Star Trek Fiction

The Star Trek Fiction consists of fiction literature, especially novels , short stories and comic books includes and in the fictional Star Trek - the universe is. Some of them retell TV series episodes and movies; Most of them are stories in their own right, the content of which is usually not taken into account by the producers of the television series. However, since around the beginning of the 2000s, the authors have been talking to each other and since then there has been a continuity of events in the novels, which is particularly evident in crossovers such as Destiny , Typhon Pact and The Fall . In total there are more than 700 volumes from the Star Trek universe . They belong to the subgenre film tie-ins .

Novels and short stories

overview

→ Main article : List of Star Trek novels

The following table gives an overview of the main series in which novels and other, shorter stories have appeared. The colors in the Century column symbolize the century in which the storyline is primarily set: 22nd century , 23rd century and 24th century .

Classic and cartoon series

Main sequence; essential English main series title	US publisher	English off	German series title	German publisher	German from	Century	Explanation
Star Trek, Star Trek: The Original Series	Bantam Books	1967	Enterprise - The award-winning world success on television	Williams	1972	23.	The stories in these volumes are primarily based on the real-life television series Raumschiff Enterprise and the movies 1 to 6 based on it.
			Terra Astra science fiction novels	Pabel-Moewig	1976
			Terra science fiction novel		1978
			The original adventures of Starship Enterprise	Gold man	1989
	Whitman Publishing	1968	Star Trek	Franz Schneider	1970
	Pocket Books, Gallery Books, Simon & Schuster Audio, Pocket Star	1979	Playboy SF	Pabel-Moewig	1980
			Star Trek, Star Trek Classic	Heyne	1982
			Star Trek: The Beginnings		1989
			Star Trek: Starfleet Cadets, Starfleet Academy		1996
			Star Trek Classic	VGS	1996
			Star Trek, Starfleet Academy	Cross Cult	2009
	Wanderer Books	1982
Star Trek (cartoon series)	Ballantine Books	1974	Starship Enterprise: The New Adventure	Gold man	1993		These volumes are based on the animated television series The Enterprise .
				Lion	1994
Star Trek (Reboot Movies)	Pocket Books	2009	Star Trek	Cross Cult	2009		These volumes are based on the movies that act in the Kelvin timeline introduced in the movie Star Trek .

Other series from US publishers

These series were originally published in English by Simon - & - Schuster - Imprints Pocket Books, Gallery Books or Simon & Schuster Audio.

