Star Trek - Space: The Final Frontier

[XYZpdq Jr.]

There were a series of novelizations of the animated series I absolutely loved as a teen

For that matter the Blish novelizations of TOS are great. I absolutely recommend everybody get a set of the old paperbacks for the five bucks or so, great bathroom reading

 

[Flexo]

Alright, cool. I was actually just reading the synopses of his books and was already thinking they sounded like what I was looking for. I've just seen every TNG episode at least five or six times and I crave more.

Please drunkenly give additional info at your leisure

So there are still a few boxes not shown and more books elsewhere. I'm not joking when I said I can supply you.

RECOMMENDS:
Almost any book written by an actor is pretty good. Stitch in Time (by Andrew J Robinson) is the GOAT. I, Q (by John deLancie) also really good.

William Shatner books are... a trip. I know you requested TNG specifically so I would recommend to you "The Return" which is like a sequel to generations with Kirk & Picard teaming up... more.

Federation - The best Trek book I've ever read. Not even trek, just a great scifi novel, period. I bought a hard cover copy just to have so you can have my paperback. It's a TNG/TOS crossover that is just amazing. If I had to recommend just ONE Trek book to Trek fans - literally if you're a Trek fan and you had to read one and only one trek book, I would recommend that one.

The original "mega series crossovers" I would also highly recommend as they are great "episode of" with the series, but connecting all of them in creative ways. Invasion and Day of Honor are definitely recommends. Captain's Table is... pretty decent if you want to have fun with the captains.

The Q Continuum trilogy... it's like a multi-part Q episode in TNG, I would recommend it if you enjoy Q and want to see a hard working writer furiously patch over some of the weird continuity gaffs in Trek. I had a lot of fun with it, but I know it may bug some people.

Again, anything with Michael Jan Friedman was a favorite. Looking in the box, Crossover (the TOS crew still alive reunite in TNG era), Kahless (the backstory of the great Kahless himself), Reunion (backstory & reunion with the stargazer crew), all great.

Vendetta - I know it's Peter David, but it's borg related, not Q. If you want another BOBW 2-parter feeling, get it. Dark Mirror ALSO highly recommended. It's like the "lost" TNG mirror universe episode.

Otherwise, again the ones with numbers?

Those will 100% read like an episode because that's really what they were pitched as. Those are like lost episodes, a lot of the others are more like lost movies. Debors' Planet, for example? Well that's a ferengi episode. (Oh yeah... Requiem was Picard and the gorn. THAT was a really solid read.)

EDIT: Obviously I did not address any books which are literally just novelizations of episodes or movies. I figured you would already know if you wanted those or not.

(I do recommend the Trek 5 novelization though. It hilariously fixes all the movie's plot holes.)

EDIT: Oh yeah, and if anyone wants more details, you can ask and I'll spoiler the answers.

 

[Sweeter and Savoury]

Here's a video for all you Defiant simps inhere.

For the record the only acceptable Enterprise is the Connie. No bloody A,B,C, D or E.

 

[Gay Sex Enjoyer]

Here's a video for all you Defiant simps inhere.

>Lazernig

No thanks, I've had my fill of euros for the day.

 

[Welf Welf]

>Photonic Swine

 

[Fatsuit Shinji]

The fundamental error made by liberal intellectuals of the Cold War era is that they worried about 1984 becoming a reality when Brave New World was happening right under their noses.

Why either or when TPTB have chosen "all of the above." 1984, Brave New World, Harrison Bergeron, and etc and etc. are being used to fuck everyone over.

I like to think that every cadet and enlistee was required to jizzmop the holodecks at Starfleet Headquarters for a semester to reinforce just why we don't fuck the photons.

Being naively optimistic thinking it's only [humanoid] jizz and it's only on the floor that need to be cleaned up in the holodeck.

 

[Gay Sex Enjoyer]

What if they just zap away the nut with micro phasers pre-installed in the Holodeck

 

[Flexo]

Here's a video for all you Defiant simps inhere.

For the record the only acceptable Enterprise is the Connie. No bloody A,B,C, D or E.

The video maker does have a thread here.

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[Curzon Dax-sama]

Here's a video for all you Defiant simps inhere.

Why, of course, we have a thread on that overweight faggot with a bad hairline. What is it with millenials that are younger than me, but will lose their hair before 40 and become massive mountains of lard? And why did the pig a video on the Defiant? Nigger, space combat in Trek is so riddiculous, it doesn't matter where the antimatter-tank is or where your crew quarters are. They don't armour any of their vessels, since the directed energy weapons are too OP, not mentioning what'll photon torpedos do to you when the shields are gone. Like, lol.

 

[Mr. Racewar1488]

Is someone posting NAFO fag shit in here? You know what will happen now...

 

[Uncle Buck]

There were a series of novelizations of the animated series I absolutely loved as a teen, Log series.

The DS9 "relaunch" series was great until all the storylines fell by the wayside into the Typhon Pact universe and the original Deep Space Nine got blown up, which was an awful take on the post-Nemesis TNG era.

