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Ryan North, Chris Fenoglio: Star Trek: Lower Decks: Warp Your Own Way (GraphicNovel, 2024, IDW) 5 stars

Mariner just wants to have a normal day, but no matter what side of the …

Why isn't the Spock Clock a thing?

5 stars

I have only ever read one "choose your own adventure" book, but that was prose and worked with rolling dice. So I guess that's more a solo RPG than a "choose your own adventure". Anyway, with "Warp Your Own Way" you do not roll dice, but choose where to go yourselves; usually out of two, sometimes three options. The story gets pretty dark, like Star Trek does sometimes, but it is also hilarious like the tv show. It is a clever, well thought out adventure that I hope we'll see more of. And I'm sure this style of book would work for all Trek series. If it weren't a spoiler, I'd show you my journal where I have built a flow chart of all the paths there are and where they lead. After a while I needed it to remember where I had already gone and which options I hadn't …

Greg Cox: Lost to Eternity (AudiobookFormat, 2024, Simon & Schuster Audio) 4 stars

A thrilling new Star Trek “movie era” novel from New York Times bestselling author Greg …

Scully should be a verb, or: The Search for Gillian Taylor*

4 stars

Content warning Star Trek: Lost to Eternity -- no real spoilers, but a few hints

Jean Lorrah: The IDIC Epidemic (1988, Pocket Books) 2 stars

IDIC - Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations. More than just a simple credo, for those …

Love in times of an epidemic

2 stars

I guess these early novels that spend a lot of time exploring Vulcan bonding and mating and mind melding are just not my thing. I respect them a lot however. These early writes, many of them women, were pioneers and absolutely essential for shaping our fandom.

The actual epidemic this book is about reminded me of our own Covid-19 epidemic and it was interesting to see how it has the potential to sow dispute and distrust, though I would have liked that part to be a bigger focus. Unfortunately that was not the case. A lot of the story was about people falling in love in the midst of it all. There was also a natural disaster and some berserk Vulcans (holdovers from the earlier book "The Vulcan Academy Murders"), that have no problem whatsoever to circumvent the Enterprise's security. Nothing was really explored in the detail I wished it …

Dayton Ward: From History's Shadow (2013, Simon & Schuster, Limited) 4 stars

2268: Following the encounter with the mysterious Gary Seven in the twentieth century, the crew …

Uncommon Trek novel, connecting a lot of stories.

4 stars

This is one of those special novels, like "Articles of the Federation", that are very much Star Trek, but also sit a bit to the side of the main storylines. With a focus on mid 20th century Earth and the UFO craze and conspiracy, it has not a lot to do with 23rd century space action, though the Enterprise does play a role or two as well. The way the author is weaving all the time travel episodes involving Earth from various Trek shows together, adding some new aliens, and including historic military projects as well, is wonderful and a lot of fun. I enjoyed it greatly.

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Dayton Ward: Star Trek: The Next Generation:  Pliable Truths (AudiobookFormat, 2024, Simon & Schuster Audio) 4 stars

A thrilling new Star Trek: The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine adventure from New …

Filling in some blanks

4 stars

Set shortly before "The Emissary", DS9's pilot episode, this novel is a great opportunity to meet a lot of the station's crew for the very first time - kind of 😉. Being written now, 30 years after DS9 started and with a lot more onscreen Trek story to work with, I love that there are connections to the new stuff. It's always been there, even though it was never shown. Another part I loved a lot was everything with the O'Briens. Geordi acknowledges Miles' dutiful transporter room work, and we get great scenes between Keiko and Miles where they talk about their future and possible change of scenery. This book is really good at filling in some character backgrounds. Speaking of Keiko: She gets something meaningful to do with Beverly on Bajor, which I loved seeing. There are so many little things that I loved: a meta-comment on the same …

Una McCormack: Star Trek: Discovery: The Way to the Stars (AudiobookFormat, 2019, Simon & Schuster Audio) 4 stars

Despite being an inexperienced Starfleet cadet, Sylvia Tilly became essential to the USS Discovery finding …

Tilly's way to the stars

4 stars

When I was asking my fedi friends for cozy Trek novel recommendations, this was one of the books recommended to me. I was a bit skeptical about the book because of Tilly's not so good relationship with her mother. Something that I have struggled with all my life as well, I did not want to read a story about it. I feared it would be really uncomfortable and upsetting. I was reassured that that was not a big focus of the book (and it really isn't), so I got the audio book of it and... was a sobbing mess for the first part of it. LOL

So it did not start out very cozy and happy for me at all. LOL Part of that was due to how Tilly's mother behaves towards her, but a big part of it was due to how Tilly struggles at her school. I saw …

A. C. Crispin: Star Trek: Sarek (AudiobookFormat, 2012) No rating

Spock's mother, Amanda Grayson, is dying, and Spock returns to the planet Vulcan where he …

My eyemuscles weren't powerful enough to keep a straight and beautiful pokerface.

