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*27: ''[[Mindshadow]]'' ([[J.M. Dillard]]), 1986
*27: ''[[Mindshadow]]'' ([[J.M. Dillard]]), 1986
*28: ''[[Crisis on Centaurus]]'' ([[Brad Ferguson]])
*28: ''[[Crisis on Centaurus]]'' ([[Brad Ferguson]])
*29: ''[[Dreadnought!]]'' ([[Diane Carey]])
*29: ''[[Dreadnought!]] (Fortunes of War, Book 1)'' ([[Diane Carey]])
*30: ''[[Demons (Star Trek)|Demons]]'' (J.M. Dillard)
*30: ''[[Demons (Star Trek)|Demons]]'' (J.M. Dillard)
*31: ''[[Battlestations!]] (Fortunes of War, Book 2)'' (Diane Carey)
*31: ''[[Battlestations!]] (Fortunes of War, Book 2)'' (Diane Carey)

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Star Trek currently holds the record for the most novels based upon a single fictional universe. According to Paramount Pictures, owners of the Star Trek franchise, no original novel is considered canon, a decision that has sparked debate amongst Trek book fans for years.

Star Trek

Whitman Books (1968)

Bantam episode adaptations (1967-1978)

All by James Blish except where noted.

  • Star Trek, 1967 (a.k.a. Star Trek 1)
    • "Charlie's Law" (a.k.a. "Charlie X")
    • "Dagger of the Mind"
    • "The Unreal McCoy" (a.k.a. "The Man Trap")
    • "Balance of Terror"
    • "The Naked Time"
    • "Miri"
    • "The Conscience of the King"
  • Star Trek 2, 1968
    • "Arena"
    • "A Taste of Armageddon"
    • "Tomorrow is Yesterday"
    • "Errand of Mercy"
    • "Court Martial"
    • "Operation - Annihilate!"
    • "The City on the Edge of Forever"
    • "Space Seed"
  • Star Trek 3, 1969
    • "The Trouble with Tribbles"
    • "The Last Gunfight" (a.k.a. "Spectre of the Gun")
    • "The Doomsday Machine"
    • "Assignment: Earth"
    • "Mirror, Mirror"
    • "Friday's Child"
    • "Amok Time"
  • Star Trek 4, 1971
    • "All Our Yesterdays"
    • "Devil in the Dark"
    • "Journey to Babel"
    • "The Menagerie"
    • "The Enterprise Incident"
    • "A Piece of the Action"
  • Star Trek 5, 1972
    • "Whom Gods Destroy"
    • "The Tholian Web"
    • "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield"
    • "This Side of Paradise"
    • "Turnabout Intruder"
    • "Requiem for Methuslah"
    • "The Way to Eden"
  • Star Trek 6, 1972
    • "The Savage Curtain"
    • "The Lights of Zetar"
    • "The Apple"
    • "By Any Other Name"
    • "The Cloud Minders"
    • "The Mark of Gideon"
  • Star Trek 7, 1972
    • "Who Mourns for Adonais?"
    • "The Changeling"
    • "The Paradise Syndrome"
    • "Metamorphosis"
    • "The Deadly Years"
    • "Elaan of Troyius"
  • Star Trek 8, 1972
    • "Spock's Brain"
    • "The Enemy Within"
    • "Catspaw"
    • "Where No Man Has Gone Before"
    • "Wolf in th Fold"
    • "For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky"
  • Star Trek 9, 1973
    • "Return to Tomorrow"
    • "The Ultimate Computer"
    • "That Which Survives"
    • "Obsession"
    • "Return of the Archons"
    • "Immunity Syndrome"
  • Star Trek 10, 1974
    • "The Alternative Factor"
    • "The Empath"
    • "The Galileo Seven"
    • "Is There in Truth No Beauty?"
    • "A Private Little War"
    • "The Omega Glory"
  • Star Trek 11, 1975 (a.k.a. Day of the Dove)
    • "What Are Little Girls Made Of?"
    • "The Squire of Gothos"
    • "Wink of an Eye"
    • "Bread and Circuses"
    • "Day of the Dove"
    • "Plato's Stepchildren"
  • Star Trek 12 (with J.A. Lawrence), 1977 - Blish died during writing this book; Lawrence, his wife, completed the work.
    • "Patterns of Force"
    • "Gamesters of Triskelion"
    • "And the Children Shall Leave"
    • "The Corbomite Maneuver"
    • "Shore Leave"
  • Mudd's Angels (Lawrence), May 1978 (a.k.a. Mudd's Enterprise)

Bantam original Novels (1970-1981)

Ballantine Animated Series novelizations (1974-1978)

All edited and adapted, and featuring new or connecting story segments by Alan Dean Foster.

