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, […]

by Sondra Marshak & Myrna Culbreath Captain’s Personal Log.  Dear Log:  I love Spock sooooo much.  He is my best BFF forever. I would die for him.  He would die for me.  Couldn’t you just die? LOL This book picks up immediately after the prior one ends.  And carries on just as insufferably, just as incomprehensibly, just as self-importantly, as the first one. But without the slash scenes, so you don’t even have that to help you get through it. I have no clue at […]

by Sondra Marshak & Myrna Culbreath I knew it was gonna be bad.  But I didn’t know it was gonna be this bad. I read the two “Phoenix” books out of publishing order and saved them for the last of the Bantam books because I recalled that they took place one right after the other and I didn’t like them.  I remember reading these books as a teen and thinking I just wasn’t knowledgeable enough to understand. I thought since I’d never read philosophy or […]

by Kathleen Sky, author of “Vulcan!” “Colonel Schaeffer…slid down the side of her craft and removed her helmet.  She turned to face the three officers, and Kirk felt a wave of panic strike him.  It was as though her very appearance was a physical blow.  Elizabeth Schaeffer was easily the most beautiful woman James Kirk had ever seen in his life.  She stood as tall as he was, her body slender and delicately made.  Her complexion was the delicate pink of angelskin coral, and even […]