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Star Trek post-Nemesis novel reading order - Shastrix Books

Star trek post-nemesis reading order.

The following is a recommendation of a reading order for the novels that are set in and/or interact with the post-Nemesis era of Star Trek. This includes the ongoing adventures in the Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and Enterprise lines, along with spin-off series Titan and adventures of the USS Aventine.

This is based roughly on the idea that you want to read adventures mostly in the order they are set, however in some instances the publication order is different and it makes sense to read them slightly out of 'chronological' order.

Feel free to leave feedback, comments, or discussion on my books forum .

• The Good That Men Do
• Kobayashi Maru
• Beneath the Raptor's Wing
• To Brave the Storm
• Death in Winter
• Taking Wing
• Before Dishonour
• The Red King
• Orion's Hounds
• Articles of the Federation
• Greater than the Sum
• Sword of Damocles
• Gods of Night
• Mere Mortals
• Watching the Clock
• Losing the Peace
• Over a Torrent Sea
• Full Circle
• Children of the Storm
• A Singular Destiny
• Zero Sum Game
• Seize the Fire
• Rough Beasts of Empire
• Paths of Disharmony
• Fallen Gods
• The Struggle Within
• Indistinguishable from Magic
• Forgotten History
• Plagues of Night
• Absent Enemies
• Raise the Dawn
• The Eternal Tide
• Brinkmanship
• The Persistence of Memory
• Silent Weapons
• The Body Electric
• The Stuff of Dreams
• A Choice of Futures
• A Ceremony of Losses
• The Crimson Shadow
• Revelation and Dust
• The Poisoned Chalice
• Peaceable Kingdoms
• Tower of Babel
• The Light Fantastic
• Love's Latinum Lost (and Found)
• Q Are Cordially Uninvited
• Acts of Contrition
• The Collectors
• The Missing
• Uncertain Logic
• Armageddon's Arrow
• Sacraments of Fire
• Sight Unseen
• A Pocket Full of Lies
• Live By The Code
• Force and Motion
• Rules of Accusation
• Hell's Heart
• The Jackal's Trick
• The Hall of Heroes
• Headlong Flight
• The Long Mirage
• Hearts and Minds
• Enigma Tales
• Original Sin
• I, The Constable
• Fortune of War
• Architects of Infinity
• Available Light
• Collateral Damage
• To Lose The Earth
• Moments Asunder
• The Ashes of Tomorrow

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• Crossovers:
• To fully immerse yourself in the litverse, the big crossover event that really starting to bring things together was the Destiny trilogy - A  great place to jump in, leading to stories from several series set after it. One step back from Destiny is Articles of the Federation , which is the perfect introduction to the world of Federation politics which becomes prominent in Destiny and beyond.
• If you're looking to jump in further along, then  The Fall  is a good place to start; the five-part crossover brings together most of the 24th century series, and shakes up the status quo for the series as they continue independently after.
• A cohesive series of Mirror Universe stories builds to a grand finale that has knock-on effects in the prime timeline narrative. These stories begin in the anthology Glass Empire .
• DS9 was the first series to enjoy a post-TV relaunch; the main new DS9 adventures start from Avatar , which is also available in Twist of Faith , an omnibus of the first four books of the series.
• The ongoing TNG narrative really starts from the A Time to… series, but you could jump on from the first book set after Nemesis , Death in Winter . Later on in the run, other good jumping on points are the Cold Equations trilogy, or  Armageddon's Arrow , the first of a run of stories from the same mission for the Enterprise. 
• Another branch of TNG , Titan , featuring Captain Riker's ship, gets going from Taking Wing , or you can explore Picard's backstory in the run of Stargazer novels which begins with Reunion .
• Voyager 's first post- Endgame stories start from Homecoming , but the series got something of a second start later with the return to the Delta Quadrant in  Full Circle .
• Enterprise:
• Enterprise 's post finale adventures begin from The Good That Men Do . This series also has secondary relaunch with the post-Romulan War era in A Choice of Futures  beginning the Rise of the Federation series.
• TOS doesn't have quite the same sort of ongoing narrative as the other series, but there are a few books that form a loose continuity, and The Captain's Oath is a good place to start with those. 
• If you're looking for something more serialised in the 23rd century, then check out  Vanguard , which starts from Harbinger , and spawned a spin-off series Seekers , beginning with Second Nature .
• A side-step from regular TOS adventures gives us a linked series of books featuring the Star Trek universe of the 20th and 21st centuries. A good place to start exploring these is the Eugenics Wars duology.
• Other spin-offs
• New Frontier was the first major spin-off Star Trek book series, featuring the adventures of Captain Calhoun and the USS Excalibur. The series begins with House of Cards , but the first four books were all short, and are also available as a single omnibus .
• IKS Gorkon , retitled in its final book as Klingon Empire , is a Klingon series, which got it's first moment's in the TNG novel Diplomatic Implausibility . 
• Not listed in full on the chart is  Corps of Engineers , also known as SCE , this extensive series of novellas features the engineering specialists of the USS da Vinci and crosses over into other series every so often. Their stories begin with  The Belly of the Beast , or an omnibus of the first four books in the series,  Have Tech, Will Travel .
• Department of Temporal Investigations features the time traveling hijinks, and frustrated bureaucracy, of the Federation's time police. Their adventures start (depending on how you perceive time) with Watching the Clock .
• Prometheus is a unique series, the first tie-in to be originally written in German, but also available in English. A trilogy of books featuring the distinctive ship begins with Fire with Fire .

