So what are your favourite three STAR TREK NOVELS of all time?

mine are

1-THE RETURN by William Shatner :thumbsup:
2-IMZARDI by Peter David :thumbsup:
3-CROSSOVER by M.J.Friedman :thumbsup:

and yours are?

I haven't read any for a long time, but I remember really enjoying these:

The Final Reflection by John Ford (a brilliant story about the Klingons)
The Wounded Sky by Diane Duane (I remember there was a Horta crew member on the Enterprise in this one!)
Vendetta by Peter David (about the Borg, which I read before seeing Best of Both Worlds)

I've given up on the novels myself (I've got a pile sitting here around which I've picked up in sales), and I can't honestly remember any that were so good I've felt the need to go back to them.

Trouble is that these days there's just too much of the wrong thing - you've now got seven or eight book series going at once, and everything seems to be set in the series' future (bar the occasional TOS - and this is only because the movies have gone into enough details to set up the future of it's time). While this can be good, I'd love to just see new single volume TNG or DS9 books set during the series itself. If you want to see a novel with, say, Tasha Yar, you'd more than likely get one with her on Romulas post Yesterdays Enterprise (then again they've probably done this too!) rather than during Season 1 TNG.

These days it seems the only new DS9 and VOY books are the relaunch ones, and all the TNG ones now seem to be set during the films (vis the recent 9 or 10 book long series set between Insurrection and Nemesis. How hard can it be to comission and print new books set in the past?

Which brings me onto my other gripe - every book these days has to be 'Book 1 of 2', when in reality they're just filling space, and could be cut to one book and be done with it. What happened to the the days of about 7 or 8 years ago, when you could find any number of Trek novels on the shelves, all set during verious eras?

Compare this series to the Doctor Who ones - you get new books which will bring in the story arcs and give people 'new, different' Who, but you also get standalone stories set in the series past as well.

It's just a shame there are some Trekkies who'll buy anything with Star Trek printed on it, and love it irrespective of quality :(

I'll count the 'My Brother's Keeper' trilogy as one choice, so mine are as follows;

- My Brother's Keeper

- The Return

- Imzadi

Narrowly missing out was Vendetta