Recommended order for the Relaunches?

[apenpaap]

I am nearly finished reading the DS9 relaunch (As soon as I find a copy of The Soul Key, that is), and want to read the TNG post-nemesis books, the VOY Relaunch and the Destiny books next. What is the best order to read them?

 

[RonG]

I think the novel order is something like this:

1. VOY Relaunch (Homecoming and Old Wounds doulogies)
2. A Time To.. series (covers TNG up to and following Nemesis)
3. Titan books 1-4, Articles of the Federation (after book 1) and TNG post-Nemesis
4. Destiny trilogy

 

[Christopher]

^That's not counting the post-Destiny books: A Singular Destiny, TNG: Losing the Peace, VGR: Full Circle/Unworthy, and TTN: Over a Torrent Sea & Synthesis (upcoming).

As for Articles of the Federation, I believe chronologically it begins shortly after book 2 of Titan, but there's no reason it has to be read in that order relative to Titan, since there's very little overlap. Books 1 & 2 of Titan are essentially a 2-parter and should be read back-to-back.

 

[Thrawn]

To get the most consistency:

Voyager - Homecoming, Farther Shore, Spirit Walk (or you could just completely skip this part)
A Time To... (or you could just read the last 3)
TNG: Death In Winter
Titan: Taking Wing / Red King
Articles Of The Federation
Titan: Orion's Hounds & Sword Of Damocles
TNG: Resistance through Greater Than The Sum
Destiny
TNG: Losing The Peace (skip the epilogue)
A Singular Destiny
Titan: Over A Torrent Sea
VOY: Full Circle

and then follow publishing order from here on.

 

[Christopher]

^With Losing the Peace, I assume you just mean "postpone the epilogue until after reading A Singular Destiny" -- though it probably makes more sense just to read ASD first.

And why Full Circle last? Its first half takes place not long after Spirit Walk, and it ends within a few days of ASD and LTP, months before Over a Torrent Sea takes place.

 

[Thrawn]

That was release order and I never saw any particularly good reason to change it. But yeah, those can be switched.

And just thematically, I think it works best to take in the consequences of Destiny for a while, viscerally, before setting up the next thing (which is what ASD does). Opinions may vary, I suppose.

 

[ryan123450]

Though really A Singular Destiny is 90% about the consequences of Destiny.

And also, maybe it would be good to treat Full Circle as two seperate books. I've not read it yet, though, so I'm not for sure.