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Thanks for the hard work !!! i do really appreciate it. Do you have plans on updating from time to time ??? regards

It's on version 2 at the moment, I'll probably do an update once The Fall is done and we know what effect that has on everything :)

Thank you so much for updating this. It is possible to find the info yourself on Memory Alpha etc but this is a much easier way to do it and a good way too not scare off new readers with them having to do too much own research.

Where is Spock Must Die in this? Also, you have a typo in the title of "Greater Than the Sum." But... wow, just wow. What a map.

Important question: where does "Planet X", the TNG/X-Men crossover, fit in?

Thanks for the note dwasifer, fixed that error now :) Rev, Planet X doesn't really much connect to the wider continuity as far as I know (I've not read it), but I believe it's a direct sequel to the TNG/X-Men comic Second Contact, which itself takes place immediately after First Contact.

This is an amazing reference. Thanks very much for putting it together. I've been using it to organise my Trek Books and for reading the 20 or so trek books that I've recently bought in the right order.

hi fantastic flow chart! ...what program did you use to create the chart?

I love you for making this. The Pocket Books Novel-verse is starting to become like it's own Star-Wars-Expanded-Universe-esque canon storyline.

This is really awesome! I love Star Trek and after watching everything 1000 times over I need new content so I figured I would dive into the book series for the first time. But where to start? This really helps answer that question and gives me a good reference! Thanks!

First, I absolutely love this thing. I've been trying to get caught up on Trek lit for a while now and this has been VERY HELPFUL. A couple constructive comments: #1 There's a dashed green line going to Serpents Among the Ruins/The Art of the Impossible/Alien Spotlight: Cardassians/Cardassia and Andor that doesn't have a beginning. It's all end arrows, so it's unclear which direction this is supposed to go. #2 Q Are Cordially Invited. I haven't read it yet so I don't know exactly where it goes but I'm thinking it needs to be included.

Hi Benjamin, apologies for the very slow reply, I hadn't spotted your comment! As you might see, we've just posted an updated version of the chart, which might help with your questions, but to expand on them: #1 We removed the multi-directional Cardassian story arrow because ti was a bit confusing indeed, but the idea was to show how all the Cardassian/Garak stories are generally a bit interconnected. But we can sort of communicate that with the series dots not, so we didn't need the confusing arrows to everywhere! #2 Q Are Cordially Invited... tells the story of the Picard/Crusher wedding, which took place some time before Greater Than the Sum. But there is a framing story on an unspecified wedding anniversary. As we couldn't spot a reference to which anniversary we've opted to put it down in almost publication order, with the other TNG ebook, just before The Fall.

Sadly the site that opens once I click on the flow chart stays blank.

Working fine for me. Anyone else having problems?

Thanks for this graphic, it really helps me and will from now on be my guide :) Do you have plans on updating it with the new novels that have been and will be released?

Of course, this is already version four, which includes most of the books coming out this year (that have connections to the wider continuity) and a few even further ahead already. As more books come we'll update accordingly, and also refine the chart once we know more connections in forthcoming books :)

@8of5 That's amazing to hear! Thanks again for your work it really helps!

