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| The Belly of the Beast | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Fatal Error | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Hard Crash | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Interphase, Part 1 | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Interphase, Part 2 | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Cold Fusion | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Invincible, Part 1 | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Invincible, Part 2 | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| The Riddled Post | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Here There Be Monsters | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Ambush | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Some Assembly Required | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| No Surrender | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Caveat Emptor | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Past Life | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Oaths | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Foundations, Book 1 | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Foundations, Book 2 | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Foundations, Book 3 | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Enigma Ship | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| War Stories, Book 1 | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| War Stories Book 2 | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Wildfire | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Wildfire Book 2 | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Home Fires | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Age of Unreason | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Balance of Nature | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Breakdowns | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Aftermath | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Ishtar Rising, Part 1 | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Ishtar Rising, Part 2 | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Buying Time | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Collective Hindsight, Book 1 | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Collective Hindsight, Book 2 | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| The Demon, Book 1 | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| The Demon, Book 2 | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Ring Around the Sky | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Orphans | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Grand Designs | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Failsafe | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Bitter Medicine | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Sargasso Sector | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Paradise Interrupted | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Where Time Stands Still | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| The Art of the Deal | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Spin | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Creative Couplings, Book 1 | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Creative Couplings, Book 2 | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Small World | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Malefictorum | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Lost Time | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Identity Crisis | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Fables of the Prime Directive | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Security | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Wounds, Book 1 | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Wounds, Book 2 | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Out of the Cocoon | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Honor | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Blackout | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Progress | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Echoes of Coventry | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Distant Early Warning | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| 10 is Better Than 01 | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Many Splendors | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Turn the Page | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Troubleshooting | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| The Light | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| The Art of the Comeback | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Signs from Heaven | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Ghost | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Remembrance of Things Past, Book I | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Remembrance of Things Past, Book II | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Creative Couplings | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Star Trek Corps of Engineers: What's Past | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| No Surrender: Star Trek S.C.E. | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
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Star Trek is a series of episodes initially divided into three seasons and produced by America based producer Gene Roddenberry which was an experiment of its own kind and later set the legend for many people. Star Trek is highly appraised by many people around the world for its futuristic thinking as per the time and era it was created in. There are huge crowds at its big conventions where people can meet their favorite stars and discuss episodes and theories with other people. The genre of science fiction got a new meaning through this show and the ideas used in each episode. While initially this show was not quite famous and accepted widely it stopped producing once CBS cancelled it in 1969 after which the show got quite famous through a process known as syndicate broadcasting where a channel can buy the original rights of a television show to broadcast it as per their timings. Soon it grew famous and remained a legacy throughout the 70’s becoming a huge hit and a cult classic with people known as trekkies devoted to each and every aspect of the show and having great knowledge about it. Such people regularly attend the meetings and events of Star Trek and maintain an amazing fan base for the series at all times.
Storyline of the books:
The story of the episodes of the Star Trek book series originally released are adventures of the starship which travels through a part of the milky way galaxy and is known as the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701). The crew members aboard the space ship are the leading captain of the crew James T. Kirk whose role is played by William Shatner who became quite famous for his acting through the show along with other cast once the show gained popularity. Other members of the crew are First officer and science officer Spock played by Leonard Nimoy and is often compared with the crew’s captain Kirk, another crew member is the chief medical officer Leonard McCoy who is played by DeForest Kelly.
The storyline of the show is based about the year 2260’s and the time is measured in startime in the series. The initial series got the name after its fame as Star Trek: The Original Series so that it always stands out amongst the massive fan along with media franchise. Captain Kirk often states the purpose of the series in the beginning of the episodes in the world renowned series by introducing the show as voyages of the Starship Enterprise and its mission for five years is to go on an exploratory mission on different planets in order to find and research them and seek out new life and civilizations primarily by going where no human has gone previously.
Creation of Star Trek:
Gene Roddenberry, finished drafting a short plot for a series based on science fiction on March 11th 1964, which he referred to as Star Trek and was set aboard a spaceship on the 23rd century. While his influences to the idea of Star Trek as accepted by Roddenberry himself include the stories featuring spaceship Space Beagle written by A. E. van Vogt along with Marathon which is a series of stories written by Eric Brand Russell along with the film Forbidden Planet launched in 1956.
While the works of Roddenberry are one of their kind and imprinted in history people have been seen debating his television series similar to a television series Rocky Jones, Space Ranger launched in 1956 which has similar elements to that of Star Trek along with a few technologies displayed on the show as well. While Roddenberry accepts deriving elements for his show from the Horatio Hornblower novels which depict a daring sea captain who goes on a journey for a noble purpose and overcomes various feats using his authority and daring and Roddenberry sometimes refers Captain Kirk by referring to him as Horatio Hornblower in Space.
Roddenberry had a good share of experience in writing successfully crafted television series which depicted his fine artistic skills through their popularity in the decades following 1960 and 1950. Except Star Trek: Deep Space Nine all the later movies based on Star Trek are based around the idea originally used by Roddenberry in the original series which depicted each episode as having a separate storyline contained within a single episode through a different adventure. In short the script was drafted such that each episode is a new adventure of the ship at a new location while their main motive remains carrying on at a slower pace. Thus, any person can view an episode as each episode has its own different story and is quite independent of others.
Books published in Star Trek:
James Blish was the first person to write Star Trek books through short stories for each episode into one book. He wrote total 11 books based on the three seasons of original Star Trek episodes. The books were quite famous once the show gained popularity and Bantam Books republished Blish’s books in three volumes one for each season. There was an acknowledgement stating that after Star Trek 7 or Star Trek 8 the credit for writing Star Trek novels goes to his wife and mother J. A. Lawrence who ghost wrote the books for him. A short story written by Blish’s wife known as Mudd’s Angels was published with the book. The Star Trek books were published from 1967 to 1975 based on rough initial drafts for the show and initially they were not referenced to the show since James Blish was based in United Kingdom and the show had not yet been aired there.
With time the fans have grown for the show and books and people and experts often state the phenomenon of Star Trek as ever growing with time and people are found in huge crowds at the premiering of new episodes, movies, comics, books, graphic novels etc. at the Star Trek conventions. There are new experiments done by a variety of writer and a number of franchised shows for Star Trek have been released along with books over time. Many of the Star Trek books and comics along with shows cover the original show in an enhanced or detailed manner there are also a vivid variety of cases where people have based the book on a show or with their unique inputs. Some famous fan or company based books have also become the plotline of famous Star Trek movies or stories while some comics and book series of star trek are genuinely famous for their writing style and regular updates. Many of these franchised books do not relate to the original series in many aspects along with the plotline and there is a huge variety to choose from.
What to Choose:
While there are a number of options available to the readers beginning with the initial novels of Blish are the best idea as it gives the starting plot of the story thought by the creator at that point. There are also a huge number of famous and appraised novels created by fans and other companies along with a wide array of books which grow in number each week and many of these books are quite impressive.
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I’m hoping someone can help me with this. I remember read a Star Trek book over 25 years ago (read most of them) that was about how the Borg got started. I want to say it had something to do with a crew of humans and Vulcans that got stranded either in the past or in a distant part of the galaxy or both. To survive they had to merge technology with their bodies. They started of calling themselves “Cyborgs” and then shortened it to The Borg. I think a Vulcan female became the Queen. I can’t remember the tittle or the series. Can anyone there help with this please?