Favourite Treklit time travel adventures

[F. King Daniel]

What are everyone's favourite books or comics involving time travel? Here are mine:

The Entropy Effect
Kirk's death was great, and I liked how the time travel was done - but the details have faded with time. I know it's great!

Killing Time
Ignoring the K/S stuff and iffy Trek-science (being at warp protecting you from changes in the timeline?), I thought the alternate timeline was really well done. Second History was an interesting place - I loved how the dire state of Earth was hinted at but never fully explained, and all because of one death in the past.

Ismael
It's a testament to it's greatness that I misses the unauthorized crossover yet still loved it.

The War of the Prophets
An alternate future that's totally OTT, but great fun. I loved the way bits and pieces of the last 25 years were filled in along the way. J+G R-S crammed in all sorts of creative carnage (black hole bombs, bio warfare, the use of the mirror universe etc). The Grigari and the Romulan 'Bions' were cool, if cartoonish, evil.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Almost forgot!

Crossroad
I love Crossroad. Travellers from a future where the Federation has turned into something horrible in the wake of a terrible disease seek to alter the past. Very well done. I loved the idea of our beloved Federation gradually becoming evil.

Damn, I'm just a sucker for vaguely-defined dark futures

 

[Defcon]

I agree with Crossroads and Ishmael, the others not so much.

Other novels with time travel I liked:

Fallen Heroes
Imzadi
Strangers from the Sky

 

[Greg Cox]

ISHMAEL and IMZADI are both favorites.

 

[JD]

Imzadi, Strangers from the Sky and Damocle Sword would probably be my favorite time travel novels.

 

[Deranged Nasat]

The Millennium trilogy.

 

[Stevil2001]

I agree with the mentions of Ishmael, Crossroad, Strangers from the Sky, and The War of the Prophets, but I feel the need to add First Frontier, which is hugely rad. Dinosaurs!

 

[T'Ressa Dax]

Difficult choice to make, but I'm going to go with Strangers from the Sky, First Frontier, Crossroad, and The Entropy Effect,

 

[JWD75]

I'll have to go with Crossroad and DS9's Millenium trilogy.

 

[DrCorby]

Definitely have to concur on Strangers From the Sky and Imzadi. Also wanted to throw in A.C. Crispin's "Yesterday's Saga" novels -- Yesterday's Son and Time for Yesterday. It's been a while since I read them, but I remember enjoying these sequels to the Original Series episode "All Our Yesterdays".

 

[DimesDan]

The War of the Prophets
An alternate future that's totally OTT, but great fun. I loved the way bits and pieces of the last 25 years were filled in along the way. J+G R-S crammed in all sorts of creative carnage (black hole bombs, bio warfare, the use of the mirror universe etc). The Grigari and the Romulan 'Bions' were cool, if cartoonish, evil.

this - no more, no less.

Imzadi was just over hyped (on here anyway) tripe!

 

[Defcon]

^ Says the guy who's helping to hype a part of the most overrated pieces of Trek Lit ever, the Millennium trilogy.

 

[DimesDan]

^ Says the guy who's helping to hype a part of the most overrated pieces of Trek Lit ever, the Millennium trilogy.

I know, ironic isn't it. I really did enjoy War of the Prophets, Imzadi, not so much.

 

[Turtletrekker]

Imzadi, Yesterday's Son/Time For Yesterday, The Entropy Effect.

 

[Therin of Andor]

As a new fan to the world of ST in December 1979, via random TAS, "Starlog" previews and multiple viewings of TMP, I lived through the whole "Kirk will die" debacle surrounding "The Entropy Effect". The ripples throughout fandom were hilarious, even when it was pointed out to critics of the upcoming storyline that it took place before TMP! People who never read ST fiction were saying how they'd never read ST fiction again. Months before the book came out.

This outrage was doomed to be repeated for the "death of Spock" rumours during the making of ST II and more recently with Janeway in the novels.

Even though some newer readers are, seemingly, often lukewarm to "The Entropy Effect", it was tremendously exciting when it first came out. So much better than most Bantam stuff and I shouted out "Oh no!", on a crowded train, the first time I read the bit where Spock underestimates the villain and he has to watch his captain die a second time. An amazing reading experience, and Vona McIntyre went on to better herself with the novelizations of ST II and III. (Then seemed to be phoning it in halfway through ST IV, not to mention "Enterprise: The First Adventure".)

"Crucible: McCoy" and the "Yesteryear" parts of "Crucible: Spock" are also favourites, spinning off from the time travel adventure of "City on the Edge..." I also recall "Imzadi" as being a very satisfying time travel story. And yeah, "Ishmael" and the "Yesterday Saga" novels.