TNG Books...who's read them?

[Ar-Pharazon]

I read any number of TNG novels in the first 40 or so numbered ones.

Metamorphosis, Q-In-law, Dark Mirror & Rogue Saucer all stand out for me. Plus Federation was a better "meeting of the generations" than Generations.

 

[jaime]

I actually really love the first two...Ghost Ship and Children of Hamlyn, but it's almost like a parallel universe TNG, with different ideas. The stuff with Data in Ghost Ship...whether he has a soul...is really really good. The Alien ships and Yar bonding with the child in Hamlyn also sticks in my mind after twenty plus years.
Metamorphosis is almost like some huge fantasy epic, without being too epic, and Imzadi is of course almost canon (as in, All Good Things leant on it and particularly its cover illustration. There's pretty much no other decent reason behind the choice to have Deanna be dead in the future there too.)

 

[Nyotarules]

I read Imazdi years ago and enjoyed it especially the part set on Betazed. I might buy the kindle edition and read it again. Federation would have been a good movie. I have the post Nemesis novels to read, even though I know what happens in Before Dishonor, its the one I call Carry on Star Trek. It's hilarious!

 

[jaime]

I read Imazdi years ago and enjoyed it especially the part set on Betazed. I might buy the kindle edition and read it again. Federation would have been a good movie. I have the post Nemesis novels to read, even though I know what happens in Before Dishonor, its the one I call Carry on Star Trek. It's hilarious!

There's a version on kindle with imzadi and imzadi ii...but its up as sta Trek with a typo last I looked. Before Dishonor isn't the worst of the post Nem books. At the very least...it isn't dull.

 

[Nyotarules]

There's a version on kindle with imzadi and imzadi ii...but its up as sta Trek with a typo last I looked. Before Dishonor isn't the worst of the post Nem books. At the very least...it isn't dull.

You are right! I cried with laughter at a certain scene.

Spoiler

Eating Pluto for dinner?!

 

[jaime]

You are right! I cried with laughter at a certain scene.

Spoiler

Eating Pluto for dinner?!

It should have been a Mars Bar.

 

[Gordontrek]

Federation would have been a good movie.

That's one of the best Trek novels I've ever read. Why in the world didn't they use it instead of Generations. Imagine Malcolm McDowell playing Adrik Thorsen instead of Soran. Writers missed a big opportunity there.

 

[jaime]

That's one of the best Trek novels I've ever read. Why in the world didn't they use it instead of Generations. Imagine Malcolm McDowell playing Adrik Thorsen instead of Soran. Writers missed a big opportunity there.

It was written after Generations, and largely featured TOS era cast not Movie era. It's more like the alternate first contact.

 

[Gordontrek]

It was written after Generations, and largely featured TOS era cast not Movie era. It's more like the alternate first contact.

Ah I see. Didn't realize that. Nevertheless I like the Zefram Cochrane story in Federation a lot more than First Contact.

 

[WARLOCK1965]

So I have almost every single TNG book that has been written. They have been in a box in my garage for years and I just pulled out the box and started reading them from the start. For those who aren't familiar with them there are numbered "pocket" books that I believe go up to number 63. I have every one of the numbered books and probably 80% of the non-numbered books. I plan to buy the rest just so I have the complete collection. I'll post a pic of them later, its pretty impressive.

Anyway I was wondering who here has read any of them, how many and which ones you really liked. By the way I have not read them all, not even close in fact. And the last time I read one was years ago, I don't remember any of them other than #1 and 2, which I just finished in the last few weeks.

I have read of the books for the series and a good number of the the comic books I have not been able to but any for away but all were great as long you could read them that jump around.

 

[Nakita Akita]

Thats why I started buying them, just because I wanted to collect them all. I am on book #3 now and am finding that all of these early numbered books are in basically mint condition, I think I may have bought them brand new.

Collect them?
Mmm, I brought a whole bunch into work and just put the on the shelf in the break room. They eventually all disappeared.
I have some out in my garage in a plastic Bag too.
I just read them and get rid of them I think

 

[Tora Ziyal]

Read and enjoyed most of them years ago. By now, I've given away the few that I owned. Most of them were from the library.

