I seem to recall that after the events of Reunion, which takes place later than the other Stargazer stories despite being released earlier, it would make sense to never see him again.
He turns out to be the criminal/murderer, IIRC...
A good starting place for Trek literature?
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Based on the Picard Season 2 trailer, I would be extremely unsurprised to see that season revisit the Stargazer years to some extent.
As I recall, the "Signature Edition" Pantheon combines Reunion and The Valiant into one bigger book -- again IIRC the only of those omnibuses that edits its books that way instead of merely collecting them.
Didn't the Q Continuum one smoothly transition each book into the next and cut out some of the recap material? Or am I making that up?
Greg Cox corrected minor things, like Stardates, and changed a few mentions of "the original Enterprise" to "Kirk's Enterprise", to avoid confusion with Archer's ship (since "Star Trek: Enterprise" was the then-current series on the air).
From my old blog entry:
There are seven ST "Signature editions" from Pocket Books in all, trade paperback omnibuses of popular past novels, collected by theme or author. In brief, all of the "Signature Editions" have new introductions and/or afterwords, and the four in the first batch have interviews with the authors by Kevin Dilmore, and facsimile signatures. In order on my shelf they are:
"Worlds in Collision" (Nov 2003) reprints "Memory Prime" and "Prime Directive" by Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens and features TOS Kirk (a lower quarter portrait) on the cover, a new introduction by the authors, and an interview with the authors by Kevin Dilmore.
"Duty, Honor, Redemption" (Oct 2004) reprints the novelizations of "ST II: The Wrath of Khan", "ST III: The Search for Spock" and "ST IV: The Voyage Home" by Vonda N McIntyre and features movie-era Kirk (a lower quarter portrait) on the cover and a new introduction by Terry J Erdmann interviewing Harve Bennett, "the man behind the movies". The book has had minor errors corrected, such as "McGivers" for "McGiver". Sulu's promotion to captain (in ST II) is removed, since the line was dropped from ST II and then ignored by the other movies.
"Sand and Stars" (Dec 2004) reprints "Spock's World" by Diane Duane and "Sarek" by AC Crispin and features TMP Spock (a lower quarter portrait) on the cover and a new introduction about Vulcans, with quotes from Tim Russ (Tuvok, VOY) and Gary Graham (Soval, ENT), by Terry J Erdmann.
"Pantheon" (Sept 2003) reprints "TNG: Reunion" and "TNG: The Valiant" by Michael Jan Friedman, with an all-new bridging arc that connects the two tales (ie. seven extra paragraphs from a reflective Guinan.) It also features Stargazer-era Picard (a lower quarter portrait) on the cover, a new introduction by the author, and an interview with the author by Kevin Dilmore. The bookend historical chapters for "The Valiant" are widened to embrace both stories in the SE.
"The Q Continuum" (Oct 2003) reprints the TNG Q trilogy ("Q-Zone", "Q-Space" and "Q-Strike") by Greg Cox and features Judge Q (a lower quarter portrait) on the cover and an interview with the author by Kevin Dilmore. Cox took the chance to make several stardate error corrections, and changed a few mentions of "the original Enterprise" to "Kirk's Enterprise", to avoid confusion with Archer's ship since "Star Trek: Enterprise" was the current series on the air.
"Imzadi Forever" (Dec 2003) reprints "TNG: Imzadi" and "TNG: Imzadi II: Triangle" by Peter David and features TNG-era Troi (a lower quarter portrait) on the cover, a new introduction by the author, and an interview with the author by Kevin Dilmore.
"The Hand of Kahless" (Nov 2004) reprints "The Final Reflection" by the late John M Ford and "TNG: Kahless" by Michael Jan Friedman and features TNG Kahless (a lower quarter portrait) on the cover and a new introduction about the evolution of Klingons over the generations, with quotes from Marc Okrand (linguist, writer of "The Klingon Dictionary") and Dan Curry (TNG visual effects), by Terry J Erdmann.
Doctor's Orders by Diane Duane is hands down one of the greatest star trek books in existence. The book is just so classic with the interactions between Kirk, Spock, and McCoy. It has a perfect balance of levity and seriousness. The alien development was great, too.
I started with Takedown. It was a weird place to start, for sure...but! It touched on a bunch of litverse things a little bit and the whole time I was thinking, "Man I gotta check out everything now!" Story has all these characters you know from the show, all off in a later part in their lives and the interstellar politics are different but all familiar enough to follow. It really made me want to read more.
I wouldn't overthink it. I'd just grab a TOS or TNG book that looks or sounds interesting to you and give it a try. If the author is doing their job correctly, you should get everything you need to follow the story. Hope you enjoy!
Mission to Horatius and go forward from there in published order.
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Mission to Horatius and go forward from there in published order.
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Start with Forbidden Planet and go from there!
Start with E.E. "Doc" Smith and go from there!
Start with Horatio Hornblower and go from there!
Genesis allowed is not! Is planet forbidden!
I had never noticed this before, but the first Lensman novel, Galactic Patrol (pre-retcons, anway), actually began serialization the same year the first Hornblower novel, The Happy Return/Beat to Quarters, was published, 1937. Gene Roddenberry would have been sixteen. A formative time!
Weird to think the series came out in parallel. Obviously Hornblower takes place long before Lensmen so it feels earlier in that sense-- but Hornblower is much better written than Lensman, so it feels later in another sense.
That's surprising. I thought Hornblower was much older than that, pre-20th century.
Hornblower was written about the Napoleonic Wars, not during them!
It's just that I always saw them talked about as this famous classic literary series that Roddenberry was inspired by, so I figured it had to be old enough to have become classic, not younger than Roddenberry himself.
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