I was looking for stuff from before the relaunches. I've already read or are the process of reading all of that (well, the only TCT I've read is Tales from the Captain's Table, or is it of?).
Looking for classic Trek books for my Nook wishlist
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My ORIGINAL post cited Vendetta, as well as the James Blish TOS adaptations.
I did NOT write this post! IDK who hijacked my account to post this, but it was NOT me! The Mods have been notified of this.
My ORIGINAL post cited Vendetta, as well as the James Blish TOS adaptations.
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Yeah, you are correct... in my original post, I had expressed doubt they'd be available for Nook, but I figured I'd throw it out there, just in case. 
Nobody hacked your account, that post was made from the same IP you always post from. It looks like there was probably a technical difficulty that caused the post you did make to get truncated and lost. I'm sure if someone hacked you to post in your name they'd have done something far less benign than partial quoting the original poster of some random thread.
Also changed that image to a link because it was stretching the page a bit.
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Ah... fair be it, then.
In any case, if you could delete that specific post, I'd really appreciate it. Thanks.
Ah... fair be it, then.
In any case, if you could delete that specific post, I'd really appreciate it. Thanks.
I actually own the physical versions of the TOS Blish adaptations for the numbers 2, 4, 7, 9, and 10... I'd like to eventually complete the set... they're great fun to read... I remember when I was in my High School years, I'd stay up half the night just reading page after page of a given volume.
IIRC, Diane Carey hadn't seen a single episode when she wrote that. It's a fascinating look at how TNG may have turned out, incorporating a few bits and bobs from the original series bible that never made it into the show (like Riker's dislike of Data). I found it somewhat boring, though.
My list:
Crossroad
My Enemy, My Ally
The Romulan Way
Final Frontier
Dreadnought!
Spock Must Die!
Pawns and Symbols
The Captain's Honor
Vendetta
A few more I thought of:
Bloodthirst
The Lost Years
Chain of Attack
The Final Nexus (sequel to Chain of Attack)
The Entropy Effect
Black Fire
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Hmm, let's see, pre-2000 non-TOS books, aside from the usual recommendations...
TNG:
The Children of Hamlin by Carmen Carter was an intriguing early novel involving a civilization that's highly alien in every way, including its morality. Although its portrayal of Starfleet seems a little alien too, more bellicose than what we're used to. I see it as being an alternate timeline where a certain past event pivotal to the book resulted in Starfleet becoming somewhat more hardened in its outlook.
Howard Weinstein's TNG novels were all solid efforts, usually with an environmental theme. They include Power Hungry, Exiles, and Perchance to Dream.
Gulliver's Fugitives by Keith Sharee is a personal favorite, about a world where fiction and imagination are banned by a police state. A bit reminiscent of a Joe Menosky episode, in that metaphorical entities become participants in the story through technological means.
I always rather liked Spartacus by T. L. Mancour, about a society of android slaves and their struggle for liberation.
Dragon's Honor by Kij Johnson and Greg Cox is hilarious, and a nice look at a human colony that's descended from Chinese roots rather than just being another Space America.
Dark Mirror by Diane Duane is a classic, though it's a version of the Mirror Universe that predates and contradicts the one established in DS9. Her numbered novel Intellivore is worthwhile as well.
DS9:
The Siege by Peter David (no relation to the later episode of the same name) is the strongest first novel in any of the Trek tie-in book series, though it has a couple of elements that don't mesh with subsequent continuity (for instance, the Rio Grande is destroyed, something we now know to be effectively impossible).
Fallen Heroes by Dafydd ab Hugh is an extraordinary time-travel tale, although it has some significant continuity errors (like assuming a station day is 28 hours long instead of 26).
The 34th Rule by Armin Shimerman and David R. George III (well, mostly by DRGIII) is a surprisingly epic and solemn tale about the Ferengi, and something of a must-read, in that it's referenced in the post-finale books (although it's a bit hard to fit into the continuity of the series simply because of its duration and scope).
VGR:
It's generally agreed that the best novels published during the series were the ones by Christie Golden, particularly The Murdered Sun, Marooned, and Seven of Nine. Marooned is a personal favorite of mine because it's a strong story for Kes. Though if you're not a Kes fan, you might find the book's portrayal of her a bit hagiographic.
Jeri Taylor's crew-backstory novels Mosaic (Janeway's biography) and Pathways (everyone else's except the Doctor and Seven) are interesting reads, though the non-biographical elements tend to be something of a letdown, and most of the Pathways bios were contradicted after Taylor left the show (indeed, Harry Kim's bio chapter isn't even consistent with what canon had already established about his backstory).
That's right. Given the long lead time for publishing as opposed to broadcasting, the early tie-in novels for the modern Trek shows had to be written before the shows actually made it on the air. Ghost Ship was written based solely on the original series bible and the script for "Encounter at Farpoint." TNG ended up abandoning a lot of ideas from its bible, largely because of the frequent staff changes in the first season, but Diane Carey had no way of knowing that would happen when she wrote her book.
I just added a whole bunch of the books that have been recommened here.
VGR:
The Murdered Sun
Marooned
Seven of Nine
TNG:
The Dragon's Honor
Gulliver's Fugitive's
Perchance to Dream
Exiles
Power Hungry
Children of Hamlin
A Rock and a Hard Place
Doomsday World
Strike Zone
TOS:
Uhura's Song
The FInal Nexus
The Abode of Life
Chain of Attack
Bloodthirst
Yesterday's Son
Time for Yesterday
The Disinherited
DS9:
Fallen Heroes
Wrath of the Prophets
VGR:
The Murdered Sun
Marooned
Seven of Nine
TNG:
The Dragon's Honor
Gulliver's Fugitive's
Perchance to Dream
Exiles
Power Hungry
Children of Hamlin
A Rock and a Hard Place
Doomsday World
Strike Zone
TOS:
Uhura's Song
The FInal Nexus
The Abode of Life
Chain of Attack
Bloodthirst
Yesterday's Son
Time for Yesterday
The Disinherited
DS9:
Fallen Heroes
Wrath of the Prophets
Thanks! I don't often hear about that book anymore (as opposed to the Khan books), but I'm glad you remember it fondly.
I still think of that as "the Kij book" since she came up with the plot and characters. I just helped her finish it when real-life complications got in the way of her deadlines.
I recently reread Ghost Ship (haven't read it since it originally came out), and the most startling thing in the book was Picards angry outbursts. Quite good book, a bit naval though.
Of the "first season" TNG-books I do think that Survivors (and the "sequel" Metamorphosis) is the best one. At least there was one book where Tasha was bearable..
I've never actually read a Diane Carey book yet, but from what I've heard the naval stuff is pretty much to be expected with her.