add? Been too long since I've read them to remember.

Well, several of the characters show up in A Singular Destiny. Other than that, I'm not sure if there are major links; again, I think it's general "taking place in same continuity" references. I guess it depends on how much you want to squeeze in before it loses the easy-to-read status that currently makes it so appealing and useful.