The books (both comic or literature) that summarize everything that is great in the Star Trek EU.
Feel free to share why and how.
Feel free to share why and how.
What are your must-reads?
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In some kind of order:
Enterprise: The Good That Men Do- shows how TrekLit can really impact our interpretation of the shows.
Vangaurd: Harbinger- shows how great TrekLit can get
TOS: Burning Dreams- just cuz it's the best TOS book I've read
DS9: Unity- really completes DS9
VOY: Full Circle- nuff said
Destiny trilogy- nuff said
Enterprise: The Good That Men Do- shows how TrekLit can really impact our interpretation of the shows.
Vangaurd: Harbinger- shows how great TrekLit can get
TOS: Burning Dreams- just cuz it's the best TOS book I've read
DS9: Unity- really completes DS9
VOY: Full Circle- nuff said
Destiny trilogy- nuff said
My picks for the stories that would best show what Trek Lit is really capable of:
Destiny
Vanguard
The DS9 Relaunch
Serpents Among the Ruins
The Art of the Impossible
As I've posted in other best of threads, I have a lot more favorites, but I think these would give you the best overall feel for what kinds of stories Trek Lit tells when it is at it's best.
Destiny
Vanguard
The DS9 Relaunch
Serpents Among the Ruins
The Art of the Impossible
As I've posted in other best of threads, I have a lot more favorites, but I think these would give you the best overall feel for what kinds of stories Trek Lit tells when it is at it's best.
In no particular order...
- Destiny by David Mack
- The Never-Ending Sacrifice by Una McCormack
- Typhon Pact: Plagues of Night/Raise the Dawn by David R. George III
- Articles of the Federation by Keith R.A. DeCandido
- Vanguard: Reap the Whirlwind by David Mack
- Spock's World by Diane Duane
- A Stitch in Time by Andrew J. Robinson
- Destiny by David Mack
- The Never-Ending Sacrifice by Una McCormack
- Typhon Pact: Plagues of Night/Raise the Dawn by David R. George III
- Articles of the Federation by Keith R.A. DeCandido
- Vanguard: Reap the Whirlwind by David Mack
- Spock's World by Diane Duane
- A Stitch in Time by Andrew J. Robinson
- Voyager: Children of the Storm by Kirsten Beyer (really, all four of Beyer's so far, but this is the best if I pick one)
- Destiny by David Mack
- TNG: Vendetta, TNG: Imzadi, and TNG: Q-Squared by Peter David
- New Frontier: Once Burned and New Frontier: Stone & Anvil by Peter David
- DS9: Avatar [books 1 and 2] by S.D. Perry (though really the DS9 relaunch all the way through Unity is greater than the sum of its parts)
- Typhon Pact: Plagues of Night & Raise the Dawn by David R. George III
- SCE: Wildfire by David Mack
- Lost Era: Serpents Among the Ruins by David R. George III
- Lost Era: The Art of the Impossible by Keith R.A. DeCandido
- TNG/Lost Era: The Buried Age by Christopher L. Bennett
- Destiny by David Mack
- TNG: Vendetta, TNG: Imzadi, and TNG: Q-Squared by Peter David
- New Frontier: Once Burned and New Frontier: Stone & Anvil by Peter David
- DS9: Avatar [books 1 and 2] by S.D. Perry (though really the DS9 relaunch all the way through Unity is greater than the sum of its parts)
- Typhon Pact: Plagues of Night & Raise the Dawn by David R. George III
- SCE: Wildfire by David Mack
- Lost Era: Serpents Among the Ruins by David R. George III
- Lost Era: The Art of the Impossible by Keith R.A. DeCandido
- TNG/Lost Era: The Buried Age by Christopher L. Bennett
TOS must-reads
plus:
Masks(TNG) by John Vornholt
-Brilliant world creation
Q-Squared(TNG) by Peter David
-masterful skipping between three time tracks
A Rock and a Hard Place(TNG) by Peter David
-proto-calhoun is amazing
Dark Mirror(TNG) by Diane Duane
-TNG visits the authors vision of the progression of the mirror universe - one I honestly far prefer compared to what we ended up getting when DS9 did theirs.
Intellivore(TNG) by Diane Duane
-One of the few times I've gotten a "thriller" vibe from treklit. Superbly amps up tension and mystery throughout the book
The 34th rule(DS9) by David R George & Armin Shimmerman
-Superbly focused book on Quark and a grand Machiavellian scheme he gets involved with.
A Stitch in Time(DS9) by Andrew J Robinson
-Pretty much the same as above but for Garak. Great look at his youth and at post-ds9 cardassia
plus:
Masks(TNG) by John Vornholt
-Brilliant world creation
Q-Squared(TNG) by Peter David
-masterful skipping between three time tracks
A Rock and a Hard Place(TNG) by Peter David
-proto-calhoun is amazing
Dark Mirror(TNG) by Diane Duane
-TNG visits the authors vision of the progression of the mirror universe - one I honestly far prefer compared to what we ended up getting when DS9 did theirs.
