Animals in Trek Lit.

[JD]

I'm a big animal person, and I was just wondering if there are any Trek books/comics with animals. I don't mean animal like aliens, but just regular animals like dogs, cats, horses, birds, or made up animals like targs and sehlats. I know A Time For War, A Time for Peace had a bit with Worf getting Spot after Data's death, and we had a story about Porthos in Tales from the Captain's Table. Are there any others? They don't have to be the focus of the whole book, or story, even if it's just a couple scenes with Data and Spot, or Archer and Porthos I'm happy. Do we see Porthos in the Rise of the Federation, does Data have Spot now that he's alive?

 

[Greg Cox]

Well, there's Gary Seven's black cat, Isis, who appears ASSIGNMENT: ETERNITY.

And I have a short story about Data's cat in the STAR TREK: AMAZING STORIES anthology.

 

[Christopher]

Do we see Porthos in the Rise of the Federation

From time to time, yes, although he's getting pretty old by now.

A character in Over a Torrent Sea is dealing with the death of a pet, because I was doing so as well while I wrote it.

 

[JD]

I forgot about that one.

Well, there's Gary Seven's black cat, Isis, who appears ASSIGNMENT: ETERNITY.

And I have a short story about Data's cat in the STAR TREK: AMAZING STORIES anthology.

I totally spaced, and forgot about Isis in Euegenics Wars Book 1, which I am reading right now.
I was just looking at the "pets" page on Memory Beta, and it looks like there's quite a bit about Pike's horse from The Cage in Burning Dreams.

 

[Idran]

There was a fairly Spot-focused story in the TNG anniversary anthology, though I forget the title.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Kiffis the Andorian hybor, Marvel/Paramount's "Starfleet Academy" comic on Flickr


Andorian zabathu, TNG "Pen Pals" on Flickr
Voyager YA: Starfleet Academy: The Chance Factor (Pocket, 1997) by Diana G Gallagher & Martin R Burke.

 

[Greg Cox]

I forgot about that one.

Well, there's Gary Seven's black cat, Isis, who appears ASSIGNMENT: ETERNITY.

And I have a short story about Data's cat in the STAR TREK: AMAZING STORIES anthology.

I totally spaced, and forgot about Isis in Euegenics Wars Book 1, which I am reading right now.
I was just looking at the "pets" page on Memory Beta, and it looks like there's quite a bit about Pike's horse from The Cage in Burning Dreams.

Oh, yeah, the horse is a big deal in BURNING DREAMS . . .

 

[Defcon]

There was a fairly Spot-focused story in the TNG anniversary anthology, though I forget the title.

I know the title, but I don't want to put you "On the Spot"

 

[Sto-Vo-Kory]

Kiffis the Andorian hybor, Marvel/Paramount's "Starfleet Academy" comic on Flickr


Andorian zabathu, TNG "Pen Pals" on Flickr
Voyager YA: Starfleet Academy: The Chance Factor (Pocket, 1997) by Diana G Gallagher & Martin R Burke.

The artist must've accidentally omitted the antennae from the illustration of the zabathu.

 

[Shazam!]

Worf getting Spot after Data's death

Bloody hell, how old is Spot now then, 30?

 

[Therin of Andor]

The artist must've accidentally omitted the antennae from the illustration of the zabathu.

Well, we don't know that every lifeform on Andor has antenna. Indeed, "Andor: Paradigm" (in "Worlds of DS9") has the Andorians questioning if they were, in fact, native to the planet/moon because they don't have the same genetic markers as all other local native life, and so there is a quest to locate a particular legendary plant to prove/disprove the theories.

Worf getting Spot after Data's death

Bloody hell, how old is Spot now then, 30?

She did spend time as an iguana.

 

[Sto-Vo-Kory]

In the humorous book Warped that was released a few months back, an "episode" of the 8th TNG season had Spot merged with a tribble. Silly antics ensued.

 

[JD]

Worf getting Spot after Data's death

Bloody hell, how old is Spot now then, 30?

Maybe there's been more than one Spot. It would explain how she changed sexes.

 

[Reanok]

In one of the older Star trek TNG books Worf's son Alexander had a Hamster as a pet. I'm sorry I can't remember the title right now I did read the book several months ago.

 

[Defcon]

^The absolutely dreadful To Storm Heaven by Esther Friesner.

 

[Reanok]

Thanks Defcon that Tng book was dreadful .

 

[JD]

Do any of the books ever deal with Kirk and Picard's horseback riding, or Spock's Sehlat I-Chaya from Yesteryear?