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Random spoilerific reasons to read Star Trek novels, with little to no context:
Ro/Quark is a thing
A Jem'Hadar joins DS9, tries to fit in but eventually snaps and tries to kill everybody
You learn the origins and final fate of the Borg
A thinly-veiled Dr. House clone joins the Voyager crew
Geordi briefly has 2 girlfriends at once (due to different writers not co-ordinating enough, but still)
There's a TOS book that's a musical
There are YA stories about Jake and Nog making mischief on DS9
YA stories about Worf, Geordi, Picard, Beverly, Kirk, Spock and McCoy at SFA
YA series about the Kelvinverse gang (including Gaila!) as cadets, taking on a drug problem at SFA and a very unique Borg scout in San Francisco
We very briefly meet the people who are to Q what the Q are to humanity
Janeway/Chakotay is a thing
Kirk's first mission in command of the Enterprise! Erm, at least twice.
Kirk was married between TOS and TMP
Her name was Lori
In the future, you have yearly marriage contracts that you either update or you don't and I think that's amazing
Trip didn't die! He faked his death to join Section 31 and go undercover as a Romulan
It's not great, tbh
The ENT books get better after the Romulan wars though, it's proper founding of the Federation stuff
We meet Jack Crusher (erm, the OG) when 4 timelines start overlapping and he's a bit unhinged
Teenage Kirk stole a car and his choice was go to jail or join Starfleet
What happened when Voyager got home? Seven broke up with Chakotay like 30 pages in
Kirk gets cloned, and his clone becomes the sub of an evil invincible super genius and its all very gay
George Kirk was Robert April's first officer on the first ever mission of the unnamed starship with the Naval Construction Contract 1701
Robert is a hard-core pacifist and has to turn command over to George whenever it's time to fire weapons
Data becomes fully human for a couple of days and it's really sweet
They never say "wristwatch" or "phone", it's always "wrist chrono" or "personal comm"
There are gays but they don't say that word because it's the 1990's and Rick Berman runs the franchise
Spock has a son in the past with Zarabeth
Everyone in the post-Nemesis era does spy missions all the time non stop, as if Starfleet has abandoned exploring the cosmos for doing Space Mission: Impossible
Bashir does it better than anyone else, he takes on Section 31 from the inside
Remember Control? It's from the novels, except the novels do it SO MUCH BETTER.
Remember how we never found out who Future Guy was? We do.
It's very underwhelming, nobody we know
We find out how the Romulans and Vulcans split
Surak was a Vulcan internet blogger
A Borg Cube eats Pluto
Janeway dies
Janeway gets better
At least one TOS book features a wizard
There's a Star Trek TOS/Here Come the Brides crossover novel
It had cameos from The Doctor (as in, Who), Han Solo, Starbuck and others
Whole book series about Section 31
Whole book series about the Department of Temporal Investigations
One time they do the Bill and Ted thing to escape confinement and it works
Wanna know how Riker and Troi met?
Wanna know what Picard got up to on the Stargazer?
Andorians have 4 sexes and it's very complicated
Data comes back from the dead as Data 2.0, and it was fresh and exciting because it happened long before ST: Picard did it twice.
Lal comes back too and we get father/daughter android stuff! They have a home and everything but keep having to save the universe
One time Mirror Seven is led around on a leash naked on Terok Nor
Geordi becomes captain of the USS Challenger, decides it's not for him because plot, and goes back to engineering on the Enterprise
Kirk is shot on the bridge and dies
Kirk gets better
They watch 3D holos of old Doctor Who episodes in the Enterprise rec room
The Enterprise also has an AI named Moira, which was Zora long before Zora
The TOS crew get together for one last mission. About three times.
