^Yes, Chain of Attack was overtly a sequel to The Abode of Life, albeit peripherally so.
Less known star trek books
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Ok here's a few random ones I really liked that don't get talked about much. 
I really remember enjoying Deep Domain by Howard Weinstein. That was my first Pocket Trek novel and one of my favorites for a long time.
Also The Great Starship Race by Diane Carey. Her books tend to get mixed reviews, but that one is Carey at her best. (And for some reason it does not get mentioned much.)
Black Fire was good - it started with a real BANG!
I really remember enjoying Deep Domain by Howard Weinstein. That was my first Pocket Trek novel and one of my favorites for a long time.
Also The Great Starship Race by Diane Carey. Her books tend to get mixed reviews, but that one is Carey at her best. (And for some reason it does not get mentioned much.)
Black Fire was good - it started with a real BANG!
Forget Ishmael; the real underrated Barbara Hambly books are Ghost-Walker and Crossroad. Marvelously moody works of character with neat ideas.
I haven't read Ishmael or Ghost-Walker, but agreed on Crossroad.
(I was going to say "I don't know how she could get that so right and Children of the Jedi and Planet of Twilight so wrong," but now that I think about it, the mood's not that different between Crossroad and her two Star Wars novels. Maybe dark-and-moody just works better in Trek than Wars?)
Ishmael and Ghost-Walker are both very weird in their ways, but Crossroad is an intriguing time-travel tale. I actually threw in a subtle nod to it in Watching the Clock, mentioning a "Turtledove anomaly."
Crossroad is her best, but if you like it, you'll probably like Ghost-Walker, too.
I have a vague memory of liking Children of the Jedi and Planet of Twilight, but I was probably 13. Even then I hated Darksaber, though.
Is the book really about brainsucking bird people? 
Is the book really about brainsucking bird people?
The cover artwork seemingly uses the bird-like alien's costume cut from the Talosian cells in "The Menagerie", but seen fleetingly in the restored "The Cage".
I absolutely loved Melinda Snodgrass's Tears of the Singers. Actually I loved all the books published in that time period of 1984 - 1985, from The Final Reflection through Uhura's Song, but Tears of the Singers seems to be the only one I don't hear brought up again much.
I read Ishmael at the time, but having never seen very many westerns, Seven Brides, or even Doctor Who yet, all the jokes were completely lost on me. Maybe I should give it another go.
I read Ishmael at the time, but having never seen very many westerns, Seven Brides, or even Doctor Who yet, all the jokes were completely lost on me. Maybe I should give it another go.
That was Final Frontier, to which Best Destiny was a sequel.
I'll second the recommendation of Gulliver's Fugitives, one of the best TNG novels ever to see print.
I had just finished Tom Clancy's The Hunt for Red October, then I read Rules of Engagement.
I thought I was was reading a Star Trek version of Clancy's story.
Curiously, despite being the middle book in the Callista trilogy, Darksaber was not written by Barbara Hambly. It's a Kevin Anderson book.
Amazon's second hand sellers have copies of Carey's "Final Frontier" from $0.01.
http://www.amazon.com/Final-Frontie...6556/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1320760369&sr=8-2
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