Star Trek: The Next Generation
Original Novels: 1991-1995
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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 RELEASES
UK (Region 2 / PAL)

United States (Region 1 / NTSC)
Star Trek: The Next Generation — Fortune's Light

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by Michael Jan Friedman
  • USA
  • Paperback
  • Pocket Books
  • 1991
  • Book Number: #15
Other Editions
Cover image needed UK / Paperback / Titan Books / 1991 / 15
Star Trek: The Next Generation — Contamination

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by John Vornholt
  • USA
  • Paperback
  • Pocket Books
  • 1991
  • Book Number: #16
Other Editions
Cover image needed UK / Paperback / Titan Books / 1991 / 16
Star Trek: The Next Generation — Vendetta

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by Peter David
  • USA
  • Paperback
  • Pocket Books
  • 1991
Other Editions
UK / Paperback / Titan Books / 1991
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Back Cover Blurb — Titan Books
The Borg — half organic being and half machine, they are the most feared race in the known galaxy. In their relentless quest for technological perfection, they have destroyed entire star systems, enslaved countless peoples, and, in a single brutal attack, decimated Starfleet's mightiest vessels. Only a final desperate gambit by Captain Picard and the Enterprise crew stopped the Borg from conquering the entire Federation. And now they have returned...

VENDETTA In the bestselling tradition of METAMORPHOSIS, here is the newest STAR TREK Giant Novel, a story of vengeance and obsession.

Answering a distress call from a planet under attack by the Borg, the Enterprise meets Declara, the lone survivor of an alien race the Borg obliterated. Blinded by hatred, Declara seeks the ultimate revenge — the complete destruction of her race's executioners. But the Enterprise crew learns that Declara's vengeance carries a terrible price, for once unleashed, the destructive force she commands will annihilate not only the Borg, but countless innocents as well...
Notes
  • The Japanese edition of the book was split into two volumes.
  • Vendetta is one of the few books to feature the Borg. The others being the novelisation of the two-part Next Generation story Descent, the novelisation of the final Voyager episode Endgame, and The Return, the second novel by William Shatner.
Star Trek: The Next Generation — Boogeymen

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by Mel Gilden
  • USA
  • Paperback
  • Pocket Books
  • 1991
  • Book Number: #17
Other Editions
UK / Paperback / Titan Books / 1991 / 17
Back Cover Blurb — Titan Books
Eric Baldwin is the Federation's premier exologist, a specialist in all manner of alien life forms — and one of Captain Picard's oldest, most trusted friends. But Baldwin's discoveries have made him enemies across the galaxy, and now he wants Picard to help protect him by erasing all traces of his existence.

But Picard soon finds himself with little time to worry about Baldwin's problems. For the Enterprise has suddenly become a strange, dangerous place — a ship where assassins lurk around every corner, and even old trusted friends are not what they seem. Threats all masterminded by the strangest race of aliens Picard and his crew have yet encountered...
Star Trek: The Next Generation — Q-in-Law

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by Peter David
  • USA
  • Paperback
  • Pocket Books
  • 1991
  • Book Number: #18
Other Editions
UK / Paperback / Titan Books / 1991 / 18
Cover image needed Japan / Paperback / Hayakawa Bunko / 1991
Back Cover Blurb — Titan Books
When two powerful rival families of the spacefaring merchant race called the Tizarin are to be joined through marriage, the USS Enterprise is chosen as the site for the wedding. Though Captain Picard is pleased by the happy duty, his pleasure is cut short by the arrival of the Federation delegate from Betazed: Lwaxana Troi — the mother of ship's counselor, Deanna Troi.

