The cold winter weather's gotten me in the mood for an arctic Star Trek adventure. But I can't think of any! Are there any novels set on nuDelta Vega-style frozen worlds? Maybe with monsters?
Arctic Trek Lit
- Thread starter F. King Daniel
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The Left Hand of Destiny, Book Two.
The Battle of Boreth takes up a large part of that one. It has ice fields, ships crashing into frozen lakes, characters getting cold and sniffly on account of being dunked into frozen lakes, snowdrifts, frostbite (for Drex), toasty warm caves (for old Darok), tauntaun-stand ins, and the cold, hard steel of the bat'leth.
Also, the Hur'q will fulfil your order for monsters quite nicely.
The Battle of Boreth takes up a large part of that one. It has ice fields, ships crashing into frozen lakes, characters getting cold and sniffly on account of being dunked into frozen lakes, snowdrifts, frostbite (for Drex), toasty warm caves (for old Darok), tauntaun-stand ins, and the cold, hard steel of the bat'leth.
Also, the Hur'q will fulfil your order for monsters quite nicely.
Pick up Diplomatic Implausibility by Keith R.A. DeCandido. That one takes place on a very cold planet and has giant, talking polar bears. You'll love it. 
Ice Trap by L. A. Graf is set on an "Arctic"-type world with natives similar to the Inuit.
A Rock and a Hard Place by Peter David has a Riker plotline set on a frozen world in the early stages of terraforming, and there is at least one hostile animal there, as depicted on the book's cover.
There's also Alan Dean Foster's novelization of "The Slaver Weapon," which took place mostly on an icy world -- though the actual episode-adaptation portion takes up only 3 of Star Trek Log Ten's 16 chapters, the rest being original material by Foster.
A Rock and a Hard Place by Peter David has a Riker plotline set on a frozen world in the early stages of terraforming, and there is at least one hostile animal there, as depicted on the book's cover.
There's also Alan Dean Foster's novelization of "The Slaver Weapon," which took place mostly on an icy world -- though the actual episode-adaptation portion takes up only 3 of Star Trek Log Ten's 16 chapters, the rest being original material by Foster.
You could always read "Paths of Disharmony" again, but this time standing outside for the total Aenar effect.
^*groan*
Thanks for the suggestions, everyone! I'd somehow totally forgotten that Lost Souls features an icy planet.
I especially like the idea of "What happened next?" on the icy rock from TAS' "The Slaver Weapon"
Thanks for the suggestions, everyone! I'd somehow totally forgotten that Lost Souls features an icy planet.
I especially like the idea of "What happened next?" on the icy rock from TAS' "The Slaver Weapon"
Well, actually the new material in Star Trek Log Ten is "What happened before, during, and after the events of the episode?" Only those three chapters that actually adapt the episode are set in the same location. The "before" and "after" adventures take place on two other planets and the "during" adventure is what's going on back on the Enterprise while Spock, Sulu, and Uhura are re-enacting a Known Space novella.
It's strange that there aren't more books set in cold, snowy climates. The books aren't filmed in southern California, after all. There should be more variety of climate in the books' settings.
I think so, yeah. It was a pretty overt allegory about seal-hunting. And I do remember something about auroras.
I just double-checked to confirm my memory, and "Chains of Command" takes place on an ice planet.
I seem to recall a thread on Psi Phi, years ago, where someone posted a whole string actual ST novel covers with humorous new titles. Diplomatic Implausibility was called, "Riker, Watch Out for the Ice Bears!"
^Which would've worked just as well for the cover of A Rock and a Hard Place.
Oh, it was the cover for A Rock and a Hard Place!
Last Christmas I read The Terror by Dan Simmons. I should probably read something more lighthearted this year. 
Last Christmas I read The Terror by Dan Simmons. I should probably read something more lighthearted this year.
Try Endurance by Alfred Lansing.
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