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apulse
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So I have just had surgery and will the next couple of weeks not be able to do anything useful. I was going through the Play Store on Android and saw a large sum of Star Trek novels. Never read a Star Trek novel and wonder if any of you guys has anyone you think I should put my money to?
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I actually like Delta Rising.
Norway and Yeager dammit... I still want my Typhoon and Jupiter though.
JJ Trek The Kelvin Timeline is just Trek and it's fully canon... get over it. But I still prefer TAR.
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Norway and Yeager dammit... I still want my Typhoon and Jupiter though.
JJ Trek The Kelvin Timeline is just Trek and it's fully canon... get over it. But I still prefer TAR.
#TASforSTO
'...I can tell you that we're not in the military and that we intend no harm to the whales.' Kirk: The Voyage Home
'Starfleet is not a military organisation. Its purpose is exploration.' Picard: Peak Performance
'This is clearly a military operation. Is that what we are now? Because I thought we were explorers!' Scotty: Into Darkness
'...The Federation. Starfleet. We're not a military agency.' Scotty: Beyond
'I'm not a soldier anymore. I'm an engineer.' Miles O'Brien: Empok Nor
'...Starfleet could use you... It's a peacekeeping and humanitarian armada...' Admiral Pike: Star Trek
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I've also heard that "A stitch in time" is really good, as is "Q & A".
Funny I should mention that last one on this forum
The Destiny trilogy is the best I have ever read. But Anything by David Mack is awesome. But Destiny is just spectacular.
The Typhon Pact series is a great follow up to the Destiny series and is very believable in the way things start to take shape, it has a lot of familiar characters and locations as each book deals with different aspects of the pact and captains like Riker in the Titan, Picard, Dax
"Watching the Clock" and "Forgotten History" are THE best Star Trek time travel stories ever written, in my opinion.
Bennett weaves in darn near every single time travel reference in every tv show and movie, plus elements of some of the books in the Destiny series. All of those implausible one-off time travel stories get put into a believably unified context.
They are must reads if you have any interest at all in time travel in the Trek universe.
EDIT: In order, you should read "Watching the Clock" and then "Forgotten History". You do not need to have read any other Trek novels to make sense of these books.
That, is, provided you can untangle the complex chronology...
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I know there's a list online somewhere of the order in which Diane Duane's Rihannsu novels are to be read, but I don't recall offhand where. They're worth it, though - my personal favorite is "The Romulan Way".
And as a general rule, if Peter David is listed as the author of a work, it's a good read.
Extremely well-written, although it gives a very different (and IMHO, more technically sensible) backstory for Zefram Cochrane than what First Contact eventually came up with (it was written after Generations).
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I believe Star Trek: Resistance takes place before the Destiny trilogy. Resistance was the first Star Trek novel I ever read. It's an enjoyable read; it starts off where Nemesis ends. But you can enjoy Destiny just as well without it. It took me about 7 chapters to realise they were even referencing Resistance.
There's also numerous references to the Titan books and the Romulan Wars books, but there's only one or two minor plot points on the Titan that you wouldn't get if you didn't read the Titan series (indeed, I didn't), and Mack does a great job of filling the reader in when he brings these plot points up.
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Actually, Typhon Pact IMHO is poorly written and full of poor fanservice. The Aventine is cool, but the novels are full of multiple internal and external inconsistencies, most of which are only there because Plot. For example, some minor baddies hack the Enterprise's computers in like 30 minutes...but in a previous book, the freaking Borg couldn't hack the Enterprise.
Diane Duane is my only Trek novel recommendation. Destiny is OK, I suppose, but it gets labored in its attempts to be epic, and Typhon Pact just...falls apart. To the point that I actually greatly prefer the STO storyline, problematic as it is.
http://www.amazon.com/Harbinger-Star-Trek-Vanguard-David/dp/1416507744
You will end up wanting to read the rest.
This one looks interesting, mirror TNG
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Vanguard, the Gorkon series, and the Starfleet Corp of Engineers series are very well written.
The Destiny series and the The Romulan War series both suffer from the same thing, they both read as summaries for their events rather than good viewpoints on dark times in Earth's future history.
Imho, I really don't care for the Destiny series. There are some points where the major characters just start whining about not exploring, not reminiscing, and of course the don't tarnish Data's memory scene is terrible. However, the follow up books A Singular Destiny, Full Circle, and Losing the Peace are quite good.
damn wish i had the time to be able to read these days...
My favorites are pretty much any of Diane Duane's TOS novels--and my favorite is actually The Wounded Sky, which is a stand-alone and easily one of the best books I've read. Had it not been marketed as Trek, I honestly feel like it would have been up for a lot of awards. I will second the recommendation for The Final Reflection and the wish the Klingons had followed that path on the show as opposed to what we got. (Though we did get the Cardassians, who picked up in the same vein as the old TOS Klingons.)
I have a DS9 recommendation I am willing to bet many of you haven't heard of, and that is novel 6 of the original DS9 (pre-relaunch), titled Betrayal, by Lois Tilton. Bear in mind it was written before the first season of DS9 had even fully aired, which makes it even more remarkable how well the author captured the characters--right down to predicting Garak's ability to do something surprising that he actually DID do a few seasons later. In fact, Tilton's original character of Berat is where I get my STO main from, as well as inspiring a lot of work I wrote elsewhere involving a different version of Berat from the one I carried into STO.
A print copy may be hard to find, but it is available for purchase as an ebook.
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