Star Trek: The Next Generation
Original Novels: 1988-1990
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STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION
60 Minute Drama
Science Fiction

ORIGINAL TRANSMISSION
1987 — 1994

BROADCASTER
N/A (Syndicated)

SEASONS / EPISODES
7 Seasons / 176 Episodes
4 Movies

DVD / BLU-RAY RELEASES
UK (Region 2 / PAL)

United States (Region 1 / NTSC)
Star Trek: The Next Generation — Ghost Ship

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by Diane Carey
  • USA
  • Paperback
  • Pocket Books
  • 1988
  • Book Number: #1
Other Editions
UK / Paperback / Titan Books / 1988 / 1
Back Cover Blurb — Pocket Books
1995: A mysterious creature destroys a Russian aircraft carrier — and just as mysteriously, disappears...

And three hundred years later, Counsellor Deanna Troi awakens in her quarters from a nightmare, a nightmare where she senses (and understands) the voices of the crew lost aboard that ship, a crew whose life essences were somehow absorbed within the creature that destroyed their ship long ago.

Now, Picard must find a way to communicate with the creature — or he and his crew will be similarly absorbed by the "ghost ship"!

Back Cover Blurb — Titan Books
1995: A mysterious creature destroys a Russian aircraft carrier — and just as mysteriously, disappears...

And three hundred years later, Counsellor Deanna Troi awakens in her quarters from a nightmare, a nightmare where she senses — and understands — the voice of the crew lost aboard that ship, a crew whose life-essences were somehow absorbed within the creature that destroyed their ship long ago.

Now, Picard must find a way to communicate with the creature — or he and his crew will be similarly absorbed by the 'ghost ship'!
Star Trek: The Next Generation — The Peacekeepers

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by Gene DeWeese
  • USA
  • Paperback
  • Pocket Books
  • 1988
  • Book Number: #2
Other Editions
Cover image needed UK / Paperback / Titan Books / 1988 / 2
Back Cover Blurb — Pocket Books
Exploring a deserted alien spaceship, Lt. Commander Data and Lt. Geordi LaForge suddenly find themselves transported light-years away — into the middle of a deadly conflict! When Captain Picard and the crew of the Enterprise search fevereshly for the missing crewmen, Data and LaForge discover they are in a station almost identical to the one they were exploring, high in orbit around an Earth-type world. Years before, the occupants of that planet accidentally stumbled onto the ship and its advanced technology — and since then, have used its weapons to keep the nations on the planet below disarmed, and at peace.

Now their own arrival has precipitated a crisis on the station. Somehow, Data and LaForge must find a way to restore trust between the planet below and the station's guardians up above — before a final, destructive war breaks out!
Star Trek: The Next Generation — The Children of Hamlin

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by Carmen Carter
  • USA
  • Paperback
  • Pocket Books
  • 1988
  • Book Number: #3
Other Editions
UK / Paperback / Titan Books / 1988 / 3
Back Cover Blurb — Pocket Books
The Hamlin Massacre — every Starfleet officer knows the tale. The tiny Federation outpost of Hamlin was destroyed, its entire adult population ruthlessly slaughtered, before the first defense shields could be raised. Even worse, the colony's children disappeared without trace, abducted by the aliens who attacked with a ferocity and speed that outmatched their Starfleet pursuers.

Now, fifty years later, the Choraii ships have appeared again. But this time the Federation is ready; this time the Choraii must pay for what they need. The precious metals can only be bought with the Hamlin children still living with their captors.

This time, the Choraii must face Captain Jean-Luc Picard — and the crew of the starship Enterprise...
Star Trek: The Next Generation — Survivors

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by Jean Lorrah
  • USA
  • Paperback
  • Pocket Books
  • 1989
  • Book Number: #4
Other Editions
Cover image needed UK / Paperback / Titan Books / 1989 / 4
Back Cover Blurb — Pocket Books
Treva — a human colony on the fringes of known space. Isolated from the rest of the galaxy, at last report they were on the verge of becoming a true interstellar community — a full fledged member of the Federation. But now the Enterprise has received a distress signal. Treva is in the throes of a violent revolution, a revolution led by a merciless warlord who has committed countless atrocities in the name of freedom.

Data and Lt. Tasha Yar are dispatched to investigate. But once they reach Treva, they discover the truth — and any possible solution — may be far more complex than a simple rebellion. For Treva's president wants more then Starfleet's good words in her fight against the rebels.

