Just looking to see what everyone has. Maybe we can all learn of some new ones to add to the collection!
I don’t have a whole lot.
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The Star Trek Reader I and II by James Bish. They’re novelizations of TOS episodes.
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The Next Generation Tech Manual. Ended up buying this off of Amazon (used) years ago for a stupid price and well worth it.
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Star Trek Shipyards: Starfleet Ships 2151-2293, Starfleet Ships 2294-The Future (Pre-Discovery S3), and Borg and the Delta Quadrant. They’re each a compendium of various ships and classes. There’s a Klingon one and a Romulan one too if I remember correctly. Come with gorgeous high quality images, blueprints, cut aways and tons of in universe/behind the scenes information. Actually published by Eaglemoss through Penguin House.
The TNG Technical Manual is practically a necessity.
I have most of the Discovery and Picard tie-ins. They’re generally pretty good - the one I wouldn’t necessarily recommend is “The Way to the Stars”, which is about Tilly when she was sixteen. I wouldn’t say it’s bad, but it reads like a book for teenage girls, and I am…not that. My favourite of the bunch is probably the Picard prequel “The Last Best Hope”, which I really enjoyed.
In terms of older stuff, I have a good chunk of the New Frontier series, but fell away from it over time. The four-part Dominion War series from the 90s is interesting, but I would only recommend the TNG instalments, as the DS9 ones are just novelizations of a few episodes.
I also remember owning and reading "Best Destiny, but I really don’t remember it.
My one goal in life is to get my TNG tech manual signed by anyone from TNG. Ideally Frakes, Burton or Spiner.
The other books i’ve not heard much about. I was only really aware of one Discovery tie-in that had to do with my main man Stamets but I completely forgot to get it.
Thanks for the new ideas. I’ll definitely steer clear of the Tilly book. As a gay dude I might have a little bit extra enjoyment I could squeeze out of it, because I’m a walking stereotype, but even then the concept just seems odd. Not the time in Tillys life I’d have expected a book to go after.
The cover of “Dead Endless” is a little deceiving - it’s really a Culber story, as it covers what happened to him while he was trapped in the mycelial plane after being murdered by Voq. Obviously, that also means Stamets is featured pretty heavily, but…well, it’s not what you would expect. In a good way, I think.
A very good way. Was wondering what Hugh got up to while in there. He hasn’t talked about it in couples therapy. Just keeps screaming you weren’t there. Apparently it’s a reference to an old Earth film?