Double Helix-New Frontier Q

[BuckBokai]

Recently I started reading through the New Frontier novels for the first time. First thing, I'm really enjoying them so far. I just finished Once Burned, the NF entry into the "Captains Table" novels and next up chronologically is Double or Nothing, which is book five of the Double Helix miniseries. My question is whether I should read the first four Double Helix novels first, or can I get away with reading just this one? Reviews for the miniseries as a whole seem mixed and I'd rather just move along with the NF series if I can. Hoping I can get a few opinions on it. Thanks!

 

[Paris]

Go ahead and just read the New Frontier entry. You don't need to read the others.

 

[RoJoHen]

I didn't read it at all. That was a mistake. I didn't realize I hadn't read it until a book or two later when something pretty important happened and they made reference to "Double Helix" and I had no idea what they were talking about.

 

[borgboy]

You don't have the read the whole Double Helix series, just read the NF entry, it stands well on it's own, and it's by far the best of that series. But you definitely want to read the NF entry, it may say TNG on the cover, but it's definitely a NF book.

 

[Thrawn]

Just read it. The Double Helix overall story arc probably makes MORE sense if you just read Double or Nothing than if you read the rest, which don't make any sense in connection with the climax.

 

[Christopher]

Except for recent things like Destiny and to a lesser extent The Fall, most Trek novel crossovers are very loose, designed so that each volume is primarily part of its own series and can be read without any of the others, but so that those readers who choose to read the whole crossover will get the bonus of seeing the larger thread that ties them all together. They were meant to work either way, individually or combined. And as Thrawn said, sometimes the continuity among different volumes in the early crossovers wasn't perfect and they didn't really fit together all that well anyway.

 

[BuckBokai]

Thanks all, I decided to just go right into Double or Nothing, the NF novel in the double helix series. Started it today and so far so good. Excited to see more of the Riker/Shelby pairing

 

[tomswift2002]

Unfortunately New Frontier also makes numerous references to the two comics that were done, so you should also try to track down the two New Frontier comics.

 

[BuckBokai]

thanks, im sure i can try and at least find a summary online or something!

 

[RoJoHen]

New Frontier was so popular for a while. I miss those days.

 

[OmahaStar]

Unfortunately New Frontier also makes numerous references to the two comics that were done, so you should also try to track down the two New Frontier comics.

If you have a Half Price Books in the area, you may want to pay them a visit. I visited the one in Omaha over the weekend, and they had more than 20 copies of the trade version, reprinting the three issues of the New Frontier comic, and it was priced at five dollars. HPB tend to get in the same overstock/surplus books and comics, nation-wide, so yours may have the same title there.

 

[Therin of Andor]

more than 20 copies of the trade version, reprinting the three issues of the New Frontier comic, and it was priced at five dollars.

Three issues?

To clarify:

WildStorm's "Double Time" one-shot:
http://www.startrekcomics.info/wildstormnf.html

was later collected in the "Other Realities" collection, along with a TOS one-shot and a DS9 mini-series:
http://www.startrekcomics.info/wildstormsttpb.html

The IDW collection has all five issues of "Slingshot":
http://www.startrekcomics.info/idwnewfrontier.html

Scroll to Oct 2008:
http://www.startrekcomics.info/idwtpb.html

 

[Enterprise1701]

The IDW collection has all five issues of "Slingshot":
http://www.startrekcomics.info/idwnewfrontier.html

"Slingshot"? That must be a pre-publication title.
http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Turnaround

The one-shot "Double Time" is completely compatible with the modern novelverse as far as I can tell, but the five-part Turnaround isn't.

 

[OmahaStar]

more than 20 copies of the trade version, reprinting the three issues of the New Frontier comic, and it was priced at five dollars.

Three issues?


The IDW collection has all five issues of "Slingshot":
http://www.startrekcomics.info/idwnewfrontier.html

Scroll to Oct 2008:
http://www.startrekcomics.info/idwtpb.html

3, 5, it was close. :P But yeah, the cover I saw matches the 2008 cover.

 

[CaffeineAddict]

The IDW collection has all five issues of "Slingshot":
http://www.startrekcomics.info/idwnewfrontier.html

"Slingshot"? That must be a pre-publication title.
http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Turnaround

The one-shot "Double Time" is completely compatible with the modern novelverse as far as I can tell, but the five-part Turnaround isn't.

It's been a while since I read it - what's not compatible about it?

 

[Enterprise1701]

The IDW collection has all five issues of "Slingshot":
http://www.startrekcomics.info/idwnewfrontier.html

"Slingshot"? That must be a pre-publication title.
http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Turnaround

The one-shot "Double Time" is completely compatible with the modern novelverse as far as I can tell, but the five-part Turnaround isn't.

It's been a while since I read it - what's not compatible about it?

^Turnaround's portrayal of mirror Mackenzie Calhoun and his crew is completely different from their portrayal in the novel Rise Like Lions.

See this post: http://www.trekbbs.com/showpost.php?p=9888373&postcount=21

 

[borgboy]

"Slingshot"? That must be a pre-publication title.
http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Turnaround

The one-shot "Double Time" is completely compatible with the modern novelverse as far as I can tell, but the five-part Turnaround isn't.

It's been a while since I read it - what's not compatible about it?

^Turnaround's portrayal of mirror Mackenzie Calhoun and his crew is completely different from their portrayal in the novel Rise Like Lions.

See this post: http://www.trekbbs.com/showpost.php?p=9888373&postcount=21

I just interpret that as there being multiple variations of the Mirror Universe interacting with the Prime Universe. Treklit has several variations on the Mirror Universe, like the TNG novel Dark Mirror, Dark Passions, the Shatnerverse MU, etc. all co existing in the multiverse.

 

[Enterprise1701]

^You count all incompatible works as different realities in the same multiverse?

 

[borgboy]

^You count all incompatible works as different realities in the same multiverse?

Yes.
You don't? We've seen many different alternate realities in Trek, enough that there seem to be many, if not infinite realities that can be reached with varying difficulty from the Prime universe.

 

[Enterprise1701]

Okay, what about Star Trek Online and the modern novelverse? They have different laws of physics. They can't be considered part of the same multiverse; they're separate parts of the Star Trek franchise.