Thank you for creating this. Watched all the shows, just now getting into the books! This helps a bunch!

I have watched the show, its better if you had created this flowchart with standard flowchart symbols

This is top-notch. Printed it off and have it laminated already! Been able to track all my reading and discover what else to read in some logical order. As a result, just bought 13 new books. Hunting down the older ones are a bit tricky - been using Abe Books but this can be a wee expensive when you live in Australia. Booktopia's great for the more popular and/or newer books. Just wanted to say thank-you

That should be Book Depository. Booktopia a place a hardly buy books from - but I do from time to time. Needless to say, I've never bought any Star Trek from Booktopia. Have a great day :)

I come back to this flow chart every couple of months. Just to find out which book(s) to read next. Thanks for the good work!

The DS9 upcoming book "The Empty Sack" is now titled "Rules of Accusation" and will be out in July, 2016

Thanks for the update Terry!

Hi, Any update incoming?

Working on an update right now in fact, I expect it will be up next week some time (complete with the final title for Terry's book!).

Excited to see it. thanks.

Thank you Baby Jesus I found this

This list is awesome. Unfortuantely, now that the color palette is up to 19, my mild color-blindness is making matching some of these difficult if not a lost cause. Guessing the circles are too teeny to use iconography, so probably not much to be done for it. Still, a minor issue with an awesome chart.

I did revise the colours this time around to try and make them distinct as possible, as someone made a similar remark at the last revision. But yes you're right, due to the rather large number of colours to mark all the different dots, and the dots being too small to do much else it would take a completely different design approach to make it easier to read. It's something we're aware of, but haven't found a solution yet.

A great effort / work! Kudos to you brave souls! :)

Where does the Genesis Wave fit in?

Ty for your hard work

Thanks for your work, I'm following this since version 2 and it's an amazing help for me. This is why I love Star Trek - the fans! (also: great that you included Prometheus!)

Been meaning to catch up with you - thanks for this updated and shared resource. Top-notch! Kimberley.

This has been a great resource for catching up on all of the books/series. I did find one error, though. Somehow, you've omitted A Time to Kill from the TNG:A Time To... saga in version 5. Thanks again for the hard work and maintenance!

This flowchart is really awesome. And thanks for adding "Star Trek Prometheus" But I found an error, too. "Star Trek: Prometheus: Into the Heart of Chaos" is volume III not II. "The Source of All Fury" is II. And: The connection to "Takedown" is the wrong way round. STP take place just before "Takedown" and while it was written later it references events, that take place at the beginning of "Takedown". Bernd

This chart is great, but do you have a merged list of everything in a single chronological order?

This chart is great and all, but... where's Corps of Engineers? Because I don't see it on there.

Im thinking of reading Section 31 Control. Do I need to read Disavowed first?

Absolutely. I think ~most (all) would agree. They are both great reads.

If I remember right, way back last year I had the following experience. I had Disavowed as being the next read on DS9 having been through all the others. But I had to stop reading it after a while - I felt I was missing something. So, I went a few steps back and read The Fall series (esp. A Ceremony of Losses - I think), and then went through Vanguard, Lovell and Seekers (in that order) - I'm now on Seekers #2. It's been really interesting getting familiar with all the backdrop as well as having some great reads. Anyway, whatever you do have a great read. I'm sure you'll be able to get any background info to fill in any detail behind both Disavowed & Control from the Internet (Memory Alpha or Beta) - and thanks for reminding me to order my copy of Control!

Any updates inbound?

Yeah, this list is a bit out of date right now. I'm currently reading "Available Light." (The latest TNG book as of April 2019)

Please could this list be updated, I used to rely on this as which book to read and in what sequence but its now outdated.

Also really looking forward to an update :) would be really appreciated.

Also looking for an update, I use this to find out when new stuff is out, I didn't even know about Collateral Damage

I only just found out about Collateral Damage as well. This graphic is quickly falling behind! I hope it gets updated, it has been a valuable resource.

Kudos to the flow chart. That is awesome and exactly what I was looking for.

Everyone that's been asking for an update, please check the page now :)

Thank you very much for taking the time to update and expand it. Been using it since version 1. I almost read all novels that are one the chart and feeling both sadness that the litverse as we know it will come to an end. But I'm looking forward to what's to come and if there will be one last novel to bring the novelverse in line with Picard.

