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StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website 18 hours agoThere 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.
marlowe221@lemmy.world 17 hours 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.
StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website 9 hours 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.