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The Next Generation
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Period H
 
 
Select another time period.
 
 
  TNG period A   Events preceding the launching of the Enterprise-D
  TNG period B   Year 1 --  Picard and crew set out on the Enterprise-D. 
  TNG period C   Year 2 --  Q brings the Borg in contact with the Federation. 
  TNG period D   Year 3 --  Picard is assimilated by the Borg. 

  TNG period E   Year 4 --  Yar's Romulan daughter incites a Klingon civil war. 
  TNG period F   Year 5 --  Picard encounters Spock in the Romulan Empire. 
  TNG period G   Year 6 --  The Federation takes control of Deep Space Nine. 
  TNG period H   Year 7 --  Data is subverted by the Borg; Ro Laren joins the Maquis. 

  TNG period I   Year 8 --  Events between last tv episode and Star Trek Generations. 
  TNG period J   Star Trek Generations up to Star Trek: First Contact. 
  TNG period K   Star Trek: First Contact up to Star Trek: Insurrection. 
  TNG period L   Star Trek: Insurrection and beyond.

 
 

 
 
 
The Next Generation
period H
 
 
Year Seven:
 
Data is subverted by Lore and the Borg.
Ro Laren defects to the Maquis.
Last TV episode "All Good Things..."
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Descent 

     Carey, Diane 
               Pocket, 1993 

 
Novelization of the TV episode. Data's brother Lore leads a group of Borg against the Federation, and manages to draw an unstable Data into the conflict on his side.. 
 
 
 
 
Possession 

     Dillard, J.M. & Kathleen O'Malley 
               Pocket, 1996          TNG #40 

sequel to: Demons (TOS period B)

 
The evil sub-atomic beings which infected Kirk and his crew 80 years earlier are accidentally released and attack Picard and the crew of the Enterprise-D
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Sins of Commission 

     Wright, Susan 
               Pocket, 1994          TNG #29 

 
The companions of a murdered telepathic alien wreck havoc on the Enterprise-D in their quest for revenge. 
 
 
 
 
 
The Naked Truth 

     Wolfe, Jerry M., 1998 

 
Barclay and Ro Laren rise to the occasion when an away mission turns disastrous. 

   A short story from  Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

 
 
 
 
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Debtor's Planet 

     Thompson, W. R. 
               Pocket, 1994          TNG #30 

 
On the theory that it takes a thief to catch a thief, the Federation appoints a 20th Century financier (rescued from cryogenic sleep several years earlier) to deal with the Ferengi
 
 
 
 
Dyson Sphere 

     Pellegrino, Charles & George Zebrowski 
               Pocket, 1999 

A "Original Series" crossover novel 

 
A year after rescuing Montgomery Scott,  Picard and the Enterprise-D, accompanied by a starship of Horta scientists, return to explore the Dyson Sphere, only to discover it is in imminent danger of being destroyed.
 
 
 
 
Foreign Foes 

     Galanter, Dave & Greg Brodeur 
               Pocket, 1994          TNG #31 

 
While Troi and an injured Riker struggle to survive after a shuttle crash, Picard has to mediate between deadly enemies the Hidran and the Klingons, and prove Worf innocent of murder. 
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
 
 
Day of Honor   (5-part series encompassing all the TV shows.)  
 
 
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Book 1: Next Generation: Ancient Blood      
  
    Carey, Diane        
               Pocket, 1997
The annual Klingon Day of Honor has Worf searching for a band of rogue Klingons who massacred the passengers and crew of a civilian starship, while Picard teaches young Alexander about honor through a holodeck simulation based on the American Revolutionary War  
 
Book 2: Deep Space Nine: Armageddon Sky      
  
    Graf, L.A.       
               Pocket, 1997        
  
     An "Original Series" crossover novel. 

 

The rituals of the Day of Honor offer Worf and the crew of the Defiant their only means to rescue the crew of a science vessel attacked by the Klingons, and to save a planet from ecological disaster.  
Book 3: Voyager: Her Klingon Soul      
  
    Graf, L. S.       
               Pocket, 1997  
  
 
The Day of Honor always brings bad luck to Lt. Torres, and this holiday is no different--she and Harry Kim are captured by alien slavers and forced to mine radioactive ore. 
 
Book 4: The Original Series: Treaty's Law      
  
    Smith, Dean W. & Kristine K. Rusch       
               Pocket, 1997  
  
 
The origin of the Day of Honor: Kirk and the Enterprise risk destruction by coming to the aid of a Klingon agricultural colony being attacked by unknown aliens. 
Voyager: Day of Honor: The TV Episode     
  
    Friedman, Michael Jan       
               Pocket, 1997 
Novelization of the TV episode. More bad luck for Torres on the Day of Honor--she and Paris are stranded in space and running out of oxygen, forcing them to finally admit their true feelings for each other as they face death.   
                                      see also: VOY period A 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Requiem 

     Friedman, Michael Jan & Kevin Ryan 
               Pocket, 1994          TNG #32 

An "Original Series" crossover novel

 
Picard is hurled back in time to the Federation colony on Cestus Three just prior to the Gorn massacre of the colonists and the intervention by Captain Kirk. A sequel to the original series TV episode "Arena". 
                                    see also: TNG period A1, A2 
 
 
 
 
Balance of Power 

     Dafydd ab Hugh 
               Pocket, 1995          TNG #33 

 
The Federation authorizes Picard to bid for the inventions of a dead scientist, which Geordi insists are nothing but junk.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Blaze of Glory 

     Hawke, Simon 
               Pocket, 1995          TNG #34

 
Riker and Geordi go undercover with a pirate crew preying on Federation shipping. 
 
 
 
 
Into the Nebula 

     DeWeese, Gene 
               Pocket, 1995          TNG #36

 
The Enterprise-D discovers that a planet dying from a mysterious bombardment of pollution has become the waste site for its twin in an alternate universe. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Dragon's Honor 

     Johnson, Kij & Greg Cox 
               Pocket, 1996          TNG #38 

 
A comedy gem with a royal wedding theme. While Crusher comforts the reluctant bride, Troi grapples with her amorous father, gourmet Picard endures the worst food in the galaxy, Riker wins the entire planet in a poker game, Worf hunts for the stolen wedding gifts, and everyone looks for an assassin who could stop the wedding dead.
 
 
 
 
I am Klingon 

     Rand, Ken, 1999 
  
  

 
Worf gives an injured Klingon warrior from the past a chance to die with honor. 
 
   A short story from  Star Trek: Strange New Worlds II 
 
 
 
 
All Good Things... 

     Friedman, Michael Jan 
               Pocket, 1994 

 
Novelization of the last TNG TV episode. Picard is the only hope when the Q decide humanity doesn't deserve to live after all.
 
 
 
 
  

     



 
 
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