Trek Novels

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2003-04-10 05:02pm

I really do like the Novels a lot more then the series them selves.

Fuck, I have even read some of the Voyager novels, and found them more interesting then the actual series....

Utsanomiko · Post by **Utsanomiko** » 2003-04-10 05:25pm

Why does everyone give me a dirty look anytime I mention the ST novel with the X-men in it?

Ajaz50 · Post by **Ajaz50** » 2003-04-10 05:30pm

They were only okay, what was really good was the 25th anniversary comic with the TOS crew and the X-Men.

My favorite series is the New Frontier, by Peter David.

Also the Q continuem series, by Greg Cox (ST:NG Books #47-49)

Also excelent is the New DS9 series, the best are the first two and the latest (by SD Perry) but all of them are very good and in keeping with the series.

Defiant · Post by **Defiant** » 2003-04-10 08:28pm

The best ST novels:

1. Dwellers in the Crucible (TOS).

2. The Pandora Principle (TOS)

3. My Enemy, My Ally (TOS).

Tsyroc · Post by **Tsyroc** » 2003-04-10 08:45pm

I'd like to suggest the graphic novel Debt of Honor by Chris Claremont.

It is an excellent TOS story that spans from from before the series until just after ST IV. Very good.

Publius · Post by **Publius** » 2003-04-11 12:37am

The first book of The Eugenics Wars: The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh was fairly good, although some aspects of it were questionable (e.g., Gary Seven knows the Vulcan Kolinahr discipline, he and Roberta Lincoln have been on Rura Penthe, &c.). Other parts were quite funny, such as the brief scene with Lincoln and the marine biologist from Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, which ends with the phrase “Good luck with, you know, saving the whales”.

Peter David’s Vendetta was an interesting (and, in many ways, superior) interpretation of the Borg Collective.

Garfield and Judith Reeves-Stevens’ novel Prime Directive was an extremely interesting story, if it did contain a few annoying details, and the particularly funny remark about Berkeley being the most conservative university on Earth for generations.

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2003-04-13 10:39am

For TOS i always loved Home Is The Hunter. It was the 1st Trek book i ever read, I read it when i was 10 and doing detention in school.

Lord Poe · Post by **Lord Poe** » 2003-04-13 11:26am

"Federation" is what "First Contact" should have been.

"Yesterday's Son" and "Time For Yesterday" are probably the best TOS novels I've read.

Anything written by Marshak & Culbreath should be avoided at ALL COSTS. Anything they've ever written, even short stories, involves Kirk being in a feminine position, and Spock losing it and being un-Vulcan and violent. Pure bullshit.

I read the first book of "The Janus Gate" and thought it was awful. The author spends 90% of the novel trying to impress the reader with his knowledge of cave exploration.

Can someone tell me if the new novel about Garth of Izar is any good?

Also, I'm waiting for the new Voyager novels, so screw all of you!

Baron Mordo · Post by **Baron Mordo** » 2003-04-13 03:33pm

Lord Poe wrote: Can someone tell me if the new novel about Garth of Izar is any good?

I'm interested in this.