Star Trek: The Next Generation (Simon Hawke) Books in Order

Simon Hawke wrote two Star Trek: The Next Generation novels, The Romulan Prize and Blaze of Glory, and they make a useful pair because they show two different strengths inside the same license. One leans into border tension, secrecy, and Federation-Romulan mistrust. The other swings more openly toward adventure.

The Romulan Prize starts with a great Trek setup: the Enterprise finds a drifting Romulan prototype and gets pulled toward a hidden world and a much larger political danger. That kind of premise suits Hawke well. He likes brisk plots with an obvious hook, and he is comfortable letting a mystery widen into something with strategic consequences. Picard is a natural fit for that style because the story can move on both brains and pressure.

Then Blaze of Glory shifts the flavor.

That book is more openly swashbuckling, the kind of Trek novel where shifting loyalties, pursuit, and off-center adventure matter as much as diplomacy. Hawke does not try to reinvent the show. He writes what these tie-ins often do best, what feels like a lost episode with paperback breathing room. You get the familiar crew, a clean central problem, and enough space for complications the television hour would have had to compress.

So what should you expect from Hawke's TNG work overall? Straightforward storytelling, good momentum, and respect for the ensemble without turning the books into static character studies. These are accessible Trek novels, easy to pick up, easy to move through, and rooted in the pleasures of the franchise: exploration, tension, command decisions, and the sense that a routine mission can go sideways very fast.