1 star

The amount of eyerolling, sighing, facepalming, and "Oh god, what!? No!" and similar commenting I did was too high to count. I thought about giving this 2 stars, but the longer it went on the more frustrated I became. So 1 star is all I can give.

A lot of this book is a regurgitation of scenes and quotes from TOS episodes and films. It sometimes feels like a badly re-enacted clip show. It's just too much. By a lot. The part about Amanda dying (no spoiler, it literally says on the blurb) left me cold, and her diary entries are beyond juvenile. (I am an avid journaler myself. A journal should never ever be censored or edited. Be as juvenile as you want in yours. I know that I am, and it is very cathartic. But I don't think it makes for good literature.) The part about Peter's stay …

The omnibus edition of an epic crossover trilogy uniting characters from every corner of the …

Epic, intense, satisfying -- one of the best Trek books.

5 stars

Content warning Star Trek: Destiny - The Complete Saga -- Spoilers

The omnibus edition of an epic crossover trilogy uniting characters from every corner of the …

Star Trek: Destiny -- Book 3: Lost Souls ⭐⭐⭐⭐

It was another intense book, I am exhausted! Especially the stuff that happened on that "frozen ass" planet was hard for me to read. But also the invasion and battle scenes were emotional. I had tears in my eyes more than once. Everything comes together now, all threads find a satisfying conclusion. In a story that big, that is not necessarily a given. Mack nails it. I like Captain Hernandez. When I went into this trilogy I was not happy with how her original mission went. I thought she deserved better. But her story took quite a turn and I like it. Will we ever see her and the Caeliar again? I hope so! As for the big bad I will write more in another post, which will then be behind a CW for spoilers. I don't know how to write …

The omnibus edition of an epic crossover trilogy uniting characters from every corner of the …

Star Trek: Destiny -- Book 2: Mere Mortals ⭐⭐⭐⭐

It took me a while to finish this for reasons that have nothing to do with the book. It's another fantastic action packed novel with quite some heartbreak too. I cried several times.

Again we follow the Enterprise E and the Aventine as they try to figure out how to stop the Borg from invading Federation space. There's a good space fight and also some face to face combat which was really good. We meet President Bacco a few times too, which I always love. I enjoy seeing all the different groups adding their part to solve this problem, as this is not something we get to see on screen a lot.

In the meantime the Titan is investigating the shelled planet they found while the away team down on the planet is facing some problems of their own, both within …

Cassandra Rose Clarke: Shadows Have Offended (AudiobookFormat, 2021, Simon & Schuster Audio and Blackstone Publishing) 4 stars

The USS Enterprise has been granted the simple but unavoidable honor of ferrying key guests …

Troi and Crusher need to be on that cover!

4 stars

Don't let the cover design trick you into thinking this is a Worf novel that includes a lot of Romulans. He's got things to do and I love seeing him do these things. But it should have been Troi and Crusher on that cover.

Listened to it a second time over the weekend. A great book with clear A and B stories, that are not interwoven. It's set right before "All Good Things...". I love that the two main women in the TNG crew get to be center stage here.

The story around Crusher, Riker, and Data is very cool. They face some unusual events on a new planet and it's fascinating to follow them figuring out what they are. Crusher has a very crucial role in that and that's so good to see. Love her scene with Data at the end.

The story around Troi, Worf, and Picard starts …

David Mack: Star Trek: Picard: Firewall (AudiobookFormat, 2024) 5 stars

Two years after the USS Voyager’s return from the Delta Quadrant, Seven of Nine finds …

The start of how Seven became the woman we know today (as in ST: Picard)

5 stars

Content warning Possible spoilers for David Mack's "Star Trek: Picard: Firewall". I don't say anything too specific, and nothing that I would call plot relevant, but some people might still count that as spoilers. Hence this CW.

Andrew Robinson: A Stitch in Time (AudiobookFormat, 2023, Simon & Schuster Audio) 5 stars

A Stitch in Time (ISBN 0-671-03885-0), published June 5, 2000, is a Star Trek: Deep …

A must read for all Garak fans

5 stars

Content warning Andrew J. Robinson "A Stitch in Time" -- possible spoilers!

The omnibus edition of an epic crossover trilogy uniting characters from every corner of the …

Star Trek: Destiny -- Book 1: Gods of Night ⭐⭐⭐⭐

What a book! Several ships and a story spanning centuries. I have not read any of the (relevant) post-Nemesis books before this one, so I'm probably being thrown in some cold water here. But I am just going with the flow. I may not understand all interpersonal relationships, but I always feel that the authors are good in describing what's been happening to new readers, or as a refresher for those who read the earlier books. I did struggle a bit to keep my storylines straight though, because there are several going on at once. But all in all a fantastic book. One of my favourite Trek books for sure.

The Columbia story is quite something. I'm really interested to learn more about the Caeliar. Ezri Dax as Captain is so amazing! I was not happy with how Troi's situation …