Main sequence; essential English main series title	English off	German series title	German publisher	German from	Century	Explanation
Star Trek: The Next Generation	1987	Star Trek: The Next Generation (until 1995) , Star Trek: The Next Generation (from 1996)	Heyne	1989	24.	The stories in these volumes are primarily based on the television series Spaceship Enterprise - The Next Century and the movies 7 to 10 based on it.
		Star Trek: Starfleet Cadets, Starfleet Academy		1995
		Star Trek, Star Trek: The Next Generation	VGS	1995
		Star Trek: The Next Generation	Cross Cult	2009
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine	1993	Star Trek: Deep Space Nine	Heyne	1993		The stories in the volumes in this series are primarily based on the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine .
		Star Trek: Starfleet Cadets, Starfleet Academy		1995
		Star Trek: Deep Space Nine	VGS	1995
		Star Trek: Deep Space Nine	Cross Cult	2009
Star Trek: Voyager	1995	Star Trek: Voyager	Heyne	1995		The stories in the volumes in this series are based primarily on the television series Star Trek: Spaceship Voyager .
		Star Trek: Voyager	Cross Cult	2013
Star Trek: New Frontier	1997	Star Trek: The New Frontier	Heyne	1999		These volumes contain stories that tell of the Starfleet spaceship Excalibur .
		Star Trek: New Frontier	Cross Cult	2011
Star Trek: SCE	2000	Star Trek: Corps of Engineers	Cross Cult	2014		When it was first published, this series was only available as e-books. It is about members of the Starfleet engineering corps and their spacecraft da Vinci . The series takes place mainly in the time between the end of the plot of the television series Deep Space Nine (2375) and the movie Nemesis (2379).
Star Trek: Challenger	2001				23.	This series tells about the Starfleet spaceship Challenger and follows on from the novel miniseries New Earth , which was first published within the main series Starship Enterprise .
Enterprise (until 2003) , Star Trek: Enterprise (from 2004)	2001	Enterprise	Heyne	2002	22nd	The stories in the volumes in this series are primarily based on the television series Star Trek: Enterprise .
		Star Trek: Enterprise	Cross Cult	2011
		Star Trek: Rise of the Federation	Cross Cult	2017
Star Trek: IKS Gorkon, Star Trek: Klingon Empire	2003				24.	This series is about the Klingon spaceship Gorkon and emerged from the novel Diplomatic Implausibility by Spaceship Enterprise: The Next Century and the two crossover novels The Brave and the Bold . The first three volumes appeared under the series title Star Trek: IKS Gorkon , the fourth volume under the series title Star Trek: Klingon Empire .
Star Trek: Titan	2005	Star Trek: Titan	Cross Cult	2008		This series is about the spaceship Titan, first featured in the movie Nemesis , with Riker as captain.
Star Trek: Vanguard	2005	Star Trek: Vanguard	Cross Cult	2008	23.	This series takes place on the Vanguard space station and runs parallel to the story of Captain Kirk's five-year mission. Cross-novel story arcs are characteristic of this series.
Star Trek: Corps of Engineers	2006				24.	With this series, the series Star Trek: SCE was continued under a new title and without continuing the previous numbering.
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations	2011					These stories are about the Starfleet Temporal Investigation Department, which first appeared in the episode Always the Burden with the Tribbles of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine .
Star Trek: Seekers	2014	Star Trek: Seekers	Cross Cult	2017	23.	This series follows the plot of the Star Trek: Vanguard series and, unlike Vanguard, consists of novels with a completed storyline.
Star Trek: Discovery	2017	Star Trek: Discovery	Cross Cult	2017	23.	These novels are based on the television series Star Trek: Discovery .

Series from German publishers

These series were first published in German by the German publisher Cross Cult .

German series title	German from	Century	Explanation
Star Trek: Prometheus	2016	24.	This series comes from German authors for the first time and begins in 2385. The focus of the plot is the star fleet spaceship USS Prometheus.

Publications from US publishers

Bantam

In 1967 Bantam Books published a collection of seven short stories under the simple title "Star Trek" that the science fiction writer James Blish had written on the basis of scripts for television episodes of "Spaceship Enterprise". Due to the high demand, a second edition and a sequel with the title "Star Trek 2" appeared shortly afterwards. By 1975 Blish wrote a total of eleven anthologies of this type, as well as the first stand-alone Star Trek novel "Spock Must Die!". Blish's life partner Judith Lawrence completed another short story collection after his death, and also created an independent story around the character "Harry Mudd".

When the potential of script-based stories was reached, independent anthologies entitled "Star Trek: The New Voyages" were released under the supervision of Sondra Marshak and Myrna Culbreath . By 1980 a total of 13 new monographic stories had been published, to which David Gerrold and Joe Haldeman contributed work. The novels of the Bantam series were reprinted several times during this time, each with different cover pictures. The publisher also published twelve photo novels.

Simon & Schuster / Pocket

Most of the novels by far have been and will be published by Pocket-Verlag . In 1979 the book accompanying Star Trek: The Film was published , six months later "The Entropy Effect" by Vonda N. McIntyre . This novel sold surprisingly well, which was mainly due to a higher narrative level compared to previous publications. Pocket was encouraged by the success of its novel series, which continues to this day, to overturn the original plans for a series of only four to five books. The publisher diversified its product lines from the late 1980s when the production of new Star Trek television series began. Today the program comprises around 14 different series, including a series of books for young people. There are also ten short series. In total, Pocket has published around 500 books so far, including hardbacks.

Many of these novels were recorded as audiobooks, often by Leonard Nimoy , James Doohan and George Takei . A small number were produced exclusively as audio books. There is also an e-book series.

