Which Trek Novel has stuck in your mind the most?

[Kilana2]

I have fond memories of many Trek novels I've read. Some of them stuck in my mind and I can remember the story well, others I have completely forgotten about. It doesn't mean I didn't like the story.

Thinking back to the first reading, which was the novel that stuck in your mind the most?

My list is:
- A.C. Crispin: Sarek
- TOS: The-Three-Minute-Universe
- DS9 - Fallen Heroes
- Voyager - Full Circle
- TNG Peter David novels: Imzadi I, Q-Squared, Q-in-Law.

 

[Mysterion]

The Wounded Sky - Diane Duane

 

[Jayson1]

I might not know all the names.

DS9 -Fallen Heroes

Dark Mirror where we see the mirror universe version of TNG before DS9 even did it on the show.

The New Frontieer and DS9 relauch stuff. I think a personal favorite might be the one that showed what Jake did and found himself in the GQ aboard a "Firefly" type of ship and he was dealing with his dad being gone.

Federation-Basically the "West Wing" book were you see inside the politics of the Federation.

The books that showed how the Eugenics Wars happened in our real world even though we haven't noticed it.

I also really loved the Alternate Universe books. Where you got to see stories that took place in a difference universe but not the mirror universe.

Maybe my favorite of all time is "A Stich in TIme" that was about Garak after the end of the show and living on Carddisia.


Jason

 

[Mysterion]

Federation-Basically the "West Wing" book were you see inside the politics of the Federation.

This is Articles of the Federation by Keith R. DeCandido, not to be confused with Federation by Judith & Garfield Reeves-Stevens.

 

[RandyS]

I wish I could say but the older I get the harder stuff like that has gotten.

 

[JonnyQuest037]

I'd say Federation by Judith & Garfield Reeves-Stevens (I much prefer that version of Zephram Cochrane to the one we got in First Contact), Vulcan's Glory by D.C. Fontana (still my headcanon version of Mr. Spock's backstory), Burning Dreams by Margaret Wander Bonanno (the definitive Christopher Pike novel, IMO) and the Crucible novel about McCoy, The Provenance of Shadows, by David R. George III.

 

[Therin of Andor]

"The Entropy Effect". I had read several Bantam novels and then this one, Pocket's first original Trek novel, was excerpted in "Starlog".

The novel arrived by mail order from Space Age Books in Melbourne. (They were getting new Trek faster than Galaxy in Sydney at the time.) I was totally hooked. While reading it on a train, and Spock fails in his first time-travel jump to prevent Kirk's death, I yelled out, "Oh no!" - and the whole carriage of passengers turned to stare.

 

[Kilana2]

I have difficulties to remember the older TOS novels I've read. In this case I look for some recaps to refresh my memory.

I've forgot to mention TNG's Dragon's Honor. The aphorisms were quite funny. I'm going to re-read it one day....

 

[wissaboo]

I haven't read a while lot but the only one that has stuck with me was Spock's World.

 

[USS Firefly]

Articles of the Federation
Destiny
And a couple of more Trek novels

 

[thribs]

Destiny and with what’s going on in Discovery, Section 31: Control.

 

[Cyfa]

Prime Directive, by Judith & Garfield Reeves-Stevens, is the one that first springs to mind. The scattered crew of the seemingly lost Enterprise coming together to prove that their disastrous first contact with the natives of Talin IV wasn't their fault - it was unlike any other Trek novel I'd read at the time (I hadn't read that many when this was published, admittedly), and has stuck with me since.

Final Frontier, by Diane Carey is another old one that I remember fondly. More recently, the Lives of Dax anthology is always at the forefront of my mind when I think of Trek books.

 

[thribs]

No Time Like the Past. A very entertaining read that goes in deeper into some of the story threads in TOS. Plus having Seven interacting with Kirk and co. was a blast as well.

 

[Thrawn]

Voyager: Children of the Storm.

 

[Damian]

"Chain of Attack" by Gene DeWeese. It was a favorite of mine and I always recommend it to anyone that listens. It's one of those few books that I read over a weekend (usually it takes me 2 to 3 weeks to read a book, longer if it's poor). It's been years since I read it but I remember the story pretty well (I usually forget details about a book after a while but this one still sticks in my mind).

The Destiny Trilogy is another that I haven't forgotten, though it hasn't been as long since "Chain of Attack"

"Strangers from the Sky" by Margaret Wander Bonanno is another favorite

And "Battlestations!" is another I'd throw out there because it was my very first original Star Trek novel. If it was just one I read over the years I probably wouldn't mention it, but since it was my first

 

[TheUsualSuspect]

I'll give another mention to The Entropy Effect by Vonda N. McIntyre. I read it when it first came out and have reread it multiple times over the years - most recently about three years ago. A great story, some great original characters, and a suspenseful plot, but I think my favorite part of it is McIntyre's take on Kirk's younger years and relationships. A unique and intriguing view of the character although it contradicts a lot of later ideas and probably some canonical information.

I also really enjoyed the ways David Goodman filled in some of the gaps in Kirk's history in The Autobiography of James T. Kirk and created a hitherto unseen "career path" to connect the various fragments of information about Kirk's later career we'd gotten over the years.

There have been plenty of good books over the years, but those were two that came readily to mind.

 

[Kilana2]

I've read The Three-Minute-Universe so many times the paperback book almost comes apart.

 

[Burning Hearts of Qo'nos]

IMZADI. Sucker for it as Troi and Riker were my first ever ship, lol.

 

[Reanok]

Imzadi by Peter David ,The Wounded sky by Diane Duane and her Romulan book series. The ds9 Millenium book series by The Reeves stevens. Star Trek Ds9 Unity. ENT The Good that Men do by Andy Mangels &Micheal A.Martin. Yesterday's son and Time for Yesterday by A.C. Crispin, Uhura's song by Janet Kagan Star Trek 2,3 by Vonda McIntyre.Strangers form the sky by Margaret Wander Bonnao.

 

[Kilana2]

Unity was great. And the parasite storyline was exciting and creepy.