 

[gillmanjr]

Collect them?
Mmm, I brought a whole bunch into work and just put the on the shelf in the break room. They eventually all disappeared.
I have some out in my garage in a plastic Bag too.
I just read them and get rid of them I think

I know they are incredible cheap to buy but I could see the entire collection of books being worth some money in a few decades. They probably wouldn't be worth anything individually but if you had every single TNG book ever written, with most of them being in near mint condition, I could see someone paying a nice chunk of money for the whole lot.

 

[gillmanjr]

I am reading book #4 right now (almost done with it) called "Survivors" and its quite good. However, I can see how the books aren't considered to be "canon" material. This book is largely about Tasha Yar and her past troubled life. Some of the things are hinted at in season 1 episodes with Yar (the rape gangs) but most of it doesn't fit into the timeline of the TV show. For example, there is no mention of her having a sister. Also, the name "Yar" isn't even her born name according to the events described in this book, so her "sister" Ishara wouldn't even have the name Yar. There are a lot of things you learn about Tasha in this book but unfortunately most of it doesn't correspond with the TV show.

 

[jaime]

I am reading book #4 right now (almost done with it) called "Survivors" and its quite good. However, I can see how the books aren't considered to be "canon" material. This book is largely about Tasha Yar and her past troubled life. Some of the things are hinted at in season 1 episodes with Yar (the rape gangs) but most of it doesn't fit into the timeline of the TV show. For example, there is no mention of her having a sister. Also, the name "Yar" isn't even her born name according to the events described in this book, so her "sister" Ishara wouldn't even have the name Yar. There are a lot of things you learn about Tasha in this book but unfortunately most of it doesn't correspond with the TV show.

That's more because the early books in particular were written before the show had settled down...a lot of stufff is from character outlines before they even shot the show. In this specific case, it's because none of the stuff you mentioned had been even thinking about being thought of, let alone written or shown...the books were (with few exceptions) simply not on the radar of the TV production team, let alone considered canon. Even the few that for a while were, usually didn't stay that way.

 

[BillJ]

I am reading book #4 right now (almost done with it) called "Survivors" and its quite good.

That's all that ever matters to me.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

It was written after Generations, and largely featured TOS era cast not Movie era. It's more like the alternate first contact.

The novel was released Nov.1 1994 and the movie was released Nov.17 1994. Maybe a novel has a shorter time between the first draft & release, but those are pretty close. I wonder if one didn't take some ideas from the other.

 

[TommyR01D]

I've read The Romulan Prize and Perchance to Dream.

 

[Vger23]

I'd read "Q Squared" and "Vendetta".

"Vendetta" was a rip roaring read back in the day. Wish that had been made into a TV 2-part episode before "I, Borg" had. Peter had some fantastic continuation of ideas and set-pieces that really needed to be put on screen. Especially Picard trying to save Delcara. Even the connection to TOS was pretty cool, though there's still a ton of continuity bridging he's trying to write in and at the time it was all fantastic. I sold my copy but, years later, bought another first edition after scouring for a while. Might read it again one day to see how it holds up.

"Q Squared" didn't do it for me as much, from what I recall it didn't have the same natural flow. The integration connecting TNG and TOS also felt forced. It's not a bad novel, but it definitely felt like something was missing, but I'd read that long after the creme of the creme "Vendetta".

Didn't he write a Borg novel involving Janeway?

Vendetta is my favorite Trek novel, right there with "The Autobiography of James T. Kirk." I read it in one sitting as a teenager. Far better than anything put on screen about the Borg (including First Contact) after TBoBW.

 

[letsconsiderit]

And I read another one that was really good called "Masks".

I'm just after starting "masks" it's good so far. I got an awesome download of the entire startrek novel collection. Some are aweful, gave up on "survivors" after the first chapter because it seemed super lame, just a fanfic about Data and Yar hooking up.