Star Trek: Governance

[PhasersOnStun]

Wow, thanks for your participation Sci! I've learned a lot from your posts, very appreciated!

If you're interested in Federation politics, I would recommend starting earlier than War/Peace. This would be my recommended reading list:

* A Time to Kill by David Mack
* A Time to Heal by David Mack
* A Time for War, A Time for Peace by Keith R.A. DeCandido
* Articles of the Federation by Keith R.A. DeCandido

I would recommend these four novels as a good jumping-on point for modern Trek novels.

And thank you for the reading list!

 

[Sci]

Hope that helps!

Does it help? You just solved my reading needs for an entire year!
Just one question. Are there spoilers for the DS9 relaunch in these other novels?

In the ATT/TNG/TTN/Destiny set of novels I gave you, I can think of exactly three spoilers for the DS9 Relaunch. I'll give them to you right now behind the cut.

Spoiler: DS9 Relaunch spoilers to be found in the ATT/TNG/TTN/Destiny track

1. "A Time for War, A Time for Peace" makes reference to Benjamin Sisko's being in the Bajor Sector, meaning that his return in the DS9 Relaunch novel "Unity" is spoiled, as is his survival to the year 2379.

2. Ezri Dax is one of the key characters in "Destiny," so the fact that she survives to the year 2381, and her decision in "Avatar" to switch from the medical track to the command track is spoiled.

3. The Federation Councillor from Bajor appears in "Articles of the Federation," a spoiler for one of the surprise endings of "Bajor: Fragments and Omens" (set 4 years earlier) and for the process by which he was chosen.

The Trek novelists do a good job of simultaneously linking everything, yet keeping things separate.

I'm rewatching DS9 and I planned to read the DS9 books only after I finish the rewatch. So you reckon it's safe to start with your recommended non-DS9 novels before that?

I would reckon, yes.

Anyway, thanks a million!

No problem! Happy to help!

and unrealistic because of lack of sufficent reward for personal achievement.

Yeah, sure, if you believe MONEY, MONEY and EVEN MORE MONEY! is the only sufficient reward... Tells you more about the person who thinks that than about Trek.

My attitude has always been and remains that for the Federation economy to function, it would have to be a combination of capitalist and socialist concepts. Of course, in all fairness, that's based on my belief that neither Capitalism nor Socialism is particularly functional or moral in their purest forms.

 

[kes7]

Yeah, sure, if you believe MONEY, MONEY and EVEN MORE MONEY! is the only sufficient reward... Tells you more about the person who thinks that than about Trek.

Agreed. "He who dies with the most toy wins" will eventually morph into "They who die with the most loving family is remembered."
I believe it will happen. It MUST happen for us to survive.
Colour me an optimist.

This will only happen the the "post-scarcity" society mentioned earlier in the thread.