Is there anything you wish hadn't been done with a story or character that was first seen in the shows/movies?
I get you LCC. I wish Chekov and Uhura hadn't lived to the late 24th century. And I didn't like where Uhura's later career took her. I'm sure there are others I could say, but those are the first that came to mind.
I agree with @ryan123450 about Chekov and Uhura, and @JD about Kira. I'm also not a fan of Harry Kim going to security. It never seemed like he was interested in / angling for security during the run of the show, but I guess they wanted to give him a bump and security was where a full lieutenant could go. I always wondered why/if being at ops was not enough to get the rank bump. Data was the ops chief on the Enterprise and he was a Lt. Cmdr. and second officer. At this point Harry is also the second officer...so why wasn't ops good enough?
I'm not a big fan of Picard marrying Crusher. The matter seemed pretty settled from the series (was it "Attached"?) And they were already exploring major series characters getting married and having a kid with Riker and Troi in the novels at the same time. (And doing a credible job with it, too.) It seemed redundant to me then, and I don't see that it's provided any especially good storylines or character insights since. Not something to rage about; very "ho hum" for me. Although I will admit that I'm behind on my TNG reading. Have I missed something amazing?
I'm disappointed Ro has become more religious, but then again I have never liked DS9's religion aspect much.
Yeah, I never really got that either. I just assumed I missed some big moment that lead to the change when I skipped the Homecoming and Spirit Walk books.
I Hardly even remember the story but I do recall at the time not liking that she basically changed to a totally different career after half a lifetime.
But people do that in real life, too. Sometimes you need a change of pace after doing the same thing for decades. Kor
Plus intelligence isn't that different a career from communications; it's just a small jump from how communications has ended up being presented in the books to intelligence analyst, really, since both are all about taking in a lot of information from various sources and distilling it into an overall picture of what's going on.
I didn't like Kira leaving Deep space nine to become a Bajoran Munk. I liked it better when she was in the Military and in charge ds9. I also didn't like the destruction of the Original ds9 space station in the books.
Ezri becoming a Captain was difficult for me to accept. On the other hand: on the Command Track there is more career potential for Ezri than just being a Counselor.
A lot of what I didn't like has been stated here already, namely: Kira leaving Starfleet and joining the clergy DS9's destruction Ro's spiritual awakening Rene Picard contemporaneously with Natasha Riker (although I am okay with Picard and Crusher being together, I was always waiting for that) Taran'atar's end But moreso its not what novels do that bugs me, but more of what they don't do. Titan slowing to a crawl between '82 and '86 and somehow all the characters are exactly the same griping about the exact same stuff. Tenmei getting downgraded to supporting character (if you can even call her that now). O'brien becoming basically a cameo in the 'main story' DS9 books. Characters like Blackmer, Stinson, and (whoever the hell the rest of the DS9 cast is) getting all this page time and yet being blander than unflavored ice-milk. But you can all just lump this together and blame the time skip. That time skip ruined so much great stuff and story development. I'm sure a lot of us have to feel this way. The only great thing that came out of it, for me anyway, was Full Circle.
Well, I think a good number of books focused on covert missions. From Bashir and his on-going shenanigans, Peter Alden's history, Brinkmanship, all that undercover stuff during The Fall, all the undercover stuff Tuvok was doing. Even Libby was in Starfleet Intelligence, somehow, wasn't she? All this does kinda paint a picture of Starfleet doing a lot of behind-the-scenes stuff. And then Control happened, lol.