Books with lots of federation starship "porn".

[sojourner]

I've never read much of the Trek novels. An occasional book here and there, so I was wondering if someone could direct me to books that might cater to my interest.

To put it simply, I like descriptions of federation ships. I, like Scotty, would be happy reading tech manuals to relax. So, are there any/many novels that have lots of details about the ship there in? Maybe where the ship plays a fairly large part of the story? Are there any novels depicting bringing an old ship back on line?

I think I heard of one where Scotty takes the Ent-A out of the museum or something?

To make this even harder for you guys, I am really only interested in Starfleet vessels.

To give an example, a couple of the TNG episodes in this vein have been The Stargazer episode, also the episode with Riker using a Stargazer class for a "wargame" (Wesley saved the day)

 

[EnterpriseGeek]

I cannot think of any right off the top of my head. But the novel where Scotty takes the ship out of the Museum is "Crossover" by Michael Jan Freidman, I believe is the author. But it is not The Enterprise he takes, it is the USS Yorktown.

 

[Sho]

The Starfleet Corps of Engineers two-parter Interphase has nice Constitution-class porn as the team salvages the derelict USS Defiant first seen in the TOS episode The Tholian Web.

 

[Sxottlan]

Books with lots of federation starship "porn".

I love that hot docking action.

 

[F. King Daniel]

"Dreadnought!" by Diane Carey. Lots of meaty descriptions of the USS Star League, the Pompeii and a couple of shuttle types which even have diagrams at the back. And an excellent adventure to boot!

Although inspired by Franz Joseph's designs, she takes them in a different direction. If deviations from the old "Star Trek Technical Manual" upset you (and, yes, some fans get really upset by this sort of thing) give it a miss.

 

[Yevetha]

Watching the Clock by Bennet has all type of ships.

 

[PKS8304]

Its been awhile since I read it, but I seem to remember Diane Carey's Ship of the Line got descriptive with her ships at the starbase and than throughout the book.

Also John Vornholt wrote a TNG book called Rogue Saucer where the Maquis steal the Ent D's saucer section, it was High School when I read it but I think when they are seperating the ship he gets into the technical side of it.

Off the top of my head

 

[Christopher]

Watching the Clock by Bennet has all type of ships.

But not much detailed description of them.

However, my upcoming Forgotten History (also under the Department of Temporal Investigations banner) contains a lot of technical detail about both the series-era and refit Constitution class.

 

[Greg Cox]

Books with lots of federation starship "porn".

I love that hot docking action.

Let's leave the holodeck out of this!

 

[captcalhoun]

there's Wildfire too, featuring lots of descriptions of a Steamrunner class as well as the Sabre class da Vinci

 

[Julio Angel Ortiz]

There's some hot ship-on-ship action in the Ships of the Line book...



....what?

 

[Lindley]

New Earth: Challenger actually has a completely new ship being "kitbashed" out of remnants of several others.....

 

[tomswift2002]

Right now I'm reading "Dark Mirror" by Diane Duane where she actually has Picard, Troi and LaForge on the D in the Mirror Universe and that D she really changes to something more reminiscent of what would become the E.

 

[sojourner]

Thanks for the recommendations!

 

[Guest12]

Violations, a Voyager novel, has a lot of technobabble about the main computer/bioneural network. But frankly it just comes off like the author strung series of words together she thought sounded computer-y and doesn't sound believable at all. So I'm not sure that's what you're looking for.

 

[DrCorby]

Diane Carey's Final Frontier tells the story of the Enterprise's first (unofficial) mission, with Captain Robert April & Commander George Kirk (JT Kirk's dad). Since the ship is just finishing construction, there's lots of discriptions of ship systems, installed and planned, as well as using the new ship to it's utmost against Romulans. It's been a long time since I read it, but I remember liking it a lot.

 

[sojourner]

^I actually read that one many years ago. Detested the really bad case of "small universe" syndrome it had. It's a pet peeve.

Sigh, went to the local "good" used book store today. Not one of the titles was available. I might have to get the E-books.

 

[JD]

Have you gotten any of the Ships of the Line calendar, or the art book? Those are pretty much the definition of starship porn, although it has a fair amount of non-Starfleet ships in them too.

 

[sojourner]

^Not much of a plot to them though.

 

[Therin of Andor]

^Not much of a plot to them though.

One lone image inspired a whole book trilogy, though: "the story also draws inspiration from an image from the 2007 Ships of the Line calendar which showed the wreckage of the Columbia (NX-02) being inspected by 24th century Starfleet personnel."

http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/Star_Trek:_Destiny