Intellivore(TNG) by Diane Duane
-One of the few times I've gotten a "thriller" vibe from treklit. Superbly amps up tension and mystery throughout the book
The 34th rule(DS9) by David R George & Armin Shimmerman
-Superbly focused book on Quark and a grand Machiavellian scheme he gets involved with.
A Stitch in Time(DS9) by Andrew J Robinson
-Pretty much the same as above but for Garak. Great look at his youth and at post-ds9 cardassia
Enterprise The Good that men do Ds9 Unity. Prophecy and change Trilogy.Tos Cross roads by Barbara Hambly. Twilight's end Jerry Oltin. Ds9 Times enemy L.A.Graff Traitor winds Death count Shell game. Brinkmanship Una McCormack. Indistinguishable Magic by David McIntee
I'd second the recommendations from "CaptPapa," and add "almost anything by Diane Duane, Diane Carey, John Ford, or Christopher L. Bennett," and (going back to the old Bantam releases) Death's Angel and Trek to Madworld.
DRGIII's 'trilogy' of Rough Beast of Empire, Plagues Of Night and Raise The Dawn. I know some people don't care for some of character-choices here, but damn, I love them!!
Destiny is a given, as is all of Vanguard.
The Neverending Sacrifice is just a little gem really, very good.
Ex Machina is a definite must.
Serpents Among The Ruines and The Art Of The Impossible from TLE.
Several more, but these are the ones that spring to mind right now.
Destiny is a given, as is all of Vanguard.
The Neverending Sacrifice is just a little gem really, very good.
Ex Machina is a definite must.
Serpents Among The Ruines and The Art Of The Impossible from TLE.
Several more, but these are the ones that spring to mind right now.
Ditto. Also Spock's world and Diane Duane's Romulan novels. Imzadi. Q in law .Cold Equations by David Mack. Plaugues of night and Raise the dawn. The wrath of khan by Vonda McIntire.
Enterprise: it's a tie between "By The Book" and "Daedalus/Daedalus' Children". The novel "Daedalus" was a lot better than the episode "Daedalus".
TOS: #76 The Captain's Daughter by Peter David and "The Mirror Universe Trilogy" by William Shatner, Mission To Horatius" by Mack Reynolds---the ORIGINAL and first Trek Novel ever.
TNG: #4 Capture The Flag by John Vornholt, #7 Masks by Michael Jan Friedman, #25 Grounded by David Bischoff, Dark Mirror by Diane Duane (I would really like to see a DS9 or Voyager story, or even another TNG story set in this universe), Ship Of The Line (story of the E-E's maiden voyage)
DS9: #7 Warchild (whatever happened to the Naavark?), #17 Heart Of A Warrior, Trials-and-Tribble-ations.
Voyager: #2 The Escape by Dean Wesley Smith & Kristin Kathryn Rusch, #15 Echoes, Mosaic & Pathways by Jeri Taylor.
TOS: #76 The Captain's Daughter by Peter David and "The Mirror Universe Trilogy" by William Shatner, Mission To Horatius" by Mack Reynolds---the ORIGINAL and first Trek Novel ever.
TNG: #4 Capture The Flag by John Vornholt, #7 Masks by Michael Jan Friedman, #25 Grounded by David Bischoff, Dark Mirror by Diane Duane (I would really like to see a DS9 or Voyager story, or even another TNG story set in this universe), Ship Of The Line (story of the E-E's maiden voyage)
DS9: #7 Warchild (whatever happened to the Naavark?), #17 Heart Of A Warrior, Trials-and-Tribble-ations.
Voyager: #2 The Escape by Dean Wesley Smith & Kristin Kathryn Rusch, #15 Echoes, Mosaic & Pathways by Jeri Taylor.
just out of curiosity, and after browsing through the various posts, how do the "Must Read" picks differ from "Favorite Trek novels" or the various "Best novel" threads?
I thought the "Must Read"s would be the books that best showcase the trek "universe", not necessarily the best written or most liked..
I thought the "Must Read"s would be the books that best showcase the trek "universe", not necessarily the best written or most liked..
With Enterprise, it's pretty easy, since for the most part the books are superior to the show, since the plots seemed to be thought out better, so that you didn't have all the action occur within the first fifth of the book and then just have all the characters go from place to place for no good reason other than to fill up time (most of the Enterprise episodes I found used up 95% of the plot within the first 10 minutes, and then the last 50 minutes were wasted on the thinnest of reasons for having the characters go from this point to that point).
For TOS I found that "The Captain's Daughter" was a better character developer novel, since it is exploring Sulu from the Original series, right up to Generations and even let's us know why we hadn't heard of Demora before "Generations".
The MU Trilogy, I remember that it was the one trilogy that got me to go back to the TOS books after finding a number of TOS books to have way to much of a Western feel, and I was hooked by reading the back cover and seeing there was a plot line about Voyager.
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