Other

The DelRey / Ballantine publishing house published a series of ten paperback books under the title “Star Trek Log”. These novels contained short stories based on the scripts for the animated series. The author of these stories was Alan Dean Foster . Apart from that, however, the publisher made a name for itself primarily with secondary literature .

The Whitman publishing house only published "Mission to Horatius" by Mack Reynolds (1968). The book was only sold hesitantly and was therefore only published once.

Publications by German publishers

The Franz Schneider Verlag published Mack Reynold's novel “Mission to Horatius” under the title “Notruf aus dem All”, while the twelve anthologies by James Blish were published by Williams Verlag. Pabel / Moewig published Blish's stories as notebooks , but under different titles and in a different order. The "New Voyages" series was also published by Pabel in this way. The house also sold the novels originally published by Bantam as "Terra paperbacks". Most recently, the anthologies and Bantam novels, some of them again under different titles, were published by Goldmann Verlag in the early 1990s . In addition, Gene Roddenberry's companion book to Star Trek: The Movie appeared on Playboy Science Fiction.

The novels published by Pocket Verlag in the USA were initially published by Heyne Verlag in German-speaking countries . After the turn of the millennium, sales continued to decline and since the publishing house was taken over by the Random House Group, publications were initially reduced and finally discontinued in January 2007. In September 2007, Cross Cult Verlag took over the publication of new books, which have been published several times a year since February 2008.

Heyne

The publisher published the following pocket series:

• Star Trek Classic (novels about the "original" Enterprise)
• Star Trek: The Next Generation
• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
• Star Trek: Voyager
• Enterprise

Cross-series book series have been published on the following topics:

• The Dominion War (The War between the Federation and the Dominion from the Gamma Quadrant)
• Invasion (an ancient threat from "aggressors" from the Delta Quadrant)
• The day of honor (a Klingon holiday)
• Section 31 (a secret organization in the Federation )
• The Badlands (an inhospitable area of ​​space inhabited by terrorists and criminals)

Independent ranks

• Starfleet Cadets (a youth book series)
• The New Frontier ( series reinvented by Peter David about the alien Starfleet Captain Calhoun and his crew)

Cross Cult

• Star Trek: Vanguard (A spin-off of Starship Enterprise )
• Star Trek: Titan is a spin-off of The Next Century , in which the adventures of Captain Riker and Counselor Troi on the USS Titan are told, after the events of the film Star Trek: Nemesis ( → main article: Star Trek: Titan ).
• Star Trek: Destiny (a cross-over between Titan , The Next Century, and Deep Space Nine ), published in three volumes in 2010. An anthology was published in June 2014.
• Star Trek: The Next Generation, since September 2009. The books act in the time after Nemesis, parallel to Star Trek: Titan ( → main article: Star Trek: The Next Generation (literary sequel after Nemesis) ).
• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, since October 2009. The books belong to the so-called DS9 relaunch and continue the story after the end of the television series ( → main article: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (literary sequel) ).
• Star Trek: The Original Series, since December 2011. The books are about the original Enterprise series .
• Star Trek: New Frontier , since January 2011. A book series by Peter David that deals with the next generation books at about the same time.
• Star Trek: Enterprise, since April 2011. Continues the Star Trek: Enterprise series after its end.
• Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, since March 2012. This series is a prequel to the 2009 Star Trek film .
• Star Trek: Typhon Pact, June 2013 to September 2014. The series follows on from the events in Destiny .
• Star Trek: Voyager, since October 2013 ( → Main article: Star Trek: Voyager (literary sequel) )
• Star Trek: Corps of Engineers, since April 2014.

After Nemesis held Stories

→ Main article : Star Trek (literary sequel after Nemesis)

Some of the novels take place after the movie Nemesis . The stories told in it are also shaped by crossovers between the main series The Next Generation , Deep Space Nine and Titan . The miniseries that make up such crossovers include Destiny , Typhon Pact, and The Fall . These miniseries, like the novels The Laws of the Federation and Individual Fates , did not appear in any particular main series.

