Which Novels Have The Most Action?

[Dayton3]

In your opinion, which Trek novels have the most action?

As in action that is closely described in the novel not just referred to.

Such as a great battle that is only mentioned in passing. That isn't action.

One that springs to my mind is "Federation". The way they continue to cut back and fourth between the battles in two eras with the chapter heading "engaged with the enemy".

Another would be Diane Duane's recent Romulan Civil War novel.

 

[JD]

The Vanguard books have quite a bit of action in them, especially the last one. But they also focus alot of their energy on the story and the characters so you wouldn't like them.

 

[Dayton3]

The Vanguard books have quite a bit of action in them, especially the last one. But they also focus alot of their energy on the story and the characters so you wouldn't like them.

Thanks for the tip. Although with brand new characters I can tolerate some time spent on characterization.

Not so on characters that have been around for decades.

 

[JD]

Ok, then. IMO it is one of the best Trek series we've gotten, along side DS9, TNG, and Titan.

 

[captcalhoun]

A Time to Kill, A Time to Heal and Wildfire.

 

[Marie1]

Destiny tril, Warpath maybe... um... Gateways DS9 and the Sect. 31 had a lot of action flying around...

 

[KRAD]

Well, Sulu gets laid in The Entropy Effect......

Oh, not that kind of action? Sorry.....

More seriously, my second I.K.S. Gorkon novel Honor Bound is pretty much all action, both in space and on the ground.

 

[Dayton3]

Well, Sulu gets laid in The Entropy Effect......

Oh, not that kind of action? Sorry.....

More seriously, my second I.K.S. Gorkon novel Honor Bound is pretty much all action, both in space and on the ground.

I should've added.

No Klingons featured if at all possible.

The Klingons were spent back in the 1980s.

 

[JAG]

These are not your fathers Klingons!

 

[KRAD]

"Spent"? Neat trick considering that 90% of the development of the Klingons happened after 1988. And it's pretty hilarious that you're asking for action stories but excluding the species in Trek that gets into fights most often...

 

[JD]

I really want to make a nasty comment right now, but I won't because I don't want to get in trouble.

 

[LightningStorm]

I really want to make a nasty comment right now, but I won't because I don't want to get in trouble.

Discretion is the better part of valor.

 

[Strider]

I should've added.

No Klingons featured if at all possible.

The Klingons were spent back in the 1980s.

lol what a weirdo!

 

[Rosalind]

Strider, post not poster, please. Thanks.

 

[KRAD]

I should've added.

No Klingons featured if at all possible.

The Klingons were spent back in the 1980s.

To expand on my earlier point, made on my iPhone while running errands.....

I misremembered a date, so my earlier post was slightly inaccurate. But my point remains this: with two notable exceptions, every portrayal of Klingons in TOS, TAS, and the first five films (IOW, the stuff released prior to 1990) was of a bunch of generic bad-guy thugs: Koloth and Korax, the crews serving under Kor and Kang, the Klingons in both "A Private Little War" and "Friday's Child," the unnamed TMP captain, Kruge and his crew, and Klaa and his crew were all mustache-twirling villains with little depth to them. The exceptions were, of course, biggies: John Colicos's Kor and Michael Ansara's Kang.

Still, it wasn't until TNG that we even got a hint of any depth to the Klingon culture -- in "Heart of Glory" and "A Matter of Honor" -- but even that didn't kick into high gear until "Sins of the Father"....

....which didn't air until 1990. So the notion that the Klingons were "spent" in the 1980s is specious, given that next to nothing was done with them until 1990. (In fact, the most that was done with them was in a single novel, John M. Ford's The Final Reflection.)

Now I admit to some bias, considering the number of Klingon-focused books and stories I've written, but Dayton3, you keep harping on how you want to see more military engagements, so to discount the one species in Star Trek that always goes looking for battle strikes me as bizarre in the extreme.

 

[Marie1]

Okay, but if you don't care for the Klingons, how do you feel about the other warring races? Well, I guess I should be diplomatic, and say races that have been involved in conflict... such as the Borg, Species 8472, the Hirogen, the Jem'Hadar, the Nausicans... ummm... other creatures...

 

[Infern0]

If you want action there is only one word for you "shatnerverse"