Worst Trek book?
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Most of William Shatners books....
Kirk and Chekov get turned into giant crabs!
Yup, bad.
I actually have a soft spot for the Trellisane Confrontation, which falls in the so bad it's good category. Star Trek meets Plan 9 so to speak.
Other stinkers...
Enemy Unseen
The Genesis Wave Books
The New Frontier Books
Ghost Walker
Crossroad
First Frontier
and many many more
I like Windows on a Lost World! Sure, it's an offbeat concept, but I like the alien-building.
That goddess-damned "Q Continuum" trilogy by Greg Cox.
Gods, that so-called "trilogy" blew chunks. And if you take out the recaps, where he apparently thinks he's doing a novelization of all the various Q episodes, you'd have about 100 pages left. Out of 3 books. And those 100 pages are just horrible.
Amateurish, poorly-written fanfic not-so-cleverly disguised as TrekLit.
Just thinking I actually paid money for that crap is still enough to piss me off, all these years later. Which is why I refuse to spend a cent on anything written by that author.
And let's not even get into how bad "Spock's World" was.
Gods, that so-called "trilogy" blew chunks. And if you take out the recaps, where he apparently thinks he's doing a novelization of all the various Q episodes, you'd have about 100 pages left. Out of 3 books. And those 100 pages are just horrible.
Amateurish, poorly-written fanfic not-so-cleverly disguised as TrekLit.
Just thinking I actually paid money for that crap is still enough to piss me off, all these years later. Which is why I refuse to spend a cent on anything written by that author.
And let's not even get into how bad "Spock's World" was.
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There aren't many novels that I've bought that have made me wince/cringe, but the following aren't ones I'll be hurrying to read again anytime soon:
DS9 - Warped (only Trek novel I've never managed to finish)
TNG - The Forgotten War (bad plot and awful characterisation)
TOS - The Fearful Summons (ditto)
TOS - Price of the Phoenix & Triangle (Marshak & Culbreath at their worst
).
TNG - Dyson Sphere (borrring! ).
All the Shatner novels except 'The Ashes of Eden' (sorry Bill - the first one was good, but thereafter they were all too fanboyish.....).
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DS9 - Warped (only Trek novel I've never managed to finish)
TNG - The Forgotten War (bad plot and awful characterisation)
TOS - The Fearful Summons (ditto)
TOS - Price of the Phoenix & Triangle (Marshak & Culbreath at their worst
).TNG - Dyson Sphere (borrring! ).
All the Shatner novels except 'The Ashes of Eden' (sorry Bill - the first one was good, but thereafter they were all too fanboyish.....).
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^ I keep telling you I'm working on it. Have a little patience, man!
What I remember (since this is over a decade ago) is that it was so bad I put it down at one point, and couldn't even touch it to continue for 8 months. And it was still just as bad.
At the time, there had been an effort by writers such as Jean Lorrah, Ann Crispin, and Howie Weinstein to tie their stories together. There was a consistant background on Surak, Vulcan, etc.
Diane Duane's book contradicted everything there.
Now, I did get a chance to talk with Diane about it some years ago, and asked her about it. She told me that she was told to ignore the previous books, and start over, as this was going to be a special book. And that's fine. But I still didn't care for it.
And it's not like I dislike the author. I remember Doctor's Orders fondly, though I don't remember why.
It's been a few years now, but luckily no other Trek novel I've read since has been as awful as Deny Thy Father. Oh man what a terrible book. Absolutely terrible guest characters and an aimless plot throws four stories into one book and all of them disappoint.
You'd think a novel with Riker and the Pegasus on the cover would feature the infamous mutiny (prime fodder for The Lost Era), but instead we get Riker and his whiny, condescending schoolmates, a rebel group pulling a prank that's straight out of Animal House and a completely pointless story about a ship transporting a prisoner. This whole novel needed to go back to the drawing board.
There's been other books that have come close to being as bad as that. All the novels in The Voyager Relaunch have been a colossal waste. Most recently, String Theory: Evolution brought the whole unremarkable trilogy down in flames with a silly story told in a boring and banal fashion. It's a deadly combination.
I'd usually lambast New Frontier here, but really, that series has just fallen into flat mediocrity (like the last couple trade paperback anthologies). Cold Wars comes close to making the list though.
You'd think a novel with Riker and the Pegasus on the cover would feature the infamous mutiny (prime fodder for The Lost Era), but instead we get Riker and his whiny, condescending schoolmates, a rebel group pulling a prank that's straight out of Animal House and a completely pointless story about a ship transporting a prisoner. This whole novel needed to go back to the drawing board.
There's been other books that have come close to being as bad as that. All the novels in The Voyager Relaunch have been a colossal waste. Most recently, String Theory: Evolution brought the whole unremarkable trilogy down in flames with a silly story told in a boring and banal fashion. It's a deadly combination.
I'd usually lambast New Frontier here, but really, that series has just fallen into flat mediocrity (like the last couple trade paperback anthologies). Cold Wars comes close to making the list though.
The Last Round-up, Warped, The Last Round-up, "Rebels" trilogy, The Last Round-up.
The first Mission: Gamma book. It was so plodding and boring that I gave up midway, and it basically stopped me cold from reading the rest of the DS9 relaunch.
CaptJimboJones said:
The first Mission: Gamma book. It was so plodding and boring that I gave up midway, and it basically stopped me cold from reading the rest of the DS9 relaunch.
That's too bad. I thought it a brilliant novel. You should just skip ahead past it, though; all the books are designed to be ones you can jump into as a general rule
CaptJimboJones said:
The first Mission: Gamma book. It was so plodding and boring that I gave up midway, and it basically stopped me cold from reading the rest of the DS9 relaunch.
I thought I was the only one on the net who didn't like that book. Although it didn't stop me from continuing the DS9R. Every book after that one (except the Trill story in Worlds) was better than it.Similar threads
