Hands up who likes "The Devil's Heart?"

I only have 4 Star Trek books

Q Squared
Generations
First Contact
The Devil's Heart

Of those 4 The Devil's Heart is hands down my favourite book. I always end up reading it cover to cover whenever I have started it. It's an exciting book.

Anyone else here that like it??

I always thought this would have made an amazing movie but they never look at the books when considering stories..

 

I remember liking it when it first came out, but I've never reread it. (I really don't reread many novels, however.)

About all I remember of it is that it involves some sort of "seed" from the Guardian of Forever.

 

Yep the Kon'ya...

I loved this book the very first time I read it. To me it just felt like a movie in my head and vast and bit, and nothing like a standard Star Trek movie, even though it was in that universe.

One of my favourites. Q Squared would also have made an amazing movie.

 

I like the novel. I reread it last year . I thought it was an interesting story full of adventure, History and mystery.I thought it was a good book.

 

I voted `count me in´, but I honestly don't remember the content. All I can say is, that it wasn't bad.

 

I liked the bits about Iconia.

 

It's been an awful long time, but my memories of it are positive.

 

This. I vaguely remember Picard being influenced by the Heart being well done.

 

Ditto.

 

I read it about 12 years ago and loved it. I don't reread many books, but I think I would like this one if I read it again as an adult.

 

I quite enjoyed it when I read it as a teenager. I'd have to read it again.

 

I loved The Devil's Heart. It's part Grail quest, part It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World.

 

I could be wrong but I am pretty sure it was the first TNG Hardcover novel.

 

No, The Devil's Heart was the third TNG hardcover, after Reunion and Imzadi. And it was the eighth of Pocket's Trek hardcovers overall.

 

Yes, as I recall I did enjoy it. I will admit though, because of space issues, that all my hardcover novels are in Rubbermaid containers in the basement.

 

I've read this book within the past 5 years, and quite frankly, I remember very little about it, aside from some guy planet-hopping. I think it was a so-so book.

 

So the K'onya was a portion or seed to make a new Guardian so even that tiny part had powers much like a full sized Guardian Of Forever.

I'm surprised Picard didn't realize this when he had hold of it. Data didn't bother much to check the historical records ..

 

Wouldn't it contradict TNG, though? First direct contact between the Federation and the Ferengi didn't happen until "The Last Outpost"; nobody in the UFP even knew what the Ferengi looked like until then. And the Andorians are part of the UFP.

Still, it should've been possible to request a copy of the script through the editor, I think. Or maybe the licensing people could've corrected the spelling. So it's odd those re-spellings got through.

Yeah, that bugged me too. It's sort of like assuming, say, that the peoples of India, Russia, and Germany are the only three direct descendants of the original speakers of Proto-Indo-European, and that they share a common cultural identity as Proto-Indo-Europeans. I suppose it's not a completely irreconcilable extrapolation from the episode, assuming the three cultures kept their Iconian heritage secret from outsiders or something, but it is hard to credit. After all, the Iconians fell 200,000 years ago. That's, like, 30 times longer than the entire span of recorded human history. It seems likely that those cultures' Iconian ancestry would be far too remote for them to have a direct memory of it or attachment to it.

(I can't remember offhand how Gateways handled those three civilizations, if at all. Can anyone remind me?)

I picked Rennan's last name based on a city in Turkey, as sort of a wordplay on "Troi" as a Betazoid surname.

Well, an image of Picard staring at an unassuming rock would've been a less effective cover.