Despite Lwaxana Troi's romantic overtures toward the captain, the celebration seems to go smoothly until the situation is further complicated by the arrival of the notorious and all powerful being called Q — who has come to examine and challenge the human concept of love. Suddenly, the festivities are in turmoil, the powerful Tizarin families are on the verge of war, and Lwaxana Troi is determined to teach Q a lesson in love that he will never forget...
Star Trek: The Next Generation — Reunion

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by Michael Jan Friedman
  • USA
  • Hardback
  • Pocket Books
  • 1991
Other Editions
USA / Paperback / Pocket Books / 1992
Cover image needed UK / Paperback / Pocket Books / 1993
Notes
  • Reunion features the crew of the USS StargazerPicard's first command. The adventures of the Stargazer later formed the basis for a seperate series of books, details of which can be found on the Stargazer page.
  • Reunion was also included in the Stargazer: Pantheon omnibus.
Star Trek: The Next Generation — Perchance to Dream

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by Michael Jan Friedman
  • USA
  • Paperback
  • Pocket Books
  • 1992
  • Book Number: #19
Other Editions
Cover image needed UK / Paperback / Titan Books / 1991 / 19
Star Trek: The Next Generation — Spartacus

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by TL Mancour
  • USA
  • Paperback
  • Pocket Books
  • 1992
  • Book Number: #20
Other Editions
Cover image needed UK / Paperback / Titan Books / 1992 / 20
Back Cover Blurb — Pocket Books
Answering a distress call, the U.S.S. Enterprise finds a damaged alien vessel — the Freedom — crewed by a race known as the Vemlans. Their captain, Jared, asks for assistance in repairing his ship — assistance Picard and the U.S.S. Enterprise are only too happy to provide. But once begun, their relief efforts are interrupted by the arrival of an entire fleet from Vemla, who claim that Jared and his crew are escaped slaves — and their property!

As Jared and his people plea for protection and the right to be free, Captain Picard is caught between the demands of his conscience and the dictates of the Prime Directive. And when the Vemlan fleet threatens to fight if the U.S.S. Enterprise doesn't stand aside, Picard must choose between the safety of his ship...and the annihilation of an entire race.
Star Trek: The Next Generation — Chains of Command

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by WA McCay & EL Flood
  • USA
  • Paperback
  • Pocket Books
  • 1992
  • Book Number: #21
Other Editions
UK / Paperback / Titan Books / 1992 / 21
Back Cover Blurb — Pocket Books
While exploring a group of devastated class-M planets in a remote sector of space, the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise is shocked to discover a group of human slaves on a forbidding, glacial world. When the slaves revolt against their human overseers, Captain Picard and his crew sympathize with the slaves plight but cannot interfere in the conflict.

After the revolt is a success, Captain Picard learns that both the slaves and the overseers were controlled by a mysterious bird-like race called the Tseetsk, who are coming to reclaim their property. With time running out, the rebels kidnap Captain Picard and Counsellor Troi — drawing the U.S.S. Enterprise into the middle of their deadly plan of vengeance.
Star Trek: The Next Generation — Imbalance

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by VE Mitchell
  • USA
  • Paperback
  • Pocket Books
  • 1992
  • Book Number: #22
Other Editions
Cover image needed UK / Paperback / Titan Books / 1992 / 22
Star Trek: The Next Generation — Imzadi

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by Peter David
  • USA
  • Hardback
  • Pocket Books
  • 1992
Other Editions
Cover image needed USA / Paperback / Pocket Books / 1993
UK / Paperback / Pocket Books / 1993
Back Cover Blurb — Pocket Books Edition (UK)
The long awaited novel that takes the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise from the outer limits of time and space to the inner reaches of the human heart.

Years before they served together on board the U.S.S. Enterprise, Commander William Riker and ship's counselor Deanna Troi had a tempestuous love affair on her home planet of Betazed. Now their passions have cooled, yet memories of that time linger and Riker and Troi remain Imzadi — a powerful Betazoid term that describes the enduring bond they still share.

When Deanna Troi mysteriously falls ill and dies, her death is only the beginning of the adventure for Commander Riker — an adventure that will take him across time, pit him against one of his closest friends, and force him to choose between Starfleet's strictest rule and the one he calls Imzadi.
Notes
Star Trek: The Next Generation — War Drums

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by John Vornholt
  • USA
  • Paperback
  • Pocket Books
  • 1992
  • Book Number: #23
Other Editions
Cover image needed UK / Paperback / Titan Books / 1992 / 23
Star Trek: The Next Generation — Nightshade

