3c12af No.4524 [Last50 Posts]
Can we get a thread on trek books? What are your favorites? Most hated? Ever read any that tried something new with the sereis you really liked or fell flat on in its face in a mediocre disgrace?
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0a9f49 No.4527
I quite enjoyed Dark Mirror by Diane Duane, but it was written before the DS9 mirror episodes so it was quite different from what the MU ended up being like in the show.
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81caf0 No.4538
>>4524
>Ever read any that tried something new with the sereis you really liked or fell flat on in its face in a mediocre disgrace?
I, Q by John Delancie and…ugh… Peter David.
>Q has no redeeming qualities
>Goes to random locations in the universe in an Alice In Wonderland sort of trippy voyage
>Reads like fanfic by a young nerd who wants to fuck Delancie
>The David parts are painfully obvious, like when Q meets the Grand Nagus who declares something "Inconceivable!", which causes Q to remark "That word… I do not think it means what you think it means."
Sold it at a garage sale for 50 cents and laughed at the sucker behind his back.
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81caf0 No.4539
I mentioned this in the other thread, but if anyone has a request for certain books in epub format, I not only probably have them, I can upload them in a 7z embedded in a jpg/png. Taking any and all requests.
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eb3004 No.4557
>>4538
>quoting memes in a book
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8df198 No.4565
Are the Titan books any good? I had that "and then what happened?" feeling awhile back and learned that the TNG "arc" pretty much continues with Riker captaining his own ship.
Then I hear that it's some sort of pro-diversity autofellatiofest. Like they brag about it on the back cover, or some shit?
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8df198 No.4566
>>4538
I liked it, for the most part. The audiobook version happened to be on youtube, which is as far as I'd go in recommending it.
>The David parts are painfully obvious, like when Q meets the Grand Nagus who declares something "Inconceivable!", which causes Q to remark "That word… I do not think it means what you think it means."
You figure he's also responsible for the neckbeard atheist parts? Or was that just de Lancie tipping his fedora?
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8df198 No.4567
Compared to other non-canon offerings, Imzadi was pretty damn good. Kinda like a two-parter episode of the series, and I think you'll enjoy it if you approach it as such. Frakes did the audiobook version, which is pretty great.
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f8caf2 No.4568
>>4566
FFS, I'm slow to the game, you're post just made me realize Wallace Shawn was fucking Zek.
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81caf0 No.4578
>>4557
Hadn't seen that one.
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81caf0 No.4579
>>4568
>you're post just made me realize Wallace Shawn was fucking Zek.
I'm pretty sure they were only friends.
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81caf0 No.4580
>>4567
>Compared to other non-canon offerings, Imzadi was pretty damn good.
It was, but Data was a fucking Terminator through the whole thing.
One part that I did like was Riker going through Lwuxana's personal effects and finding the Holy Rings of Betazed in the back of a closet.
>>4566
>You figure he's also responsible for the neckbeard atheist parts? Or was that just de Lancie tipping his fedora?
I don't know. I kind of want to blame the whole thing on David, but you just know he fucking spread those cheeks whenever Delancie pushed back hard enough.
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f3bb62 No.4613
>>4539
You think it'd be possible for you to simply upload all of them? I like tho have a hueg Calibre library.
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3c12af No.4672
>>4538
I listened to the audiobook of Q because I noticed it was narrated by John De Lancie as well and I love me some Q shit. It was actually okay but kind of stupid, there were parts I thought it was quite engaging but then all of a sudden the quality would just take a dive and it would be pages of some mediocre scene. Narration was top notch on it though, I like the Star Trek audiobooks because a lot of them are narrated by the cast members and it has all the licenced sound effects and background music. Overall its very light, and I don't normally like those types of edits in audiobooks, but Star Trek pulls it off because the sound effects are so iconic and well remembered it just makes me feel like its proper trek. Original Sereis books are normally much better than the TNG ones, haven't got round to DS9 books yet but they sound like they could be pretty good.
Have any of you read the one about the Eugenic Wars of the 1990s and the uprising of Khan? I thought that one was pretty good, it also has all that Assignment Earth stuff in it going on, it really isn't the sort of book you would real unless you were quite into trek and it is packed with all sorts of little connections to the sereis.
The Shatner books also seem to be quite good, his writing style is better than the utter garbage that fat fuck Peter David spews out. What I really want to see is more books that have NOTHING to do with the enterprise, like give us some story on the history of Vulcan or the Klingon civil war. Imagine how awesome some of the fiction could be in this universe, but they always have to try milk the same settings and characters, instead of making some new original content. I do actually like a lot of the Trek books but you gotta be prepared to go through a lot of shit ones till you find one that clicks.
