Worlds of Star Trek

[BouncyCaitian]

the first in a series of books detailing Post Dominion War Alpha Quadrant worlds. this one deals with Cardassia and interestingly, Andoria. I grabbed it today and will make a report later.

[BouncyCaitian]

oooh....just noticed it has a big Andorii Lexicon in the back

[Ineti]

I haven't had a chance to read it yet, but it looks good. The stories take place right after the DS9 novel Unity, which was a fantastic read.

[IceGiant]

Grrr,
I'm still waiting for Unity to hit softcover

[JALU3]

Don't wait for the soft cover . . . read it now . . . it's worth the extra $$.

[First of Two]

Agreed. "Unity" is the only hardback book I've bought in the past year, and it was worth it.

Of course, if you've not been keeping up with the other "Season 8" books, "Unity" will make much less sense...

[IceGiant]

First,
I own and read them all. Even the Jake book was pretty good.

[Lancer]

Originally posted by IceGiant
First,
I own and read them all. Even the Jake book was pretty good.

Me, I have read none of them.
If "Unity" is such a great read, which books will I have to read to make any sense of it?

[Balok]

Originally posted by Ineti
...the DS9 novel Unity, which was a fantastic read.

Question, behind some

spoiler

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Does this novel continue the plotline introduced in the four part series from a year or so ago, featuring the return of the <em>Conspiracy</em> aliens?

[Ineti]

Originally posted by Lancer
Me, I have read none of them.
If "Unity" is such a great read, which books will I have to read to make any sense of it?

To make full sense of the book, you'd want to read most of the DS9 'relaunch.'

However, you could get away with just reading Avatar, Books I and II (which started the relaunch), and the four Mission: Gamma books (Twilight, This Gray Spirit, Cathedral, and Lesser Evil). These four books really move the storyline on.


And Fesarius, the answer is yes. It continues the whole plotline from the Mission: Gamma series. Not a whole lot is completely resolved, but you do see the return of some major DS9 characters.

The Worlds of DS9 books are supposed to continue the plots even farther, with specific focuses on several planets (including Cardassia, Andor, Bajor, Trill, and Earth). If you've been following the books, you should have a pretty good idea what each story will focus on.

[First of Two]

What Ineti said.

I just finished the "Cardassia" segment of the first book last night. Quite good.

As a whole, the DS9 relaunch has been quite good. Definitely above par when compared with many Star Trek books of the past.

The "A Time To..." books are also nicely filling the Insurrection - Nemesis gap with character development. (And, it seems the storyline is moving to explain some of the happenings in the latter movie - Why Data, who we all know got an emotion chip, says "I feel nothing" in Nemesis, for one, why Wesley was hanging around, and potentially why Worf appears not to be being an Ambassador in the movie - haven't gotten that far yet.)

IMHO, the all-around quality of ST books has improved tremendously in the past few years.


On the downside, so far, "Worlds of Deep Space Nine" has had no new ships for me to add to the UberGeeky Shiplist Project.

[Ineti]

Originally posted by First of Two
On the downside, so far, "Worlds of Deep Space Nine" has had no new ships for me to add to the UberGeeky Shiplist Project.

Have you read The Lost Era: Serpents Among The Ruins yet?

[First of Two]

Yep. It's one of the many books in the Misc. Books List of the UGSLP.

I've read all the Lost Era books. Ship-po-riffic.

[IceGiant]

I read the first 'A time to " Book. Not bad, the second one was complete crap!! It's like a differnt person wrote iy . He used completely TOS type words to describe some stuff. He consistantely refers to "replicators" as "food slots" and panels as "boards" *sigh*. So the second book ruined the series for me.

[Mac417]

On sort of an RPG-related note, anyone tried their hand at doing a writeup for the relaunch-version Andorians?