Great chart!! Thanks for the update. Loving your work. #LLAP

This is fantastic! Thanks for all of the work you did putting this together!

Just a quick nitpick, the "Created By" section in the 2020 version has a typo (I'm assuming). It says "For the latest version, and additional notes, visit: TrekTrekCollective.com" Looks like there's an extra "Trek" in the url. That said, I love the chart. Thank you!

Is a new version planned for rhe chart? One that goes up to the upcoming Coda trilogy?

There are a couple references to the Enterprise-E’s recent experience with the Genesis Wave in A Time to Sow.

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Next ‘Star Trek: Picard’ Novel Tells Rios’ Backstory; ‘Coda’ Trilogy Wraps Up Post-‘Nemesis’ Litverse

| February 22, 2021 | By: TrekMovie.com Staff 16 comments so far

Earlier this month Simon & Schuster/Pocket Books laid out plans for Star Trek fiction through the rest of the first half of the year, including the next Star Trek: Discovery novel. Now they have filled out their slate for Star Trek books through the end of the year, which includes the third Star Trek: Picard tie-in, a grand finale trilogy for the post- Nemesis litverse, and a DS9 tie-in.

August: Rogue Elements , all about Rios’ time after Starfleet

The next Picard novel is written by John Jackson Miller, who has written a number of Star Trek novels including two Discovery  tie-ins, the latest of which was last year’s Die Trying ( see review ).

Here is the official synopsis:

Starfleet was everything for Cristóbal Rios—until one horrible, inexplicable day when it all went wrong. Aimless and adrift, he grasps at a chance for a future as an independent freighter captain in an area betrayed by the Federation, the border region with the former Romulan Empire. His greatest desire: to be left alone. But solitude isn’t in the cards for the captain of  La Sirena , who falls into debt to a roving gang of hoodlums from a planet whose society is based on Prohibition-era Earth. Teamed against his will with Ledger, his conniving overseer, Rios begins an odyssey that brings him into conflict with outlaws and fortune seekers, with power brokers and relic hunters across the stars. Exotic loves and locales await—as well as dangers galore—and Rios learns the hard way that good crewmembers are hard to find, even when you can create your own. And while his meeting with Jean-Luc Picard is years away, Rios finds himself drawing on the Starfleet legend’s experiences when he discovers a mystery that began on one of the galaxy’s most important days…

The book will be released on August 17, 2021. You can pre-order it at Amazon in hardcover for $25.00 , or Kindle for $16.62 .

September: November – Coda trilogy , wrapping up post- Nemesis litverse

In the last two decades, there have been numerous novels set in the Star Trek universe in the decade after the events of the film Star Trek: Nemesis , with stories featuring characters from Star Trek: The Next Generation , Star Trek: Voyager , and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine . With no other films or TV series set in the 24th century, these books had free rein to define the post- Nemesis era. However, now that CBS is making shows set after Nemesis , most notably Star Trek: Picard , this “litverse” is no longer in line with the newly defined Prime Universe canon.

The last book in this series was released in late 2019, a few months ahead of the premiere of  Picard . Now Pocket Books is planning on a return to this Trek novel’s continuity, to wrap it all up with the Star Trek: Coda trilogy, written by three of their most prolific authors: Dayton Ward, James Swallow, and David Mack. After Simon & Schuster revealed the titles and release dates, all three authors posted more details about the series online. Dayton  Ward summarized the genesis and plan for the series on Facebook :

Back in July 2019 and in response to what we knew about the then-forthcoming Picard TV series, David Mack and I sat down at the Shore Leave convention for the first of what would be many conversations that quickly expanded to include James Swallow, and we got to work on a project that we’ve been calling “The Plan.” The result of all that scheming is a new #StarTrek trilogy, CODA, which will push forward the ongoing 24th century Trek novel continuity… [W]e spent a good portion of early-mid 2020 developing the story together… We each weighed in on the other outlines as we got those whipped into shape, and presented the entire package to our editors as well as the licensing folks at CBS. While each book is credited to its author, the plan is for all three books to carry a joint story credit the same way Dave, Kevin Dilmore, and I did for certain books within the Vanguard and Seekers series.

