|
The
Next Generation
period
A
Events
preceding the launching of
the Enterprise-D.
|
| Requiem
Friedman, Michael Jan & Kevin Ryan
Pocket, 1994 TNG
#32
An "Original Series" crossover novel |
Transported back through time, Picard tries
to prepared the doomed colony on Cestus III for the coming attack by the
Gorn.
see also: TNG period A2, H |
| Together
Again, for the First Time
Hull, Bobbie Benton, 1998 |
Guinan's "first" meeting with young Capt. Picard
of the Stargazer.
A short story from Star
Trek: Strange New Worlds |
| Requiem
Friedman, Michael Jan & Kevin Ryan
Pocket, 1994 TNG
#32
An "Original Series" crossover novel |
Picard negotiates a treaty with the reptilian
Gorn. (told in flashback). A sequel to the original series TV episode "Arena".
see also: TNG period A1, H |
| Survivors
Lorrah, Jean
Pocket, 1989 TNG
#4 |
A compassionate Star Fleet officer rescues Tasha Yar from
the brutal colony planet she was raised on. (told in flashback)
see also: TNG period B |
| House of Cards
David, Peter
Pocket, 1997 NF #1
A "New Frontier / Original
Series" crossover novel |
Picard's first meeting with young Xenex resistance
fighter Mackenzie Calhoun, as he attempts to mediate an end to the war
between the enslaved Xenexians and their Danteri oppressors.
see also: TNG period K |
| Reunion
Friedman, Michael Jan
Pocket, 1991 |
Crusher's husband and Wesley's father dies on
the Stargazer under Picard's command. (told in flashback)
see also: TNG period E |
| Imzadi
David, Peter
Pocket, 1992 |
Troi and Riker meet, fall in love, and break
up. (told in flashback)
see also: TNG period F |
| Fortune's
Light
Friedman, Michael Jan
Pocket, 1991 TNG
#15 |
Riker is assigned to the planet Imprima to negotiate
a trade agreement which will break up the Ferengi monopoly in the region.
(told in flashback)
see also: TNG period E |
|
The
Next Generation
period
B
Year
One:
Picard
and crew set out on the Enterprise-D.
|
| Encounter
at Farpoint
Gerrold, David
Pocket, 1987
An "Original Series"
crossover novel |
Novelization of the TV episode. On her maiden
voyage, the Enterprise-D encounters a capricious, omnipotent being
who puts all of humanity on trial. |
| Ghost Ship
Carey, Diane
Pocket, 1988 TNG
#1 |
The Enterprise-D encounters a gigantic
cloud creature containing the disembodied minds of thousands of beings,
including the crew of a Russian aircraft carrier from 1995. |
| Of Cabbages
and Kings
Thatcher, Franklin, 1998 |
The ship's computer becomes sentient to defeat
robotic attackers who spirited away the crew.
A short story from Star
Trek: Strange New Worlds |
| The Peacekeepers
DeWeese, Gene
Pocket, 1988 TNG
#2 |
Geordi and Data are accidentally transported
to an alien space station, disrupting the delicate balance of power on
the world below. |
| The Children
of Hamlin
Carter, Carmen
Pocket, 1988 TNG
#3 |
Picard is ordered to negotiate for the return
of children kidnapped from a Federation colony by the aliens who massacred
their parents. |
| Survivors
Lorrah, Jean
Pocket, 1989 TNG
#4 |
While investigating a bloody revolt on a planet
applying for Federation membership, Yar and Data encounter a former Starfleet
officer, now a wanted criminal.
see also: TNG period A |
The Captain's
Honor
Dvorkin, David & Daniel
Pocket, 1989 TNG
#8 |
Unbeknownst to Picard, Starfleet Captain Sejanus
intends to revert to his Magna Roman heritage and incite a war, in which
he plans to emerge a glorious victor. |
|
The
Next Generation
period
C
Year
Two:
Tasha
Yar has died.
Dr Pulaski
joins the ship.
Q introduces
the Federation to the Borg.
|
| Strike Zone
David, Peter
Pocket, 1989 TNG
#5 |
Picard is called upon to mediate a peace between
the Klingons and the even more warlike Kreel after the Kreel discover a
cache of superweapons. |
| Power Hungry
Weinstein, Howard
Pocket, 1989 TNG
#6 |
Riker is kidnapped while delivering famine relief
supplies to a planet being destroyed by pollution. |
| Masks
Vornholt, John
Pocket, 1989 TNG
#7 |
A diplomatic mission to a primitive planet is
greatly hampered when local custom calls for Picard and his away team to
cover their faces with ceremonial masks. |
| A Call to Darkness
Friedman, Michael Jan
Pocket, 1989 TNG
#9 |
While Riker deals with a plague on board ship,
Picard and his away team are kidnapped and forced to participate in brutal
wargames on the planet below. |
| Metamorphosis
Lorrah, Jean
Pocket, 1990 |
Data has a lot to cope with when alien "gods"
grant his deepest desire: to become a flesh and blood human being. |
|
The
Next Generation
period
D
Year
Three:
Dr. Crusher's
return through Picard's
assimilation
by the Borg.
