Rank Your Favorite Trek Literature

[Snaploud]

Please rank your top ten:

1. Q Squared by Peter David
2. Vendetta by Peter David
3. Imzadi by Peter David
4. Metamorphosis by Jean Lorrah
5. The Sorrows of Empire by David Mack
6. Dark Mirror by Diane Duane
7. Millenium trilogy by Judith and Gar Reeves-Stevens
8. The Joy Machine by Theodore Sturgeon & James Gunn
9. The 34th Rule by Armin Shimerman and David R. George III
10. The Buried Age (Lost Tales) by Christopher Bennett

Honorable Mentions:

11. Capture the Flag (Starfleet Academy) by John Vornholt
12. Articles of the Federation by Keith R. A. DeCandido
13. Federation by Judith and Gar Reeves-Stevens

 

[captcalhoun]

1 Prime Directive
2 Destiny trilogy
3 Before Dishonour
4 Wildfire
5 Q&A
6 A Time to Kill/Heal
7 Klingon Empire: A Burning House
8 Orion's Hounds
9 Double Helix
10 Burning Dreams

 

[Thrawn]

Threads like this happen a lot, and it's funny, because every time I think my list changes.

Something like this, anyway:

1) Destiny trilogy, Mack
2) The classic PAD hardcovers - Vendetta, Imzadi, Q-Squared (I know they stand alone, but I've always imagined them as a trilogy, for whatever reason)
3) Articles Of The Federation, KRAD
4) Reap The Whirlwind, Mack
5) The Buried Age, Bennett
6) Stone & Anvil, PAD
7) Places Of Exile, Bennett
8) New Frontier opening arc (1-4), PAD
9) Avatar & Unity, Perry
And in a three-way tie for 10th because I couldn't possibly choose between them:
10) Sword Of Damocles, Thorne
10) Ex Machina, Bennett
10) Harbinger, Mack

 

[Semah]

1. All Diane Duane's original series stuff.
2. Destiny/A Singular Destiny/Articles of the Federation (Tie)
3. Federation.
4. Q Squared.
5. A Final Reflection.

 

[ialfan]

1. TNG: Imzadi
2. Destiny Trilogy
3. ENT: The Good That Men Do
4. DS9: Avatar Duology
5. DS9: Demons of Air and Darkness
6. Vanguard: Harbinger
7. Titan: Orion's Hounds
8. ENT: Kobayashi Maru
9. TNG: Greater Than the Sum
10. VOY: Dark Matters Trilogy

Honorable Mentions:
* MU: Sorrows of Empire
* MU: Age of the Empress
* MYU: Places of Exile
* VOY: Pathways
* MYU: The Chimes at Midnight
* MYU: A Gutted World
* Crucible: Provenance of Shadows

 

[TrekAlliance92]

In no particular order:

1. TNG: Rogue Saucer
2. TOS: Chain of Attack
3. TOS: Prime Directive
4. The Eugenics Wars Books 1 & 2
5. VOY: Death of a Neutron Star
6. TNG: The Genesis Wave Books 1 & 2
7. The Destiny Trilogy
8. DS9: Fallen Heroes
9. New Earth - Belle Terre
10. Shatnerverse Series - Ashes of Eden Through Preserver

Honorable Mentions:
* TOS: Perry's Planet
* New Earth: Thin Air
* TOS: The Three-Minute Universe
* DS9: Devil in the Sky
* VOY: Echoes
* TNG Relaunch: Before Dishonor
* DS9: The Long Night
* TOS: The Rings of Tautee
* VOY: Incident at Arbuk
* VOY: Battle Lines

 

[donners22]

Don't have my bookcase in front of me, so I will undoubtedly leave some out, but I'll try...

1. Q-Squared [Peter David]
2. Excalibur: Restoration [Peter David]
3. A Stitch in Time [Andrew Robinson]
4. Imzadi II [Peter David]
5. Mudd in Your Eye [???]
6. After the Fall [Peter David]
7. Imzadi [Peter David]
8. Q & A [KRAD]
9. Prime Directive [J&GRS]
10. Khan, book 1 [Greg Cox]


Currently reading the Crucible series, but I don't think they'll make this list.

 

[JD]

I don't remember enough details to actually rank them, but my favorites include (going solely by what pops in first, not preferences):
Reap the Whirlwind
Avatar
Imzadi
Warpath
Destiny
Harbinger
Summon the Thunder
Articles of the Federation
Art of the Impossible
Terok Nor

 

[Astraea]

A Stitch In Time
Terok Nor
The Lives of Dax (can I choose an entire anthology as 1 favorite?)
The Sorrows of Empire
New Frontier (1-4, perhaps? I'd have to actually go back and look, but I do want NF represented on this list.)
Destiny
Avatar
Unity
The chapter of Q-in-Law that features Lwaxana kicking Q's butt, along with the immortal Worf one-liner, "Sell tickets."

Runners-up:
TNG novels: Masks, Spartacus, The Romulan Prize
DS9: Betrayal
YA novel: Worf's First Adventure, Capture the Flag

I'm sure this list will change if I think about it enough, but that's representative for the moment.

