Ultimate Best of Trek

[Quinton O'Connor]

Getting started on my top 738 episodes and films... but it might take a while to rate the whole range of novels, short stories, games, and comics from the beginning.

My experience with Trek beyond its cinematic form is perilously inadequate. I fully intend to remedy that this time around. (I rewatch the bulk of the shows every 4-5 years, always with that thought in mind. This time my rewatch has been more thorough than ever, including shows/films I haven't thrown into the blender since initial airing and whatnot, so I'm all the more prepped and ready for it.)

I identify myself as a bit of a gamer (mostly story-driven stuff, though) but the only Trek game I've ever gotten to spend much time with was Birth of the Federation. Lovely 4X-genre title, that one. I'd probably include it by the time my list hit 60 or so.

I've read a total of about 15 Trek books, meaning I've got so very much ahead of me. I'm really looking forward to it.

If you are into board games at all, I would highly recommend Fleet Captains. The common consensus among reviews is that it is "a season of Star Trek in a box." Considering the number of miniatures that it comes with, it's a decent price.

I've dabbled in the board game scene here and there; I've just been waiting to get enough folks who are into the same stuff I'm into to come together and throw down on something like this. Fleet Captains sounds pretty stellar, and I've slowly but surely expanded Trek's influence on my core group of friends, so I'll look into it sometime in the near future. Thanks!

 

[Kilana2]

Sarek (TOS novel)
Fallen Heroes (DS9 novel)
Almost all Greg Cox novels
Almost all of the David Mack novels (those not belonging to Vanguard)
Star Trek First Contact
Star Trek Wrath of Khan
Star Trek Undiscovered Country
The Lost Era novel series (various authors, especially the Terok Nor saga)
Project Pathfinder (Voyager Episode)
McCoy – Crucible (novel by David George III)
The Left Hand of Destiny I+II (novels by J.G. Hertzler and Jeffrey Lang)
Treachery, Faith and the great River (DS9 episode)
All of Kirsten Beyer’s Voyager Novels
The next Phase (TNG episode)
The whole DS9 Relaunch (novels)
The Lives of Dax (anthology)
Star Trek – The Voyage Home
The Quickening (DS9 episode)
Star Trek Vanguard (off-screen novel series)
TOS – the whole show (never grows old)

I don’t really know where to start and where to stop, so I also have more than 10 highlights. And I surely have forgotten to mention great stuff.

 

[Quinton O'Connor]

What about DS9's "The Ship", Kilana?

 

[Karzak]

Well, now my Top 30 feels right at home.

(nearly) 50 years of Trek, so I gave 50 choices.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

But I just found this story online here.

Awesome, thanks! The two stories are indeed reversals of each other.

Just read Visit to a Weird Planet (and found some images from the original publication) and reread Visit to a Weird Planet Revisited. I must say the later story is somewhat smoother, but both are fun. Ah, the early days of fanfic...

Awesome. One of the reasons why "Revisited" stood out was because when I read it in 1976, I still had recent and fond memories of playing Star Trek with my friends, and the story basically took that feeling to the next level. Nothing else really tickles that same fancy in the same way. "Far Beyond the Stars" makes some inroads there, but it's still not quite the same.

 

[Kilana2]

What about DS9's "The Ship", Kilana?

This episode was shown on German TV two days ago.

Self-praise is no recommendation.

 

[Lapis Exilis]

1. World Enough and Time (Phase II/New Voyages fan film)
   

I just finished watching this - and it would definitely hit my top 20 or 30. Wow. I had no idea there was fan production material of this quality. It's on a par with City on the Edge of Forever, The Inner Light, and Children of Time. If you've never seen it, watch it now!

[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4TC5wl0IzE[/yt]

 

[Bad Thoughts]

1. World Enough and Time (Phase II/New Voyages fan film)

I just finished watching this - and it would definitely hit my top 20 or 30. Wow. I had no idea there was fan production material of this quality. It's on a par with City on the Edge of Forever, The Inner Light, and Children of Time. If you've never seen it, watch it now!

There are better fan films by now, but World Enough was a major turning point in terms of quality and story.

 

[Lapis Exilis]

1. World Enough and Time (Phase II/New Voyages fan film)

I just finished watching this - and it would definitely hit my top 20 or 30. Wow. I had no idea there was fan production material of this quality. It's on a par with City on the Edge of Forever, The Inner Light, and Children of Time. If you've never seen it, watch it now!

There are better fan films by now, but World Enough was a major turning point in terms of quality and story.

If there's even better than stuff than this - titles, please!

It's been so long since I've been able to enjoy this sort of straight up Trek, not trying to be mass-appeal-to-the-taste-of-the-minute, just good SF with strong characters. It's positively delightful!

 

[publiusr]

The Doomsday Machine/Vendetta
Balance of Terror.
The Ultimate Computer
ST II TWOK
Obsession/Operation Annihilate/The Immunity Syndrome/Arena
The Counterclock Incident/The Time Trap
Dreadnaught!