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MULTI-SERIES

Star Trek: Badlands
A two-volume series about the mystery of the Badlands, featuring a storyline crossing all four shows as a problem discovered by Kirk and researched by Picard is analyzed by Janeway and solved by Sisko. Buy These Books!

Star Trek: Captain's Table
A six-book series about a mythical bar which only admits captains, where Kirk, Sulu, Picard, Sisko, Janeway, Calhoun, and Pike tell stories of their adventures. Buy These Books!

Star Trek: Celebrations
Rituals and festivals on Trek from the Klingon Right of Vengeance to the Bajoran Day of Atonement. Buy This Book!

Star Trek: Dark Passions
In the mirror universe, Intendant Kira has affairs with Seven of Nine and Deanna Troi as she struggles for galactic domination. Buy These Books!

Star Trek: Day of Honor
The novelization of the Voyager episode, plus five novels set on all four different Trek series to explain the history of the Klingon holiday. Buy These Books!

Star Trek: Divided We Fall
This Wildstorm Comics miniseries explores the schisms in Trill society seen on TNG and DS9.

Star Trek The Next Generation: Double Helix
A six-book series about a genetically engineered plague, which affects everyone from Spock and McCoy on Romulus to Kira and Dukat on Occupied Bajor to Chakotay, Torres, and Tom Riker in the Maquis. Buy These Books!

Star Trek: Enterprise Logs
A collection of stories about the captains of all the ships named Enterprise, from the Revolutionary War to the 24th century. Buy This Book!

Star Trek: Gateways
A seven-book miniseries about the mysterious Iconian portals, spanning all the television series as well as New Frontier and S.C.E. Buy These Books!

Star Trek: New Worlds and New Civilizations
The planets of Trek and the cultures that live there, with beautiful illustrations and a brief history by Michael Jan Friedman. Buy This Book!

Star Trek Special
This comic book contains six short stories, spanning all four series, reintroducing Kirk's nephew Peter, the Horta, Benny Russell, and other familiar faces.

Star Trek: Spock vs. Q, The Sequel
The galaxy's most famous Vulcan and the universe's most annoying omnipotent being fight to save their own hides after saving humanity in the first installment. Buy This Audiobook!

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
The "Strange New Worlds" contest gives fans a chance to write published Star Trek stories. Buy This Book!

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds IV
This fan-written anthology contains some good yarns, but it's time the contest relaxed its rules to permit more exploration. Buy This Book!


ORIGINAL SERIES

Star Trek: All of Me
A Wildstorm comic in which Kirk must deal with too many doubles.

Star Trek: Assignment Eternity
Gary Seven attempts to set history straight after Spock is killed by a Romulan agent before Khitomer. Buy This Book!

Star Trek: Errand of Vengeance
A Klingon disguised as a security officer finds his loyalties tested when he discovers that Kirk's crew may have more honor than his own leaders. Buy These Books!

Star Trek: In the Name of Honor
In the era just before Khitomer, Kirk's old enemy comes forward with an olive branch and news of the spread of the honor of Kahless. Buy This Book!

Star Trek New Earth: Wagon Train to the Stars
A six-volume series in which Kirk and the Enterprise lead a group of massive carriers to colonize a planet far from the Federation. Buy These Books!

Star Trek New Earth: Challenger
The final volume of the six-volume New Earth series introduces the Challenger captain. Buy This Book!

Star Trek: Preserver
The latest of William Shatner's six Kirk novels pits Kirk and his evil double Tiberius against an ancient threat. Buy This Book!

Star Trek: Rihannsu
Diane Duane continues her alternate history of the Romulans, begun in the 1980s in My Enemy, My Ally and The Romulan Way. Buy These Books!

Star Trek: Section 31: Cloak
Kirk uncovers a conspiracy surrounding the fate of the cloaking device he and Spock stole from the Romulans. Buy This Book!