There's a Perry Mason book except it's about Kirk's lawyer from that TOS episode
Data 2.0 owns and runs a massive gambling empire on Orion
Spock keeps randomly showing up everywhere in the TNG era
Scotty keeps randomly showing up everywhere in the TNG era
Bones keeps randomly showing up everywhere in the TNG era
You're on Tumblr so you already know about Killing Time
There's a guy named McKenzie Calhoun and he's a total badass and captains a ship of weirdos and misfits
Kirk comes back from the dead, saves the galaxy repeatedly, has an intersex child (who identifies as male) with a Romulan/Klingon hybrid
Kirk beats up Worf
Kirk's child has superpowers
Kirk's child saves the galaxy at age 6
The Kirk stuff is 100% ignored in the other novels
About 50% of the novels are ignored in the other 50%, and the ones that are meant to be in direct continuity with each other aren't always quite
Just like the TV shows and movies, then
Lwaxana Troi meets Q, and it goes as well as you'd expect
Someone tells Data, yes you idiot you had emotions all along and he's like, oh shit you're right
McCoy is left in command of the Enterprise as a joke by Kirk, who is then immediately kidnapped
Ro Laren is captain of Deep Space Nine
Picard/Beverly is a thing, they get married and have a child named Rene. No running away and raising your kid in secret here
Riker and Troi are married, serve on the Titan together with a bunch of adorable weirdos and have a daughter named Tasha
You get to watch all the 24th century characters die horribly in the end along with their entire universe. Holy fuck it's a bleak horror show. Personally, I love it. But if that's not your cup of tea I'd skip the Coda trilogy
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Star Trek: Typhon Pact Cross Cult Cover Art
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Star Trek: The Romulan War: To Brave the Storm Cover Art by Doug Drexler
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Am I the only one who finds it kind of weird that Tuvok was the only Voy/DS9 regular (besides Seven and Worf) to show up in Picard season 3 when the events of the entire season were a direct consequence of events in DS9 and Voyager?
Some of it definitely ended up being actor availability. Some of it was the writing even with that in mind. Really should have had Seven with Picard during the scenes with the Borg Queen, would have even taken Data to see how this new version of him, now fleshy (which the First Contact Queen gave him to try to turn him) would respond.
Honestly would have preferred to have no Borg involvement at all and have some other villain - or even just Vadic herself - be the main antagonist. The scope of the Collective always seems to elude certain writers....but I'm glad we're done with them.
#plus.....I love the Destiny trilogy and the novelverse so this is just someone's badly written fic to me#Star Trek Picard#PIC#spoilers#picard spoilers
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Get to know you ask game- thanks for tagging @randomfoggytiger 🫶🏻🫶🏻 also YAY I’M SO EXCITED YOU’RE WATCHING FRASIER it’s one of my comfort shows bc i watched it so much when i was a kid hehehe
Currently reading: a research paper i have to give a presentation on for journal club next tuesday😣 it’s not too complicated i just need to force myself to sit down and do it lol i’ve just been sooooo busy and i’m tired😭
Currently watching: i’m about halfway through my star trek voyager rewatch🖖🏻
Currently obsessed with: always txf, my star trek obsession faded a little when the novelverse ended but it’s making a comeback, and i share the neurotypical vs neurodivergent brains obsession with you tiger lol
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Finally got a chance this week to sit down and read Second Self , the most recent Picard novel. I pretty much assumed I would enjoy this one because it's Una McCormack (which is like slapping a guarantee on the package for me) and because her first Picard novel was a banger, despite my having more tepid feelings about the series itself.
If you’re in my Trek circle of tumblr, you should give this one a try, guys. It's good.
Random thoughts (here be spoilers):
The moment I saw the words "a Cardassian," I knew I was going to see Garak. I knew because #1: are there other Cardassians? Really? and #2: Dr. Una wouldn't play with my heart like that. (Also my spouse, who had already read the book, kept staring at me while I was reading, judging my reaction. Bit of a tip off as well.)
I fucking love Raffi. Specifically, I love this novelverse version of the character who has depth and is so relatable. She was the best part of Last Best Hope, and having her take center stage was a treat. I would like to kindly request of the Star Trek gods to please give us a smidge more Seven/Raffi in the novelverse. The radioplay was lovely, and Beyer fed us well there. But I want more, and I'm especially curious to see what Dr. McCormack's would do with it. I have waited a lifetime to see an explicitly canon sapphic ship* in Trek: I am hungry. (*other than Dax/Kahn)
Juxtaposing Elnor and his absolute candor with Garak is just *chef's kiss fireworks yes* BRILLIANT
As with most of Dr. Una's work, not only was this an engaging read, but it was thematically rich, too. The meditation on justice vs. retribution vs. restitution is so immediately relevant and so well done that I know I’ll be thinking about it many times outside its trek context. And I was so grateful for the recognition that choosing restitution is an heroic act on the part of those who truly deserve retribution/justice. Effing lovely.
I always wondered how one could satisfactorily end Garak's story. I mean in my heart I knew it couldn't be purely happily ever after. There were war crimes, buddy: probably need just a smidge of comeuppance there. But also, the other part of my heart didn't want to see him suffer more because...because it's Garak. This ending managed to please both halves of my heart, which I didn't think possible. (When I say end, it is by default in quotation marks because that story will never be over, I refuse)
I will forever and always wonder how different this arc is than the one that might have been in the prior DS9 litverse.
Okay, @unamccormack, be honest: how much of that letter Garak left for Bashir have you mentally written? Actually written? I have to know what it says. I need it like air. I just know it would be full of references to The Tempest and musings on missed opportunities and past mistakes. Please, I'm begging: release the extended cut!