Destiny

→ Main article : Star Trek: Destiny

The novel Star Trek: Destiny was published in 2008 in English and 2010 in German and takes place in 2381. It is about a devastating attack by the Borg on the territory of the Federation . The Borg appear with several cubes of subspace corridors and now assimilate the life forms that are valuable to them. Within a few weeks, the attack kills around 63 billion living things and devastates entire planets. The Star Fleet spaceships Enterprise-E under Captain Picard and Titan under Captain Riker fight the Borg. Parallel to the portrayal of the attack by the Borg, another storyline deals with an expedition of the Starfleet ship USS Aventine, which is being launched in Destiny and is commanded by Captain Ezri Dax. In the Gamma Quadrant, the crew finds the wreck of the long-lost Starfleet spaceship USS Columbia NX-02, whose history is interwoven with the evolution of the Borg species.

Typhon Pact

→ Main article : Star Trek: Typhon Pact

Star Trek: Typhon Pact is a novel miniseries consisting of eight novels. The volumes were published in English from 2010 to 2012 and in German in 2013 and 2014. The stories build on the events that were told in the Destiny trilogy . After the devastating attack by the Borg, the Romulans, the Breen, the Tholians, the Tzenkheti, the Gorn and the Kinshaya come together to form the Typhon Pact, an alliance that is an opposition to the Federation. It is members of the Typhon Pact who destroy the space station Deep Space Nine in the novel Visitation .

The Fall

→ Main article : Star Trek: The Fall

The five-part novel mini-series Star Trek: The Fall was published in English in 2013, builds on the content of the series Typhon Pact and takes place over a 60-day period. The German editions were published by Cross Cult in 2015 and 2016 .

Authors

One of the most famous writers of Star Trek novels is William Shatner , who plays Captain Kirk. He had already gained literary experience in the field of science fiction entertainment with the “Tek” series. The character Kirk is at the center of the action in Shatner's novels.

Most books, on the other hand, are written by more or less established science fiction and fantasy authors. Worth mentioning are Diane Duane (over 40 titles, only a few translated into German), Diane Carey (over 30 titles) and John Vornholt (over 20 titles), as well as Kevin Dilmore , Esther Friesner , Michael Jan Friedman , Keith DeCandido , Heather Jarman , Una McCormack , Nathan Archer , SN Levitt , David R. George , Jeffrey Lang, Kirsten Beyer , Christie Golden , Robert Simpson , SD Perry , Dean Wesley Smith , Judith Reeves-Stevens , Garfield Reeves-Stevens , Dayton Ward , JM Dillard , Jeri Taylor , Simon Hawke , Ann C. Crispin , Andy Mangels , Michael A. Martin , Josepha Sherman, and Margaret Wander Bonanno .

• Some writers of Star Trek novels
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  Peter David

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  Joe Haldeman

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  Alan Dean Foster

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  Jeanne Kalogridis wrote under the pseudonym "JM Dillard"

comics

→ Main article : List of Star Trek comics

Star Trek comics have been published since 1967, initially in the USA . Several hundred new stories have since been published in this form by the three publishers Gold Key , Marvel and, above all, DC . A list of all comics published so far in English can be found on The Complete Star Trek Comics Index , which is part of the website of the US publisher Hasslein Books . In the German-speaking laid Coral , Condor , Ehapa , Hethke , Gabor and Panini some of these publications.

In the case of comics, there is a special restriction on the drawing of the characters, as the appearance of an actor may not be reproduced without his consent.

Other works of fiction

• Ira Steven Behr : The acquisition rules of Ferengi ( Heyne Verlag 1997) contains all acquisition rules of Ferengi
• Ira Steven Behr, Robert Hewitt Wolfe : The Myths and Legends of Ferengi ( Heel Verlag 2000) is a collection of stories and philosophical considerations around the rules of acquisition of the Ferengi
• Michael Jan Friedman : Starfleet: Year One (Pocket Books 2002) is a book that combines stories, one of which - beginning in 1999 with the novel The First Virtue - has appeared on the back of Star Trek novels.
• Dean Wesley Smith : Star Trek Voyager presents Captain Proton: Defender of the Earth (Pocket Books 1999) is an anthology of stories set in 1939.
• Klingon Language Institute (ed.): Der Klingonische Hamlet ( Cross Cult 2015) - Klingon and German version of William Shakespeare's play Hamlet
• Within the playbook series Which Way Books , the pocket books imprint Archway Books also published two Star Trek books: Voyage to Adventure (No. 15, 1984, by Michael J. Dodge) and Phaser Fight (No. 24, 1986 , by Barbara and Scott Siegel)