Star Trek: The Eugenics Wars, Volume One
The secret history of the 20th century, as Gary Seven tries to protect humanity from itself by infiltrating the top-secret project that produced Khan and his followers. Buy This Book!

Star Trek: The Eugenics Wars, Volume Two
Roberta Lincoln saves the world from Khan with a little help from Shannon O'Donnell, Jackson Roykirk, a Yugoslavian dictator...oh yes, and Gary Seven. Buy This Book!

Star Trek: The Janus Gate
A time-travel accident finds the Federation destroyed and Sulu and Chekov changing places with their counterparts in another timeline. Buy These Books!

Star Trek: The Last Roundup
If you ever wondered what Kirk did between the events of The Undiscovered Country and Generations, here's your chance to find out. Buy This Book!

Star Trek: The New Voyages
Marshak and Culbreath edited this book, which is rather dated now but made me a Trekkie for life. If you've been reading the lukewarm fan fiction in Strange New Worlds, treat yourself. Buy This Book!


THE NEXT GENERATION

Star Trek The Next Generation: A Hard Rain
When an experimental device vanishes during a holographic simulation, Dixon Hill must track it down before his world and the Enterprise are both destroyed. Buy This Book!

Star Trek The Next Generation: Diplomatic Implausibility
Worf goes on his first mission as the Federation Ambassador to Qo'noS by trying to negotiate peace with conquered rebels. Buy This Book!

Star Trek The Next Generation: Embrace the Wolf
In this Wildstorm comic, the malevolent being from "Wolf in the Fold" haunts Picard's crew.

Star Trek The Next Generation: Gemworld
John Vornholt's two-volume series about the home planet of Melora, and the crisis faced there by Picard's crew. Buy These Books!

Star Trek The Next Generation: I, Q
The omniscient pest faces the deadliest threat yet to his universe, from his unique egotistical perspective. Buy This Book!

Star Trek The Next Generation: Immortal Coil
The secret origins of Data and artificial intelligence in the Federation. Buy This Book!

Star Trek The Next Generation: Maximum Warp
In this two-volume set, dead zones begin to appear all over the galaxy, rendering technology useless and threatening to destroy all spacefaring civilizations. Buy These Books!

Star Trek The Next Generation: Perchance To Dream
A Wildstorm comic series in which the Enterprise crew must fend off telepathic attacks.

Star Trek The Next Generation: Q's Guide to the Continuum
A tour of the known universe and much Trek lore by Q, who is naturally above it all. Buy This Book!

Star Trek The Next Generation: Section 31: Rogue
When the Enterprise is dispatched to search for a missing starship, Picard learns that one of his oldest friends is a member of Starfleet's most controversial division. Buy This Book!

Star Trek The Next Generation: The Battle of Betazed
When the Dominion takes over her home planet, Deanna Troi, her mother and her crewmates fight to free it. Buy This Book!

Star Trek The Next Generation: The Dominion War
Picard and Ro Laren go deep undercover to stop a deadly threat to the Alpha Quadrant in this two-volume Next Gen war story. Buy These Books!

Star Trek The Next Generation: The Genesis Wave, Book One
The fantastic technology from The Wrath of Khan returns to haunt Picard's crew. Buy This Book!

Star Trek The Next Generation: The Genesis Wave, Book Two
Is there life after Genesis? Carol Marcus, Leah Brahms and Geordi LaForge find out. Buy This Book!

Star Trek The Next Generation: The Genesis Wave, Book Three
A disgraced Vedek receives what he calls the Orb of Life, but when he uses it to terraform planets, rips appear in the fabric of space. Buy This Book!

Star Trek The Next Generation: The Gorn Crisis
If you've wondered either where the Enterprise was during the climax of the Dominion War or what happened to the Gorn after "Arena," here are your lavishly illustrated answers to both questions. Buy This Book!

Star Trek The Next Generation: The Killing Shadows
A new comic miniseries posits ninja-like aliens attacking Starfleet scientists while Picard tries to figure out what they seek.

