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Recommend some books for me - numbered ones

I enjoyed the TNG Captain's table book, and the New Frontier entry is one of my favourite Trek books
 
I loved TOS "My Brother's Keeper" series. It was about Kirk and Gary Mitchell's early years. It also had a great explanation for Kirk's middle initial being "R" (joke between them.)

My Brother's Keeper Book 1: Republic
My Brother's Keeper Book 2: Constitution
My Brother's Keeper Book 3: Enterprise
 
I'm a couple of chapters into Doctor's Orders (TOS). Pretty decent so far, but like I said, I just started it.
 
Forgive me for any inadvertent non-numbered "giant novels", or whatever pocket called them.

TOS
The Final Reflection <- The best trek book there is
Where Sea Meets Sky (Cap'n Pike book)
The Wounded Sky
Spock's World (preferably after The Wounded Sky)
Yesterday's Son
Time for Yesterday(read after Yesterday's Son)
Doctor's Orders
Sarek
Traitors Wind
My Brother's Keeper Trilogy
First Frontier
Memory Prime

I think the Errand of Vengeance Trilogy and it's sequel, the Errand of Fury Trilogy came after the numbered books ended, but if you haven't read them, I'd recommend you do - they're great fun.

TNG
Q-Squared
Vendetta
Federation(almost as good as final reflection, a must read)
Dark Mirror
Imzadi
Masks
q-in-law
blaze of glory
The Romulan Stratagem
A Rock and a Hard Place
The Last Stand
Possession
Intellivore
The Q Continuum trilogy
 
In addition to "My Brother's Keeper" trilogy that I recommended, you can check out "Burning Dreams", it's a Captain Pike novel that gives a lot of info on his background and what happened after he was left on Talos IV.
 
update: I finished Yesterday's son, great story I really enjoyed it. Now I am reading Vulcan's Forge.

I have ordered (most 2nd hand from amazon):
Doctors orders
Ishmael
Wounded sky
Time for yesterday
Sarek
Q-squared
Vendetta
Imzadi
Intellivore
first 2 Rihannsu books
Vulcan's Glory

that will keep me busy!!

few questions:
1. Is the Deep Space Nine series Terok Nor worth reading?
2. TOS the case of the colonist corpse?
3. Enterprise Rosetta?
4. TOS Gemini
5. Garth of Izar?
6. TNG Do comets dream?
 
update: I finished Yesterday's son, great story I really enjoyed it. Now I am reading Vulcan's Forge.

I have ordered (most 2nd hand from amazon):
Doctors orders
Ishmael
Wounded sky
Time for yesterday
Sarek
Q-squared
Vendetta
Imzadi
Intellivore
first 2 Rihannsu books
Vulcan's Glory

that will keep me busy!!

Lot of good reads there. Forge/Glory are a bit cheesy and I've never read Ishmael, but everything else should be great fun.

2. TOS the case of the colonist corpse?

It's pretty fun if you're a perry mason fan(which I am). It's writtern in that style - I was disappointed, but not surprised that it didn't receive a follow up.

4. TOS Gemini
5. Garth of Izar?
6. TNG Do comets dream?

I found these all fairly tedious and generally not enjoyable.
 
The Romulan Prize and Blaze of Glory (TNG) were pretty good, as well as Strike Zone, although it's a really early TNG novel, so it has some elements that don't jive with modern Trek and since it's Peter David, your enjoyment of it depends a lot on whether or not you like humor.
 
few questions:
1. Is the Deep Space Nine series Terok Nor worth reading?
2. TOS the case of the colonist corpse?
3. Enterprise Rosetta?
4. TOS Gemini
5. Garth of Izar?
6. TNG Do comets dream?

Terok Nor is a definite yes, so long as you're familiar with DS9. At the very least the first book, Day of the Vipers; the other two are good as well, but DotV was brilliant.

As for Rosetta, I very much liked it.

Funnily enough, I haven't read any of the others on the list.
 
Ishmael, Imzadi, Vendetta, and Q-Squared are all good books. I don't think I've read the others.
 
Ex-Machina by Christopher L. Bennett. It takes places after Star Trek: The Motion Picture. It follows up on Star Trek: The Motion Picture and it's also a sequel to the season 3 episode "For The World Is Hollow And I Have Touched The Sky".

Star Trek: The Academy--Collision Course by William Shatner. It's Shatner's take on how a teen Kirk and a teen Spock first meet. IIRC-(if I remember correctly) it's 50-something chapters.
 
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