[Liberator]

Wan't really her sister though.  That books is cool in so many ways.

My favorite book is the one where they are testing the "Inversion Drive" that accesses "DeSitter Space".  The typical shenanigans ensue.  It's pre-The Motion Picture also, IIRC.

[Sandwich]

Originally posted by magatsu1
any episode from the cartoon series.
So bad it's good etc....

The novelizations you mean? The ones by Alan Dean Foster? I thoroughly enjoyed them all - very much cool.

Originally posted by Singh
Those are all good books Sandwich - I've read quite a bit of them, but some seem a little unknown to me (no offense is meant). This is My own list, in no particular orders:
Doctor's Orders (TOS - the doctor finally gets to take over the enterprise!)
Ghost Ship (the very first TNG book, after farpoint, a real classic)
Q-in-law (TNG - quite good and humourous)
Intellivore (TNG - another good one)
The Devil's Heart (TNG - all i can say is WOW.)
Metamorphisis (TNG - features my favourite character, read it to death and beyond)
Vendetta (TNG - got to read this only once before i lost it...loved it)
Q^2 (TNG - rather confusing, but profound)
The New Earth Series (At least, upto the flaming arrow - haven't read past that - good space battles in there!)
Chain Of Attack (TOS - pretty good at that)

Have a lot more, but I'd rather not clutter up the thread.

Clutter is what threads are for.

I've read all those books. I don't remember Ghost Ship that well (did you notice that the ship on the cover is an upside-down Galactica from Battlestar Galactica?), but the others were good. Doc's Orders was fun - 'specially that end battle.

And of course, how could I forget Chain of Attack? That book and its sequel, The Final Nexus, make up one of the best pair of books I've read in a while... especially the 2nd one.

[Liberator]

Chain of Attack? That book and its sequel, The Final Nexus

They wrote a sequel?  I gotta find that book.

[Singh]

Originally posted by Liberator


They wrote a sequel?  I gotta find that book.

same here - i'm going looking for that. Pity they dont have good ST books here in Singapore tho :/

Liberator: the book you are looking for is The Wounded Sky I think. Pretty good, if somewhat complex.

there are also several books I found quite Sad, with the endings too much of a tragedy. (nearly made me cry in some acses)....i'll list em later.

[Liberator]

Singh: Thank you, I've got a copy somewhere, my ST books just kind of got packed away when my grandmother stayed with us a while back and I couldn't find it.

[Sandwich]

Yeah, The Wounded Sky... *looks on cover* ...right, the one with the crystalline spider astropsysicist babe. By Diane Duane... I think she kept a few recurring characters in some of her books.

And as for Chain of Attack & The Final Nexus, I though that CoA was a good, solid book, whereas TFN was simply outstanding. Definitely get it - it's by the same author, Gene DeWeese.

[Singh]

Originally posted by Sandwich
Yeah, The Wounded Sky... *looks on cover* ...right, the one with the crystalline spider astropsysicist babe. By Diane Duane... I think she kept a few recurring characters in some of her books.

And as for Chain of Attack & The Final Nexus, I though that CoA was a good, solid book, whereas TFN was simply outstanding. Definitely get it - it's by the same author, Gene DeWeese.

Hell yeah im going to look around for it, think I saw it a store somewhere...
*goes hunting*

on a similar theme is the book "Into the Nebula" (TNG) - another excellent read teaching us some basic lessons on Pollution, Trek style .
but dont ask me authors name, since after reading nearly 200 Trek books, you soon forget who wrote what

Should have added these to the list earlier, they really stand out as being just great pieces of works

Shadows on the sun (McCoy's divorce and wife..quite sad)
Federation (Ending mostly - good ending for that)
Uhura's Song (excellently written)
Survivors
Dreams of the Raven
Double, Double
War Drums
Masks
Spartacus

Had a few more..just can't remember 'em right now.

[Unknown Target]

The one with the big blob thing that ate metal. Everyone thought it was a killer, but it was really trying to save it's young.

It was the first episode where McCoy said his signature line...it was either "He's dead, Jim," or "I'm a doctor, not a..."

[karajorma]

Yeah. I loved those lines

I'm a doctor not a bricklayer!

[Singh]

Originally posted by karajorma
Yeah. I loved those lines

I'm a doctor not a bricklayer!

Strangely...I cant think of any right now, despite having watched a majority of the TOS episodes..

[Sandwich]

Originally posted by Singh
but dont ask me authors name, since after reading nearly 200 Trek books, you soon forget who wrote what

Hey, maybe you can help me. I recall reading a ST:TOS novel with a specific situation, but for the life of me I can't find that book again. The situation was Kirk getting tired of dealing with the Klingons, who were being rude in their communiques (I guess there was an enforced peace or cease-fire wherever they were - IIRC there was a disputed planet, but I'm not sure). So Kirk tells Uhura to field his calls, and not to pass them on unless the Klingons start to be polite.

Needless to say, the first few times the Klingons hailed the Enterprise, Uhura was a nice, polite-as-can-be "operator", but didn't take any bull and cut the calls short with various hilarious remarks. Finally, I specifically remember the Klingon captain hailing. "May... I.... pleeeaaase..... speak.... to Captain.... Kirk?"

Any clue?

[Singh]

Not exactly, no
I blame that lack of knowledge on my preference towards TNG rather than TOS :/

[Sandwich]

Doh! Maybe I'll come across something in a full text search in Amazon... hmmmmm...