literature

• Ralph Sander : The Star Trek Universe . 3rd edition, 2 volumes, Heyne, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-453-07759-8 . Two additional volumes: Volume 3, 1995, ISBN 3-453-07760-1 ; Volume 4, 1998, ISBN 3-453-13370-6
• Mike Hillenbrand , Thomas Höhl : Star Trek in Germany. "How Captain Kirk came to Germany" . Heel Verlag, Königswinter 2008, ISBN 978-3-86852-006-4 , p. 400 ff.
• Karen Raugust: Star Trek: Celebrating 35 Years , in: Publishers Weekly, August 23, 2001
• Karen Raugust: Star Trek Publishing Program Moves at Warp Speed , in: Publishers Weekly, May 24, 2013
• Karen Raugust: For Star Trek Books, the Voyage Shows No Sign of Stopping , in: Publishers Weekly, July 8, 2016

To the novels and short stories:

• Jeff Ayers: Voyages of Imagination. The Star Trek Fiction Companion , Pocket Books, New York 2006, ISBN 978-1-4165-0349-1
• Alva Underwood: Star Trek: Reader's Reference , AuthorHouse, Bloomington
  • 1970–1979: 2002, ISBN 0-7596-3596-X
  • 1980–1983: 2002, ISBN 1-4033-2464-6
  • 1984–1985: 2004, ISBN 1-4184-8400-8
  • 1986–1987: 2006, ISBN 1-4259-3795-0
  • 1988-1989 (Vol. 5): 2008, ISBN 1-4343-5030-4
  • 1990-1991 (Vol. 6): 2009, ISBN 1-4490-2270-7
  • 1992-1993 (Vol. 7): 2010, ISBN 1-4634-4781-7
  • 1994–1996 (Vol. 8): 2012, ISBN 1-4772-7510-X
• Julian Wangler (Ed.): Maximum Warp. The guide through the Star Trek novel worlds , Cross Cult, Ludwigsburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-86425-199-3

To the comics:

• Joseph F. Berenato (Ed.): New Life and New Civilizations: Exploring Star Trek Comics , Sequart Organization, Edwardsville 2014, ISBN 978-1-940589-05-3
• Julian Darius: The British Star Trek , in: Sequart Organization, May 15, 2013
• Graeme McMillan: How 'Star Trek' Accidentally Created the Marvel Model 20 Years Earlier , in: The Hollywood Reporter, September 6, 2016
• Peter Osteried: Almost 50 years of STAR TREK-Comics , in: Comic.de from August 1, 2016
• Alan J. Porter: Star Trek: A Comics History , Hermes Press, Timonium 2009, ISBN 1-932563-35-0
• A Navigational Guide To 45 Years Of 'Star Trek' Comics , in: ComicsAlliance, ca 2013

Web links

• The Complete Star Trek Comics Index , by Rich Handley
• Publishers
  • Cross Cult
  • Heyne
• List of German-language Star Trek novels in the Star Trek Wiki Memory Alpha
  • Playlist of novels for The Next Century on Star Trek Wiki Memory Alpha
  • List of titles from Deep Space Nine novels on Star Trek Wiki Memory Alpha
• Information in the Star Trek Wiki Memory Beta :
  • Star Trek: The Next Generation (Pocket)
  • Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (Pocket)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ralph Sander: The Star Trek Universe. 2nd Edition. Munich, Heyne, 1990. p. 407
2. ↑ Ralph Sander: The Star Trek Universe. 3rd edition, volume 2. Heyne Verlag, Munich 1993, p. 283ff.