Recommend some books for me - numbered ones

[nickyboy]

Can People recommend some of the numbered TOS or TNG books, I never read too many of them, and I quite fancy going back and reading some of the older stories.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Of the top of my head....

TOS:
Crossroad
All the Rihannsu books (My Enemy my Ally, The Romulan Way etc)
Chain of Attack/The Final Nexus (a two parter, so to speak)
Yesterday's Son/Time for Yesterday
Time Trap
Ishmael
Dreadnought!
Vulcan's Glory
The Entropy Effect
....and many more.

TNG:
Survivors (see also Giant Novel semi-sequel Metamorphosis)
The Captain's Honor
Dark Mirror (or was that an unnumbered giant novel?)
Immortal Coil
Intellivore

 

[PKS8304]

TOS: Ishmael and Ghost Walker by Barbara Hambly

TNG: Q Squared- Peter David. Possession J M Dillard.

Just to name a couple off the top of my head

 

[BillJ]

I've always liked Gulliver's Fugitives and Rogue Saucer.

PKS8304, I remember Justice League #5 like it was yesterday. "One punch!", classic.

 

[Keturah]

Some of my TNG favorites include Masks, Imbalance, A Rock and a Hard Place, The Eyes of the Beholders, Fortune's Light, and Q-in-Law.

 

[nickyboy]

Thank you for the advice, decided to get Q-in-Law, Q-Squared, Immortal Coil, Intellivore, Yesterday's Son/Time for Yesterday, Sarek, Spock's world and Vulcan's Forge.

What do people think of the Strange New World books? are they any good?
What about the TOS lost years books?

 

[DGCatAniSiri]

What do people think of the Strange New World books? are they any good?
What about the TOS lost years books?

Strange New Worlds are a mixed bag. A lot of experimentation, either playing with the format or focusing on characters you may need to consult Memory Alpha to remind you who they are, some which may not be your cup of tea, but I recommend checking them out if you can find them.

The Lost Years books... There are torturous tales of things behind the screwed around with them. I like the first one well enough, but the later ones are somewhat iffy and really mostly not that well connected like they seem like they should be - kinda expected when the saga literally took years to tell.

 

[PKS8304]

I've always liked Gulliver's Fugitives and Rogue Saucer.

PKS8304, I remember Justice League #5 like it was yesterday. "One punch!", classic.

Black Canary was devestated she walked in right after it and missed it Bwa-ha-ha-ha!!!!

 

[TheAlmanac]

What do people think of the Strange New Worlds books? Are they any good?

They're awesome, especially the final volume.

 

[Therin of Andor]

No one has mentioned "Uhura's Song" yet.

As for "The Lost Years" saga, I really enjoyed them. Gloss over a few dating errors. And the character of Admiral Timothea Rogers was intended to be Pike's Number One. She shares some scenes with elderly Robert April, commentating a broadcast of a NASA celebration - and I guessed that Brad Ferguson intended it to be her. I was quite floored when, years later, he answered my email to say that I was correct!

 

[Sho]

TOS:
Crossroad

Seconded.

 

[nickyboy]

I will check out the Rihannsu books, as I always hear good stuff about them.

1. is Shadows of the Sun any good?
2. TNG Genesis wave?
3. DS9 - Terok Nor series? -

 

[Therin of Andor]

Is Shadows of the Sun any good?

I enjoyed it.

TNG Genesis wave?

If you can suspend disbelief that elderly Carol Marcus and elderly Maltz both made it into the 24th century, the first duology is excellent. The third book was tedious, and "Genesis Force" was an interesting premise that only picked up when Worf and Alexander arrived midway.

 

[Christopher]

Is Shadows of the Sun any good?

I enjoyed it.

First off, it's Shadows on the Sun; the title is directly relevant to the story so it's important to be clear on that.

It's a pretty downbeat story, but worthwhile.

TNG Genesis wave?

If you can suspend disbelief that elderly Carol Marcus and elderly Maltz both made it into the 24th century, the first duology is excellent.

Well, Maltz surviving that long is no more problematical than Kor, Kang, and Koloth canonically doing the same. Carol would've been in her early 40s in TWOK (Bibi Besch was 42 at the time), and thus would've been in her 130s as of The Genesis Wave -- and we know that Leonard McCoy made it to at least 137, and human life expectancies of 140 or more were considered feasible.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

TNG Genesis wave?

If you can suspend disbelief that elderly Carol Marcus and elderly Maltz both made it into the 24th century, the first duology is excellent.

For the contrary view...

I had no problem with Carol Marcus and Maltz being active in the 2370s, for the very reasons that Christopher mentions -- we have canonical examples of human and Klingon life expectancies that are at least that long.

(I disagree with Christopher that Carol was in her early '40s in The Wrath of Khan; given David's age, it's not unreasonable that she and Kirk were roughly the same age, and he turned fifty in the film, unless you go by Okuda, but Okuda's dating for TWOK makes no sense.)

Vornholt's prose, in my opinion, was never better than it was in the duology.

Unfortunately, it was in the service of a scientifically stupid story.

You have to believe that the Genesis Wave travels at hyperlight speeds, except for when it's directly threatening a planet, at which point it's traveling at painfully slow sublight speeds.

Don't misunderstand. I really do like the first two Genesis Wave books, and I think they're Vornholt's best Trek work. But at the same time, in the back of my head there was a little voice that kept saying, "Dude, that's just bullshit..."

 

[Julio Angel Ortiz]

TNG Genesis wave?

You have to believe that the Genesis Wave travels at hyperlight speeds, except for when it's directly threatening a planet, at which point it's traveling at painfully slow sublight speeds.

Don't misunderstand. I really do like the first two Genesis Wave books, and I think they're Vornholt's best Trek work. But at the same time, in the back of my head there was a little voice that kept saying, "Dude, that's just bullshit..."

It wasn't traveling at slow sublight speeds. It was traveling at the speed of plot. See? Problem solved.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Maltz surviving that long is no more problematical than Kor, Kang, and Koloth canonically doing the same.

I realize that, although Marc Okrand had already killed him off in "The Klingon Dictionary". It's "no more problematical", except it still annoyed me. And, of course, TrekLit would also bring us elderly Uhura and Chekov.

Carol would've been in her early 40s in TWOK (Bibi Besch was 42 at the time), and thus would've been in her 130s as of The Genesis Wave -- and we know that Leonard McCoy made it to at least 137, and human life expectancies of 140 or more were considered feasible.

Again, I realise that. At the time it just rubbed me up the wrong way that yet another character had made it. McCoy being 137 was seemingly rather unique in "Encounter at Farpoint". Maybe they all got exposed to protomatter during STs II and III and it extended all of their lives?

 

[Thrawn]

You have to believe that the Genesis Wave travels at hyperlight speeds, except for when it's directly threatening a planet, at which point it's traveling at painfully slow sublight speeds.

Don't misunderstand. I really do like the first two Genesis Wave books, and I think they're Vornholt's best Trek work. But at the same time, in the back of my head there was a little voice that kept saying, "Dude, that's just bullshit..."

It wasn't traveling at slow sublight speeds. It was traveling at the speed of plot. See? Problem solved.

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[Julio Angel Ortiz]

^ If you go missing, Thrawn, for several hours, we'll know where to begin our search.

 

[Thrawn]

^ If you go missing, Thrawn, for several hours, we'll know where to begin our search.

It's funny because it's true.