Star Trek Enterprise Novels

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So I have been given the first half of the first season of Enterprise for christmas (yes, they do sell those series in half-season boxes right now...assimilating all our money...) and will be through with my three discs reasonably soon. As I don't see myself spending a lot of money on DVDs in the near future I was thinking about maybe reading an Enterprise novel.

Are there Enterprise novels aside from the few an Amazon search showed me? And has there also been a 'relaunch'?

I'd be happy to get a few friendly pointers, maybe what books are there, what sequence should they be read and which do you recommend?

 

[DGCatAniSiri]

The number of books written during Enterprise's run were smaller than other series - By The Book, What Price Honor, Surak's Soul, the Daedelus duology, Last Full Measure, and Rosetta are the only ones I can think of that were published.

There are post-finale (I prefer that term to relaunch, personally) novels - The Good That Men Do followed by Kobayashi Maru are the only ones currently out, but there's another one, The Romulan War, coming soon.

 

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Many thanks.

That gives me something to work with!

Well: The Daedalus Duology sounded interesting, as does Rosetta, but both D-titles seem to be out of print and no longer available. Too bad.

I shall try Rosetta sometime soon I guess.

 

[thirteenth]

I found part one on Amazon, but oh you're in Germany, I see... BTW, Rosetta was a very excellent novel.. IMO

 

[Sci]

For my money, the novels produced during ENT's run were sub-par until Last Full Measure. I'd recommend reading Last Full Measure and then jumping into the relaunch with The Good That Men Do and Kobayashi Maru -- but make sure you don't do that until you've seen ENT's last season.

 

[Defcon]

For my money, the novels produced during ENT's run were sub-par until Last Full Measure. I'd recommend reading Last Full Measure and then jumping into the relaunch with The Good That Men Do and Kobayashi Maru -- but make sure you don't do that until you've seen ENT's last season.

Funny, I would recommend the exact opposite. Read those published during the run of the series (since even the weaker ones were at least average in the worst case) and ignore M&M's Enterprise stuff since those get worse with every installment.

 

[Sci]

For my money, the novels produced during ENT's run were sub-par until Last Full Measure. I'd recommend reading Last Full Measure and then jumping into the relaunch with The Good That Men Do and Kobayashi Maru -- but make sure you don't do that until you've seen ENT's last season.

Funny, I would recommend the exact opposite. Read those published during the run of the series (since even the weaker ones were at least average in the worst case) and ignore M&M's Enterprise stuff since those get worse with every installment.

Definitely disagree. The ENT Relaunch is great and I expect The Romulan War to be even better.

 

[jgdst]

For my money, the novels produced during ENT's run were sub-par until Last Full Measure. I'd recommend reading Last Full Measure and then jumping into the relaunch with The Good That Men Do and Kobayashi Maru -- but make sure you don't do that until you've seen ENT's last season.

I'd agree with the sub-par assessment... I haven't read Rosetta onwards yet (got them sat on my shelf, waiting), but I have heard good things about the majority of those novels.

The two Daedalus novels I had a hard time tracking down, and ended up paying over the odds for them - to be honest, it wasn't worth it. By The Book (I hate to admit it) is dreadful and is basically a novelisation of a roleplaying game using Enterprise's secondary characters.

Surak's Soul is okay, not great, but What Price Honour is the only half decent one of the earlier novels I think (despite some pretty glaring inaccuracies).

Just my opinion, and obviously people have their own judgments of the books, but I hope that helps

 

[Therin of Andor]

I'd be happy to get a few friendly pointers, maybe what books are there, what sequence should they be read?

Publication date order is often safest, since that's how longtime collectors have been exposed to them.

http://startrek.wikia.com/wiki/Enterprise_novels

"Memory Beta" is excellent for orientation purposes. Just watch out for some spoilers in the synopses.

 

[F. King Daniel]

I was very dissapointed by the Ent relaunch novels.
I actually liked 'By The Book' - i'd been avoiding my copy for about 2 years after reading the first page (I *hate* RPGs), but when i finally got into it, it was an ok read.
I like 'early' (i.e. written before the series starts) novels, like the TNG one where Riker really hated Data because he "wasn't alive".

 

[Baerbel Haddrell]

My favourites are the Enterprise Relaunch novels so far, meaning the ones starting with “Last Full Measure”, although that book is probably more accurately the stepping stone into the relaunch series. “The Good That Men Do” is excellent. I love that book very much. “Kobayashi Maru” is very good but has some language annoyances that put me off, like the use of the f- word I never encountered before in Star Trek and Marvel German, something I simply can`t stand.

“By the Book” is a nice, light read. I enjoyed it. “What Price Honor” is very average and I don`t remember much of it. “Surak`s Soul” is easily the worst Enterprise book I have read so far. The characterization of T`Pol was WAY off and didn`t make any sense to me at all. The Daedalus duology is not badly written but didn`t interest me much either. “Rosetta”, on the other hand, is excellent.

 

[Corran Horn]

I was very dissapointed by the Ent relaunch novels.
I actually liked 'By The Book' - i'd been avoiding my copy for about 2 years after reading the first page (I *hate* RPGs), but when i finally got into it, it was an ok read.

I thought it was pretty good considering the show hadn't even aired while the book was being written.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I love the ENT novels. They are some of my favorites out of all Trek printed works. Especially Daedalus' Children, The Good That Men Do, and Kobayashi Maru.

 

[Stevil2001]

What Price Honor? is a very good Reed book (I don't think his character's been captured in prose as well since), and I also enjoyed the Daedalus duology a fair bit.

 

[JWolf]

Many thanks.

That gives me something to work with!

Well: The Daedalus Duology sounded interesting, as does Rosetta, but both D-titles seem to be out of print and no longer available. Too bad.

I shall try Rosetta sometime soon I guess.

You could purchase these as eBooks which are still available.

 

[Turtletrekker]

Many thanks.

Well: The Daedalus Duology sounded interesting, as does Rosetta, but both D-titles seem to be out of print and no longer available. Too bad.

The first book is still available new at Amazon, but they only have three copies left...

http://www.amazon.com/Daedalus-Part-Star-Trek-Enterprise/dp/0743471180/ref=pd_sim_b_njs_1

The second book is available used at the Amazon Marketplace...

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0743476468/ref=dp_olp_used?ie=UTF8&condition=used

 

[Defcon]

Many thanks.

Well: The Daedalus Duology sounded interesting, as does Rosetta, but both D-titles seem to be out of print and no longer available. Too bad.

The first book is still available new at Amazon, but they only have three copies left...

http://www.amazon.com/Daedalus-Part-Star-Trek-Enterprise/dp/0743471180/ref=pd_sim_b_njs_1

The second book is available used at the Amazon Marketplace...

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0743476468/ref=dp_olp_used?ie=UTF8&condition=used

Actually, since Cut is living in Germany, Book One isn't available new at amazon directly:

http://www.amazon.de/Daedalus-Star-...e=UTF8&s=books-intl-de&qid=1232180382&sr=8-13

Book Two on the other hand is available via Amazon.de directly, although there's obviously only one copy left at the moment of this post:

http://www.amazon.de/Enterprise-Daedaluss-Children-Star-Trek/dp/0743476468/ref=pd_sim_eb_njs_2

 

[Turtletrekker]

Oops! Thanks for the correction. I didn't even think of that.

 

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Oops! Thanks for the correction. I didn't even think of that.

No problem Thanks anyway!

 

[Baerbel Haddrell]

I just want to add that I am living in Britain but usually have no trouble to buy from Amazon.com and Amazon.de as well.