|
| A Rock
and a Hard Place
David, Peter
Pocket, 1990 TNG
#10 |
As the Enterprise-D races to rescue Riker,
trapped on a frigid planet with man-eating wolves, Troi worries his temporary
replacement may be a psychotic whose envy of Riker could culminate in the
first officer's murder instead of his safe return. |
| Gulliver's
Fugitives
Sharee, Keith
Pocket, 1990 TNG
#11 |
The Enterprise-D comes across a planet
where fiction and imagination are outlawed. |
| Doomsday World
Carter, Carmen
Pocket, 1990 TNG
#12 |
Geordi, Worf and Data are imprisoned for terrorism
while conducting an archaeological mission on an artificial world. |
| The
Eyes of the Beholders
Crispin, A. C.
Pocket, 1990 TNG
#3 |
The Enterprise-D encounters an abandoned
spacecraft so alien that it causes insanity in anyone who boards it, including
Riker, Worf, Geordi and Data. |
| Exiles
Weinstein, Howard
Pocket, 1990 TNG
#14 |
Saboteurs try to disrupt the peace negotiations
Picard is conducting between two planets which have been at war for three
centuries. |
| Federation
Reeves-Stevens, Garfield
Pocket, 1994
An "Original Series" crossover
novel |
The centuries-long trials and travails of Zefram
Cochrane, inventor of the warp drive, and his encounters with Kirk's Enterprise
and Picard's Enterprise-D in his old age. A sequel to the original
series TV episodes "Journey to Babel" and "Metamorphosis". |
| Boogeymen
Gilden, Mel
Pocket, 1991 TNG
#17 |
A group of aliens Wesley created
for a holodeck simulation gain control of the ship's computer |
| Emissary
Dillard, J. M.
Pocket, 1993 DS9
#1
A "Deep Space Nine" crossover novel. |
Novelization of the DS9 TV episode. Cmdr. Benjamin
Sisko's wife dies at Wolf 359 when Picard (as Locutas) leads the Borg in
a major attack against the Federation. (told in flashback)
see also: TNG period G |
|
The
Next Generation
period
E
Year
Four:
Riker
and the crew rescue Picard from the Borg
after
he leads an attack against Star Fleet as Locutas.
Wesley
leaves for Starfleet Academy.
Yar's
Romulan daughter incites a Klingon
civil war.
|
| Civil Disobedience
Rogers, Alara, 1998 |
Q finally understands the destructiveness of
his games when the Borg, lead by Picard's Locutas, assimilate Earth.
A short story from Star Trek:
Strange New Worlds |
| Perchance to
Dream
Weinstein, Howard
Pocket, 1991 TNG
#19 |
Picard suspects an alien spacecraft is responsible
for the disappearance of a shuttle, until he and the alien captain are
snatched away as well. |
| Reunion
Friedman, Michael Jan
Pocket, 1991 |
Someone is trying to assassinate the officers
from Picard's first command, the Stargazer.
see also: TNG period A |
| Spartacus
Mancour, T. L.
Pocket, 1992 TNG
#20 |
A shipload of androids fleeing slavery on their
homeworld request asylum on the Enterprise-D. |
| Fortune's
Light
Friedman, Michael Jan
Pocket, 1991 TNG
#15 |
Riker returns to the planet Imprima to try and
prove an old friend is innocent of stealing a jeweled seal, possession
of which signifies the planet's ruler.
see also: TNG period A |
| Contamination
Vornholt, John
Pocket, 1991 TNG
#16 |
Troi and Worf investigate the murder of a famous
scientist. |
| Vendetta
David, Peter
Pocket, 1991 |
The Borg return, but this time have met their
match in a weapon which destroys planets and consumes them for fuel. |
| Dark Mirror
Duane, Diane
Pocket, 1993 |
The Enterprise-D is pulled into the violent
parallel universe where Kirk and several of his crew were once marooned. |
| Q-in-Law
David, Peter
Pocket, 1991 TNG
#18 |
Lwaxana Troi becomes romantically involved with
Q, whose meddling is about to start an interplanetary war. The climax is
hysterically funny. |
|
The
Next Generation
period
F
Year
Five:
Picard
meets Spock in the Romulan Empire.
Bajoran
Ro Laren joins the crew.
