What is your favorite ST book?

[bluedana]

I haven't really been able to get into any star trek books. I tried reading "Federation" but I became bored quickly. I have never liked reading novels based off of tv and movies because the characters never feel right. I would read a Star Trek novel if it had its own totally new characters but I really don't like any of them with the tv characters.

Then I would suggest John Ford's The Final Reflection (TOS). Just really great writing and a totally compelling pre-quel story.

My other favourites are Entropy Effect, Dwellers in the Crucible, Ishmael (just because), and Strangers from the Sky, all TOS.

 

[By-Product]

Damn this is hard.

I think it would have to be Articles of the Federation simply because I can read it again and again and not get bored with it.

 

[EnsignJulka]

The Lost Years is good!

 

[Alidar Jarok]

moving to trek lit

 

[Baerbel Haddrell]

My top favourite Star Trek book is still "Once Burned" by Peter David.

 

[LightningStorm]

My favorite is the Millennium Trilogy by the Reeves-Stevens

 

[JD]

Cool, now we can post on here to equalize the effects from the least favorite thread.
I can't really pick one individual book so I'm going to pick my absoulte favorites from each series:
DS9:Unity/Warpath
TNG:A Time To Heal/Kill
VAN:Reap The Whirlwind
I don't reallly remember much of the New Frontier books so I can't really pick one of them, and I haven't read enough of the other series.

 

[trampledamage]

My single favourite novel is Traitor Winds by L.A. Graf. It's one of their stories that concentrates on Uhura, Sulu and Chekov and I love how they create lives for them outside of the bridge of the Enterprise.

 

[Reanok]

Other favorite books would be Yesterday's son and Time for Yesterday it's sequeal by A.c. Crispin. Crucible By Margaret wander Bonano. Imzadi by Peter David . The ds9 Millenium trilogy by the Reeves Stevens.The Vulcan's soul series.By Sherman & Shwartz.The Enterperise novel The Expanse by J.M. Dillard. Micheal Jan Friedman's Star gazer series.And Brothers Keepers Tos books.

 

[Therin of Andor]

I still have fond memory of Diane Duanes (spelling?) Dreagnaught (spelling?) book and the other one that took place before it or after it. Did that female character appear in any other books?

"Dreadnought!" was followed by "Battlestations!", both first-person novels featuring Piper.

The planned return of Piper never happened, being proposed at a time when the Star Trek Office was discouraging the return of original characters. Steve Roby's "Lost Star Trek novels" page at
http://www.well.com/~sjroby/lostbooks.html tells us that

Diane Carey was interviewed in the October, 1990 issue of Starlog (#159). In the article, "Beyond the Final Frontier," by Wanda J. Hall, Carey discussed three books that were to have followed her two Piper novels, Dreadnought! and Battlestations!

Due to the loyal following that Piper and company have attracted, Carey and Brodeur are planning to bring them back in a novel called By Logic Alone, and a projected two-book series, The Federation Mutiny. However, neither project is yet on Pocket Books' publication schedule.

In By Logic Alone, Piper struggles to deal with her own primitive prejudices while Kirk matches wits with the only nemesis that he truly feared. The Federation Mutiny deals with a major upheaval in Starfleet that ultimately causes Kirk to accept promotion to Admiral, a post he had previously resisted. Carey notes that, "Mutiny is actually James Kirk's story, in which Piper will be dragged along behind as usual." (p.84-85)​

BTW, Piper and "her Vulcan" appear on the cover of one of the "Captain's Table" novels, and make a cute cameo in another one.

 

[Turtletrekker]

I missed that cameo. Diane Carey's Voyager book?

 

[HIj'Qa]

BTW, can anyone list the correct sequence of the Shatner books about Kirk's return?

The official chronological sequence is available via the first link in my sig!

 

[Captain_Koloth]

There's nothing quite like The Final Reflection.

Federation and Prime Directive are awesome too.

 

[Natural]

Vendetta

I also liked the kids book Capture the Flag when I was younger.

 

[Cicero]

A Stitch In Time

2. Rising Son
3. A Time To Heal
4. Reap The Whirlwind
5. The Kobayashi Maru

 

[BrotherBenny]

I think it would have to be Articles of the Federation simply because I can read it again and again and not get bored with it.

QFT

Every time this question comes up, I give the same answer.

 

[MarianLH]

By far, my #1 favourite is Strangers From The Sky. My first copy literally fell apart from being reread so much. Other favourites include The Romulan Way, the Lost Years tetralogy, Dreadnought, Final Frontier, The Final Reflection and Crisis On Centaurus.


Marian

 

[Smiley]

Off the top of my head, though other books do rank as high:

Q-Squared
Imzadi
Unity
Before Dishonor
The Sorrows of Empire
My Enemy, My Ally

 

[highlander]

I'd have to say Federation. I just loved that book. I also love Best Destiny.

 

[Therin of Andor]

I have never liked reading novels based off of tv and movies because the characters never feel right. I would read a Star Trek novel if it had its own totally new characters but I really don't like any of them with the tv characters.

Then you need "Andor: Paradigm", in "Worlds of DS9, Book 1". Just blink when Nog makes a cameo.