Where Do I Start with the Novels??
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Yup. The original idea was Minds happened and then Consciousness and Minds was toward the end of the 5YM. But I never actually placed it there--there's no stardate, and the only thing to really place it in a time is a reference to Immunity Syndrome (Stardate 4307). I planned for Crisis to be after Minds, but the editor (wisely) suggested the Palamas/Scotty stuff, which necessarily kinda placed Crisis I think in the 3XXX stardate time period.
Still, for me, Minds has happened by the time Crisis happens, and they dovetail.
They're all just stories afterall. : ) But, one could have happened after the other--there's nothing in either book that would make one NEED to be before or after the other.
The bottom line as always is hopefully each is enjoyed on its own.
Dave
You might want to check out Peter David's Captain's Daughter, it features both Captain Sulu on the Excelsior and his daughter on the Enterprise-B. It fleshes out the whole backstory in relation to Captain Kirk's question from Star Trek Generations "Sulu...when did he have time for a family?"
I'd recommend starting with the novelization of Caretaker, and go right through to the current Acts Of Contrition.
As in, read Caretaker and Acts of Contrition or read Caretaker, then the 4 Golden novels and then the Beyer novels up to Acts of Contrition?
Set your course with Lifeline, The Chance Factor & Quarantine and then go onto Caretaker and The Escape, then Ragnarok, Violations, Incident At Arbuk, The Murdered Sun, Ghost Of A Chance, Cybersong, The Final Fury, Bless The Beasts, Mosaic, The Garden, Chrysalis, Flashback, Pathways, The Black Shore, Her Klingon Soul, Marooned, Echoes, Seven of Nine, Day Of Honor, Death of A Neutron Star, Fire Ship, Battle Lines, Equinox, Shadow, Cloak and Dagger, Ghost Dance, Shadow Of Heaven, No Man's Land, Nanotech War, Cohesion, Fusion, Evolution, Endgame, Homecoming, The Farther Shore, Old Wounds, Enemy of My Enemy, Full Circle, Unworthy, Children of the Storm, The Eternal Tide, Protectors, and finally Acts Of Contrition.
Those books set up some plot points in the Voyager relaunch. Also, very fun reads. They fit nicely in the gap between seasons 4 and 5.
Kirsten Beyer, the writer of the current Voyager relaunch wrote the second book in the trilogy, so that makes sense that some plot points are revisited.
Some problems from the tv series are resolved well there, giving nice closure and setting the path for future stories. I'm really looking forward to re reading it.
Some problems from the tv series are resolved well there, giving nice closure and setting the path for future stories. I'm really looking forward to re reading it.
Are you saying you're not a fan of "the Voyager crew visits an alien civilization that seems nice in order to get supplies, but they aren't actually nice after all", Thrawn?
Are you saying you're not a fan of "the Voyager crew visits an alien civilization that seems nice in order to get supplies, but they aren't actually nice after all", Thrawn?
Don't forget the "Tom becomes somehow involved with an alien woman'. That happens several times over the course of the numbered books.
However, there are some good ones among them. Christie Golden and Greg Cox's are among the better ones except I didn't care for the Dark Matter Trilogy. I don't know why...just didn't do anything for me. I liked Echoes (callback to Deadlock).
The only thing I don't like about them is there aren't that many set in the time period after Seven of Nine joined the cast.
Can somebody (re)post a more concise listing of the post-series TOS and TNG novels mentioned in this thread so far, along with anything that hasn't been mentioned yet?
Does this include other mediums like comics and video games (I couldn't think of anything else?)
P.S. I don't mean to bump, but I'd like to know.
P.S. I don't mean to bump, but I'd like to know.
I'd recommend the star trek legacies trilogy of books. Book 1 came out last month "captain to captain"
Ghost Of A Chance also gives an explanation as to how Voyager manages to use more torpedoes during its seven year voyage than the 38 that they apparently left the Alpha Quadrant with.
And stardream, from what I recall in Voyages Of Imagination, the first 12 numbered Voyager books were actually commissioned in summer-fall 1994, before Caretaker had even aired. And as Susan Wright noted, she only managed to see Caretaker during the last draft of the book. So most of the numbered novels were commissioned during the Kes era, but were not finished until after Seven of Nine was introduced on the show.
It's kind of like TNG and DS9 having most of their numbered novels that were printed prior to their end being based in the first 4 or 5 seasons. DS9 didn't really have any Season 6 or 7 Dominion War books printed until 2000 when the Millenium trilogy came out.
They had replicators. They could manufacture new torpedoes or shuttles or whatever. The only issue would be where they got the antimatter, but the TNG Tech Manual established that there are shipboard "spin reversal systems" that can convert matter to antimatter in limited amounts, or they could buy antimatter from Delta Quadrant civilizations. (They could also harvest trace amounts of antiparticles from the radiation belts of giant planets or other planets with strong magnetic fields -- a method that's been proposed as a real-life possibility for collecting antimatter.)
