Comment on Why doesn't Star Trek use TrekLit for streaming shows?

danny801@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There was a good recent thread on this. Much depends on your own preferences.

  I posted the image of the first book of the TOS era series Vanguard because I think it would be excellent to adapt to television. It’s about Starbase 47 serving Starfleet in a region of Federation expansion and colonization. It’s somewhat dark and there’s a mystery at the core.

  If you’re looking for the Alpha and Omega of the Borg, the Destiny trilogy is excellent.

  If you’re into time travel, Christopher L. Bennett has a series of books about the Bureau of Temporal Investigations.

  There was also a great anthology of novellas focused on the Starfleet Corps of Engineers.

  There are numerous great standalones too.

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  • marlowe221@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Related question based on the image for the original post… Is the Vanguard series good? I grew up reading my dad’s collection of TOS novels and I have always thought that era is f Trek translated well to a novel format.

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    • StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Vanguard is darker even than DS9, so not everyone’s taste.

      What it does have is not only Starfleet on-station but also 4 ships that are based there from a scout explorer to a Constitution class. It’s a lot of characters. Plus Tholians and Klingons. The mystery takes a bit to come together but it’s excellent.

      The Enterprise and her crew show up occasionally but aren’t the primary characters. There is one Vanguard novel recently add that is Enterprise-focused and is one of the best books since Destiny.

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  • thejoker954@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s been a while, is the Destiny trilogy the one where we learn the Borg origins?

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    • StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yes. The Destiny trilogy is described as the Alpha to Omega story of the Borg.

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      • thejoker954@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Gotcha, never heard the term alpha to omega to describe start to finish or origins.

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• IcedRaktajino@startrek.website ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m currently reading “Star Trek: Destiny” and the Borg seem to be the big bad.

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