Of Reading and Writing Star Trek Novels

Ricard Daystrom

I am an author. I absolutely love Star Trek. I have multiple projects that I am working on. I would like recommendations for Trek Novels and some writing tips. If anyone here is a writer, tell is about your work and be sure to give tips. No question is dumb, so ask away!

Lady Gaghgagh

I consider myself a writer even if most of what I do is thinking about writing rather than doing actual writing.

But once I have more free time for writing fiction (I am writing a thesis at the moment), I would love to pen that Star Trek series that I discussed in the "future of canon trek" thread. I've always wanted to write that idea out.

Ricard Daystrom

Lady Gaghgagh wrote: »

I consider myself a writer even if most of what I do is thinking about writing rather than doing actual writing.

That's Just how I am. LOL

(CFOH2) Jec Orontos

2 words : assimilated universe .

Rick Martel(l)

Ricard Daystrom wrote: »

I would like recommendations for Trek Novels

Any Trek book you can find.

[10F] Emma Lorca

I recently bought a ST novel collection with 300 books- I love ´em

Yankee Trader

I have been reading the novel Hard Rain. Love a new Dixon Hill/holodeck safeties off story.

Vergil

I love to write, but I'm not very good at it. :P

I haven't read many of the Star Trek novels, either, my only access to them is through my library's interlibrary loan and it can take a lot of time, haha. There are so many that I'd love to read, though! The ones I have read are mostly DS9 books. :') Some of Una McCormack's books!

Travis S McClain

It's kinda funny you bring this up, because I've been considering participating in NaNoWriMo next month. I did it once before, back in 2011. I liked what I wrote well enough that I revised and self-published it. I've wanted to write another, and even had a vague outline for one, but each time I tried to get it started, it just wasn't there. One of the things I've been tinkering with lately is trying my hand at fanfic. I've never had any interest in writing, or even reading, fanfic so this is out of character for me. There's something about TOS storytelling that has really appealed to me a lot the last year or so, though, and I think it could be fun to play in that sandbox. I dunno. I haven't committed to anything as yet.

As for Trek novel recommendations, I have a few. They're out of date because I stopped reading them ages ago, but...

Star Trek "The Ashes of Eden" by William Shatner with Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens
Star Trek "Bloodthirst" by J.M. Dillard
Star Trek "Prime Directive" by Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens
Star Trek: The Next Generation "Imzadi" by Peter David
Star Trek: The Next Generation "Q-in-Law" by Peter David

enigma starlord

I dabble a bit in writing but am not good at it either. Other suggestions are Q Squared, Enterprise the first adventure, Probe, and The Return. I found a pile at a local book store and most are post DS9/Voy. I guess it depends on the genre and which series you would base it off of. My story encompasses all series to a point, mixing crew, and even an appearance by Kelvin universe now. Just too much for ideas not enough time to actually write it.