 

[Nerys Ghemor]

Hmmm...here are mine, not in order:

The Wounded Sky
Uhura's Song
The Final Reflection
The Rihannsu Series
The Three-Minute Universe

(I LOVE some of those early depictions of the Trekiverse, where the writers had such freedom...)

Masks
Gulliver's Fugitives
Dark Mirror

The Titan series (though I only liked the Dakal subplot in Sword of Damocles)

Betrayal
Fallen Heroes
Objective: Bajor
The Millennium Trilogy
A Stitch in Time
The 34th Rule
The Terok Nor trilogy

(I hope soon to add The Neverending Sacrifice to that list!!)

The Escape
The Murdered Sun
Echoes

The Invasion! series--for being a first

The Sundered
The Art of the Impossible

The Challenger series (screw what anybody else says. I liked this series.)

Of the YA books...

Worf's First Adventure through Survival (and that's part of why I HATE NF with a passion: it rapes my childhood memories.)

Capture the Flag

Prisoners of Peace (Funny enough, Betrayal was released the same year!! Look at the plots of these two...funny how the parallel each other! I like to think Prisoners of Peace could be what a twelve-year-old Jake wrote out of remorse after Betrayal...kind of a do-over.)

(I remember liking a lot more of those even though my books have been boxed up for years and I can't get at them to check.)

 

[DeVario]

My list is rather short, but here it is in no order...

A Stitch in Time by Andrew J. Robinson
The Lost Years by J.M. Dillard
Star Trek: The Motion Picture novelization by Gene Roddenberry
Destiny trilogy by David Mack
Avatar books 1 and 2 by S.D. Perry
Unity by S.D. Perry
The 34th Rule by David R. George III and Armin Shimmerman
Day of the Vipers by James Swallow
Night of the Wolves by S.D. Perry & Britta Dennison
Dawn of the Eagles by S.D. Perry & Britta Dennison

 

[Sci]

In no particular order beyond the first two...

* Spock's World by Diane Duane
* Articles of the Federation by Keith R.A. DeCandido
* Reap the Whirlwind by David Mack
* The Good That Men Do by Michael A. Martin & Andy Mangels
* Trill: Unjoined by Michael A. Martin & Andy Mangels
* Hollow Men by Una McCormack
* Terok Nor: Day of the Vipers by James Swallow
* A Less Perfect Union by William Leisner
* Orion's Hounds by Christopher L. Bennett
* Places of Exile by Christopher L. Bennett
* A Time to Kill by David Mack
* A Time to Heal by David Mack
* A Time for War, A Time for Peace by Keith R.A. DeCandido
* Crucible: McCoy: Provenance of Shadows by David R. George III
* Serpents Among the Ruins by David R. George III
* The Art of the Impossible by Keith R.A. DeCandido
* Cloak by S.D. Perry
* Seeds of Dissent by James Swallow
* Andor: Paradigm by Heather Jarman
* The rest of the DS9 Relaunch
* Greater Than the Sum by Christopher L. Bennett
* Taking Wing by Andy Mangels and Michael A. Martin
and, of course,
* Destiny trilogy by David Mack

 

[JD]

I just remembered a few more:
Places of Exile
Orion's Hounds
A Time To Kill
............. Heal
A Time for War, A Time For Peace
Serpents Among the Ruins

 

[Nerys Ghemor]

I don't see a lot of love for the numbered novels. I wonder if there's a preponderance of recent readers here?

Maybe I should start a "how long have you been reading Treklit" poll?

 

[Sci]

I don't see a lot of love for the numbered novels. I wonder if there's a preponderance of recent readers here?

Maybe I should start a "how long have you been reading Treklit" poll?

I've been reading since 1995, and have a lot of novels from the 1980s.

I just honestly think most recent Trek novels are better.

 

[Thrawn]

I don't see a lot of love for the numbered novels. I wonder if there's a preponderance of recent readers here?

Maybe I should start a "how long have you been reading Treklit" poll?

Since 1990, and I've read a lot of old ones published before that since then.

I like the new ones better.

 

[Nerys Ghemor]

I started reading in about 1992, and while I do think the new ones are doing some cool things...I miss the independence of the old ones, especially the TOS novels.

 

[donners22]

I don't see a lot of love for the numbered novels. I wonder if there's a preponderance of recent readers here?

Maybe I should start a "how long have you been reading Treklit" poll?

I've been reading since 1995, and have a lot of novels from the 1980s.

I just honestly think most recent Trek novels are better.

I've been reading from the early 90s, and have the completely opposite view. I think they were much better then, New Frontier aside.

There are perhaps a few more stand-out good books these days because of the enhanced freedom writers have, but also far more bad and frustrating books (IMHO). I think the average level of quality was much higher in the 90s.

 

[DeVario]

I started in 1991 with The Lost Years. That and the TUC novelization were the only books I owned from then until 2001, when I started with the DS9 series and never looked back.

 

[Snaploud]

I started reading trek books in roughly 1995. Post-2000 was mostly a dead-zone for myself and trek books, but I've been catching up recently (going on a roughly 20 book trek binge with another 30 or more to go).