Star Trek The Next Generation: The Valiant
The story of Picard's first command, with his senior officers dead and a dangerous threat facing the Federation. Buy This Book!

Star Trek The Next Generation: Tooth and Claw
When Picard must negotiate with hunt-obsessed Tsorans to save a dying culture, Riker takes a Tsoran prince on a deadly adventure. Buy This Book!


DEEP SPACE NINE

Star Trek Deep Space Nine: A Stitch In Time
Andrew Robinson relates Garak's fascinating history in the form of a long narrative from the Cardassian tailor to Dr. Bashir. Buy This Book!

Star Trek Deep Space Nine: Avatar
A few months after the end of the Dominion War, Kira and her new staff must contend with a rogue Jem'Hadar attack and a Bajoran prophecy that links doom to the birth of the Emissary's child. Buy These Books!

Star Trek Deep Space Nine: Far Beyond the Stars
Based on the episode of the same name, Benjamin Sisko finds himself experiencing the life of Benny Russell - an oppressed 20th century science fiction writer, whose visions from a mysterious artifact permit him to believe he is the captain of a space station. Buy This Book!

Star Trek Deep Space Nine: Millennium
Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens' excellent trio of books about an alternate timeline in which the Prophets and Pah-Wraiths, and their followers, go to war for the fate of the universe. Buy These Books!

Star Trek Deep Space Nine: N-Vector
The first Wildstorm Comics DS9 miniseries has a mediocre story and some of the ugliest renditions of the characters ever seen.

Star Trek Deep Space Nine: Rebels
Daffyd ab Hugh's trilogy set in DS9's fourth season offer a Kirk-like Sisko and a Kai Winn whose background during the Resistance leads her to a very different kind of power. Buy These Books!

Star Trek Deep Space Nine: Section 31: Abyss
Bashir takes up the agency's offer to combat another genetically engineered doctor who wants to conquer the universe. Buy this book!

Star Trek Deep Space Nine: The Deep Space Nine Companion
A fantastic illustrated volume that summarizes all the episodes, plus provides interviews, commentary, production information, and much more. Buy This Book!

Star Trek Deep Space Nine: The Deep Space Nine Companion CD-ROM
Get all 176 episode scripts, plus their trailers, photos, and cast lists, in a searchable database, for under $20! Buy This CD-ROM!

Star Trek Deep Space Nine: The Dominion War
Sisko and his crew try to hold the line. Based on the episodes "Call To Arms" through "Sacrifice of Angels." Buy These Books!

Star Trek Deep Space Nine: The Lives of Dax
The symbiont's existence before it became Curzon, Jadzia and Ezri, and what it learned from each of those experiences. Buy This Book!

Star Trek Deep Space Nine: What You Leave Behind
The novelization of the Deep Space Nine final episode, including a few scenes not televised. Buy This Book!


VOYAGER

Star Trek Voyager: Avalon Rising
In this comic, the Doctor creates a fairy-tale vision of Voyager for a feudal society when he is stranded on their planet.

Star Trek Voyager: Dark Matters
A trilogy in which Telek R'Mor, the Romulan from "Eye of the Needle," returns to Voyager in a wormhole with deadly news from the Alpha Quadrant about a threat to the universe. Buy These Books!

Star Trek Voyager: Echoes
In a series of parallel universes, Voyager discovers a duplicate in orbit around a missing planet with a dead population. Buy This Book!

Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force
Based on the Activision game, this comic explores an elite hazard team trained to protect Voyager.

Star Trek Voyager: Endgame
The novelization of the final episode of the series, plus some new material about what happens after they get home. Buy This Book!

Star Trek Voyager: False Colors
Wildstorm's first Voyager offering features a lot of Borg and Seven's boobs.

Star Trek Voyager: Marooned
Kes is kidnapped, Janeway is stranded, and Paris is injured on a mysterious planet, leaving Chakotay in command of Voyager. Buy This Book!

Star Trek Voyager: Mosaic
Kathryn Janeway's "official biography" - the story of her childhood on Earth and the events which shaped her into a Starfleet captain. Buy This Book!

