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Big Finish’s Star Trek: Prometheus audiobooks draw to a close with In the Heart of Chaos, which ties up the story begun in the first two. Honestly, if you made it this far, you probably know what to expect, with…
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The Root of All Rage is the sequel to the first Star Trek: Prometheus audiobook, a reading by Alec Newman of a novel by Bernd Perplies and Christian Humberg. Like the first one, it is slow to start. Also like…
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Yet another new licence has come to the tie-in factories of Big Finish Towers, with Fire With Fire, the first Star Trek audiobook from the company. It’s a reading of a 2016 German novel in the Prometheus subseries by Bernd…
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Over the last couple of days (catch up with Part 1 and Part 2), we’ve looked back at the nine-book Star Trek: A Time to… series, which bridged the gap between the movies Insurrection and Nemesis, chronicling a time of…
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It’s over a decade since the ambitious Star Trek: A Time to… series was published. The nine-book Next Generation saga set out to provide context for events that feature film Star Trek Nemesis had introduced without explanation – the marriage…
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In the early 2000s, Star Trek’s future was beginning to look uncertain. New television spinoff Enterprise was already struggling in the ratings, and when the cast of the more successful The Next Generation reunited for a fourth feature film together…
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In Crisis of Consciousness, Dave Galanter‘s latest contribution to the line of Original Series novels, Captain Kirk and the Enterprise are dispatched to ferry the ambassador of the Maabas — normally a rather xenophobic race — back to his home…
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In Q Are Cordially Uninvited, written by Rudy Josephs, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and his wife, Beverly Crusher, show two of their fellow officers and friends the holorecording of their wedding in La Barre, France. But Worf and Geordi La Forge…
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Lust’s Latinum Lost (and Found), written by Paula M. Block and Terry J. Erdmann, is the first Deep Space Nine entry in the series of exclusive eBook novellas. When business is down in Quark’s bar on the new DS9, the…
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The Light Fantastic, written by a returning Jeffrey Lang, is a follow-up to David Mack’s Cold Equations trilogy, which itself was a follow-up to Lang’s own 2002 novel Immortal Coil. At the end of the Cold Equations trilogy, Data decided…
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When we last spoke to Keith R.A. DeCandido, at the start of 2010, he had recently received the Faust – the Grand Master prize at the International Association of Media Tie-In Writers’ annual Scribe Awards – which recognises writers for…
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Protectors, Kirsten Beyer’s fifth novel in her ongoing Star Trek: Voyager saga, is the first one to deal with the repercussions of Admiral Kathryn Janeway’s return from the dead in the preceding novel The Eternal Tide. While Janeway is recalled…
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A Choice of Futures, Christopher L. Bennett’s first Star Trek: Enterprise novel, is set a couple of years after the end of the Romulan War. With the Enterprise decommissioned, the former crew has settled into new positions. While some of…
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TV tie-ins. Where would fans be without them? Why, they might be forced to wander, lost and friendless, through the vast wasteland of televised repeats until the beginning of the next season; or, worse yet, stranded alone in the purgatory…
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I’m supposed to talk about my favourite tie-in novels, huh? You know, usually when such a topic comes up, for example on message boards, I just post those books I gave the highest scores, but this time I want to…
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