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Star Trek The Next Generation Books in Order

Explore Star Trek: The Next Generation books by James Swallow in order, with summaries, background, and reading guidance.

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Geordi La Forge and Montgomery Scott join the Challenger's crew to investigate a technological mystery dating back two centuries. With Guinan and Nog's help, their search becomes increasingly personal as old allies and enemies complicate the undertaking.

The Stuff of Dreams

by James Swallow

2013

The Doctor faces a mystery where imagination, danger, and reality start to blur. It is a compact Doctor Who adventure built around an eerie premise and the Doctor's refusal to let fear win.

Picard and Beverly Crusher finally recount what really happened at their supposedly quiet wedding. Q's intrusion as self-appointed best man turns the occasion into an adventure involving an unwelcome guest, legendary treasure, and a lost Delta Quadrant civilization.

The Light Fantastic

by Various

2014

Having returned to life and revived his daughter Lal, Data attempts to build a future outside Starfleet. The holographic Professor Moriarty disrupts those plans, demanding an android body and manipulating Data to secure a permanent physical existence.

Takedown

by Various

2015

Renegade Federation vessels wreak destruction, and Picard discovers his former first officer Riker apparently directing them from the Aventine. Facing Ezri Dax's faster starship, the Enterprise must uncover the truth before other powers retaliate against the Federation.

Headlong Flight

by Various

2017

Worf's away team becomes stranded on a rogue planet that repeatedly jumps between dimensions after an experiment fails. Picard seeks a way to rescue them as alien scientists struggle to break the cycle and other parties take notice.

Hearts and Minds

by Various

2017

Picard's Enterprise encounters a world recovering from nuclear war, then receives a warning that its history is more complicated than it appears. The investigation intersects with a secret encounter between Earth authorities and alien refugees in 2031.

Available Light

by Various

2019

Section 31's exposure implicates Picard in a political scandal just as the Enterprise investigates an ancient spacecraft in the Odyssean Pass. Its importance to an endangered civilization makes the ship a target for marauders with competing plans.

Shadows Have Offended

by Various

2021

While Picard's party faces stolen artifacts during a Betazed ceremony, Riker, Data, and Crusher investigate a disaster at a remote science station. Failing equipment and a growing medical emergency leave Crusher racing to identify the danger without rescue.

The second Coda novel pushes the Star Trek literary continuity toward its end as timelines collapse and allies divide. It is best read after Moments Asunder and with some wider Trek novel background.

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