So, DS9-R, now or later or never?
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I am about to start Mission Gamma Book 3. I can't imagine skipping any of it. The only book that was sort of disappointing was the short story that concluded the Gateways segment.
I only read the Enterprise novels for several years before starting the DS9r. I had also read the first two Voyager novels set after the series. My biggest regret now is not starting the DS9r sooner. The DS9r really does feel like a 8th season. Avatar pt1/2 was outstanding. If you have a Kindle/iPad just download the Omnibus of the first five stories. They are really good. I am up to Mission Gamma bk3 now. Been loving the story telling as a whole
I finally decided to order the 3 books of the DS9-R I was missing, and now plan to dive into the Post-Series stuff, beginning with Avatar. Now I have everything from Avatar, to the latest book Acts of Contrition. I've never read it all from the beginning, only some here and some there in chunks. I'm looking forward to it.
I think you'll really enjoy it
my only question is, is the Terok Nor trilogy integral to the DS9-R or can i jump right into Avatar?
If you read the first couple Titan books, then you might be interested in The Lost Era novel, The Sundered, which introduced the Neyel.
Their not 100% necessary but there are several novellas in the SCE series that crossover with other series. The two biggest are, Cold Fusion, which shows what lead up to DS9 getting it's new fusion core after the end of Avatar. The other is Distant Early Warning, a 23 century crossover with Vanguard, which deals with the early days of the Vanguard station.
I have another idea or two that I'll add to this later, I don't ave time right now.
Thanks for the feedback. i'll be starting Avatar tonight.
I'm up to This Grey Spirit (Second of the Mission Gamma series) and I would recommend it. I've enjoyed all the books so far, some more than others. It's been a while since I've read any of them though, but I'll get back into it eventually. I'm going to restart This Grey Spirit, but I will say when I started it before, I was underwhelmed especially after just finishing Twilight, which was an incredible, if long, novel.
Avatar, Book 1 is still one of my all-time favorite book-knocking-my-socks-off-unexpectedly experiences. I hadn't even seen past, like, season 2 of the DS9 show and that book still sucked me in thoroughly. Love that book.
This is basically impossible to answer without spoiling something cool. You'll make a really awesome connection if you've read Lives of Dax before the Mission: Gamma plot develops fully, that's really all I can say. It's not necessary, but it's awesome.
The Terok Nor trilogy is not integral to the relaunch at all so if you're focusing on what's needed for the relaunch it's skippable. That being said, I think the first one in the series is amazing. One of my favorite Trek books. But the core of DS-R has a ton of great stuff in it so focusing on that is a good way to go. I think the relaunch as a whole is probably the best book series I've read. A wide variety of styles and stories that all come together very well. I loved it.
Hey Thrawn, another quick question for you. Since ive never read the Gateways or Section 31 mini-series, I take it the DS9-R books in those two mini-series has all the information I need to know what these two series are about? I don't need to read the entire series to get a basic understanding of what I need to know?
I'm about halfway through Avatar Book 1. I'm not too terribly impressed so far; the stuff at the station is, so far, just another run-of-the-mill attack on the station. The stuff with Vaughn and the Enterprise has been good so far.
The Section 31 novels are connected in name only and aren't related to each other apart from having Section 31 in them, so no problem there. I've only read the DS9 Gateways parts in the DS9 omnibus and was fine without reading the other parts.
Gateways and most other Trek novel crossovers, with the exception of the Destiny trilogy, are designed so that you can read as many or as few books as you wish. Each book can stand on its own or as an integral part of its own series, but the books in a crossover share a common thread or element that lets them form a larger whole if you choose to read them all. The goal is for the books to work just as well individually as they do collectively, since it's a given that not every reader will read them the same way.
I figured as much. And I know with the multi-book series of now, i.e. Typhon Pact, etc those are designed that way. I just wasn't sure about the ones done back then. But great to know. I really prefer the way Trek fiction has done it with these series, compared to, for example, the now-Legends star wars books. Where, for example, you have a 9 book series, that then build into another one. If you tried reading just one of those books, you'd be lost.
Yeah - what he said.
While it's true that most Trek books do stand well on their own, I do think there are "rewards" in reading the modern novels in order, character and relationship arcs, just enough continuity to make the series as a whole richer even while making most novels easily accessable to a new reader.
^Well, yeah, but I was speaking mainly of the crossovers from the '90s and early '00s, which were all designed to be quite loosely connected.
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