...Ever wanted to read about the Enterprise ferrying a troupe of vaudeville performers around the galaxy? No? Well, tough shit. That's what you're getting. (TOS: Enterprise: The First Adventure)
I think I must have blocked out the poodles. I remember a winged horse and Spock having an emotional cousin years before The Final Frontier.
I'm not coming up with a plot for this book. I just want people to scratch their head! (What Price Honor)
Ooooo! Space gem pretty! (The Devil's Heart) Okay. Censorship bad. Fine. WE GET IT. (Gulliver's Fugitives) Seriously. What the hell? (The Laertian Gamble) Pay no attention to the Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens behind the curtain. (Any Shatnerverse novel) Oh dear, I've gone cross-eyed. (Any DTI novel) Trelane. Is. Fucking. NUTS. (Q-Squared)
David Gerrold invents the Away Team. (The Galactic Whirlpool) Star Trek: The Really Bad Musical. (How Much For Just the Planet?) Spock, the Sexy Space Pirate Who Makes Women Swoon. (Black Fire) She got paid to write this garbage? (anything written by Diane Carey)
Tom Paris gets taken in, mind controlled or tempted by a beautiful alien woman (I can't give you exact titles but it seemed like it was every other Voyager novel in the numbered series). Voyager is in need of food and the perfect planet is harboring a terrible secret. (See above all though in fairness they moved away from this trope later on)
Sorry to break the game for a moment, but I have to ask, is Enterprise: The First Adventure really as insane as it sounds?
Damn, it's not available as an e-book. I'm honestly shocked to see that, I thought by now every Pocket Trek book had been release as an e-book. I'm finding myself wanting to read it, just for the experience. Even if it's not "good", it sounds like could still be enjoyable just from a WTF am I reading perspective. EDIT: Turns out Final Frontier (the Diane Carey book, not the movie novelization) isn't either. EDIT2: Never mind, I found FF.
I'll cop to committing both of those. In my defense, the show hadn't debuted yet when I plotted my VOYAGER book, so all I had to go on, really, was the basic premise of a lost ship on a long voyage home. So I basically raided "The Odyssey": Circe, the Lotus Eaters, etc. And I suspect I wasn't the only author cribbing from Homer.
Picard watches some TOS episodes on the holodeck, is blown away and becomes a Kirk fanboy (Ship of the Line)
I may be in a minority on this, but I rather liked Enterprise:TFA. It's not as good as The Entropy Effect or her novelizations of STII and III, but I liked it well enough to reread it at least once, although that was a long time ago. I remember really liking the way McIntyre wrote newly promoted Captain Kirk as younger, greener, and considerably less-poised than the Kirk of TOS. The whole circus plot did seem silly, although the rationale for it made sense. And Stephen prefigured the similar character of Sybok by several years.