Editing Star Trek (section)

= Novels =
Like most long time franchises ''Star Trek'' has a massive line of books.

Most are effectively fanfics as nothing but the show and the movies is canon so the writers can do whatever they want. Partial exception to be made for the ''Deep Space Nine'' line; those are considered the "eighth season", justifiably, because they're actually quite good. Start with Andrew "Garak" Robinson's ''Stitch in Time''.

This changed after ''Nemesis'' since that movie was so godawful the producers calculated they might never have another show or movie in the "Prime" universe; also, several ''DS9'' actors started dropping off dead (so their fans never did get their kino). The writers got their shit together and wrote a group of books as a tight community very close to the shows. The relaunch novels are a continuation of the show they're about. Also there's the ''Titan'' book series which is about Riker and Troi getting their own ship, which happens to be staffed by every race in the Federation including living rocks, [[awesome|space dinosaurs]] that smell like [[meatbread|toast]] and a [[what|space cyborg ostrich]].

All the relaunch lines eventually got brought together in Star Trek: Destiny, where the Borg go nuts and eat Pluto ... yeah... and then they finally get sick of the Federation somehow managing to not get assimilated all the time, so they finally just send every last cube they have with orders to Exterminatus the absolute SHIT out of the entire Alpha Quadrant. Pretty much every important character from TNG, DS9, and Voyager has to team up to stop them, and even then the Federation still gets its shit kicked in and winds up having to rely on a vaguely ridiculous deus ex machina to beat the Borg, and [[Grimdark|billions of people still die and dozens of planets are blown to shit]]. It was pretty insane.

Then all the Federation's main enemies get together to form an anti-Federation and start poking the bear, all the while telling their allies that they're somehow warmongering dicks, Section 31 gets its cover blown in a big way, and Riker gets promoted to Admiral. Also, a lot of the newer TNG novels have been devoted to following up on one-shot aliens from the show, like the guys that sent out the probe that made Barclay super-smart and those fish monks that were abducting crewmembers for experiments. Now that the Picard show is coming out, though, this will all presumably be chucked in the dustbin. 

Picard show came. Dustbin. But! Some of the authors who'd been working on the novel continuity for the last twenty years weren't willing to let the Trek novelverse die an inglorious death like the original Star Wars EU, so they got together and wrote a trilogy to give it a proper send-off. The dickhead aliens from that TNG two-part episode with Mark Twain have worked out a way to blow up entire quantum realities and feast on the neural energy of the trillions of lives snuffed out in the process. The novelverse crews all team up to stop them and learn that they're in an alternate timeline created by the Borg during the events of ''First Contact'', and that their reality will have to be erased permanently in order to ensure the survival of the rest of the multiverse. Some of them are less happy about it than others, but they band together to fight the good fight one last time. Everyone fucking dies, of course, but in the end they defeat the dickhead aliens and save the day before being extinguished forever. Still a better note to go out on than Disney saying "lol none of the old EU is canon anymore, buy our new stuff nerds."