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Howdy all. I have $25 in gift certificatees for Coles, and I'm going to town tomorrow. Also, I have $10, and if I'm lucky I might get my allowance ($20). So, I'm gonna get some books. Any suggestions?
Here's what I already have:
Star Trek: New Frontier
House of Cards
Into the Void
The Two-Front War
End Game
Martyr
Fire on High
The Quiet Place
Dark Allies
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Unification
Rogue Saucer
The Return
Dominion War Book One
Dominion War Book Three
Dark Mirror (hardcover)
Q-Squared (hardcover)
First Contact
Ship of the Line (hardcover)
Double Helix #5: Double or Nothing
I, Q (hardcover)
Imzadi II (hardcover)
Star Trek: The Captain's Table
Once Burned
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Saratoga
Dominion War Book Two
Dominion War Book Four
Star Trek: Voyager
Pathways (hardcover)
Star Trek
The Klingon Gambit
Logs One and Two
Logs Three and Four
Logs Five and Six
Logs Seven and Eight
Logs Nine and Ten
Spock's World (currently on loan)
Misc
Encyclopedia II
LUG Sourcebook The Price of Freedom
Star Trek: The Magazine Issue 1
Star Trek: The Magazine Issue 2
Star Trek: The Magazine Issue 3
Star Trek: The Magazine Issue 4
Star Trek: The Magazine Issue 5
Star Trek: The Magazine Issue 6
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Out of those novels I only have Q-Squared. Great book. If anything, I could use some recommendations since that's the only Trek novel I read.
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"Battlelines" ST Voyager # 18 by Dave Galanter and Greg Brodeur.
Basicly Voyager is ambused and captured by the Edesians , a race in the Delta Quad that is engaged in a war with the Gimlon , they take Voyager and the crew hostage and force them to fight in the war against the gimlon .The Gimlon are basicly the Nazis of the Delta Quadrent and they are in a holy war with the Edesians and Voyager is forced to take sides.
This book is real cool id give it an 8 out 10
Another of my fav books is TNG : The Romulan Prize its a great insite into the Romulan Military system and it also features the D'K Class Warbird .
Most Books by Diane carey are ok , she writes alot of ST Voyager , she wrote "Equinox 1 , 2"
If i were you id cruise Amazon.com , run a search on Star Trek and Look around , thats what i do when i get some book cash , most of the Books i research there turn out to be good books
Look for Ds9 : "Betrayal"
and VOY "The Raven"
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Not that I think girls are slimy... maybe when I was six. I'm just trying to keep with a Calvin & Hobbes theme.
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Egads! Not Voyager #18! Those are not my characters! "Ride 'n' hide"!??! Uhm, no. And they talk about weird things like "screens" for shields... It's not a good Voyager novel at all. Sci-fi, maybe; Trek, no.
Buy DS9 #4? 5? Fallen Heroes by Dafydd ab Hugh. It's really good, even though it's set on DS9 in the first season.
Or go with Mosaic by Jeri Taylor, for Voyager. Janeway's life history. Almost as good as Pathways, and that's saying a lot.
You have two of the Dominion War books. Are they the novelisation ones? I think so. The other two are also excellent novels, IMO.
The Long Night for DS9 (#14) is interesting.
The Captain's Table books are all relatively good, too.
The original Imzadi takes a bit of getting used to, but it's fun and a great read, tense... A good novel.
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------------------ Elim Garak: "Oh, it's just Garak. Plain, simple Garak. Now, good day to you, Doctor. I'm so glad to have made such an... interesting new friend today." (DS9: "Past Prologue")
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My favorite is Star Trek: Federation by the Reeves-Stevenses. This book takes place starts out tracing three different plotlines: In the 2260s, Zefram Cochrane is pursued by a madman who believes he can force Cochrane to build a warp bomb. In the 2360s, a passenger liner goes missing in the Gamma Canaris region, and an irate admiral wants to know why Kirk is receiving messages from a dead woman. In the 2460s, a Ferengi DaiMon on a Romulan ship wants to sell a Borg artifact to the Federation. These plotlines slowly intertwine until all three meet, however briefly.
IMHO, this book does a lot more justice to Cochrane than did First Contact. If you're willing to set aside canon for a moment, Federation is a thoroughly enjoyable read.
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I'd recommend Star Trek: Spectre (which is in paperback). It gives an interesting insight into the mirror universe and is quite a good story. Dark Victory (which is in hardback) is a good follow up, but is rather slow.
And if you're looking for recommendations for non-Trek books, Babylon 5: Legions of Fire by Peter David and E:FC The Arrival by Fred Saberhagen are at the tops of my list.
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I've read Federation, and it's in the 2160s, 2260, and 2360s, not 2260s, 2360s, and 2460s.
Well, I went to town today. I bought a CD-RW, Descent: The Definitive Collection, Badlands books 1 and 2, and a Car and Driver 2000 calendar. Pretty good day, if I don't say so myself.
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Fabrux: You're right. It was much too late and I originally wrote "22nd century", "23rd century", and "24th century", then forgot to change those numbers when I decided to go with the decades instead. I'm just glad my post turned out pretty coherent for 3 in the morning.
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This book is real cool id give it an 8 out 10 
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