Here is the release schedule and pre-order links from Amazon

• September 28: Star Trek: Coda: Book 1: Moments Asunder , by Dayton Ward – Paperback $16.00 .
• October 12: Star Trek: Coda: Book 2: The Ashes of Tomorrow , by James Swallow – Paperback $16.00 .
• November 30: Star Trek: Coda: Book 3: Oblivion’s Gate , by David Mack – Paperback $16.00 .

December: Revenant , a DS9 story about Jadzia and Kira

2021 will wrap up with a tie-in to Star Trek: Deep Space Nine titled Revenant , which will be the debut Star Trek novel by Alex White, author of a number of sci-fi novels including the Salvagers trilogy and Alien tie-ins.  There is no synopsis for the book yet, but it is set during the Deep Space Nine series timeframe and will focus on Jadzia Dax and Kira Nerys.

Revenant will be released on December 21, 2021. You can sign up to be notified when it will be available for pre-order at Amazon .

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I enjoyed John Jackson Miller’s Pike’s Enterprise tie-in novel, so I’ll definitely be curious what he does with Rios, “planet of the hats” background story notwithstanding.

Having a wind up to the Relaunch litverse is fantastic news. Ward, Swallow and Mack are exactly the right team to land this.

All 3 Coda novels are available for pre-order in Canada now and I’ve ordered them all.

I think the TNG era is best explored through non Starfleet… this seems to be where challenges/drama/new ideas/diversity can still occur outside the free energy no conflict UFP.

“…from a planet whose society is based on Prohibition-era Earth”

Hmmm, could that be Sigma Iota II from A Piece of the Action ?

I’d be shocked if it isn’t.

So this Coda trilogy wraps up the book timeline, which is different than the new TV timeline? So someone could watch the movies, and read the book series and not watch picard and essentially have their own alternate continuation and conclusion? Where could I find a list of the books that take place after nemesis for the main story\TNG cast? Thanks for helping out a noob!

Goodreads has a list of the “Relaunch” post-Nemesis novels.

There are subsequences for TNG that follow Enterprise and Titan separately, a set for DS9, and two Voyager sequences.

It works as a single continuity because Simon & Schuster organized a writers room with a managing editor who acted like a showrunner. While you will likely find some writers more to your personal taste than others, the continuity is well done.

As well sequences following on the 90s series, there are events sequences that bring together the various ships and crews.

The “Time to…” 8 novel series that leads up to Nemesis is a good place to start. The divergence from the new television continuity arguably begins in the latter books of that series.

The Destiny Trilogy, the Typhon Pact sequence, and The Fall will take you across the series.

Interesting that it is only this article itself which refers to the CODA trilogy as being the end of the post-Nemesis ‘lit-verse’.

The actual quote from Dayton Ward says that it will “… push forward the ongoing 24th century Trek novel continuity” which hardly implies an end.

Is there more to the announcement which actually confirms the article’s conclusion?

The fact that they refer to it as a ‘coda’ trilogy is a pretty big clue.

True enough, I suppose :)

It just seemed strange that the quote from Ward didn’t actually refer to the series finishing was all, as it seems like the kind of thing they’d specifically emphasise.

Plus, I seem to recall talk of keeping the novels going, not all that long ago, DESPITE them now diverging from what’s become the newly established TV narrative…

If this is to be the end, I’ll be really sorry to see them go, as I have thoroughly enjoyed the majority of the stories and it’s been nice to be able to ‘check in’ again with these characters over the years.

Still, “All Good Things…”

I would imagine that they’ll endeavour to wrap up any ongoing storylines and tie up any loose ends but Star Trek’s a cash cow. If there’s enough demand for stories set in the old Litverse then I’m sure Viacom CBS would be happy to commission them.

 Technically the novels could be treated as another branch of the timeline that’s just as valid as the Kelvin universe. For me though the one thing that  breaks that illusion is the amount of world building they’ve done with the property. That probably sounds crazy because it’s a given that any successful fictional universe  needs world building. It’s just that after Trek finished on Television they gave the publishing side a very wide latitude.

Don’t get me wrong it was great, exactly what the novels needed and it gave fans something to chew on in the post-Enterprise TV famine. Now the choices they made with the characters and events, they’re fine for me if viewing these stories as a different branching timeline then you would expect things to change significantly the further you get from the divergence. You wouldn’t however, expect entire races to change dramatically and whilst I’ll admit it’s a while since I’ve read any of the post Nemesis novels I seem to recall there being some pretty bold choices made in regards to some of Trek’s most significant races. I’m talking about things like the Borg origins and the stuff with the Andorians having 4 genders. Now I don’t think that either of these two things have been contradicted onscreen yet but it’s the expectation that one day they almost certainly will be that puts me off investing my time in the literature.

