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Favorite books to reread over and over

Princess

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So I have a rotation of the following books

Star Trek Enterprise the first adventure: I love this book because it really drives home. The idea that a new starship commander entering the mix with an established crew is difficult, and sometimes the best relationships are forged through adversity

Final Frontier
- this is a personal favorite because the altar makes the constitution class technology make a lot more sense than the show ever did, and the earlier weaponry and everything on the constitution class starship was brand spanking, new and untested. I would love to see this book made into a movie or a series of episodes


Dreadnought
-I like this one because Federation, most of the time seems to have this white washed were perfect. Everything is amazing façade they put up but we all know this isn’t how life works. I draw a lot of parallels in this book to the attempted Coup on earth in DS9

Battle stations is a good follow up


Best Destiny this is just plain an amazing book Kirk’s first encounter with the enterprise and really putting into perspective just how old the enterprise actually was by Star Trek III
 
I'm going to quote myself from this thread back in 2022:
Oh, gods... There's no way I can pick a favourite, but if I could it would probably be one of my most read - either Diane Carey's Final Frontier, Judith & Garfield Reeves-Stevens' Prime Directive, Margaret Wander Bonano's Dwellers in the Crucible, TLE: Well of Souls (Ilsa J. Bick), or The Lives of Dax anthology edited by Marco Palmieri.
But then the Vanguard series is absolutely awesome, and I love The Never Ending Sacrifice (Una McCormack), TLE: The Art of the Impossible (Keith R. A. DeCandido), Avatar I & II and Unity (S. D. Perry), and Watching the Clock (Christopher L. Bennett).
... and add Mr Scott's Guide to the Enterprise (Lora Johnson), the TNG Technical Manual (Rick Sternbach and Mike Okuda), and Lower Decks: USS Cerritos Crew Handbook (Chris Farnell).
 
Been a while since I consistently re-read books, but I used to enjoy rereading The Return, New Frontier (maybe as far as book 8), A Stitch In Time, Starfleet Academy, and the TNG books in The Dominion War series.
 
Wounded Sky By Diane Duane all of her star trek Books Imzadi by Peter David . The Ds9 Millenium trilogy. and way too many other Trek novels I've been re reading to mention here.
 
I tend to fall Intro the trap of looking something up from the Star Trek: Myriad Universes series and then re-reading the entire story.
 
Hmm. I will note that of the five cited by the OP, four are by Diane Carey. DC has a somewhat complex relationship with a lot of the people on TrekBBS. Some cannot get past her hard-Libertarian politics (and her tendency to put her views in her characters' mouths). Others can set those views aside, and just enjoy the storytelling. The "Piper" novels are kind of interesting, because they set you up to expect the "Mary-Sue" trope, only to avert that trope, and instead give you (as CLB is fond of pointing out) an early example of a "Lower Decks" story.

I've re-read all 5 of the OP's choices many times. In addition, I regularly re-read Diane Duane's masterpieces (Spock's World, The Wounded Sky, The Romulan Way); I will note that the music that immediately pops into my head at the climax of The Wounded Sky, when K'tl'k is serving as midwife to a universe, is the finale from Stravinsky's Firebird.

I also regularly re-read Uhura's Song, The Final Reflection, How Much For Just the Planet, and (from the Bantam era) Trek to Madworld. Along with almost anything by GC or CLB.
 
Hmm. I will note that of the five cited by the OP, four are by Diane Carey. DC has a somewhat complex relationship with a lot of the people on TrekBBS. Some cannot get past her hard-Libertarian politics (and her tendency to put her views in her characters' mouths). Others can set those views aside, and just enjoy the storytelling.
I may be a little more read in Diane Carey than most here -- I've read some of her historical fiction and wish she would write more (fighting sail! fighting sail!) -- and while, yes, she and I would disagree vehemently politically and yes, there are a couple of books I ultimately did not enjoy and felt very strongly about, by and large I have always found Carey to be a strong and very readable writer. Even a book that badly needed a rewrite, Ship of the Line (which I believe was an unedited first draft, and I lay the blame for that at John Ordover's feet), was, on a technical level, solid. Of the four Carey novels @Princess named, three of them are imho quality, with Battlestations! being second or maybe third tier for me.
 
I will also note that I find DC's attempts to put hard-Libertarian politics (the very antithesis of "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few") into a Vulcan's mouth (namely, Sarda's) to be downright mirth-provoking.

But for all that, nothing wrong with her storytelling (so long as she's kept on an editorial leash). Or her knowledge of nautical protocols, especially from the Age of Sail.
 
Which is precisely why I want her to write more historical fiction, especially Age of Sail stuff. Between what she's shown in Ancient Blood and Banners (a War of 1812 novel) she'd be good at that. I'd read it.
 
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