  • Log One, 1974
    • Marc Daniels. One of Our Planets Is Missing
    • Dorothy C. Fontana. Yesteryear
    • Samuel A. Peeples. Beyond the Farthest Star
  • Log Two, 1974
    • James Schermer. The Survivor
    • Walter Koenig. The Infinite Vulcan
    • Margaret Armen. The Lorelei Signal
  • Log Three, 1975
    • Larry Brody. Magicks of Megas-Tu
    • Stephen Kandel. Mudd's Passion
    • Len Janson, Chuck Menville. Once Upon a Planet
  • Log Four, 1975
    • Joyce Perry. Time Trap
    • David Gerrold. More Tribbles, More Troubles
    • Paul Schneider. The Terratin Incident
  • Log Five, 1975
    • Margaret Armen. The Ambergris Element
    • Howard Weinstein. The Pirates of Orion
    • Stephen Kandel. Jihad
  • Log Six, 1976
    • Dario Finelli. Albatross
    • Russell Bates, David Wise. How Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth
    • Chuck Menville. The Practical Joker
  • Log Seven, 1976
    • John Culver, The Counter-Clock Incident
  • Log Eight, 1976
    • David P. Harmon, The Eye of the Beholder
  • Log Nine, 1977
    • David Gerrold, BEM
  • Log Ten, 1978
    • Larry Niven. Slaver Weapon

Wanderer Books (1982-1984)

Numbered Pocket Books novels

The adaptation of Star Trek: The Motion Picture was actually published more than a year before the Bantam Books series of novels concluded, after which the Pocket Books series continued with book No. 2. A number of novels have been republished with modified titles to reflect their retroactive addition to an arc or a series, such as "The Yesterday Saga", "World's Apart", and "Rihannsu" which include novels that were original published as standalones.

After Vol. 97, Pocket Books stopped numbering its Star Trek releases. Further issues are listed in the Unnumbered section, below.

Unnumbered

The Janus Gate

All by L.A. Graf.

Errand of Vengeance

All by Kevin Ryan.

Errand of Fury

All by Kevin Ryan.

Vulcan's Soul

The "Shatnerverse"

Beginning in 1996, William Shatner, the actor who played Captain Kirk, launched a series of novels are often referred to as the "Shatnerverse" novels. They work on the premise that Captain Kirk was brought back to life after the events of the movie Star Trek: Generations and are not generally considered part of the continuity established by Pocket Books for their novels. The books are co-authored by Garfield Reeves-Stevens and Judith Reeves-Stevens.

The Next Generation

Pocket Books ceased numbering its TNG novels at this point; future volumes are listed in the Unnumbered section, below.

Unnumbered

Post-Nemesis

Titan

  • 1: Taking Wing, (Michael A. Martin & Andy Mangels), April 2005
  • 2: The Red King, (Michael A. Martin & Andy Mangels), October 2005
  • 3: Orion's Hounds, (Christopher L. Bennett), January 2006

Deep Space Nine

Unnumbered

Main article: Deep Space Nine relaunch

Voyager

Unnumbered

Set after the series (2003-present)

Star Trek: Enterprise (2001-present)

Pocket Books has announced a "relaunch" of the Enterprise book series is forthcoming, but no further details have been released as of December 2005.

Novelizations

Based upon movies

Based upon television episodes

Pre-film era

  • Star Trek series by James Blish and J.A. Lawrence (1967-78; see above)
  • Star Trek Logs series by Alan Dean Foster (1974-78; see above)

Next Generation

Deep Space Nine

Voyager

Enterprise

Based upon video games

Star Trek: New Frontier (1997-present)

Main article: Star Trek: New Frontier

Primarily written by Peter David, the New Frontier series marked the first time that an original Star Trek series had been created for the literary franchise.

Gateways: Cold Wars

I.K.S. Gorkon (2003-present)

Main article: I.K.S. Gorkon

Section 31 (2001)

Main article: Section 31

Day of Honor (1997)

The Badlands

Dark Passions

This two-part saga takes place within the Mirror Universe during the DS9-Voyager era.

The Captain's Table

The Dominion War

Main article: Dominion War

The Eugenics Wars (2001-2005)

Main article: Eugenics War

All by Greg Cox.

Gateways

Starfleet Corps of Engineers (2000-present)

Main article: Starfleet Corps of Engineers

Also known as SCE, this series of original novella-length stories was initially published in e-book format online; many of these stories were later reissued in printed collections.

The Lost Era (2003-present)

Two more books in the series are in the works.

Stargazer

Miscellaneous standalone novels

Original Audiobooks

Many Star Trek novels have been adapted for audio, but these are the only original stories produced exclusively for audio.

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