Josh Reviews Strange Novel Worlds: Essays on Star Trek Tie-In Fiction
I’ve been reading Star Trek novels for as long as I can remember! I have fond memories of spotting some of the early Pocket Book Trek novels in my middle school library, and being quickly hooked. When I was old enough to start buying books for myself, I bought Star Trek book
Star Trek: I, Q
I haven’t been writing much about Star Trek novels on this site lately. That’s because I haven’t been reading many! I seem to have gotten somewhat soured on the whole enterprise (see what I did there?) after Paramount and Simon & Schuster put the kibbosh on t
Star Trek: Picard: Second Self
Una McCormack’s Star Trek: Picard novel, Second Self, is set between the end of Picard season one and the start of season two. Jean-Luc Picard becomes aware of trouble brewing on the planet Ordeve, so he sends Raffi Musiker and the young Romulan Elnor to help resolve the situa
Star Trek: Picard: The Dark Veil
James Swallow’s novel The Dark Veil tells a story of Captain William Riker and Deanna Troi on board the USS Titan, the starship that Riker took command of at the end of the final TNG movie, Nemesis. There has been a wonderful series of Titan novels published over the past fift
Star Trek: The Brave and the Bold
The Brave and the Bold is a two-novel duology, written by Keith R.A. DeCandido, back in 2002. Mr. DeCandido is one of my favorite authors of Star Trek novels (I’m sad that he no longer writes Trek books!!), and this story is an incredibly fun cross-over story that spans what at t
Star Trek: Living Memory
Christopher L. Bennett’s Star Trek novel Living Memory is set in the era between Star Trek: The Motion Picture and Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Admiral Kirk is serving as the commandant of Starfleet Academy, and he is attempting to oversee the incorporation of a group of a
Star Trek: The Higher Frontier
Star Trek: The Higher Frontier is set in the years between Star Trek: The Motion Picture and Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. The book picks up the threads from several different Star Trek episodes from across the years, and weaves them together into an exciting new Trek adventure s
Star Trek: Ex Machina
Star Trek: Ex Machina is set immediately after the events of Star Trek: The Motion Picture. The novel is a beautiful extrapolation upon many of the concepts and ideas introduced in that film. It digs deeply into the character arcs of TMP and further explores the repercussions of t
Star Trek: The Next Generation: Reunion
Back in 1991, one of the very first Star Trek: The Next Generation hardcover novels published by Pocket Books was Michael Jan Friedman’s Reunion. I remember this being an exciting event at the time, because the novel fleshed out the backstory of Captain Picard’s time on the Sta
Star Trek Coda: Book Three: Oblivion’s Gate
With David Mack’s Star Trek Coda: Book Three: Oblivion’s Gate, the two-decades-old Star Trek literary universe comes to an end. This Coda series has gotten better and better as it’s gone on. I enjoyed book one, Moments Asunder by Dayton Ward, and I thought book t