You're least favorite Trek book

[Starbreaker]

Voyaqer: Ragnarok by Nathan Archer

 

[JD]

I'm currently trying to read the 4 part DS9 Gamma series, but it's also very slow. I'm through books 1 and 2, and towards the end of 2 I found myself skipping entire sections because it was just so boring. The characters feel pretty good, but everything is so drawn out. 500 pages for 250 pages worth of material.

This is another suprising one. I'm actually rereading Twilight right now, and IMO it's absoultely amazing. It's not big on action, but I love the character development we get in the book, especially for Vaughn and Prynn, two of my favorite Trek characters in all of it's forms.

 

[LightningStorm]

I'm currently trying to read the 4 part DS9 Gamma series, but it's also very slow. I'm through books 1 and 2, and towards the end of 2 I found myself skipping entire sections because it was just so boring. The characters feel pretty good, but everything is so drawn out. 500 pages for 250 pages worth of material.

This is another suprising one. I'm actually rereading Twilight right now, and IMO it's absoultely amazing. It's not big on action, but I love the character development we get in the book, especially for Vaughn and Prynn, two of my favorite Trek characters in all of it's forms.

I too didn't care for the Mission Gamma books, but I wouldn't put them among the worst of the worst.

 

[gunslinger66]

The Trellisane Confrontation. I don't remember anything about it except forcing my way through it. And, oh yeah, the really crappy cover art!

 

[ClayinCA]

Ship of the Line.

I actually had to put it down when Captain Picard said to Gul Madred (who you may remember torturing Picard in 'Chain of Command'): "A few years after you tortured me the Borg got their hands on me." because at that point the badness became overwhelming.

Wow, really?? I had completely forgotten that...I remember hating this book for various other reasons, but that one went right by me.

 

[Therin of Andor]

In the Name of Honor.

It's small wonder why the editors haven't let the hack responsible for that atrocity out of the stable alone again, without Bubba holding his hand.

Huh?

 

[Christopher]

^^Even more proof that deadpan humor doesn't work well on the Internet...

 

[JoeZhang]

I'm not saying it's the worst book I've ever read but that one where they get all of the enterprises (I cannot even remember the name) together wasn't very good - it just felt like a story that should be much better.

 

[donners22]

My hate is reserved for WARPED,which I bought in hardback...what a waste of time etc.

Waste of time is flattering. I found it downright repulsive.

Some books irritate me (most of the A Time To... series, the MU anthologies, the Q trilogy in parts), but I've not actively disliked a Trek book as much as Warped.

 

[Therin of Andor]

^^Even more proof that deadpan humor doesn't work well on the Internet...

I kinda figured that that's what William Leisner was aiming at, and perhaps Dayton Ward is a friend of his, but a newcomer to this thread would undoubtedly assume that WL meant every word of it.

And "In the Name of Honor" is a great read!

 

[William Leisner]

^ And yet, it's the bloke whose been on this board going on four years who felt the need to ask the question, "Huh?"

 

[TrekNut87]

Battle Lines. I tried to read this twice, and I just couldn't get through it.

 

[Reanok]

Windows on a Lost World By V.E. Mitchell, Red Sector,Before Dishonor

 

[MarianLH]

Shadows On The Sun. The alien culture-building was pretty good, but the Federation bureucrat was an obnoxious stereotype and the love triangle was handled in a very sexist way.

Another is Uhura's Song. The Mary Sue character drove me up the wall, and she's on every freakin page. Which is a shame, because everything else about the book is very well done.


Marian

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Those damn 'Phoenix' novels. Price of, and Fate of. I don't think I even finished them. Proof positive that Marshak & Culbreath should not be allowed near a keyboard ever again.

And talking of Mary Sues: Anything with Piper in it. Bleah. A more obvious Mary Sue I have yet to read.

 

[trampledamage]

Another is Uhura's Song. The Mary Sue character drove me up the wall, and she's on every freakin page. Which is a shame, because everything else about the book is very well done.

I agree about the Mary Sue - the doctor, can't remember her name. I absolutely adore Uhura's Song for everything else, but her role gets more glaringly annoying each time I read the book.

 

[Reanok]

Warped and the Phoenix Novels.The Phoenix novels were awful.

 

[Leaf]

Those damn 'Phoenix' novels. Price of, and Fate of. I don't think I even finished them. Proof positive that Marshak & Culbreath should not be allowed near a keyboard ever again.

And talking of Mary Sues: Anything with Piper in it. Bleah. A more obvious Mary Sue I have yet to read.

Have I got the book for you then! Death's Angel - it's an older one, but the main character is such a Sue she could beat Piper senseless without mussing up her perfect cotton candy curls, or having the slightest touch of sweat mar her flawless complexion.

Both Kirk AND Spock fall in love with her. She's a secret agent, she's a hybrid of all sorts of Startrek aliens so she's extra pretty, she can destroy the Enterprise by pressing a button on her watch... (Kirk has no problem with this btw).

It's funny now, but I remember a long time ago I hated this book so much I wrote a screed in my LiveJournal about how much it sucked... then I got embarrased and friendslocked it. Hahaha.

 

[ClayinCA]

Oh Lord, I remember that...Kirk actually proposes marriage to her, as I recall...

 

[Allyn Gibson]

Holy crap, it's official. I'm the only guy who enjoyed Warped at all.

No, Phrog, I liked it, too.

It's a phildickian mindfuck of a Star Trek novel. It comes from different literary antecedents than, well, virtually anything else Star Trek.

I think it's good stuff.