Star Trek Voyager: Pathways
The life stories of the crew of Voyager, told to one another during a dangerous away mission. Buy This Book!

Star Trek Voyager: Planet Killer
Janeway and crew encounter a Doomsday Machine in this Wildstorm comic.

Star Trek Voyager: Section 31: Shadow
While Voyager tries to rescue a generational ship fleeing a dying star, an unknown assailant tries to kill Seven of Nine. Buy This Book!

Star Trek Voyager: The Adventures of Captain Proton
The amusing comic upon which Voyager's 'Captain Proton' serial is supposedly based, featuring "real science" from the 1950s and a Letter to the Editor from Benny Russell. Buy This Book!

Star Trek Voyager: The Hologram's Handbook
The EMH tells Robert Picardo of the trails and tribulations of being artificial. Buy This Book!


ENTERPRISE

Enterprise: Broken Bow
Diane Carey's novelization of the pilot episode of Trek's fifth series. Buy This Book!

Enterprise: By the Book
While Archer initiates a disastrous first contact with a rigid species, members of his crew discover role-playing games. Buy This Book!


NEW FRONTIER

Star Trek New Frontier: The First Adventures
Ten volumes and counting about the USS Excalibur, Captain Mackenzie Calhoun, first officer Elizabeth Shelby, and a fascinating new crew in an uncharted region of space. Buy These Books!

Star Trek New Frontier: Excalibur
After the destruction of the ship and Captain Calhoun's presumed death, the crew takes some time off from Starfleet to reconsider their lives and where they want to go next in these three volumes. Buy These Books!

Star Trek New Frontier: Double Time
The first New Frontier comic fills in a gap in the Excalibur's history by recounting an incident in which Calhoun tried to use time travel to change history. Buy This Comic!

Star Trek New Frontier: Being Human
Following the events of the Gateways novel "Cold Wars," Zak Kebron begins to wonder what super-powers Mark McHenry possesses. Buy this book!


S.C.E.

Star Trek S.C.E.: The Belly of the Beast
The first original Trek eBook introduces the crew of the USS Da Vinci of the Starfleet Corps of Engineers, which works with aliens to explore and repair strange new technology. Geordi LaForge comes aboard to help the Corps study a huge, mysterious ship. Buy This Book!

Star Trek S.C.E.: Fatal Error
The Da Vinci crew tries to save an alien super-computer that has been sabotaged. Buy This Book!

Star Trek S.C.E.: Hard Crash
When a dangerous ship lands on a peaceful planet, the Corps finds a dead Borg-like pilot who appears to have been fused to the machinery of her vessel. Buy This Book!

Star Trek S.C.E.: Interphase Parts One and Two
The Defiant emerges from a rift in Tholian space, carrying a deadly secret from the past. Buy These Books!

Star Trek S.C.E.: Cold Fusion
The S.C.E. tries to help Nog retrieve Empok Nor's reactor core for Deep Space Nine, but they're not the only ones interested in the derelict station. Buy This Book!

Star Trek S.C.E.: Invincible Part One
Sonya Gomez must deal with misogyny and monsters when she tries to help the people of Sarindar.

Star Trek S.C.E.: Invincible Part Two
Gomez resolves the crisis on Sarindar by making a shocking discovery about the Shii.

Star Trek S.C.E.: Have Tech Will Travel
Collects the first four e-books in paperback. Buy this book!

Star Trek S.C.E.: Miracle Workers
Collects 'Interphase Part II' through 'Invincible Part II' in paperback. Buy this book!


STARGAZER

Star Trek The Next Generation: The Valiant
The story of Picard's first command, with his senior officers dead and a dangerous threat facing the Federation. Buy This Book!

Star Trek Stargazer: Gauntlet
Someone is trying to cost the young Picard his captaincy as he pursues a dangerous pirate. Buy This Book!