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by Laurell K Hamilton
  • USA
  • Paperback
  • Pocket Books
  • 1992
  • Book Number: #24
Other Editions
Cover image needed UK / Paperback / Titan Books / 1992 / 24
Star Trek: The Next Generation — Grounded

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by David Bischoff
  • USA
  • Paperback
  • Pocket Books
  • 1993
  • Book Number: #25
Other Editions
UK / Paperback / Titan Books / 1993 / 25
Back Cover Blurb — Titan Books
While answering a distress call from a scientific station in a remote part of the galaxy, the Starship Enterprise becomes infected with a mysterious alien life form. The U.S.S. Enterprise begins to gradually disintegrate, and Starfleet is forced to order its evacuation and destruction to prevent the dangerous infection from spreading throughout the galaxy. It's the end of an era for Captain Picard and his crew, who are scheduled for transfers that will split them up among different Starfleet vessels.

Captain Picard begins to formulate a desperate plan to save his ship and preserve his crew — a plan that will force him to defy Starfleet orders and lead him to a confrontation with a malevolent alien force which has the power to destroy the entire Federation.
Star Trek: The Next Generation — The Devil's Heart

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by Carmen Carter
  • USA
  • Hardback
  • Pocket Books
  • 1993
Other Editions
USA / Paperback / Pocket Books / 1994
Star Trek: The Next Generation — The Romulan Prize

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by Simon Hawke
  • USA
  • Paperback
  • Pocket Books
  • 1993
  • Book Number: #26
Other Editions
Cover image needed UK / Paperback / Titan Books / 1993 / 26
Back Cover Blurb — Titan Books
Hermeticus 2 — a planet so shrouded in secrecy that few in the Federation even know of its existence. When a Romulan spy learns of the world, it becomes the centrepiece of a far-reaching Romulan plan to claim Hereticus 2 as their won.

On routine patrol near the border of the Neutral Zone, the Starship Enterprise discovers an advanced Romulan Warbird prototype drifting lifeless in space. Investigating the vessel, Captain Picard is drawn into a plot that threatens the very foundation of the Federation. Now, with time running out, Captain Picard and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise must stop the Romulans before the deadly secret of Hermeticus 2 overwhelms them all.
Star Trek: The Next Generation — Guises of the Mind

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by Rebecca Neason
  • USA
  • Paperback
  • Pocket Books
  • 1993
  • Book Number: #27
Other Editions
UK / Paperback / Titan Books / 1993 / 27
Star Trek: The Next Generation — Here There Be Dragons

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by John Peel
  • USA
  • Paperback
  • Pocket Books
  • 1993
  • Book Number: #28
Other Editions
UK / Paperback / Titan Books / 1993 / 28
Notes
  • Here There Be Dragons was the final Next Generation novel to be published in the UK by Titan. All future releases were merely copies of the US books with a sticker across the US price and barcode — these are therefore not noted as seperate UK releases.
Star Trek: The Next Generation — Dark Mirror

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by Diane Duane
  • USA
  • Hardback
  • Pocket Books
  • 1993
Other Editions
USA / Paperback / Pocket Books / 1994
Back Cover Blurb — Pocket Books Edition (1994)
Stardate 44010.2: the twenty-fourth century.

One hundred years ago, four crewmembers of the U.S.S Enterprise crossed the dimensional barrier and found a mirror image of their own universe, populated by nightmare duplicates of their shipmates. Barely able to escape with their lives, they returned, thankful that the accident that brought them there could not be duplicated — or so they thought.

But now the scientists of that empire have found a doorway into our universe. Their plan: to destroy from within, to replace one of our Starships with one of theirs. Their victims: the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D, who now find themselves engaged in combat against the most savage enemies they have ever encountered...themselves.
Notes
  • The Mirror universe was first seen in the episode Mirror, Mirror way back in 1967 — novelised in Star Trek 3. Deep Space Nine followed up on the idea in the episodes Crossover, Through the Looking Glass, Shattered Mirror, Resurrection and The Emperor's New Cloak. More recently Enterprise has turned to the subject with the two-part story In a Mirror, Darkly.
  • See also the two-book Dark Passions series which is also set in the Mirror universe.
Star Trek: The Next Generation — Sins of Commission