#star trek#star trek novels#una mccormack#i am srsly going to have to write that letter#reluctantly rereading the tempest is in my future i can feel it
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When the Tie-In Novels Pop Up
I went ham into the Star Wars EU (now legends continuity), but oddly enough, I did not find my way anywhere near as deep into the Star Trek novels. That's not to say I didn't dabble, though, and the omnibus Imzadi Forever--which contains two companion novels, it's basically a duology--was my first mission into the Star Trek novelverse.
I admit, I also found the audiobook narrated by Jonathan Frakes, but that was suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuch a disappointment because it was so abridged as to take a solidly OK Troi/Riker ship fic and make it actually bad. There is an unabridged audiobook with a different narrator, but I literally could not...I've watched too much TNG. Let's talk Imzadi Forever.
This omnibus includes the full text of Imzadi and Imzadi II: Triangle.
Imzadi explores a what-if time travel scenario that really hammers through Riker's thick skull that his life is quite simply incomplete without Deanna Troi in it. It's very "young, dumb love" contrasted with the potential for more mature, developed emotion--as long as the time travel thing works properly. I'm absolutely not here to day that this is the best Star Trek romance book ever, but it's solidly fun and frankly, I don't mind authors torturing characters a bit, and Riker full-on goes through the ringer in this one.
That said, I'm not here to say that this is the peak of literary writing--it's not. There is an exquisitely terrible poem that gets brought up objectively way too often. But it is a lot of fun, and when you really need a Troi/Riker fix, this is definitely a good story to reach for. It's fluffy and has a happy ending.
Imzadi II is an extremely different tone, and really kind of highlights everything that was toxic about Troi's relationships with Worf, Riker, and Thomas Riker. There are Romulans. There is torture to make the boys crack. There is an actual fistight between Will Riker and Worf over Troi and Alexander (yeah, both. It's complicated). This is a VERY different mood of a novel, and while both books are good, they're not the type of duology I would normally binge together.
All that said though, this is a fun Star Trek omnibus that is very fun when you want just a little more Troi and Riker.
#star trek#star trek: the next generation#deanna troi#will riker#worf#imzadi#romance#romance novels#romance books#star trek romance#books#tie in novel#books and novels#books and reading#books & libraries
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Conversations at the End of the Universe Part 3: Relaunch
https://ift.tt/ax6eQmy
by DoubleBlue
Words: 829, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English
Series: Part 3 of Conversations at the End of the Universe
Fandoms: Star Trek, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek novelverse, Picard - Fandom, Star Trek: The Next Generation (Movies), Star Trek: The Original Series
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
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Saw the posts about time travel investigation books. The Department of Temporal Investigations series is awesome, especially books 2 and 4. Books in the series: (1) Watching the Clock (2) Forgotten History (3) The Collectors (4) Time Lock (5) Shield of the Gods .
I absolutely love how many people have gotten in touch with me about these books! It's so wonderful to see how many people love the Star Trek novelverse and are eager to help their fellow trekkies find new reading material 😁
Seriously, thank you! This list is super helpful and I'm gonna put all of these on my wishlist right away. I love time travel shenanigans where authors really pay attention to continuity and technical detail!
#department of temporal investigations#star trek novels#star trek meta#time travel#@startreksetplans#i think four or five people got in touch with me after my offhand question about the name of the time travel novel#which makes me so incredibly happy!#you all are amazing!!!#this is fandom at its best honestly#just being excited together and helping each other find more nerdy things to be excited about
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Never forget that in Peter David's New Frontier novels (and comics), the ancient immortal character Morgan Primus is vaguely implied to be every single one of Majel Barrett's onscreen Trek characters.
And she's the mother of Robin Lefler.
And then the immortal is finally killed and... actually ends up becoming the ship's computer consciousness, after an earlier Peter David novel established that the Majel computer voice was in fact Number One programming the Enterprise computer with her own voice.
Obviously it doesn't work in a modern Trek world where Number One and Nurse Chapel definitely aren't the same person and are on Pike's Enterprise crew together
But still, just a weird 90's thing that happened
#star trek#star trek novel#star trek novels#star trek novelverse#number one#nurse chapel#lwaxana troi#peter david#una chin riley#new frontier
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I want the void to hear my takes on Star Trek: Coda
okay finale book. Oblivion’s Gate by David Mack. Lets see how they close this out.
