The Next Generation Novels

Pocket Books - 2000s

Gemworld: Book 1

Gemworld is an artificial world composed of pure crystals, and Lt. Melora Pazlar of the USS Enterprise receives a telepathic summons that her homeworld is being destroyed by the uncontrolled growth of the crystals.

Gemworld: Book 2

The crew of the Enterprise must trek across the dying crystal planet to convince the chief engineers of the six different races living there that they need to work together to save their planet.

The Valiant

Two humanoids claiming to be descendants of survivors of the S.S. Valiant, which disappeared 300 years earlier beyond the Galactic Barrier arrive at a Starbase; and the USS Stargazer, with a Lt. Commander Jean-Luc Picard aboard is sent to investigate. Here's the story of Captain Picard's first command.

Tooth and Claw

While Captain Picard handles negotiations to try save a planet whose sun is failing, Riker is assigned on a diplimatic mission to accompany the prince of a neighboring planet to a hunting preserve filled with deadly predators.

Diplomatic Implausibility

When the Klingons return to reclaim a planet they had captured 200 years before and later lost to a coup d'etat, Worf is assigned to represent the Federation in negotiations with the rebels controlling the planet.

Maximum Warp: Book 1

An unknown force is disrupting subspace and making warp travel impossible, and Captain Picard and Ambassador Spock must join forces with the Romulans to investigate the problem or interstellar travel and society may cease to exist

Maximum Warp: Book 2

Captain Picard and his Romulan allies discover that an alien device keeping an inhabited planet from falling into a nearby black hole is the cause of the subspace disruption; but can they save subspace without allowing the planet and its inhabitants to be destroyed?

The Genesis Wave: Book 1

Someone has gained access to the top secret Genesis Project and unleashed it on the Alpha Quadrant where it threatens to destroy countless inhabited planets, and Captain Picard and the crew of the Enterprise are sent to try to stop this destructive force.

The Genesis Wave: Book 2

To find a way to stop the destructive Genesis Wave, the Enterprise joins forces with the Klingons and Romulans, and Geordi joins up with Leah Brahms; but Picard and the Enterprise crew also have to find and stop whoever set the Wave in motion in the first place.

The Genesis Wave: Book 3

With the Genesis Wave successfully stopped, the Enterprise must now mend a rip between our dimension and an adjacent one that harbors a deadly threat that could destroy reality itself.

Immortal Coil

Commander Data has always believed himself to be a one-of-a-kind android; but while investigating the destruction of a new android created by Starfleet, Data find secrets about the history of artificial intelligence.

A Hard Rain

The Enterprise is without power and drifting into a dangerous zone of warped space and time, and the solution lies somewhere in the streets of San Francisco in the holographic world of detective Dixon Hill.

The Battle of Betazed

During the Dominion War, Jem'Hadar and Dominion forces have captured Betazed, and now the Enterprise is deployed to carry out a dangerous plan to retake this Federation planet which is the home of Deanna Troi.

Star Trek: Nemesis

Novelization of: Star Trek: Nemesis

Do Comets Dream?

The Enterprise is set to destroy a rogue comet that is headed towards a planet, but the comet is revered as part of the planet's cultural beliefs and ... Counselor Troi senses that the comet is alive!

Genesis Force

Plot summary to come.

A Time to Be Born (Book 1 of 9)

In the time between ST: Insurrection and ST: Nemesis, The Enterprise-E is assigned to patrol the perimeter of an area of space filled with the shipwrecks of the now-ended Dominion War; but the graveyard hides a secret that will lead Data on a path that will endanger the Enterprise and Picard's career.

A Time to Die (Book 2 of 9)

A supposed mission of mercy in the ship graveyard goes wrong, resulting in the destruction of the USS Juno and all her crew; now Enterprise-E's Acting Captain Riker must act to clear the name of Captain Picard, who has been found responsible for the disaster.

A Time to Sow (Book 3 of 9)

The crew of the Enterprise-E discover that the Dokaalans, survivors of a race thought to have been extinct, are fighting to survive on an asteroid, but Enterprise's attempts to assist are hampered by bitter divisions among the Dokaalans.

A Time to Harvest (Book 4 of 9)

As Enterprise's crew continues to help the Dokaalans terraform a nearby planet, acts of sabotage lead to the discovery of an old enemy of the Dokaalans, who are trying to stop their creation of a new homeworld.

A Time to Love (Book 5 of 9)

Will Riker's father, Kyle Riker, finds that a planet that was peacefully colonized by two formerly waring species, faces extinction because of a gas found on the planet; but Kyle Riker may have been responsible for the planet's imminent downfall.

A Time to Hate (Book 6 of 9)

When a supposed solution to the colony planet's problem is introduced into the planet's environment by Kyle Riker, it sets in motion the re-emergence of hostility between the two races; and Captain Picard must find a way to resolve the crisis.

A Time to Kill (Book 7 of 9)

During the Dominion War, the Federation secretly armed the neutral planet Tezwa; now with the War over, the Tezwa's power hungry leader threatens to wage war against the Klingons and, in trying to defuse the situation, Ambassador Worf must choose between his loyalty to Captain Picard and to Chancellor Martok.

A Time to Heal (Book 8 of 9)

With a war between the Federation and Klingons averted and a new government in place on the planet Tezwa, rebels loyal to the old government threaten to involve the Orion Syndicate in their plan to retake the planet, with Will Riker as one of their hostages.

A Time for War, A Time for Peace (Book 9 of 9)

After the Tezwa incident, the Federation's president resigns, forcing new elections and opening the door for rebel forces in the Klingon government to try to overturn the Federation-Klingon alliance, and it will take all of Ambassador Worf's skills to bring a peaceful resolution to the situation; meanwhile, the Enterprise and her crew are subjected to a high-level inspection that will leave them changed forever.

Death in Winter

Captain Picard's secret love, Dr. Beverly Crusher, is declared missing in action and presumed dead; even with this weighing on his mind, Picard must also confront a political crisis brewing on the Romulan homeworld after the demise of Praetor Shinzon.

The Buried Age (A Tale of "The Lost Era")

Following the loss of the USS Stargazer but before taking command of the Enterprise-D, Captain Picard went on a quest to rediscover a buried secret from ancient galactic history, which leads to his meeting with a naive android, an insightful Betazoid, and an enigmatic El-Aurian.

Resistance

With the Enterprise-E repaired after it's battle with Shinzon, Captain Picard must wrestle with replacing two of his most trusted advisers, Commander Riker and Counselor Troi; now he begins to sense the call of the Borg, even though Admiral Janeway assures him that the Borg have been destroyed in the Delta Quadrant.

Q & A

Again in command of the refitted Enterprise-E, Captain Picard remembers when he took command of the Enterprise-D and had to face off against the all-powerful Q at Farpoint; now, banished from the Continuum, Q takes another opportunity to call of Captain Picard.

The Sky's the Limit

A collection of 14 short stories celebrating the 20th anniversary of Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Before Dishonor

Driven to near extinction after the destruction of the transwarp conduits by Captain/Admiral Janeway, the Borg continue to fight to regain their former glory; after another defeat to the Enterprise-E, they assimilate the USS Einstein and turn inward in a way that could be disastrous for the entire galaxy.

Greater Than the Sum

Captain Picard and the Enterprise-E again come face to face with the Borg, in the form of the now-assimilated crew of the USS Einstein. Picard's directive, to keep the Borg from gain access to quantum slipstream technology that would give them instantaneous access to the entire galaxy.

Losing the Peace