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Was wondering if anyone else out there has been reading this series?
Peter David really has etched his name in the Star Trek franchise. I am almost finished reading the latest book and am amazed how he keeps me wanting more of these characters. I wish they would make his series into a movie.
Anyone else reading this?

I haven't read a ST novel in years. Back in high school, though, along with Isaac Asimov and Don Pendleton they were a staple of my reading diet.

LL- I think you would really like Peter Davids take on the Star Trek universe. I really think you would get hooked again.

Is it actually the same Peter David that does Hulk? I may pick one up.

Same Peter David. They're really good. Good stories and characters and they can be quite funny. The only problems is that he writes them faster than I can read them. I'm 3 or 4 books behind. There is a hardcover that collects the 1st 4 books, a good place to start.

I'll have to see if the SciFi book club has it. Thanks.

I am almost finished with the latest book..Peter David rocks on this series.
I wont spoil anything since you are a little behind PP..but wow.

I am about to start reading "Gods Above". Finished the Excaliber trilogy a couple of weeks ago (loved seeing Mr. Scott). Can't find the book inbetween, the one about McHenry. Feel free to spoil, I am curious to what he is.
Have you read any of the Sir Appropos books? good stuff.

PAD's other trek books are great as well. My fav's are The Rift with Capt. Pike, The Captain's Daughter with Sulu (oh my!) and Imzadi of course. He tels a well-paced ST story with lots of action and humor. Very easy reads.

Like New Frontier and the DS9 relaunch for nice light reading...

Please expand RTVU2.

DS9 relaunch? I just finished watching the last season about a month ago and have been horribly depressed about it ever since. It was so up in the air! Is there a series that continues the story? I've spent far too much time with these characters to just let them go...DS9 actually developed from my least fave Trek series to my absolute favorite by the last three seasons.

Where do the New Frontiers books start?

I'm a bit of a Trekkie, but have spent more time reading Star Wars here lately. I'm also a fan of Peter David's writing. When I found this thread I was intrigued to say the least so I did some surfing.

AFB... from what I gather, the New Frontier books are not DS9. What Peter David did was take peripheral characters fromt TNG and wrote about their exploits on the Starship Excalibur. For example, I think one of his main characters is the blond (CDR Shelby) who became first officer on the Enterprise when Picard was assimilated.

I guess what I'm getting at is if you are looking at New Frontiers as a fix for your DS9 jones... don't get your hopes up.

You can read more about the New Frontier books here .

From everything I've read about these books and from what I know about Peter David, I'm looking forward to reading The New Frontier series once I finish with the New Jedi Order stuff.

There have been actually a couple of books for the DS9 relaunch... in order they are

Avatar, Books One and Two · S.D. Perry

Section 31: Abyss · David Weddle & Jeffrey Lang

Gateways #4: Demons of Air and Darkness · Keith R.A. DeCandido

Gateways #7: What Lay Beyond: "Horn and Ivory" · Keith R.A. DeCandido

Mission: Gamma
#1 · Twilight · David R. George III
#2 · This Gray Spirit · Heather Jarman
#3 · Cathedral · Michael A. Martin & Andy Mangels
#4 · Lesser Evil · Robert Simpson

Rising Son · S.D. Perry

The Left Hand of Destiny, Books One and Two · J.G. Hertzler and Jeffrey Lang

Unity · S.D. Perry


I have read all of them expect Rising Son and The Left Hand. All the books can be read on there own but as a whole are very stasifying. Especially Avatars 1 & 2, Gateways #4 and Unity. Mission Gamma was kinda hit or miss. But the whole series added great new characters and developed the series regualrs even more...

I forget the title of the last book (I think it was Gods Above) But the hardcover that I got also contained a CD-Rom containing all the other books of the series.


AFB, the series is current with Next Generation. David uses Dr. Selar, Commander Shelby, & Robin Lefler from the TV series.

To add to Minsurfer said, alot of secondary characters from Next Generation are main characters and also characters introduced in David's Starfleet academy novels for young adults. Heck, even characters from the animated series are in the books.

I've got the Avatar books on hold at the library. I'm looking forward to them. Thanks for all the explication.

Just picked up "stone and anvil" have not started "gods above" yet. Still can't find "almost human". I feel I should read that first. anyone think the contrary?

hey rtvu2... which characters are from the sf acad. books and the cartoon? just curious.

From the acad books... Soleta, McHenrey, Brikar and I think what's her name Chief Enigneneer. There is a passing reference in one of the books about Brikar and Worf not liking each other in their academy days. Then I read an inteview about Peter David and new frontier that confirmed it but I never read any of those books.

When Shelby got her own ship Lt Arex and Mress (sp?) joined. Both where on the animated series and both fell into temporal distroations that threw them into the New Frontier time. Arex was some kinda three armed and legged humaniod and Mress was a cat like humaniod.

And yeah, you should rad almost human first before Stone or gods...

can't find it. but i think i got th gist. but i will wait, i got "first knight " to read by PAD.

Just downloaded the ebooks for the first 15 novels. Guess I now have a free weekend to read them.

Are the first four books really only about 60 to 80 pages each?

According to the link on the first page... the first four books range from 151 to 184 pages in length. I don't know how that stacks up against ebooks though. Should give you a baseline to go from. I've also read somewhere that these four were collected into one hardcover edition along the line.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Lightning Lad:
[QB] Just downloaded the ebooks for the first 15 novels. Guess I now have a free weekend to read them.


Where? I still can't find "Almost Human" I would love to download it, you have it? want to send it to me?

[quote]When Shelby got her own ship Lt Arex and Mress (sp?) joined. Both where on the animated series and both fell into temporal distroations that threw them into the New Frontier time. Arex was some kinda three armed and legged humaniod and Mress was a cat like humaniod.[end quote]

I remember those characters. P. David used Mress when he was writing ST comics for DC. I picked up the "Who Killed Capt. Kirk" trade a couple of weeks ago and she was in it. Kindy funny, he wrote her like she was always in heat, trying to pick-up Chekov, but he would not play. Dummy.