I must admit that I supported the choice of the new shows to abandon the narratives that had been set up in the novels continuity when they announced Picard. However, I wouldn’t be opposed to an arrangement in which key elements introduced in the literature were incorporated into canon in the live action universe. I don’t mean every little detail but certainly the big things, the rules that underpin the Star Trek universe, I think it would be nice if they remained consistent across all branches of the Star Trek timelines. to clarify I’m not saying that if TPTB wanted to let’s say explore the Borg origins that they would need to do a beat for beat retelling of the Destiny Trilogy. They could tell their own story just have it spring from the same previously established origin. You could argue that this would stifle creativity but is it anymore restrictive than the countless variations on super hero origin stories that still ultimately stick to the same core mythology.

Sorry, I went a little bit off tangent there but your lamenting the upcoming end of a Trek lit era just set me off thinking on how they might continue it as well as what they could do that might keep me personally more invested in the tie-in media and I guess it resulted in a rather meandering incoherent post lol.

No, not at all. Good post. Made a lot of sense.

I can completely understand any reluctance to invest time in these novels now, if you haven’t been keeping up with them that is, especially knowing that they are not official canon…

If reading is your thing, there’s so much competition for your time these days too (not just Star Trek!), and these latest books will likely rely quite a lot on foreknowledge of what has gone before, so not exactly a great jumping-on point.

Although I always understood that the new shows could not be beholden to the narratives established in the novels, I guess I was always hoping that they would not directly contradict the (major) events that were established, having invested quite a lot of time in them over the years. That was never realistic thinking on my part though.

I think you’re absolutely right in the sense that the very things which made the novels so worthwhile (the detailed world-building etc.) are now seemingly the same things that have ultimately led to their ‘downfall’.

The TV and novel paths would likely only diverge ever more, the longer both were kept going. And while I would be perfectly happy with that myself (an alternate branch of the timeline as you say) it would probably just make things too confusing for anyone who might pick up a novel expecting an expansion of what they’ve seen on-screen. That would not be great for consumerism.

It would be nice to think that at least some of the novel’s details will survive (perhaps a character or two) as a lot of hard work went into creating and establishing them over the years. But, as you say, the greater priority has to be creative freedom now.

The one thing I am confident about is that, as has been mentioned in earlier posts, with the writers involved here, the post-Nemesis ‘lit-verse’ should at least go out with a bang!

Thanks Half-Moon. I’m sure you’re right about it going out with a bang and the fact that it is at least getting a proper conclusion might tempt me to jump back into it again at some point. I agree it would be nice if some of the novels details do survive. Certainly it’s a given that the authors will reintroduce some of their original characters and put them into the new books that are more closely tied to the newer productions. I believe this has already happened with the second Picard tie in novel that focuses on Riker and Troi onboard the Titan. I think it would be cool though if the producers took a leaf out of Lucasfilm’s book and proactively cherry picked characters and plots from Star Treks rich history of none canon works.

Haven’t actually read any of the Picard novels yet, though I know the one you mean (The Dark Veil).

It’s interesting you mention it, because the early Titan books (“Taking Wing” onwards) were what really got me interested in the ‘lit-verse’ to begin with.

I really liked the unique characters that they introduced, and the fact that there were so many alien races making up the crew…something we never really saw on TV, to the same extent anyway. Reading these early books felt like getting to know a whole new crew again, just like the start of a new series.

The fact that there was also a strong emphasis on getting out there and exploring the unknown again was also a big plus for me. In contrast, the TNG novels of the time were very Borg-focused, though that ultimately paid off with the Destiny trilogy.

Without the Titan books, I probably wouldn’t have explored (and enjoyed) the post-Nemesis timeline to anything like the same extent. Having only ever read the occasional Star Trek book before them.

So I’m definitely keen to find out exactly who/what has been retained.

Agreed. While it was probably never revered in the same way as Star Wars’ EU, the last last two decades worth of Star Trek novels have produced some quality material that (IMO) is definitely worth retaining in some form.

