Favorite Star Trek Books

[Chicago Jake]

Anyone read the Star Trek books? This came up in another thread, but I figgered it deserved a thread of its own.

There are books based on each of the TV series, as well as some that are totally separate from any of the series. Some are long and involved and very intellectual, some are kind of stupid, and many are interesting and pulpy and great for reading at the beach. I pick them up at the used book store whenever I see one.

Anyway, here are a few of my favorites. What are yours?.......Jake

• "Kahless" - tells about the origins of the Klingon culture
  
• "The 34th Rule" - set on Deep Space 9, it involves lots of intrigue and gets into the Ferengi Rules of Aquisition. AND it is co-written by Armin Shimmerman himself!
  
• "Time's Enemy" - The Defiant is alive and well on Deep Space 9, yet it, or an exact duplicate, is found frozen in an ice ball in the Earth's solar system, and thousands of years old! Very interesting book with lots of subplots.
  
• "Dark Passions" (two volumes) - based in the "mirror universe" where humans are slaves and females of all other species run most of the empire, in between their girl-on-girl trysts. All the regular characters appear in their alternate personalities.
  

[New Mama]

Books? Star Wars is in novel form? Gee-sh. Don't get me wrong I'm the proud owner of a Star Wars Video package purchase from I don't know how many years ago, but I never heard of Star Wars novels.

I may have to check one out.

[Chicago Jake]

Anita, I am trying to control my blood pressure here. Are you deliberately trying to bait me? I said Star TREK, not Star WARS!! Huge difference. Star Wars is a movie, it's for kids, it is just silly fun. It is about sword battles and space ship explosions. It is "space opera" but nothing more. There are Star Wars novels, but that's not what I'm talking about.

Star TREK, of course, is life itself. It is exploration, philosophy, psychology, technology, a study of comparative cultures and our responsibilities to each other and our place in the universe. It started as a TV show, then became a series of movies, and at some point in time launched a series of hundreds of books. It is "SF" (as in speculative fiction) at its best.

Whew, I feel better. Don't do that to me again! ;D ;D .....Jake

[New Mama]

;D ;D ;D ;D

Haaaaaaaaaaaaa

I KNEW you were talking Star Trek. I meant to type Star Trek, I can't explain WHY I wrote Star Wars. This has been a strange week for me. I think I better stay away from these boards for a while....I'm just loosing it. Typo's, poor spelling, incomplete sentences, who knows what other fopa's (is that a word?) I'll commit.

I need a week of just reading.

Ps. I hope BB comes back to roost.

[Captain Gary]

I think this is what Anita was thinking of...

admin said:

I'm quite difficult to annoy. By the way, that is not meant as a challenge......Jake

[jdmcowan]

hedodiva said:

fopa's (is that a word?)

Faux Pas: frog for "false step", generally used in English to mean something like "regretful error".

Jeremy

[Exildo Wonsetler Briggs III]

Anita:

"Kirk decends into the bowels of the ship . . ."

OR HEDO!!!

[Chicago Jake]

gary said:

I think this is what Anita was thinking of...

admin said:

I'm quite difficult to annoy. By the way, that is not meant as a challenge......Jake

I must admit, Anita found one of my few buttons to push.......Jake