Some of the more though-provoking stories involved Gul Dukat's "cousin" Gul Macet [the first Cardassian in the TNG-era], the return of the spider-like parasites from the first-season TNG finale, the towing of Empok Nor to the Bajoran system and being parked in orbit of a moon for use as spare parts [with a subplot involving the saving of an unsuspecting species using the cloaked ship meant for the Ba'ku from Insurrection] Bajor finally joining the Federation and Kira becoming a Starfleet Captain, Odo reforming the Dominion and the return of Kira's Cardassian "double" [from the Mirror Universe], et al...

Less appealing stories involved the ridiculous way they handled the return of The Sisko, Quark having an intimate relationship with Ro Laren and the Founders having a "god" that some alien species blew up which caused most of the Founders to engage in something akin to a mass suicide/abandonment of the concept of the "Great Link".

Read William Shatner's books. He was *helped* by the Reeves-Stevenses. Basically it's about the continuing adventures of Captain Kirk after Generations.

I believe there were two trilogies in that series. They were really enjoyable reads, but premise of a Romulan-Borg "alliance" and the Gary Stu-ing of Kirk were kind of blah.

A Stitch In Time was Andrew Robinson's notes on Garak, framed as letters to Bashir from Cardassia after the war IIRC.

Technically this was part of the relaunch series, I believe. A great read, with a fascinating look into a Cardassia we never actually saw much of.

There were a series of DS9 books set during the run of the series, possibly early in the Dominion War, involving the Pah-Wraiths and a second Bajoran Wormhole and "Kai Weyoun". It's much better than it sounds.

 

[Calandrino]

Janeway editing a holodeck character seemed so futuristic in 1997 but today it's no different than editing a character card you use with your locally running LLM. "Computer: Increase temperature to 1.15 and frequency penalty to 0.2. Remove all references to incest and futanari cocks. Age the character up to 19 and replace all mentions of high school to college. Increase height to average height of women in Japan in 2024, increase cup size from A to C. Apply changes and begin program." Sagan was so wrong. This is the future waiting for us in the stars. Not a galaxy rise, but endless coomer holographic programs.

The ship's computer really predicted what interacting with an AI would be like, much more than any of the "are computers people" types of episodes did.

 

[Captain Syrup]

Quark having an intimate relationship with Ro Laren

Did Ro quit as station Commander to go shake her ass in front of some Dabo players? Because otherwise this reads like ‘uhhh Quark needs a storyline’ and just mashing random action figures together.

 

[Curzon Dax-sama]

Quark having an intimate relationship with Ro Laren

Hahaha, what the hell.

the return of the spider-like parasites from the first-season TNG finale

That sounds cool, because those fuckers never turned up again. From what I've heard, they're the result of some really creepy experiment the Trill did with the bellyworms thousands of years ago.

 

[Uncle Buck]

Hahaha, what the hell.

That sounds cool, because those fuckers never turned up again. From what I've heard, they're the result of some really creepy experiment the Trill did with the bellyworms thousands of years ago.

The Trill did figure into that plot thread.

Did Ro quit as station Commander to go shake her ass in front of some Dabo gamblers? Because otherwise this reads like ‘uhhh Quark needs a storyline’ and just mashing random action figures together.

Funny you should mention that as, I believe there was something in that Roark 'ship involving her going undercover as an exotic dancer, and you may or may not have actually read the series because after Kira retired to become a Vedek [and, later, Kai, I believe?] Ro became commanding officer of the rebuilt Deep Space Nine. The Roark relationship wasn't actually as offensive or as random as all that. Obviously Quark would have found her appealing almost immediately, but the connection begins with the two of them finding themselves in a number of situations as the story progresses and he becomes very much enamored with her after they visit Ferrenginar together and she helps him preempt a plot against Grand Nagus Rom. Somewhere along the way the whole thing just fizzles out in the pre-Typhon Pact relaunch novels, which is all too typical where two seemingly opposite parties become attracted and have a quick romance but come to find in short order they really have nothing in common. Who knows if it picked up again somewhere later? I personally, didn't read anything that took place temporally after the first VOY relaunch novel and I read nothing that took place in the Typhon Pact [that kind of actually started with the events of "Homecoming"] era which, I believe, is where the original Cardassia-built DS9 was destroyed. If you've actually read some of these, you might know more than me.

 

[Captain Syrup]

Obviously Quark found her appealing almost immediately, the whole thing just fizzles which is alll too typical

This is literally Quark’s entire life: gotta catch ‘em all, gotta kiss the lizard chick, gotta fondle the Vulcan. And every single time Quark's like, "this time it’s real, I want something more,” then it just ends.

Maybe just commit to the bit and make him the sleazy Ferengi womanizer who refuses to be tied down?

Because it's really no different with Picard, Geordi, Bashir, Harry, Malcolm, or more or less half the male cast during the Berman era. Whole lot of “will-they-won’t-they” with the answer being “no they won’t, fuck you.”

 

[Uncle Buck]

...with the answer being “no they won’t, fuck you.”

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Or, as I believe the line actually went, "You are not one of the candidates, Ensign".

 

[Captain Syrup]

Or, as I believe the line actually went, "You are not one of the candidates, Ensign".

 

[Curzon Dax-sama]

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Obviously, that PIP also involved Tuvok removing Kim's chair.

 

[Hey Johnny Bravo]

The writers really did Harry dirty that whole show. IIRC, Garrett Wang spoke to the showrunners about how much his character got the shaft and they flat out told him "every show needs a punching bag." Which Wang did not appreciate.