Pike novels
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No, they are each standalones. Although I don't recall VULCAN'S FORGE being a Pike novel.
Well, ahem, there was CHILD OF TWO WORLDS back in 2015. Modesty forbids me mentioning the author.
More recently, there was THE ENTERPRISE WAR by John Jackson Miller.
The first quarter/third of Peter David's The Rift is set during the Pike era. And there is the Captain's Table book, Where Sea Meets Sky. Those are older books though. The Rift is a solid read, average but fun. I can't comment on the Captain's Table book.
It’s been a few years since I last read it, but the TOS Starfleet Academy Book “Crisis On Vulcan” also has Pike play an important role, but he’s Captain Robert April’s first officer. The book is set during the Enterprise’s first 5 years of existence. Spock is a high schooler in this book.
Yes! I remember reading that years ago! I remember it had The Cage characters and TOS characters together in segments and that it was a fun read.
Legacy....
Legacy? I forgot about that one.
Burning Dreams is absolutely terrific. You're in for a good read!
Burning Dreams uses Vulcan's Glory as a part of Pike's backstory, but it is not heavily referenced or spoiled in any way that I can remember. Both of those books are fantastic. The Children of Kings is a strange hybrid of TOS and Kelvin timeline Trek. It's decent enough for what it is, but its decision not to pick a lane confused enough people that a similar approach has not been tried again.
I don't think "confusion" had anything to do with it. That book came along at an uncertain time, when we knew there would be a new Pike/Kirk-era timeline in the movies but didn't know the specifics, so Pocket wasn't entirely sure how to proceed with tying into it and had to sort of hedge its bets. So we got a book that was sort of halfway between the regular continuity and what little was known about the new one. Later on, we had a clearer idea of what was what and thus there was no reason to do another ambiguous book like that.
I was just thinking about the “Legacies” trilogy that came out in 2016 for Trek’s 50th. Pike wasn’t the main character, however his first officer, Una, was the main character and I think Pike appears in flashbacks (or is it Robert April?)
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Burning Dreams got off to a slow start, imo, but it gets better as it goes along and ends brilliantly.
JMF's Legacy is pretty good, but the brief Pike scenes aren't essential parts of the story. I really enjoyed the vignettes of some of the adventures of the Pike era Enterprise.
I didn't like Children of Kings the first time I read it, but I enjoyed it a lot more the second time around. It's only a fair Pike story, but it's a great Dr. Boyce story. It would have benefited from telling the reader up front that it was a hybrid timeline story. The continuity issues were fairly minor and could have been easily fixed by the editor without losing anything storywise.
Random Pike stuff:
My favorite Pike story is A Private Anecdote from SNW 1.
He also appears in one of the better stories in The Lives of Dax.
JMF's Legacy is pretty good, but the brief Pike scenes aren't essential parts of the story. I really enjoyed the vignettes of some of the adventures of the Pike era Enterprise.
I didn't like Children of Kings the first time I read it, but I enjoyed it a lot more the second time around. It's only a fair Pike story, but it's a great Dr. Boyce story. It would have benefited from telling the reader up front that it was a hybrid timeline story. The continuity issues were fairly minor and could have been easily fixed by the editor without losing anything storywise.
Random Pike stuff:
My favorite Pike story is A Private Anecdote from SNW 1.
He also appears in one of the better stories in The Lives of Dax.
What I like about Legacy is that it's practically the only Pike story in prose or comics that doesn't cling to the period immediately before or after "The Cage" and actually explores the rest of the 11-plus years he was in command, even if it is just in scattered vignettes.
I recently re-read Vulcan's Glory after many years. And I was wondering if someone could clarify something for me. I will put it in a spoiler space in case someone has not read the book yet.
The planet Areta that Pike already had his planned mission to turned out to be the location of the crashed Vulcan ship. Some of the back-story of the desert dwelling nomadic natives of the planet seemed to indicate that a stranger had appeared out of the desert and showed them ways to make the most of what they had and how to live. And I was wondering if that was supposed to be one of survivors of the crashed Vulcan ship. I believe he had an S name.
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