Picard
gives a young Borg self-awareness.
|
| Unification
Taylor, Jeri
Pocket, 1990
An "Orignial Series" crossover
novel |
Novelization of the TV episode. Picard and Data
go undercover as Romulans to search for Ambassador Spock, whom the Federation
fears has defected. |
| Imzadi
David, Peter
Pocket, 1992 |
Elderly, bitter Admiral William T. Riker travels
back in time to prevent the untimely murder of Deanna Troi years earlier.
see also: TNG period A |
| Chains of Command
McCay, Bill & Eloise Flood
Pocket, 1992 TNG
#21 |
The Enterprise-D is caught in the middle
when human slaves, the descendents of a centuries old Terran colony, revolt
against their avian masters. |
| A Fury Scorned
Sargent, Pamela & George Zebrowski
Pocket, 1996 TNG
#43 |
Data comes up with a bizarre, seemingly impossible
plan to save a planet whose sun is about go nova. |
| Ship of
the Line
Carey, Diane
Pocket, 1997
An "Original Series" crossover
novel |
Picard and the Enterprise-D rescue the
starship Bozeman and her crew, including Capt. Morgan Bateman, from
an eighty-year entrapment in a temporal loop.
see also: TNG period J |
| Imbalance
Mitchell, V. E.
Pocket, 1992 TNG
#22 |
Riker and his away team are thrust into deadly
danger when the insectoid Jarada they are working with succumb to a mysterious
ailment causing murderous psychosis. |
| War Drums
Vornholt, John
Pocket, 1992 TNG
#23 |
Worf is called upon to mediate between humans
and Klingons who have colonized the same world. |
| The Devil's Heart
Carter, Carmen
Pocket, 1993 |
Numerous races vie for possession of the archaeological
discovery of the ages: an enormous gem said to make its owner invincible. |
|
The
Next Generation
period
G
Year
Six:
Montgomery
Scott is rescued from transporter suspension.
Riker
meets his double, created years earlier
in a
transporter accident.
Chief
O'Brien transfers to Deep Space Nine.
|
| Relics
Friedman, Michael Jan
Pocket, 1992
An "Original Series" crossover novel |
Novelization of the TV episode. The Enterprise-D
rescues Montgomery Scott from a 75 year-long suspension in a transporter
buffer. |
| Here
There be Dragons
Peel, John
Pocket, 1993 TNG
#28 |
The Enterprise-D discovers a hidden world
peopled by knights and serfs from Earth's Middle Ages, which is being exploited
by interstellar trophy hunters illegally preying on the huge native dragons. |
| Nightshade
Hamilton, Laurell K.
Pocket, 1992 TNG
#24 |
When Picard is accused of murder, Worf steps
in to mediate between two warring faction who are destroying their world. |
| To Storm Heaven
Friesner, Esther
Pocket, 1997 TNG
#46 |
Picard and his crew try to reestablish relations
between two long-separated worlds, but run into opposition from both planetary
governments. |
| The Last Stand
Ferguson, Brad
Pocket, 1995 TNG
#37 |
The Enterprise-D is on the verge of first
contact with a planet when thousands of spaceships invade, intent on the
planet's destruction. |
| Grounded
Bischoff, David
Pocket, 1993 TNG
#25 |
The Enterprise-D is quarantined and ordered
destroyed after it is infested with micro-organisms that eat inorganic
matter. |
| Emissary
Dillard, J. M.
Pocket, 1993 DS9
#1
A "Deep Space Nine" crossover novel |
Novelization of the DS9 TV episode. Picard turns
over control of station Deep Space Nine to Cmdr. Benjamin Sisko,
learning in the process that Sisko's wife died during the Borg massacre
at Wolf 359, which Picard lead while he was assimilated. Chief O'Brien
transfers to DS9.
see also: TNG period D |
| The Romulan
Prize
Hawke, Simon
Pocket, 1993 TNG
#26 |
The Enterprise-D is captured by a huge
Romulan ship and taken to investigate a quarantined world in the Neutral
Zone. |
| Infiltrator
Thompson, W. R.
Pocket, 1996 TNG
#42 |
Centuries after the defeat of eugenically created
tyrant Khan Noonian Singh, his followers and descendents emerge from hiding
to try and take over the Federation. And to Riker's dismay, he learns he
may be one of those descendents. |
| The Romulan
Stratagem
Greenberger, Robert
Pocket, 1995 TNG
#35 |
Picard competes with Tasha Yar's Romulan daughter,
Sela, to establish diplomatic ties with the planet Eloh. |
| Guises of the
Mind
Neason, Rebecca
Pocket, 1993 TNG
#27 |
Picard, Troi and a telepathic nun are the only
hope to expose an imposter who has usurped the throne of planet Capulon
IV. |
|
The
Next Generation
period
H
Year
Seven:
Data
is subverted by Lore and the Borg.
Ro Laren
defects to the Maquis.