I guess we’ll have to wait and see…

Rios is a rather dull character, and seems like an author insert.

His Name is Rios is not going to be happy with this comment. LOL

Star Trek Nemesis (novel)

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Background information [ ].

• This was Dillard's last Star Trek film novelization, although she would later adapt The Expanse for Star Trek: Enterprise .
• The audiobook version was abridged by George Truett .
• According to this novel, the name of Shinzon's Reman Viceroy is Vkruk and the name Shinzon is Reman for liberator .
• The mass market paperback version was not released in North America, but was available internationally.
• A young adult novelization was also produced.

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Praetor Shinzon

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First Splinter novels timeline

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The chronology of the Star Trek Relaunch novels covers the period of the late 2370s and 2380s after the final on-screen outings of the series set in the 24th century : The Next Generation , Deep Space Nine , and Voyager . It was designed to bring all of the Star Trek universe into a single continuity, with characters and story arcs making multiple crossovers between series. It also encorporates the novel series New Frontier as well as elements introduced in Vanguard . The new novel series Star Trek: Titan , and a number of original miniseries were also created specifically to fit into this continuity.

The events of the Relaunch timeline were ultimately retconned by official canon after the arrival of new television series such as Star Trek: Picard , but it still remains the most ambitious world-building endevour ever undertaken by officially published Star Trek tie-in media. In total the relaunch covers twenty years of novels and short stories, from Avatar, Book One published in July 2001, to Oblivion's Gate in November 2021.

• The first Next Generation and Titan relaunch novels, Death in Winter and Taking Wing respectively, both begin during, not after, the events of the final TNG film, Star Trek Nemesis .
• Although A Stitch in Time was published as the final numbered Deep Space Nine novel, it was retroactively added to the Relaunch continuity as it is written as a letter from Garak to Julian Bashir , who can be seen reading it in Avatar, Book One . The Relaunch also continues a number of story arcs and naming conventions which first appeared in this novel.
• The reprint of the anthology The Lives of Dax utilised the Relaunch DS9 logo as opposed to the more generic Star Trek branding as its framing story takes place after the television series finale, What You Leave Behind .

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• Novels marked with ** are not necessary for plot continuity.

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Simple Star Trek: The Next Generation Reading List

The Simple The Next Generation Reading Lists are just my subjective versions of several condensed suggested reading lists, depending on the number of  books you might want to get.  Below are the top ten, twenty, thirty, forty, and fifty The Next Generation novels you should read.

• The Lost Era: The Buried Age
• Dark Mirror
• Intellivore
• Destiny: Gods of Night
• Destiny: Mere Mortals
• Destiny: Lost Souls
• Cold Equations: The Persistence of Memory
• Cold Equations: Silent Weapons
• Cold Equations: The Body Electric
• Collateral Damage
• Coda: Moments Asunder
• Coda: The Ashes of Tomorrow
• Coda: Oblivion's Gate

• The Sky's the Limit
• Slings and Arrows (ebook miniseries)
• Immortal Coil
• A Time to Kill
• A Time to Heal
• A Time for War, a Time for Peace
• Before Dishonor
• Greater Than the Sum
• The Light Fantastic

• The Captain's Table: Dujonian's Hoard
• Triangle: Imzadi II
• Articles of the Federation
• Losing the Peace
• Typhon Pact: Paths of Disharmony
• The Fall: Revelation and Dust
• The Fall: The Crimson Shadow
• The Fall: A Ceremony of Losses
• The Fall: The Poisoned Chalice
• The Fall: Peaceable Kingdoms
• Available Light

• Metamorphosis
• A Call to Darkness
• Death in Winter
• Section 31: Rogue
• A Time to Be Born
• A Time to Die
• A Time to Sow
• A Time to Harvest
• A Time to Love
• A Time to Hate
• Armageddon's Arrow
• Hearts and Minds

• The Valiant
• The Lost Era: Deny Thy Father
• A Rock and a Hard Place
• Losing the Peace 
• Indistinguishable From Magic
• Headlong Flight

• Typhon Pact: The Struggle Within
• Typhon Pact: Plagues of Night
• Typhon Pact: Raise the Dawn
• Typhon Pact: Brinkmanship
• Prey: Hell's Heart
• Prey: The Jackal's Trick
• Prey: The Hall of Heroes