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Hi, I am so glad there is someone other than me who loves Star Trek books. (I love the tv shows too, but I was introduced to Trek through the books so I am slightly biased toward them.)

CAN WE PLEASE THIS THREAD AS AN EXCUSE TO GUSH ABOUT THE GREATNESS OF STAR TREK LITERATURE?

It's written by a gazillion different authors, involves a gazillion different styles, concepts, and scenarios, and ranges from excellent to unreadable dreck. I don't think it can be painted with one brush.

Some of them are really awesome, but some of them are just phoning it in.

I like The Price of the Phoenix because it is basically published slashfic, complete with many ridiculous slashfic clichés that we all cringe at now but may or may not have secretly liked when we were teenagers.

I posted about PotP last week in response to that "Piece of the Action" secret. I have a ridiculous adolescent fondness for that and the sequel, The Fate of the Phoenix. And anything with the Romulan Commander is golden. Marshak and Culbreath's other books Triangle and the Prometheus Design aren't bad either, although not as slashy-good as the Phoenix books.

Some of them suck but a great many of them are awesome. They also allow you to bypass the shitty special effects of the time, and the format lets the writers go into deeper characterization and world building than many of the eps had. I love the books!

The only series I've really watched is Voyager and the reboot movies, with the occasional passing episode from other series. Any book recs based on that?

Kirsten Beyer's Voyager novels are great. So are Christie Golden's (my personal favourite of hers is Seven of Nine, but that might just be because I'm a Seven fangirl).

Also: If you have any interest in Romulans, Diane Duane's Rihannsu series is a must. Actually, any Star Trek novel written by Diane Duane is worth reading.

DA

+1 to these recs! Especially Christie Golden, I love her tie-ins--she's great at accurately portraying the characters.

you didn't say if you're into TOS at all, but along with the Rihannsu series I highly recommend the Janus Gate trilogy; some good solid sci-fi, and the characters are a great representation of the TOS crew early in the run.

Diane Duane, Peter David, J. M. Dillard, Vonda McIntyre, Greg Bear wrote one (or two?), those are the names to keep an eye peeled for in used bookstores.

Seconding the Rihannsu series. Also Dwellers in the Crucible, if you want more backstory on Saavik. For perspective on Vulcans, start with the two-book series Battlestations and Dreadnought. Strangers From the Sky and Spock's World were written before Star Trek VI (*spit*) but still hold up nicely as AU. (Or, you can do like most of us, and pretend the even-numbered movies don't exist.) More Vulcan-centric (yeah so I'll never forgive the reboot for blowing up the planet) The Vulcan Academy Murders and The IDIC Epidemic both of which feature lots of Sarek and Amanda, which is always awesome.

SA

Also Yesterday's Son and Time For Yesterday. It's a totally fanfic cliche, but totally done amazingly well.

If you're more into exploring the other members of the crew, Doctor's Orders (McCoy in command of the Enterprise! My fave line: "I have time for a sandwich? During a BATTLE?"), and Uhura's Song, just to name two off the top of my head.

you can do like most of us, pretend the even-numbered movies don't exist.

I can honestly say that you are the first fan I have met who is fine with the existence of Star Trek V but apparently has no love for, say, Star Trek II. And what on earth is wrong with VI? Moat of the fans I know take the view that (at least for the TOS characters), the even numbered films were best.

That said, "Spock's World" is indeed awesome, so I guess we can agree on something.

Thank you! :)

heck, ANYTHING writin by Diane Duane is a good read.

anything...

I am onboard with this. (Raised on TOS, had most of the Pocket Books through the 70s-80s-90s now have a cherished few that I still reread.)

Read anything Peter David wrote ever about Q. That is all.

John M Ford's "The Final Reflection", a Klingon perspective novel about a plot to engineer a war between the Federation and the Klingon Empire has been comprehensively jossed by the further development of Klingon culture in TNG and subsequently, but it's still a fantastic bit of worldbuilding (and a good story, too). I have sometimes wondered if the creators of the Cardassians had read it, though, as Ford's Klingon society is not a million miles from Cardassia.

His "How much for just the planet?" is complete crack and possibly the oddest Star Trek novel ever written. You either love it or you hate it. (Personally, I love it, but I am well aware that it's pretty damn strange).

I liked them well enough when I was 11 and just beginning to learn & read in English. But now ... ugh. No. There's some pearls among them, but mostly they're really not that good. Sorry.

I'm mostly into TOS. Do you have any recs for me please?

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