Last
TV episode "All Good Things..."
|
| Descent
Carey, Diane
Pocket, 1993 |
Novelization of the TV episode. Data's brother
Lore leads a group of Borg against the Federation, and manages to draw
an unstable Data into the conflict on his side. |
| Possession
Dillard, J.M. & Kathleen O' Malley
Pocket, 1996 TNG
#40
sequel to: Demons (TOS period B) |
The evil sub-atomic beings which infected Kirk
and his crew 80 years earlier are accidentally released and attack Picard
and the crew of the Enterprise-D. |
| Sins of Commission
Wright, Susan
Pocket, 1994 TNG
#29 |
The companions of a murdered telepathic alien
wrek havoc on the Enterprise-D in their quest for revenge. |
| The Naked Truth
Wolfe, Jerry M., 1998 |
Barclay and Ro Laren rise to the occassion when
an away mission turns disastrous.
A short story from Star Trek:
Strange New Worlds |
| Debtor's Planet
Thompson, W. R.
Pocket, 1994 TNG
#30 |
On the theory that it takes a thief to catch
a thief, the Federation appoints a 20th Century financier (rescued from
cryogenic sleep several years earlier) to deal with the Ferengi. |
| Foreign Foes
Galanter, Dave & Greg Brodeur
Pocket, 1994 TNG
#31 |
While Troi and an injured Riker struggle to
survive after a shuttle crash, Picard has to mediate between deadly enemies
the Hidran and the Klingons, and prove Worf innocent of murder. |
Day
of Honor (5-part
series encompassing all the TV shows.)
Book 1: Next
Generation: Ancient Blood
Carey,
Diane
Pocket, 1997
sequels:
Book 2: Deep
Space Nine: Armageddon Sky
Graf,
L.A.
Pocket, 1997
An "Original
Series" crossover novel.
Book 3: Voyager: Her
Klingon Soul
Graf,
L. S.
Pocket, 1997
Book 4: The
Original Series: Treaty's Law
Smith,
Dean W. & Kristine K. Rusch
Pocket, 1997
Voyager: Day
of Honor: The TV Episode
Friedman,
Michael Jan
Pocket, 1997
|
Book 1:
The annual Klingon Day of Honor has Worf searching for a band of rogue
Klingons who massacred the passengers and crew of a civilian transport
ship, while Picard teaches young Alexander about honor through a holodeck
simulation based on the American Revolutionary War
Book 2:
The rituals of the Day of Honor offer Worf and the crew of the Defiant
their only means to rescue the crew of a science vessel attacked by the
Klingons, and to save a planet from ecological disaster.
Book 3:
The Day of Honor always brings bad luck to Lt. Torres, and this holiday
is no different--she and Harry Kim are catured by alien slavers and forced
to mine radioactive ore.
Book 4:
The origin of the Day of Honor: Kirk and the Enterprise risk
destruction by coming to the aid of a Klingon agricultural colony being
attacked by unknown aliens.
The TV Episode:
Novelization of the TV episode. More bad luck for Torres on the Day
of Honor--she and Paris are stranded in space and running out of oxygen,
forcing them to finally admit their true feelings for each other as they
face death.
see also: VOY period
A |
| Requiem
Friedman, Michael Jan & Kevin Ryan
Pocket, 1994 TNG
#32
An "Original Series" crossover novel |
Picard is hurled back in time to the Federation
colony on Cestus Three just prior to the the Gorn massacre of the colonists
and the intervention by Captain Kirk. A sequel to the original series TV
episode "Arena".
see also: TNG period A1, A2 |
| Balance of Power
Dafydd ab Hugh
Pocket, 1995 TNG
#33 |
The Federation authorizes Picard to bid for
the inventions of a dead scientist, which Geordi insists are nothing but
junk. |
| Blaze of Glory
Hawke, Simon
Pocket, 1995 TNG
#34 |
Riker and Geordi go undercover with a pirate
crew preying on Federation shipping. |
| Into the Nebula
DeWeese, Gene
Pocket, 1995 TNG
#36 |
The Enterprise-D discovers that a planet
dying from a mysterious bombardment of pollution has become the waste site
for its twin in an alternate universe. |
| Dragon's Honor
Johnson, Kij & Greg Cox
Pocket, 1996 TNG
#38 |
A comedy gem with a royal wedding theme. While
Crusher comforts the reluctant bride, Troi grapples with her amorous father,
gourmet Picard endures the worst food in the galaxy, Riker wins the entire
planet in a poker game, Worf hunts for the stolen wedding gifts, and everyone
looks for an assassin who could stop the wedding dead. |
| All Good Things...
Friedman, Michael Jan
Pocket, 1994 |
Novelization of the last TNG TV episode. Picard
is the only hope when the Q Contiuum decides humanity doesn't deserve to
live after all. |