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0b4b8e No.4681
>>4565
>Are the Titan books any good?
I tried to get into them, bought the first one, but I just couldn't. They weren't Chuck Wendig-tier horrible, but the sort of thing that you could just put down at a crucial plot point and never pick back up.
Since the first few were always written by the same guys I just wrote the series off.
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8df198 No.4702
>>4580
Now that you mention it, Data was definitely more of a dramatic foil in this book than his actual character.
> finding the Holy Rings of Betazed in the back of a closet.
kek. Betazed is not a serious planet.
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72ca15 No.4711
>>4672
>Have any of you read the one about the Eugenic Wars of the 1990s and the uprising of Khan?
I really enjoyed those books.
My favorites are TOS books, in particular:
The Kobayash Muru
Uhura's Song
Prime Directive
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c697a1 No.4712
>dukat will never voice an audiobook
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0b4b8e No.4716
People either loved or hated these books. They're basically a 'below decks' TOS story with new characters working under the usual crew.
I liked 'em. Piper a cute.
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7fe170 No.4752
just picked-up pic related. supposed to be a breddy gud klingon book that influenced Ron Moore and a lot of the TNG-era Klingon stuff he did.
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3c84ba No.4797
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c697a1 No.4803
>>4797
>it's real
what the fuck
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e4bd9f No.4804
>>4803
There was a TOS X-men comic book crossover once, they even made a joke about there being two Doctor McCoy's.
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de8176 No.4809
I only just recently picked up a book that actually is the first few novellas of the New Frontiers series of stories. So far it is fine but is making it seem rather odd with the hermaphrodite officer, the vulcan whose husband died mid sex-romp in the hieghrs of pon-farr and the captain being some guy who almost single-handedly threw out the colonial oppressors of his homeworld. Still, nothimg too crazy (by Trek standards) about it.
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8d0ea2 No.4817
>>4803
>>4797
Notice what he's holding.
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81caf0 No.4818
>>4613
>You think it'd be possible for you to simply upload all of them? I like tho have a hueg Calibre library.
No. The folder is nearly 2gb. I can try to find the torrent link, again, if you like.
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81caf0 No.4819
>>4803
>what the fuck
You have no idea how bad things can get in the search for shekels.
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f3bb62 No.4820
>>4818
If you still have the torrent in your client, you can probably right-click > copy magnet link.
Thanks anyhow!
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0b4b8e No.5749
>>4716
>Piper a cute.
And, unusual for Star Trek, really not into fucking aliens. I laughed out loud at the scene where she learns Spock's half human - she's shocked and says the idea of being on the same ship as him makes her sick.
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81caf0 No.5750
>>4752
>Two-Dimensional Chess
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81caf0 No.5751
>>4820
Hope this works for you, ol' chum. If not, let me know and I'll try something else.
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:C81A1F2CB06D512E09868D19127114E92660B96C&dn=Star%20Trek%20ebooks%20-%20Complete&tr=udp%3a%2f%2finferno.subdemon.com%3a3395%2fannounce
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f3bb62 No.5840
>>5751
It did!
Thanks anon!
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81caf0 No.5845
>>5840
You're welcome!
>Except for the New Frontier stuff. You shouldn't thank me for that.
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be8041 No.12438
So are there any Swoleverse books?
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abced0 No.16155
So is there any legit good reads or is it just fanfiction tier with shoehorned in homosexuality?
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6acdfc No.21001
Are any of the Voyager novels good? I'm curious what happened after they got back to Earth.
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755120 No.21002
>>21001
As a general rule any and all Trek novels are a teetering half-step above fanfiction.
>I'm curious what happened after they got back to Earth.
Nothing serious, I would imagine. O'Brien was expected to go right back to keeping DS9 running after 20 virtual years of incarceration, with only a token amount of time to cope. Same goes for Picard and the episode where he got his flute. Voyager's crew only had 7 years where they couldn't phone home, at most they'll each get a 20 minute session with a counselor before being returned to regular duties.
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cea2a2 No.21026
>>4524
SHATNERVERSE IS GOD TIER LITERATURE FUCK YOU FIGHT ME
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8eee7c No.21049
>>21026
How long till Shat makes Swoleverse his main theme with a Swolekirk?
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6acdfc No.21201
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0bcd92 No.21249
>>21201
Nice find. Any Swole material in here or comics?
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794221 No.26741
Question /strek/ I've never read a Trek book are there any that you would consider genuinely good like on the scale of an actual non-licensed sci-fi novel? All I've heard about Star Trek books is they're garbage.
