Worst Trek book?

[Xploda]

I haven't read a Trek novel in a long time, during TNG's run I bought all the books I could get my hands on. Some of these were good, others were bad. This book, Grounded , has to be the worst Trek novel I have read. Sheesh, I don't know where to begin with this crapfest.
Has anyone read it or has other stinkers they want to share?

 

[Reiko]

Windows on a Lost World was probably the worst one I have read. I had a hard time finsihing it.

 

[Dayton Ward]

Articles of the Federation.


Oh, wait. Wrong joke.


DAMN!

 

[HIj'Qa]

Enterprise, The First Adventure

blah

 

[TerriO]

Dayton Ward said:
Articles of the Federation.


Oh, wait. Wrong joke.


DAMN!

Okay, so maybe getting those new Corps of Engineers proposals done well ahead of time wasn't such a bad idea after all.....

 

[Trent Roman]

It's hard to say... Like picking favourites, there are so many factors. One will be worse than the other in one respect but perhaps not another. Can I list five? The books at the bottom of my 'Avoid like an Outbreak of the Bubonic Plague combined with Syphilis and N*SYNC' list are, in no particular order, Devil's Heart (pointless), Warped (terminally muddled), Well of Souls (plotless), Homecoming/Farther Shore (schlock) and Spirit Walk (schlock squared).

Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman

 

[Nerys Myk]

Anything by Culbreath and Marshak. Final Frontier by Diane Carey. Enterprise, the First Adventure.

 

[historypeats]

Out of the stuff I've read so far, probably Warped, A Fury Scorned, and Dragon's Honor (sorry, Greg). Since I still have about 350 books left to read, I'm sure I'll run into others that are worse.

On a side note, I actually thought Grounded was one of the best of the first forty TNG books; I realize that isn't saying much, but I certainly wouldn't call it a crapfest.

EDIT - Trent makes a good point about The Devil's Heart - I never understood why it was a hardcover, or why it was even written in the first place.

 

[LightningStorm]

hmm.. my least liked Trek books:
bottom four in order from best to worst

NF: Gateways: Cold Wars
Worlds of DS9: Trill: Unjoined
Voyager: Endgame (novelization)
TNG: Invasion: Soldiers of Fear

The Endgame novelization is an anomaly, because I really liked the episode. I think I went into the novelization with the expectation that I'd get a bit more out of it than the episode gave me and I didn't.

 

[trampledamage]

Kobayashi Maru gets the vote from me. It's the only Trek book I can't be bothered going back to re-read. Even Warped gets re-read when I go through the series and it's pretty bad!

 

[historypeats]

Well, from my progress so far (about halfway done), it looks like Dyson Sphere is going to join this illustrious list...it's as exciting as a textbook.

 

[Jack Bauer]

Red Sector and Ship of the Line were the worst Trek books I've ever read. I don't think I enjoyed a single bit of either of them.

 

[Harvey]

Dyson Sphere and Garth of Izar are two of the worst written and edited pieces of print I've ever laid my eyes on. Terrible, terrible work. I've also got to say that anything by Diane Carey I find completely unreadable. Something about the writing style makes me totally lose interest on page one of EVERY Carey novel.

 

[ElaysianInvasion]

Ghost of a chance wasn't the best thing I've ever read. Murdered Son was murdered by Treknobabble.

 

[captcalhoun]

best destiny. nuff said.

 

[Elemental]

Xploda said:
I haven't read a Trek novel in a long time, during TNG's run I bought all the books I could get my hands on. Some of these were good, others were bad. This book, Grounded , has to be the worst Trek novel I have read. Sheesh, I don't know where to begin with this crapfest.
Has anyone read it or has other stinkers they want to share?

I find this kind of funny because this is actually the first Star Trek book I ever owned! I was only about 8 or 9 years old and was madly in love with TNG on TV. I couldn't decide which book I should get and I can remember skimming through a bunch of them until I could find one that had all the characters in it (including Wesley but I'm assuming I missed Tasha). Anyway, I don't think I ever got more than a chapter or two into it. Perhaps I just wasn't ready for this kind of literature.

 

[Cap.T]

"Death of a Neutron Star" by Eric Kotani. Boy was that book supposed to be a joke or something? I was really mad after reading that thing. The characters were completely off, especially Janeway.

 

[Xploda]

Dayton Ward said:
Articles of the Federation.


Oh, wait. Wrong joke.


DAMN!

I don't get it.

I thought of another book that wasn't the greatest. It's a DS9 novel and someone is attacking the station so they use the phasers like a baseball bat to deflect the missiles. Or something like that. That's all I can remember.

 

[KRAD]

I don't get it.

Count yourself lucky....

 

[Therin of Andor]

Xploda said:
Has anyone read it or has other stinkers they want to share?

Some of my all-time favourites have made people's stinker lists: "Final Frontier", "Double Helix: Red Sector", the "Endgame" novelization (with its "Homecoming" preview) - and I loved the starship full o' Hortas in "Dyson Sphere".

Jeter's "DS9: Warped" in hardcover made me very annoyed, Shatner's "Avenger" and "Preserver" were lukewarm, "Triangle" was Marshak & Culbreath out of control, both "New Earth: The Flaming Arrow" and "Thin Air" were frustratingly repetitive, and DeWeese's "The Final Nexus" and "TNG: Into the Nebula" bored me, but the most tedious read (for me) is definitely Sheckley's "DS9: The Laertian Gamble". Ick.