Books that are prequel or sequels to episodes

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  1. GeorgeKirk

    GeorgeKirk Commodore Commodore

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    The older TOS novel Web of the Romulans is a sequel to "Tomorrow is Yesterday" in that it's set immediately after it and the computer problems the Enterprise was having in that episode figure heavily into the plot of the book.
     
  2. Damian

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    The episode was "The Lights of Zetar". Memory Alpha was wiped out by the Zetarians in that episode.
     
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    Both Imzadi II: Triangle and William Shatner...I think it’s The Return, or Avenger...take place the same day, immediately after the Enterprise D crashes on Veridian III. Similar cast of leads too, so you end up up assuming they had a very busy week if you read them too close together like I did. (Yes...I know the Shatnerverse is it’s own thing.)
     
  4. Nyotarules

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    Spock's Butt
     
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    Butt. What is butt?
     
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  6. marlboro

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    It would be worth watching for the epic McCoy-Spock arguments alone.

    Leonard McCoy, Frontier Proctologist
     
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  7. Lonemagpie

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    Lights Of Zetar is the episode.
     
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    “The Return” by William Shatner is a really good sequel to “Star Trek Generations”. Then Shatner’s “Spectre, Dark Victory & Preserver” are sequels to “Mirror, Mirror” (TOS) and “Through The Looking Glass” (DS9).

    “Dark Mirror” is also a sequel to “Mirror, Mirror”.
     
  9. Tim Thomason

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    On that note, immediately after defeating the Borg in First Contact, the Enterprise-E remained in the past to take on Kang the Conqueror with the help of the X-Men in Star Trek: Second Contact.
     
  10. GeorgeKirk

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    He's worse than dead . . . his butt is gone!
     
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    :lol: That reminds me of an old George Carlin bit where he suggests replacing the word "Kill" with the word "Fuck" in all of those old movie clichés we grew up with...
     
  12. marlboro

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    ^ David Mack's entry in the "A Time to..." series would have sold a lot more copies.
     
  13. F. King Daniel

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    I seem to recall a photoshopped cover with "A Time to Suck/Blow" on the cover:lol:
     
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    Maybe this is what the never-produced A Time To Embrace/Refrain From Embracing would have been about? :D
     
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  15. Therin of Andor

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    The novel is a sequel to TOS: "The Lights of Zetar", which featured Memory Alpha.

    Scroll down at:
    https://daytonward.wordpress.com/2015/10/08/a-time-to-reminisce-looking-back-at-star-trek-a-time-to/
     
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  16. F. King Daniel

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    ^that's the one!:lol:
     
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  17. Daddy Todd

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    I always thought there should be a coda to the "A Time To" series called "I Swear It's Not Too Late."

    (With apologies to Pete Seeger)
     
  18. theblitz

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    If you are a Voyager fan then "Distant Shores" is a great book. A MUST read in my opinion.
    It is a collection of shorts stories that give background and/or follow-on to episodes.

    My favourite one is seeing the doctor's point of view from the episode Blink of an Eye. What did he do for 3 years? Who was his "flat mate"? What was the war? And, biggest question of all, how did he have a son?

    It is mentioned by someone in this thread: https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/equinox-crew.140951/page-3#post-12051902

    Definitely worth the read.
     
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    It's been a long time since I've read Distand Shores. But I definitely liked it, too. Wasn't there a story that included a talent contest aboard Voyager?
     
  20. theblitz

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    Yep.
    It is a sort of prequel to Coda where Janeway mentions the contest.
     
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