She wants their weapons. And before the battle is over, she means to get them. Over Data's and Yar's dead bodies, if necessary.
Star Trek: The Next Generation — Strike Zone

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by Peter David
  • USA
  • Paperback
  • Pocket Books
  • 1989
  • Book Number: #5
Other Editions
UK / Paperback / Titan Books / 1989 / 5
Back Cover Blurb — Titan Books
Deep in the uncharted regions of our galaxy, a primitive, warlike race — the Cantovs — have stumbled upon weapons powerful beyond their wildest imaginings. The Cantovs have used those weapons to attack their most bitter enemies — the Klingons.

Now Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise have been called in to mediate the dispute. The Enterprise will ferry diplomatic teams from the two warring races to the source of their conflict — the mysterious planet where the weapons were discovered — in an attempt to find a peaceful solution to the conflict, and discover the origins of the super-powerful weapons.

Before the entire galaxy erupts into full-scale war.
Notes
  • Rather bizarrely, the Cantovs, as mentioned on the back cover blurb of the Titan Books edition, are actually named the Kreel between the covers, and are named as such on the blurb for the Pocket Books edition.
Star Trek: The Next Generation — Power Hungry

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by Howard Weinstein
  • USA
  • Paperback
  • Pocket Books
  • 1989
  • Book Number: #6
Other Editions
Cover image needed UK / Paperback / Titan Books / 1989 / 6
Back Cover Blurb — Pocket Books
Sent to deliver emergency famine relief to the planet Thiopa — the Federation's only allies in a critically important sector of space — the crew finds a brutal dictatorship — one more concerned with preserving its own powers than protecting its citizens, or the world they all share. Captain Picard is hesitant about turning over the supplies to the corrupt government; he fears they may never reach their intended destination. But can he convince the ruling council to change their ways, before it is too late — for the government, and Thiopa itself?
Star Trek: The Next Generation — Masks

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by John Vornholt
  • USA
  • Paperback
  • Pocket Books
  • 1989
  • Book Number: #7
Other Editions
UK / Paperback / Titan Books / 1989 / 7
Back Cover Blurb — Pocket Books
The Enterprise journeys to Lorca, a beautiful world with a feudal culture where the inhabitants wear masks to show their rank and station. There, Captain Picard and an away team don masks of their own to begin a quest for the planet's ruler and the great Wisdom Mask that the leader traditionally wears. Their mission: to establish diplomatic relations.

But shortly after transporting, Picard and his party lose contact with the ship, and Commander Riker leads a search party down to the planet to find them.

Both men, however, are unaware that their searches — indeed, the ship's entire mission — are part of a madman's plan. A madman who is setting the stage for a trap that will ensnare both Enterprise landing parties, and leave him poised to seize control of the awesome Wisdom Mask...

And the planet Lorca itself.
Star Trek: The Next Generation — The Captains' Honor

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by David and Daniel Dvorkin
  • USA
  • Paperback
  • Pocket Books
  • 1989
  • Book Number: #8
Other Editions
The Captains' Honour
UK / Paperback / Titan Books / 1989 / 8
Back Cover Blurb — Titan Books
A series of vicious attacks by the enigmatic M'Dok Empire has devestated the planet Tenara — bringing the Enterprise and another Federation Starship, the Centurion, to the planet's aid. The Centurion's captain is Lucius Sejanus — a powerful, magnetic man who favours taking a far more aggressive stance against the M'Dok than Captain Picard. And as the conflict escalates, Sejanus's instincts seem to be correct...for it appears only violence will be able to stop the murderous raids on Tenara.

Now the people of Tenara must decide which path they will follow -the way of peace, or the road to war. But unknown to any, one of the Centurion's officers has made that decision for them — and plans to provoke a full-scale war between the Federation and the M'Dok Empire!
Star Trek: The Next Generation — A Call to Darkness

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by Michael Jan Friedman
  • USA
  • Paperback
  • Pocket Books
  • 1989
  • Book Number: #9
Other Editions
Cover image needed UK / Paperback / Titan Books / 1989 / 9
Star Trek: The Next Generation — A Rock and a Hard Place

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by Peter David
  • USA
  • Paperback
  • Pocket Books
  • 1990
  • Book Number: #10
Other Editions
UK / Paperback / Titan Books / 1990 / 10
Back Cover Blurb — Titan Books
Under the best circumstances, terraforming is a tough, dangerous task that pits the hardiest of pioneers against an unforgiving environment. When the terraformers on the planet Paradise fall behind schedule, Commander Riker is given temporary leave from the Enterprise and sent to assist.