Star Trek Stargazer: Progenitor
When Picard assists a crewmember with a fertility ritual, both his landing party and his ship encounter grave danger. Buy This Book!


INTERVIEWS

Adventures in Time and Space
Mary Taylor, a longtime fan and avid internet poster, was invited by a Pocket Books Trek editor to write about the finest of the Trek novels. Here's what she chose, and how. Buy This Book!

The Best and the Brightest
Susan Wright creates a new group of cadets who struggle through the Academy and the understanding of what it will mean to be Starfleet officers. Buy This Book!

Future Perfect: How Star Trek Conquered Planet Earth
Jeff Greenwald went around the world talking to Trek actors and fans from many countries about their fandom and what it means. Buy This Book!

Shex'pir's Hamlet
Restored to the original Klingon, translated by a team of scholars with detailed footnotes. Buy This Book!

Hamlet on the Holodeck
Professor Janet Murray's studies virtual reality, interactive storytelling and entertainment culture. Buy This Book!

Married To Star Trek
Some of Trek's best-known writers are married to other Trek writers; others are actually two people sharing a psudonym.

NASA/TREK
Professor Constance Penley's "slashing" of NASA and Star Trek led to an examination of science, popular culture and how they intersect. Buy This Book!

Planet Killers
Dean Wesley Smith and Kristine Kathryn Rusch bring back The Doomsday Machine to haunt Voyager.

Pocket Books Editor John Ordover
Want to know how to become a Star Trek editor, or how to get your Trek novel into print? Here's the man who knows.

Too Many Universes: Keith R.A. DeCandido
This Trek writer has also played with Buffy, Xena, Aeryn Sun, and lots of comic superheroes.

Trek's John Gregory Betancourt
He's a writer, a publisher, and a fan of the real Hercules.


NON-FICTION

The Definitive Star Trek Trivia Book
Think you know everything about the Trek shows and films? Find out. Buy This Book!

The Definitive Star Trek Trivia Book, Volume 2
More questions about the four Trek TV series and movies. Buy This Book!

Star Trek: Aliens & Artifacts
Michael Westmore and several makeup and prop designers co-wrote this volume about how Trek faces and places are created, and how readers can try to recreate the effects. Buy This Book!

Star Trek: Paper Universe
An instruction manual for creating origami Trek spaceships and space stations, complete with rice paper. Hours and hours of fun. Buy This Book!

Star Trek: Parallel Narratives
A British academic book on the meaning of the franchise, using literary and social theory to pick it apart. Buy This Book!

Star Trek: Starship Spotter
A full-color CGI-designed reference manual to many space-going vessels of the 23rd-24th centuries. Buy This Book!

Star Trek Voyager: A Place Among the Stars
A collection of postcards in which Janeway, Torres, and Kes are actually well-represented, even though Seven's on both covers. Buy This Book!

Star Trek Voyager: A Vision of the Future
The making of Star Trek Voyager, by the man who chronicled the making of the original Star Trek series. Buy This Book!

Trekker Calendars
The best in Trekker date-keeping, from 1997 to the present. Buy The Latest Edition!

Trekking Around the Christmas Tree
Books and gifts to get Trekkers for the holidays, 1997-2000. Short reviews of The Star Trek Encyclopedia, Star Trek The Next Generation: The Continuing Mission, Going Boldly On Your Inner Voyage: The Starfleet Daily Meditation Manual, Star Trek Phase II: The Lost Series, The Physics of Star Trek, The Metaphysics of Star Trek, The Meaning of Star Trek, Legends of the Ferengi, The Ferengi Rules of Acquisition, The Federation Travel Guide, The Tribble Handbook, All the Other Things I Really Need to Know I Learned From Watching Star Trek: The Next Generation, The Joy of Trek, Star Trek: Action!, The Secrets of Star Trek Insurrection, Imzadi II, The Star Trek Scriptbooks: The Q Chronicles, Becoming Human: The Seven of Nine Saga, Vulcan's Heart, and numerous Trek toys.


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