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by Susan Wright
  • USA
  • Paperback
  • Pocket Books
  • 1994
  • Book Number: #29
Star Trek: The Next Generation — Debtor's Planet

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by WR Thompson
  • USA
  • Paperback
  • Pocket Books
  • 1994
  • Book Number: #30
Star Trek: The Next Generation — Q-Squared

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by Peter David
  • USA
  • Hardback
  • Pocket Books
  • 1994
Other Editions
USA / Paperback / Pocket Books / 1995
Back Cover Blurb — Pocket Books Edition (1995)
In all of his travels, Captain Jean-Luc Picard has never faced an opponent more powerful than Q, a being from another continuum that Picard encountered on his very first mission as Captain of the Starship Enterprise. In the years since, Q has returned again and again to harass Picard and his crew. Sometimes dangerous, sometimes merely obnoxious, Q has always been mysterious and seemingly all-powerful.

But this time, when Q appears, he comes to Picard for help. Apparently another member of the Q continuum has tapped into an awesome power source that makes this being more powerful than the combined might of the entire Q continuum. This renegade Q is named Trelane — also known as the Squire of Gothos, who Captain Kirk and his crew first encountered over one hundred years ago. Q explains that, armed with this incredible power, Trelane has become unspeakably dangerous.

Now Picard must get involved in an awesome struggle between super beings. And this time the stakes are not just Picard's ship, or the galaxy, or even the universe — this time the stakes are all of creation....
Notes
  • The Squire of Gothos was novelised by James Blish as part of Star Trek 11.
Star Trek: The Next Generation — Foreign Foes

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by Greg Brodeur
  • USA
  • Paperback
  • Pocket Books
  • 1994
  • Book Number: #31
Star Trek: The Next Generation — Requiem

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by Michael Jan Friedman & Kevin Ryan
  • USA
  • Paperback
  • Pocket Books
  • 1994
  • Book Number: #32
Star Trek: The Next Generation — Balance of Power

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by Dafydd ab Hugh
  • USA
  • Paperback
  • Pocket Books
  • 1994
  • Book Number: #33
Star Trek: The Next Generation — Blaze of Glory

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by Simon Hawke
  • USA
  • Paperback
  • Pocket Books
  • 1995
  • Book Number: #34
Star Trek: The Next Generation — The Romulan Stratagem

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by Robert Greenberger
  • USA
  • Paperback
  • Pocket Books
  • 1995
  • Book Number: #35
Star Trek: The Next Generation — Into the Nebula

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by Gene DeWeese
  • USA
  • Paperback
  • Pocket Books
  • 1995
  • Book Number: #36
Star Trek: The Next Generation — The Last Stand

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by Brad Ferguson
  • USA
  • Paperback
  • Pocket Books
  • 1995
  • Book Number: #37
Star Trek: The Next Generation — Crossover

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by Michael Jan Friedman
  • USA
  • Hardback
  • Pocket Books
  • 1995
Other Editions
USA / Paperback / Pocket Books / 1996
Back Cover Blurb — Pocket Books Edition (1996)
Continuing the mission he began in "Unification", Starfleet Ambassador Spock endeavors to impart the logic of the Vulcan way to a small band of Romulans eager to unite the Romulan Empire and the planet Vulcan. But unbeknownst to them, a Romulan spy has joined the ranks disguised as a Unification sympathizer. Deceived by this traitor, Spock and his students are taken hostage.

Fearful that Spock's knowledge of Federation security will fall into enemy hands, Starfleet dispatches its best ship, the U.S.S. Enterprise 1701-D, and most respected captain, Jean-Luc Picard, to secure the hostages' release. Spock's former shipmate from the original Starship Enterprise, Ambassador McCoy — over one hundred forty years old, but still as feisty as ever — is brought in to consult on the negotiations.

Their situation is further complicated when Captain Montgomery Scott confiscates an out-of-service starship and effects his own daring rescue of Spock. Picard must now find a way to preserve the Federation's security and prevent a war while treading a minefield of danger and deadly Romulan politics that threaten his ship, his crew, and the Federation he serves.