Riker's replacement on the Enterprise is a volatile officer named Stone whose behavior soon raises questions about his ability and his judgment. Meanwhile, Commander Riker has become enmeshed in a life and death struggle with Paradise's brutal landscape. However, he soon learns that not all of the planet's dangers are natural in origin — as he comes face to face with Paradise's greatest danger and most hideous secret...
Star Trek: The Next Generation — Metamorphosis

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by Jean Lorrah
  • USA
  • Paperback
  • Pocket Books
  • 1990
Other Editions
UK / Paperback / Titan Books / 1990
Back Cover Blurb — Titan Books
It's an all-new crew — an all-new starship — but the same STAR TREK magic that has thrilled audiences for almost twenty-five years! Now join Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the men and women of the starship Enterprise for their most challenging, exciting mission yet!...

METAMORPHOSIS

In the bestselling tradition of STRANGERS FROM THE SKY and FINAL FRONTIER, comes another epic STAR TREK adventure — a sweeping saga of transformation and tragedy.

Unexplained gravitational disturbances summon the Enterprise to the planet Elysia, and the android Lieutenant Commander Data to a date with destiny. For on this alien world, he will be drawn into an impossible quest, leading him to consequences both heartwarming and disastrous, as he finally dares to pursue his fondest desire: to become human.
Star Trek: The Next Generation — Gulliver's Fugitives

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by Keith Sharee
  • USA
  • Paperback
  • Pocket Books
  • 1990
  • Book Number: #11
Other Editions
UK / Paperback / Titan Books / 1990 / 11
Star Trek: The Next Generation — Doomsday World

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by Carmen Carter, Peter David, Michael Jan Friedman and Robert Greenberger
  • USA
  • Paperback
  • Pocket Books
  • 1990
  • Book Number: #12
Other Editions
UK / Paperback / Titan Books / 1990 / 12
Back Cover Blurb — Titan Books
The planet Kirlos — an artificial world, now home to many races from both the Federation and the K'vin Hegemony, who have enjoyed years of peaceful co-existence and profitable trade. The planet also hold a wealth of undiscovered archaeological treasures, which the Enterprise and its crew are dispatched to help uncover.

Sent to the surface to assist an archaeological team, Geordi, Data, and Worf are imprisoned, relations between the K'vin and the Federation begin to crumble, and Kirlos' ancient underground machinery awakens from a centuries-long dormancy, primed to release the most powerful destructive force ever known.

This is a very special STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION story — the product of a first-ever collaboration between four of STAR TREK's most popular and respected writers.
Star Trek: The Next Generation — The Eyes of the Beholders

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by AC Crispin
  • USA
  • Paperback
  • Pocket Books
  • 1990
  • Book Number: #13
Other Editions
Cover image needed UK / Paperback / Titan Books / 1990 / 13
Back Cover Blurb — Pocket Books
After several Federation and Klingon ships disappear while traveling a newly opened trade route, the Enterprise is sent to investigate. Their quest leads Captain Picard and his crew to an eerie space graveyard full of ships of every size and description — all of them, dead in space.

At the center of the graveyard lies a huge, incredibly powerful Artifact, constructed by an ancient alien race. And as the crew struggles to solve the mystery of the Artifact, they unwittingly trigger its awesome power, a power that threatens insanity and death to all aboard the Starship Enterprise!
Star Trek: The Next Generation — Exiles

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by Howard Weinstein
  • USA
  • Paperback
  • Pocket Books
  • 1990
  • Book Number: #14
Other Editions
UK / Paperback / Titan Books / 1990 / 14
Back Cover Blurb — Pocket Books
For three centuries the people of Alaj and the people of Etolos have been bitter enemies. However, when crippling disasters strike both worlds, each planet becomes the other's only hope for survival.

With time running out, Captain Picard and his crew are called to negotiate a peaceful settlement and begin rescue efforts. But some factions would rather see both planets perish and will stop at nothing to prevent peace.

Soon the Enterprise crew is caught up in a web of intrigue and terrorism that culminates with an act of ultimate revenge against both peoples — revenge that will mean the destruction of two worlds and the Enterprise!