So we open on ‘the second splinter’ which is Picard and Co dying on the Devidians planet moments before they can activate their plan. We then hop back to the Defiant which is hiding out in the badlands. Sisko tells Kira they gave her the Orb for a reason and the prophets might not be dead as fuck yet. They get a message from the mirror universe and a wormhole opens for them. They head through and decloak, to meet Captain Luc Picard of Jauntship Enterprise.
Okay, Mirrorverse catchup. Basically everything happened as it did in the shows (I think the Disco part too). But, Alt Spock set up Memory Omega which was a secret organization dedicated to bringing the federation to life in the mirrorverse. They hid in like hollowed out planets and stuff and have a bunch of advanced tech like wormhole drives and slipstream as default. When it became clear the revolt started on Terok Nor was taking wing, they came to support them and helped establish a galactic commonwealth, with the Romulans taking the place of the Klingons as former enemies now friends. So theres a big ol psuedo federation thats very advanced on this side.
So Bashir knows some people over there (presumably for a thing he did prior) They really should’ve chopped and changed the dot points per book for relevant stuff. They come aboard and meet Luc Picard and his first officer, Alexander’s mom. They have some brief awkward counterpart moments and then Alt Savik (special guest star Kirstie Allie) is like ‘holy shit its spock’ but in vulcan. They’re all like ‘time apocalypse’ and the commonwealth people are like ‘please more info now.’ They deliver and Wesley is like ‘our realities are linked which is why stuff happens in weird mirror ways’ and no one asks for a follow up.
They get permission to go to a Memory Omega site that has like a wild reality viewer thing. Meanwhile Riker is going crazier and Vale, Troi, Doc Lizard, and secretly counselor lil guy attempt to prove that he can be dismissed on medical grounds and realise his brain is cooking with two rikers in it. Confirming everything Troi got from Picard. They very nicely sit down with him and give him the data and he briefly takes the pad and secretly deletes the info before having Vale and Lizard arrested and threatening Deana.
Over there, they hand out the bands they’ve made to keep time multiple personality disorder which is sent throughout the whole fleet. Wesley plugs into the chair and Data does the data analysis, trying to find the original fault that the Devidians are using to do the whole Time War thing. They find it and its very depressing. So here’s how it works.
Way back during the movie First Contact, when the Enterprise was the only remaining ship above Borg Earth and jumped into the timehole to undo what the borg done did. The Borg on Earth realized what they were seeing and kept the portal on their end open. They did a bad science on it in an attempt to prevent the Enterprise from returning to the present and undoing its undoing of their new Borgy history. This busted up reality. So we got the prime timeline (the tv canon feat. new shows) which diverged from Borg Earth (which somehow became stable on its own) and the First Splinter Timeline (which is the novelverse eu). The First Splinter is inherently unstable and so are all of its descendant timelines which is what allowed the time crimes. They relay this and reveal the only option left to them: prevent their own existence by stopping the initial splinter to stop the time ghosts from eating all the stable timelines once they get through the first splinter.
Kira reactivates the orb of time and sisko and wes do a mindmeld to reach into it for prophet advice, they sanction the course they’re taking. Everyone is different shades of bummed about this but they agree to go ahead for the needs of the many, they relay this to the mirror lads who agree to help as their universe is starting to break down as well. In main verse the president of the federation asks why riker is acting so crazy before the weird universe breakdown they’ve been witnessing expands and destroys the entire sol system. Riker takes control of the fleet and orders them to find the Defiant for reasons that arent making a whole lot of sense to anyone but him. over there, Kira goes to the wormhole with the orb to act as a beacon, Sisko, Picard and the Defiant go to the past of borg earth to undo the thing there, and wes and Luc Picard go to the normal verse to find the devidians base by scanning black holes and use the stuff they have there to wipe their history out.
This is kind of a bummer for many reasons (im sure we’ll get a fun time bullshit ‘we saved things! yay!’) but no one gets enough time to process all the shit happening or see this from a personal perspective to give us an understandable look at something on this scale. Like, the goal is to retroactively erase all the things that happened in this canon, which can be done if we get a strong character dialed in look at it, but we arent. Its shifting too much and a bunch of faves have already died. So the sense of everything is out of wack. Like part of what works about Hickman’s FF and Avengers runs is the focus on a few characters we know in the face of insane cosmic chaos. It helps ground it, but this still feels like the Picard show, but not sufficiently deep enough to justify the focus and the jumps to other characters are too shallow. idk, Kira is the only one who feels like she’s understands the weight of all this and she’s not in this much.
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Federation DS9 Concept Art Details by Andy Probert
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Immediate first reaction Ro is oh it's Admiral Cain!
I can't reconcile this Picards feelings towards Ro.....
