That's my second favourite, but it's so so close to AOTF in my ratings.
Your favorite Trek Novel?
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For me:
TOS: Ashes Of Eden, primarily cos it answered what happened to the ENT-A
TNG: Q-Squared, one of the first TNG books i read, very captivating
DS9: Unity, fantastic ending to the Mission: Gamma saga.
VOY: Homecoming, although i don't read many VOY books
ENT: Kobayashi Maru, fantastic read!
I also absolutely love Art Of The Impossible, Terok Nor, Articles Of The Federation, Q&A and the last 3 A Time To Books.
TOS: Ashes Of Eden, primarily cos it answered what happened to the ENT-A
TNG: Q-Squared, one of the first TNG books i read, very captivating
DS9: Unity, fantastic ending to the Mission: Gamma saga.
VOY: Homecoming, although i don't read many VOY books
ENT: Kobayashi Maru, fantastic read!
I also absolutely love Art Of The Impossible, Terok Nor, Articles Of The Federation, Q&A and the last 3 A Time To Books.
Articles of the Federation is quite good too. Wildfire just has the emotion, the action, and the drama that make it so good. It basically tears apart our safe little world as we know it. And from there we get to see what happens to the others as they deal with the aftermath in other SCE stories.
I found it very hard to warm to most the early DS9 and VOY novels and, when I first started to fall behind as the publication schedule stepped up to two-books-per-month, it was the pile of DS9 and VOY novels which ended up going unread. I did eventually catch up, but the two unforgettable standout VOY titles were both Janeway novels: "Mosaic" and "The Captain's Table: Fire Ship".
Considering my feelings towards the character of Janeway, those did not really catch me.
The DS9 novels, however--even though I only singled out a few on my list--generally at LEAST held my attention even though some of them were better than others. My personal belief on that is that the characters in the show were early on so intriguing that it was possible to pull some very interesting stories out of them right off the bat.
One thing I am curious to know, though--in each of the later series (TNG, DS9, VOY, ENT), when did books start being written after the series was aired? Somebody mentioned that the books lagged the events being televised--that some books were started before a single episode was ever aired. Is this true? And if so, where is the turning point in each series?
tos - crucible: mcoy: provenance of shadows - lots of good books here but i'll choose this one. strangers from the sky is a pretty close second.
tng - imzadi - by a long shot, love that book
ds9 - stitch in time - but there are so many good books in the relaunch, this was tough
voy - nothing has wowed me enough so far to make it a best
ent - good that men do but i've only read the 3 m&m books. this is the stand out though
tng - imzadi - by a long shot, love that book
ds9 - stitch in time - but there are so many good books in the relaunch, this was tough
voy - nothing has wowed me enough so far to make it a best
ent - good that men do but i've only read the 3 m&m books. this is the stand out though
That's hard to pin down. Some books may have been proposed while the show was running, but not finished or published till after the series ended. Some books have longer gestation periods, and some were written on a very short timeframe.
Sure. Certainly "TNG: Ghost Ship", "TNG: Peacekeepers", "DS9: The Siege" (written in just 14 days; using the DS9 writers' bible plus five scripts), "VOY: The Escape" and "ENT: By the Book" (ENT writers' bible plus three scripts).
Nathan Archer mentions, in "Voyages of Imagination", that he wrote most of the second original VOY novel, "Ragnarok", using the writers' bible, but was able to polish the characters' speeches once "Caretaker" aired.
Wildfire has an element in common with the greatest Trek novels, including Spock's World, Articles of the Federation, and The Sorrows of Empire. Reap the Whirlwind: It is, ultimately, a story that speaks to a universal human experience, and thus a genuine literary accomplishment. If Articles of the Federation is about our capacity to unite in common cause to create a better world, about the joy of democracy, then Wildfire is about the inevitability of death and how we choose to face it (while The Sorrows of Empire is about the horrors of tyranny and the necessity of human liberty, and Spock's World is about the interaction within its history of a culture's dark sins and greatest hopes).
Hey everyone, I discovered this site a couple months ago and finally signed up today. I've been enjoying all the debates on here a lot.
Anyway, one book I just went back and read for the first time in 17 years, and highly recommend, is Dwellers in the Crucible, Margaret Wander Bonnano's first Trek book. It doesn't necessarily fit in with canon as we know it today, but is an excellent gritty, emotionally-charged story, largely revolving around two compelling new characters, with the Enterprise crew in a more peripheral role. Sort of an interesting alternative vision of Federation politics. If you like her stuff, you should check it out.
Also, I couldn't get enough of Articles of the Federation, I was struck by how well it captured the feel and energy of The West Wing (intentionally or not), no easy feat... better than crack for a poli sci major like me.
Anyway, one book I just went back and read for the first time in 17 years, and highly recommend, is Dwellers in the Crucible, Margaret Wander Bonnano's first Trek book. It doesn't necessarily fit in with canon as we know it today, but is an excellent gritty, emotionally-charged story, largely revolving around two compelling new characters, with the Enterprise crew in a more peripheral role. Sort of an interesting alternative vision of Federation politics. If you like her stuff, you should check it out.
Also, I couldn't get enough of Articles of the Federation, I was struck by how well it captured the feel and energy of The West Wing (intentionally or not), no easy feat... better than crack for a poli sci major like me.
The usual:
Federation, Vanguard, The Return, Cox's first 2 Khan books (the third was alright but not in the same league IMHO)
My favourite by far though is A Stitch in Time just for the pace, the narrative and the plot and character's shows DS9 at it's best but on page rather than screen.
Also thefirst lost era book (I think it was named the Sundred- the one with Sulu and Chekov in it- cracking book)
Federation, Vanguard, The Return, Cox's first 2 Khan books (the third was alright but not in the same league IMHO)
My favourite by far though is A Stitch in Time just for the pace, the narrative and the plot and character's shows DS9 at it's best but on page rather than screen.
Also thefirst lost era book (I think it was named the Sundred- the one with Sulu and Chekov in it- cracking book)
That reminds me, I really should reread AotF, now that I've finally gotten a chance to see The West Wing, thanks to the recent election episode marathons on Bravo. In fact, it was everyone comparing the two on here that finally made me decide to check it out when I saw that it was gonna be on. So I guess I have to thank KRAD for getting me to try it, because I did really liked it. So thanks!
I just hope I get to see some of the episodes from the before the last season.
^ You have found yourself a great show. Well, for the first four seasons, anyhow. I don't think much of the last three, especially the fifth season, which is an embarrassment. The sixth and seventh seasons (the ones focused on the election) were better, but nowhere near the excellence of the first four.
There were only four seasons of The West Wing. It ended on a cliffhanger which was never resolved, and I wish Sorkin would get off his ass and show us how it was supposed to all work out.
Actually, in his commentary for the season four finale, Sorkin mentioned that his original intent was that it would turn out that an extremist Christian group -- I want to say a racist hate group -- was behind Zoe's kidnapping.
TOS #52, 'Home is the Hunter' and TNG's 'Crossover'. They both are great stories, a little time travel here....a little TOS/TNG interaction there!
I'll give a nod to The Wounded Sky. Similarly, I am a huge fan of The Romulan Way. I think Duane had a way of building worlds, and making the Star Trek universe feel real, in a way that not all authors have. I suppose it shouldn't be suprising then that my favorite "newer" novel is Ex Machina. Different than the Duane novels, but it really breathed life into the crew of the Enterprise, and the universe they inhabit.
There's quite a few I enjoyed, but one I haven't spotted mentioned yet is "Rules of Engagement" by Peter Morwood