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229787 No.26743
>>26741
I've heard largely the same, the fact that none of them are canon either doesn't help matters as it means they're just high-budget fanfiction with no connection to other books. Swoleverse is good tho.
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229787 No.26744
>>26743
Actually scratch that, I've heard semi-good things about the ones Shatner wrote. Probably good for chuckles if nothing else, also check mah dubs.
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229787 No.26745
>>26744
fucking hell what's with this disappearing flag shit.
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a91e08 No.26752
Ladies and gentlemen, I present the one, the only, the greatest Trek book ever. If you have not read it… read it. You are in for a treat.
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1778b5 No.27011
>>4817
An American classic
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a10ed1 No.27043
>>26743
There are a couple I remember enjoying, but I don't remember the titles, at least one was Fontana
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0ed8b7 No.27046
>>26744
Chequed.
>Actually scratch that, I've heard semi-good things about the ones Shatner wrote. Probably good for chuckles if nothing else, also check mah dubs.
Tekwars? I semi remember the tv series but never read the book. If I ever do, I insist on the audiobook version read by the Shatner himself. If what jewikipidia says is true, it was created by Shat and ghostwritten by someone else.
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0ed8b7 No.27047
>>26744
>>27046
Ah my mistake I thought you were talking about Shatner books in general, not Trek Shatner specific books.
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8059b6 No.27048
>>27047
>>26744
>>27046
I'm pretty sure Shatner has never actually written a book. Tekwar at least was his original idea, and he had some outlines and stuff that he passed off to the ghostwriter. To my knowledge everything else has been ghostwritten entirely. There was one about a guy who reluctantly leads the Martian revolution as revenge for the Earth government killing his dog in a foiled assassination plot. It was pretty damn good.
The only Star Trek actor to actually legitimately write a Star Trek book is Andrew Robinson (Garak.) Everyone else just used ghostwriters. They probably HAD to use ghostwriters. I doubt paramount or whoever wants amateurs just going out there trying to be writers for their franchise.
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b9016c No.27096
>>27048
i could be off on some of this but i'm pretty sure that the primo genre book gigs are for the film and tv novelizations. Those are expected to be as good as they can be, they get the scripts to work with, and they often add details that you dont get in the actual films. It's almost like "writers commentary" on the material. Trek litverse is shit, though, and the reason is that professional authors use these types of platforms to unload their B and C-grade stories and ideas. They're not giving them their best so you never get the best.
So, what can happen is that if an author is working on a story and it actually turns out to be really good (by the genre's standards), they're under immense pressure to simply change the names and the setting and turn it into a stand-alone IP. This i believe is how 50 Shades of Grey happened. It started-out as a Twilight story. What this means is that every good Star Trek book thats been written probably got diverted into it's own standalone IP. Hardcore sci-fi books nerds could probably take a guess at which ones those are. Would be fun to go back and change them back into Star Trek stories.
So, the process can go both ways, but it's usually just hack authors unloading their sub-standard material, and that's why it almost universally sucks. I write for fun and I know that in today's climate I absolutely wouldn't submit a Star Trek story if i thought it was really good. I'd turn it into something separate. It just doesn't make any sense to hand it over to these vile creatures.
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8059b6 No.27101
>>27096
Yes, it was originally a Twilight story.
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76e900 No.27102
>>27048
Walter Koenig wrote a post apocalyptic sci fi book
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8059b6 No.27138
>>27102
Like legitimately wrote it himself, and didn't have a ghostwriter? I'll have to look into it if so.
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cc137f No.27139
>>27138
If it was ghost written he has a strong lawsuit case. He fancied himself a sci fi writer. It's God-awful. It's called Buck Alice and the Actor Robot.
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0ed8b7 No.27141
>>27138
>>27102
>>27139
That title is so bad it's attractive, but reviews on it were let's say very mixed.
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8059b6 No.27144
>>4820
I don't generally like really rough porn, but she was great.
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db22b7 No.27633
Star Trek Chains of Command is very good
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a74922 No.27634
>>27048
>Everyone else just used ghostwriters.
being told this shit was entirely the fault of a ghost writer would actually increase my respect for Burton.
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b2c1c7 No.27637
>>27011
An autistic classic.
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b5e1bf No.27681
>>27634
But I thought he can do anything, cause he read a book, nigger.
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a4ff14 No.27682
>>27634
I thought it was deftly crafted… adds new depth and perspective to the science fiction genre.
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6b4685 No.27683
Has anyone read pathways? It's alright from what I recall.
Pretty much the crew gets stuck on some planet, and its mostly an excuse to tell character backstory while they're stuck in an alien prison camp. That, and I think Harry Kim gets his leg telefragged by a cave.
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