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With the Georgiou/31 spinoff turned to a movie special (I'm going to follow TrekCulture's lead here and call it a Long Trek), I have been thinking about some ideas for other Long Treks that could be put together. Cuz there's plenty Trek out there to build on for series, Short Treks, and Long Treks, so let's get some exploration of these ideas.
Gonna put this behind a cut though, since I go on and on, especially when I give myself a platform.
First off, and most importantly, I really want to return to the Picard-original cast and give them further features - hearing that Isa Briones thought that fans didn't like her broke my heart, so let's immediately jump into a Soji-Data story that features father and daughter. Not to say that screen Trek should totally rip off the novelverse, but that could also give a genuine return for Moriarty, since his actor was disappointed to not actually be playing Moriarty. Or do some follow up on the synths who left that message that the Zhat Vash were so afraid of and deal with THAT aftermath. But yeah, let's see the father-daughter adventure that Picard Season 3 couldn't afford.
I'd like also to take advantage of Rios being in the early/mid 21st century and actually get a WW3 story - y'know, we have this established major character (possibly characters if Guinan gets to be involved as well) who would be there in this time frame, and, on top of that, this is a story that kinda DEMANDS being told, since Rios stayed for Teresa and Ricardo, so presumably with the intent and desire to protect them when the war broke out.
Then there's the natural Jurati and her Borg Collective to explore, which would be able to also explore what that massive galactic threat was - if, just as a theory to connect it with what else was happening in Picard season two, it was tied to the death of Q, for example, we could also learn about the fates of the Lady Q and Junior.
Elnor, I think, would have a story more appropriate to a Short Trek, not these Long Treks, but only because I feel like it would be reasonable to have him join the cast of the potential "Star Trek Legacy" that people call for. With that in mind, I'd like to see him settle on a career in Starfleet that suits him - specifically, counseling. Cuz sure, the guy is a sword wielding badass and looked to Picard as a mentor figure, so those imply a security or command track, but I'd sooner see him turn his heritage with Absolute Candor be part of how he helps others to heal. That said, there's certainly room to build up a cast of Starfleet cadets who are experiencing the aftermath of the Borg Attack on Frontier Day - how many of them were also assimilated and turned on their teachers and instructors and families? Indeed, that could be part of the catalyst of him taking that career track. Plus we'd be able to get more of Romulan history and culture explored.
Speaking of the Romulans, we really DO need a story that explores the actual events of the supernova that destroyed Romulus - it was a plot MacGuffin in 09 Trek, Picard season one dashed the Hobus star explanation utilized in the original Countdown comic and adopted by Star Trek Online by calling it the destruction of the Romulan star, and the novel Last Best Hope (which, while not being something that screen Trek is bound to, there has been more cross over/through with canon/non-canon material in modern Trek, so it's at least something that might be acknowledged) implied that the supernova was caused by some internal faction of the Romulans. This is a mystery that deserves to be solved - or, more bluntly, a plot mess from a time that didn't expect to HAVE to deal with it that needs to be cleaned up.
On a similar note, SELA. This character needs some kind of actual use and development - for all the fanfare that she got as an introduction, she ended up used as just a generic Romulan antagonist, and she should be further explored. She could be a major character of the Romulan supernova story or of a separate story, say, of rebuilding the Romulan society in the aftermath.
As a bit of 'hold us over until Star Trek Legacy can happen' kind of thing, I'd also like to get a Seven and the Fenris Rangers adventure, develop some of how she ended up with this group. As a bonus, we could get some acknowledgement of other Voyager crew in the mix as well - maybe she ends up running in to Harry Kim (finally promoted). Potentially, if this were to take place between the first two seasons of Picard, we could even get more of Santiago Cabrera as the La Sirena holograms (yes, I just want more Santiago Cabrera in Star Trek). Either way, though, I want to explore the shift in Seven from the end of Voyager to the time of Picard.
On a "just cuz" note, I want to see a pre-Picard Worf and Ro Starfleet Intelligence story, maybe something that further alludes to what Worf had sacrificed, as he said in Imposters. Plus explore more of his growth and development. I mean, I'd certainly not mind a Captain Worf of the Enterprise-E story (see just what was- er, WASN'T his fault about why they couldn't use it), but I feel like the Worf-Ro dynamic is something that it'd be interesting to dig in to (and, yes, I am aware she's among his crew in the Star Trek Defiant comics, but more is good).
This is where I'm going to cut myself off, because I could probably just keep going and have dozens more ideas. But just... I liked Short Treks, I want to see Long Treks be a thing, and I think both ideas give a great deal of room to explore more of the Trek universe.
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“A vague stickiness that I’ll wipe clean with a towel.”
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