What books best capture the vibe/visuals of the shows?

[Miami Vice Admiral]

Hi all,

Just recently read Captain to Captain by Greg Cox and I was really impressed by how well I could see it as being an actual TOS episode. On the other hand some of the novel verse books have superior action sequences but I can’t picture them being shown in an actual Star Trek episode.

Have their been any stand out novels in your reading that really captured the “feel” of the TV shows? Books that keep to what could’ve actually been done on a tv budget?

One that comes to mind is Diane Carey’s ship of the Line. I could really picture the story as a two part episode of TNG

 

[Stevil2001]

I think most of Dayton Ward's post-The Fall Odyssean Pass novels are like this, particularly Armageddon's Arrow and Available Light. If there was a season of TNG set aboard the Enterprise-E, I think it would be like this.

Of other books I've read semi-recently, John Vornholt's Masks and Esther Friesner's Warchild were very good at this.

 

[JD]

It obviously wasn't based on one of the TV series, but I've often thought that the SCE books, with their shorter mission of the month style of stories, felt a lot like a TV show we never got.

 

[Detaith911]

Imzadi, is essentially a sequel to All Good Things
There are several Novels under the "numbered" list that play out like episodes.
The Enterprise series novels are legit a follow up to the series as are the DS9 relaunch novels

 

[F. King Daniel]

It's been a long long time, but I remember The Abode of Life, Chain of Attack and The Final Nexus trilogy really capturing the feel of The Original Series. I could imagine it as an epic TV trilogy (and it was adapted as a fan film in the 70's, IIRC)

 

[Christopher]

It's been a long long time, but I remember The Abode of Life, Chain of Attack and The Final Nexus trilogy really capturing the feel of The Original Series. I could imagine it as an epic TV trilogy

I think it's a stretch to call that a trilogy, since the connection of the DeWeese books to the earlier Correy book was tenuous. (I was just telling someone yesterday on another forum how it's a little-known fact that Chain is a loose followup to Abode.) It's more like a standalone and a duology expanding on one element of it.

(and it was adapted as a fan film in the 70's, IIRC)

That would be quite a feat, given that the books came out in 1982, 1987, and 1988.