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.
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 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.
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 can recommend the Janeway autobiography by Una McCormack! She also wrote the Spock autobiography.
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.
I just started this one yesterday. Enjoying it so far. I’m only a few chapters in, but it definitely fills in a lot of blanks from PIC S1 like “Who is Raffi and why are she and Picard suddenly BFFs?” After reading her introduction, yeah, I’d want to be best friends with her, too.
It puts so much of the first season into context that I felt was missing when I watched it.
Thanks for the recomendation.
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.
