Books that are prequel or sequels to episodes

[James Swallow]

Among my Trek writing...
Cast No Shadow is partly a sequel to Star Trek IV: The Undiscovered Country.

The Stuff of Dreams is a sequel to Star Trek Generations.

Sight Unseen is a sequel to

Spoiler

the TNG episode "Schisms".

 

[Nyotarules]

Ex Machina would count as a sequel to TMP, I think.

Yes it is, the explanation why Decker's Enterprise ship was more racially diverse than Kirk's TOS Enterprise ship was interesting, Decker wanted to experiment with diversity. Although why did the Enterprise decide to go back to being 100% human after TMP? Was Kirk racially biased?

 

[JD]

Sight Unseen is a sequel to

Spoiler

the TNG episode "Schisms".

Damn, I can't believe I forgot that one, I just read it a few months ago.

 

[Jinn]

The TOS novel First Strike starts shortly after "Friday's Child", so I think it'd qualify too.

 

[Tuskin38]

The line "Many Bothan spies died to bring us these plans" was from The Return of the Jedi, and referred to the second Death Star.

It was also information, not the plans

 

[Damian]

Damn, I can't believe I forgot that one, I just read it a few months ago.

Yeah, that was a good book. Those were some creepy aliens and it was nice to see someone pick that up.

I always liked when an author will pick up a storyline from a previous episode. Like the DS9 book Unity (and the books that preceded it) finally providing a sequel to "Conspiracy". That was a great unanswered story from TNG.

There are a lot of episodes that can have sequels to them. It's nice to visit a previous character or alien species that we haven't seen in a while.

 

[Captain Clark Terrell]

My Star Trek Titan novel Fortune of War was a sequel to the TNG third-season episode "The Survivors." Most of Star Trek Vanguard can be considered a prequel to the second, fifth, and sixth Star Trek feature films. My Mirror Universe novels The Sorrows of Empire and Saturn's Children (written under pseudonym) were written to bridge the change in status quo from the end of "Mirror, Mirror" to where we found the MU during the DS9 era. So those books are both sequels and prequels to episodes.

Wouldn’t “Rise Like Lions” and “Disavowed” count as sequels to the MU of the DS9 era?

 

[zarkon]

My faves are Yesterday's Son & Time For Yesterday, sequels to All Our Yesterdays.

I've had to keep my old paperback of Time For Yesterday, as bafflingly it is not available on Kindle.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Yes it is, the explanation why Decker's Enterprise ship was more racially diverse than Kirk's TOS Enterprise ship was interesting, Decker wanted to experiment with diversity. Although why did the Enterprise decide to go back to being 100% human after TMP?

It didn't. We just didn't see them all, and Spock's Enterprise was a training ship with cadets and some officers. There was Saavik (ST II), and a pale alien (ST III).

https://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/File:USS_Enterprise_return_crewmember_5.jpg

 

[zarkon]

or Dax in VI (the "If shoe fits, wear it!" alien).

 

[David Mack]

Wouldn’t “Rise Like Lions” and “Disavowed” count as sequels to the MU of the DS9 era?

Sure, but they aren't episode-specific, which is what I thought was being asked.

 

[JD]

My faves are Yesterday's Son & Time For Yesterday, sequels to All Our Yesterdays.

I've had to keep my old paperback of Time For Yesterday, as bafflingly it is not available on Kindle.

How long ago did you check? I just looked on the Google Play, Kindle, and Nook stores and they have it, and if the release date is accurate they've had it since September '00.
EDIT: Ooops, that's Time For Yesterday, still now All Our Yesterdays. Weird, I thought all of the Trek books except the first 3 Shatnerverse books were available as e-books.

 

[zarkon]

How long ago did you check? I just looked on the Google Play, Kindle, and Nook stores and they have it, and if the release date is accurate they've had it since September '00.
EDIT: Ooops, that's Time For Yesterday, still now All Our Yesterdays. Weird, I thought all of the Trek books except the first 3 Shatnerverse books were available as e-books.

I'm sure there are more here and there. Other then "Time for Yesterday", I also know "Here There Be Dragons" - an enjoyable TNG numbered book - is unavailable. I've been slowly converting my paperbacks to kindle over the past few years to free up space, and every now and then I come across one I can't buy.

 

[Kor]

I'm still waiting for the sequel to "Spock's Brain."

Kor

 

[JD]

I'm sure there are more here and there. Other then "Time for Yesterday", I also know "Here There Be Dragons" - an enjoyable TNG numbered book - is unavailable. I've been slowly converting my paperbacks to kindle over the past few years to free up space, and every now and then I come across one I can't buy.

Here There Be Dragons is available on Google, Kindle and Nook.

 

[zarkon]

Here There Be Dragons is available on Google, Kindle and Nook.

Not available on kindle in the uk. :/

 

[JD]

Oh, that sucks.
I've never heard of that one, is it any good?

 

[tomswift2002]

The TNG-Starfleet Academy novel “Starfall” is a prequel to the “Coming of Age” episode as it tells the story of how Picard failed to get into Starfleet the first time and what he did for the year in between his applications.

 

[zarkon]

Oh, that sucks.
I've never heard of that one, is it any good?

It's pretty good. Not quite to the level of "Objective: Bajor", his DS9 novel, but very enjoyable with some nice ideas.

 

[trampledamage]

One of my favourite novels Memory Prime is a sequel to a TOS episode, which I think is called "Memory Alpha" (it's certainly about Memory Alpha); i've never seen the episode but I love the book.