Star Trek Destiny Trilogy

[Christopher]

There's no required reading order for the books following Destiny, since each one follows a separate cast of characters in a separate situation. They're four independent, loosely associated stories rather than installments in a single story. The publication order was A Singular Destiny, Titan: Over a Torrent Sea, Voyager: Full Circle, and TNG: Losing the Peace. Chronologically, Full Circle covers material well before and during Destiny as well as after. As for the others, Losing the Peace comes chronologically first and Over a Torrent Sea is last.

 

[William Leisner]

Im sure this question has been asked like a million times [...]

As a matter of fact, you are the ONE MILLIONTH PERSON to ask this question!! Congratulations!!!

 

[rahullak]

^
What does he win?

 

[Sci]

Personally, I would recommend reading them in this order:

* The Next Generation: Losing the Peace by William Leisner
* Titan: Over A Torrent Sea by Christopher L. Bennett
* A Singular Destiny by Keith R.A. DeCandido
* Voyager: Full Circle by Kirsten Beyer

That's not the publication order at all, but I think it works better that way thematically. It also roughly follows their chronological order (except insofar as Full Circle Part I is set pre-Destiny)

 

[Christopher]

Personally, I would recommend reading them in this order:

* The Next Generation: Losing the Peace by William Leisner
* Titan: Over A Torrent Sea by Christopher L. Bennet
* A Singular Destiny by Keith R.A. DeCandido
* Voyager: Full Circle by Kirsten Beyer

That's not the publication order at all, but I think it works better that way thematically. It also roughly follows their chronological order (except insofar as Full Circle Part I is set pre-Destiny)

Considering that OaTS comes chronologically last by several months and has little connection to the others, I'm curious why you think it should go second. (And it's Bennett, please. Two of everything but the B.)

 

[Sci]

Personally, I would recommend reading them in this order:

* The Next Generation: Losing the Peace by William Leisner
* Titan: Over A Torrent Sea by Christopher L. Bennet
* A Singular Destiny by Keith R.A. DeCandido
* Voyager: Full Circle by Kirsten Beyer

That's not the publication order at all, but I think it works better that way thematically. It also roughly follows their chronological order (except insofar as Full Circle Part I is set pre-Destiny)

Considering that OaTS comes chronologically last by several months and has little connection to the others, I'm curious why you think it should go second. (And it's Bennett, please. Two of everything but the B.)

Pardon me on the spelling error; it has been corrected.

I'd forgotten that OaTS came several months after the others, but for me, I think it works better thematically if it comes after Losing the Peace because its themes include renewal and forgiveness.

There's a (very) rough thematic arc to how I arranged that reading order:

Losing the Peace is about the hardships and difficulties that resulted from the invasion, the darkness and despair, and how the Federation begins the process of recovering from that darkness. With Over A Torrent Sea, we have a very different theme -- hope and renewal and forgiveness, carrying on (simply in terms of emotional content) from the hope that LtP ended on. A Singular Destiny, with KRAD's thoughtful but still relatively upbeat protagonist, to me feels like it's about where we're going from here; encountering the next challenge. Full Circle, to me, closes the thematic arc when it creates that literal sense of new beginnings, looking back on the tragedy and then moving beyond it to embrace the new challenges after we've first encountered them.

It's a very rough arc, and each individual novel goes through the full arc itself in its own ways. But to me, each novel seems to focus (whether intentionally or not) on a different aspect of the process of recovering emotionally from a tragedy, and so I arranged the novels according to that order in the recovery process.

 

[Christopher]

^Interesting thoughts. And it underlines the principle that there's no order in which these books have to be read; they're deliberately designed so that people can read as many or as few as they wish in whatever order they wish.

 

[rahullak]

Infinite possibilities in infinite combinations....well not quite infinite, at least not yet

 

[Christopher]

4! = 24 combinations.

 

[rahullak]

Wow! I didn't know that!

 

[Christopher]

ABCD
ABDC
ACBD
ACDB
ADBC
ADCB
BACD
BADC
BCAD
BCDA
BDAC
BDCA
CABD
CADB
CBAD
CBDA
CDAB
CDBA
DABC
DACB
DBAC
DBCA
DCAB
DCBA

24 possible permutations of four unique, nonrepeating items. For each of the 4 initial items, there are 3 that can follow; for each of those 3, there are 2 that can follow; and of course that leaves only 1 for each of those. So it's 4 x 3 x 2 x 1 = 4! (4 factorial) = 24.

 

[rahullak]

Thank you Professor. You might have saved yourself some trouble by noticing that
"Infinite possibilities in infinite combinations" is a play on "Infinite diversity in infinite combinations", a Vulcan philosophy.

 

[Christopher]

^Don't be insulting. I've been a Star Trek fan for 35 years, so obviously I got the reference. Just because I chose to provide a little information to people whose minds might actually be open to such things doesn't mean I'm an idiot, thank you very bloody much.

 

[rahullak]

^
Well it wasn't meant to be insulting. I apologize if it appeared that way
I just thought you missed the reference since you went into what 4! is. It appeared as if you were correcting me when there was no need. (and btw just because I choose to make a reference that's not mathematically accurate, it doesn't make me mathematically inept either). Sorry again.

 

[flux_29]

Isn't this the one where section 31 are pulling the strings?

 

[JD]

This is the one about the big Borg invasion, S31 aren't involved.