I just finished “A Stitch in Time” and started looking for some other Trek books.
Ended up buying the Millennium trilogy and the Destiny Trilogy.
Was going to start reading Millennium, but when I read the preview/prologue for Destiny before I bought it, it started out with Sisko and Jadzia discovering the derelict remains of the NX-02 Columbia in the Gamma Quadrant, and I was hooked and had to buy/continue reading that one.
Which ones have you read? Any other recommendations?
Oh, also, I’m gonna slightly plug ebooks [dot] com since they have a huge selection of DRM-free books, and all of the Trek books I was looking at were available without DRM. Saves me the hassle of jailbreaking an Amazon purchase or buying it from Amazon and pirating a DRM-free version I can actually use.
Diane Duane wrote some great Star Trek books - The Wounded Sky and Spock’s World are perennial favorites.
I’d also recommend Q-Squared by Peter David. Very ambitious book and does a great job of making some lore connections.
I really like the Department of Temporal Investigations book “Watching the Clock.” Very clever time travel story.
there’s a series of in-universe biographies that ranges from good to great. The Autobiography of Mr. Spock and The Autobiography of Benjamin Sisko are my favorites, they’re very good looks into those character’s minds and also give you a lot of cool background info on the federation inside and outside of starfleet. i definitely recommend those two and the rest of you’re hungry for more after
if you’re salty about how Enterprise ended, espwcially for one character in particular, The Good That Men Do is worth checking out. it reads like a fixfic because it essentially is but hey. it leads into a few other books but i haven’t had a chance to read them yet
I don’t know. There’s something about the description of the ENT novels that rubs me the wrong way.
spoiler
I just find it really weird to make Tucker Section 31 and add a whole convoluted thing about how he originally faked his death in 2155, but changed it to 2161 for some reason.
i mean you’re totally right, the entire premise is a huge stretch. that’s part of what makes it so fic-y, which is certainly not for everyone’s pallette
I love the work of the Reeves-Stevenses (even the Shatnerverse), and Diane Duane.
Also, in the realm of non-fiction, I’ve collected almost every volume of The Best Of Trek. It can be really enlightening to see what the fandom was talking about at their times of publication, and the intense analysis of the planet Vulcan given in the article “A World of Time” by Kenneth Reeler was probably pretty influential on me and the particular way I like to deep dive into the minutia of my favourite stories.
Not sure if you’re familiar with this chart https://www.thetrekcollective.com/p/trek-lit-reading-order.html?m=1
DS9 Millennium (3 books) is good. Like a future what if end of the universe thing.
New Frontier series (at least 6) is a fun read. Follows after titan era. Not too serious, and some new characters on the fringes of federation space.
An older crossover, Invasion (4 books) is a story told through tos, tng, DS9 and voy. Was fun to see all the familiar characters dealing with the same overall problem.
The fall (5 books) was good. I was looking for something random and started at a recommended spot on the chart. I do feel like I missed a bit that they kept summing up. Probably better to start with the borg invasion if you don’t want to feel like you got plopped into like season 3 of something.
The Buried Age was fun, Picard as captain of the stargazer more or less gathering the tng crew.
Can’t beat an old TOS random paperback sometimes. Those can be so wacky.
Hope that helps
DS9 Millennium
Bought that trilogy and will read it after ST: Destiny
New Frontier series
That one was also recommended. It’s in the wish list, but I gotta figure out the reading order and buy them in order.
Invasion (4 books)
I didn’t even see those when I was looking, but will search for them directly.
The fall (5)
Also on the wish list :)
The buried age
Will check it out.
Thanks for the suggestions, and nice stack/collection! One of the drawbacks of ebooks is they’re not great for showing off or filling up a bookcase lol.
The Fall is a multibook ‘event’ in the Relaunch novelverse with each book by a different one of the regular authors.
It comes after Destiny and the Typhon Pact series of books.
While I like most of the books in all of these, there’s one author David R. George III whose books I find unbearably dull. He clearly knew his canon cold but his books are long on excessively detailed exposition, and short on dialogue or action. By the time I got to The Fall, I had learned to skip his books and just count on the recaps provided by the other authors.
For invasion, they’re randomly sprinkled in each series run. Quick Google search shows there’s a collected edition.
Enjoy your reading :D
This is more a comic/graphic novel than a proper Trek novel, but I think Lower Decks: Warp Your Own Way is possibly the best Star Trek comic I’ve ever read.
It stays true to the source material, and unlike a lot of IDW stuff I’ve read, doesn’t completely shark jump from the source material in an attempt to be mysterious, cool, or interesting just for the heck of it.
Probably the only other piece of IDW Trek I enjoyed this much was the TNG Mirror Universe, which did really well to achieve a “keep me on the edge of my seat” feeling.
I still need to read some other Trek comics, though, especially the TNG/Doctor Who crossover, which a local library branch of mine has. I also have a ton of PDFs from the recent Humble Bundle to burn through.
I liked the first Titan (Rinker’s next ship) book, but I haven’t read the others.
I liked all the Titan novels.
This one, right? Added it to my wish list.
Yup!
Q In Law:
I was actually going through the audiobook of this trying to gather and classify enough data to fine tune a Piper TTS voice of the Star Trek computer.
Haven’t finished it yet, but maybe one day. While I normally would have ethical qualms about commanding the likenesses of the dead, they actually did try to collect voice data before Majel Barrett died; unfortunately, it wasn’t enough to actually pull it off, but the attempt feels as close to consent for this sort of thing as one can get.
The cover makes me think “made-for-TV-movie RomCom” and now I have to buy this.
It’s a delight and, of course, written by Peter David.
The lead-in novel to the first season of “Picard”, “The Last Best Hope”, is excellent.
The “New Frontier” series is an interesting experiment in storytelling with a (mostly) original cast.
And it’s only $1.99. Just bought it. Thanks!
The “New Frontier” series
I saw several of those but didn’t read the previews yet. I think a few of them made it to my wish list. Gonna have to see what the release/reading order is.
