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Sunday is for shitpollsting about Star Trek

Poll #22660 Tailkinker to Ennien!

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What's your favorite Star Trek novel?

I read all the TOS and TNG novels up through the mid-90s. I haven't read novels for any of the other series.

Uhura's Song by Janet Kagan is my favorite TOS novel. I am still salty that the tag remains unwrangled on AO3. There were a lot of good fic for this novel last Yuletide (mine*cough*mine LOL), and I don't think anybody beyond the recipients knew they were there.

Also loved Dwellers in the Crucible by Margaret Wander Bonnano. Wow, what an iddy, kinky, porny book full of OCs. Very formative for wee!Lorraine.

For TNG, I have a great fondness for all the books written by Peter David, especially the ones that feature Q. His writing is so funny, but then it gut punches you when you're not expecting it.

I also really enjoyed Masks by John Vornholt.

Tell me about your faves.

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I, too, love Uhura's Song. I could so see that as an episode. WIth maybe a young Debbie Reynolds as Evan Wilson.

In fact, I think that's where the joke this icon came from. It's been a while since I read it.

I'm almost certain you're right re: the joke.

Love that icon!

I would give anything to have footage of Jimmy Doohan interacting with Rushlight. That would be so awesome.

That would have been awesome. I would love to hear some of the music too! This so should have been an episode, maybe a two-parter one to fit everything awesome in.

Yes!

And Chekov gets to be all sick and woobie-fied.

I would have had it on repeat for sure.

I don't know if my answer is fair because I didn't read many Trek novels. But Mosaic, the Janeway biography by Jeri Taylor, was absolutely wonderful. It was such a good backstory for her, so many good details and characters. I'm back working on Voyager stories at the moment, and that book is central to two of them.

(Sadly, Pathways, the book for the rest of the crew's backstories, wasn't nearly as good.)

I haven't read any of the DS9, Voyager, or ENT books. That Janeway bio sounds so good, though. I would love to know more about her backstory.

Sidenote: did you see yesterday was the 25th anniversary of Kate Mulgrew filming her first scenes for the show? So delightful.

https://twitter.com/TheKateMulgrew/status/1174842245834575872

Awwwww, I love it! Thanks for linking me.

I love Dark Mirror by Diane Duane. Lots of great stuff for Geordi and Troi to do, along with the usual suspects. When I was a kid I thought Imzadi was the ultimate romance! And I'm fond of Q-Squared, too.

Imzadi. *swoons* I adored that book. And Q-Squared and Q In-Law and Vendetta. I guess what I'm saying is Peter David rocked my Star Trek world. LOL

I'm sure I read Dark Mirror, but I don't remember it off hand.

Dark Mirror is the one where the TNG crew crosses over into the Mirrorverse. They never did it on screen but somebody's got to give them a chance! It was nice & plotty, had plenty of humour, but also believably dark.

Maybe I didn't actually read that one. It's not ringing a bell.

Oh and what's the one...about Kirk's nephew falling in love with a Klingon? Sarek, that's the one! All that other stuff didn't register, but the forbidden cross-species romance did!

I don't remember that one at all, but it sounds awesome!

Yeah, really it's about Sarek's history, how he met Amanda, how he became Ambassador to Earth, and there's a whole Romulan plot thrown in too. I think the author is A.C. Crispin. But, see, the Romulans arrange to have Peter Kirk kidnapped and blame it on Klingons! In a dastardly, dishonourable plot! So he's also a prisoner of a beautiful Klingon warrior! So you can see where things go from there!

I liked A.C. Crispin's Time for Yesterday and Yesterday's Son, so I bet I did read this and just have no memory of it. LOL

it was by a.c. crispin. i like that novel too.

sometimes i think about peter saying she smelled like peaches or something. she wondered if that was god & he said it was, but for some reason didn't explain that it was a fruit.

Now I'm getting curious enough to check it out. I should see if mom has it.

In high school I lost our copy of my brother's favorite, Heart of Gold, and I still regret that. I wonder if there's a way to buy a paper copy now.

I read the academy books which I quite liked. Not as big a fan of the novels proper.

Are you sure that's the title? I tried looking for it but couldn't find it.

I didn't read the academy books; I'm sure I would have liked them.

I am not sure. This was a long time ago.

Hm. I'm fairly confident it had "gold" in the title.

Memory. What even.

Heeee. Mine is completely shot.

here a list if you want to look to see if anything seems familiar;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Star_Trek_novels

memory beta has plot info (spoilers!) if you want to find out more;
https://memory-beta.fandom.com/wiki/Novel

sometimes memory alpha had just the blurb on the back;
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Novels

I spent much of the 80s reading Trek TOS books. It’s been many years since I read any beyond these favorites of the handful I still own —
Uhura’s Song, The Vulcan Academy Murders, and the first New Voyages collection. Those and Tears of the Singer are actually visible on my bookshelf.

Another fondly remembered one, that I can never recall the title of, is the one set in the past involving the characters from ‘here come the brides.’ It’s in a box but now I feel inclined to dig it out. I probably haven’t read any of the Trek books published after 2000.

I did read the TNG books but never as voraciously nor did I reread as I did with TOS. Beyond knowing I probably liked Peter David’s books I can’t recall anything specific.

I liked Tears of the Singers, too, and The Vulcan Academy Murders.

I don't remember the one you're contemplating unearthing.

My primary fondness is for the TNG books because I started reading the novels period when the show came out, so I read those first and then went back to the TOS ones.

Probably the one where Troy finally marries Ryker. Don't remember the name though.

I don't remember that one! Is the novelization of the movie where they get married? Nemesis, I think?

I don't remember myself.

i like a few; spock's world, metamorphosis, a stitch in time, mosaic, the broken bow novelization.

a longer list here;
https://archersangel.dreamwidth.org/92894.html

That's a great list. Diane Duane is always a great read.

I'm pretty sure I read Spock's World and liked it, too.

I'll cast a vote for Enterprise: The First Adventure. It doesn't entirely mesh with canon in a few places, but oh well. I love the backstory for Rand pre-Starfleet so much it's become part of my headcanon for her whenever I write her, the pitch perfect (heh, wordplay simultaneously intended and not, considering plot details) characterization of Uhura throughout, the fascinating glimpses of a Klingon ethnic hierarchy beyond valor, the excellent depiction of Sulu as protector and upstander. That is canon, darn it. :) And the broken food synthesizer situation will never not make me snicker!

Honorable mention to a novel I didn't get to finish; thanks school holidays... Doomsday World, which is TNG era. I'm still amused, even years later, whenever I remember an exchange between a planetside Troi and Riker.
Troi: "Will, be careful. You're going to end up in sickbay."
Riker: *promptly slips and falls down loosely rocky hillside in a shower of scree*
Ha!

I always loved Janice Rand in TOS; I'm glad at least one of the books gives her a fleshed out background.

Oh, Riker. *shakes head* LOL

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