by Robert E Vardeman “Stroke the road, Captain.  See how you feel then,’ said the excited Lieutenant.  She knelt down and ran her hands over the velvety roadbed.  Her eyes closed and her entire body shivered as if she had some high fever.  But the expression on her face told that it was no high temperature but stark ecstasy she felt.” The Enterprise is ordered to Alnath II where the Klingon dreadnaught ‘Terror’ is suspected of murdering the innocent crew of a Vulcan science ship. […]

by Gene Roddenberry My self-imposed challenge for Cannonball Read VI is to read all the Star Trek original novels from the first one ever published (in 1970) to the most current.  Realizing this is likely to take years (and several Cannonball Reads!), I set up some parameters for myself: only original, full-length novels licensed and published by a professional publishing house.  No short-story collections, no manuals, no novelizations.  I only want to consider original works by professional writers. Which brings us to “Star Trek: The […]

by Dayton Ward,  2014 This is the fifth and final novel in the Star Trek: The Fall Series.  After the mind-, heart-, and spirit-breaking  “Phoenix” novels, I decided I needed to take a break from early Star Trek novel writing.  Also, I received this in the mail and I cannot resist either packages or new books. Geoffrey on Goodreads writes, “To a large degree, it … feels like the conclusion of a major story arc that began with the final Borg invasion of the Federation, […]