ST: Destiny Book Two: Mere Mortals

David Mack's book picks up where Gods of Night left off-with the crews of the Enterprise and the Aventine (under the command of Ezri Dax) ready to explore a series of subspace tunnels to seek the Borg- with Federation president Nan Bacco seeking allies to take the offensive to the Borg- and finding creative forms of persuasion-with Will Riker and the crew of the Titan trying to rescue their away team from the mysterious and advanced species, the Caeliar, an away team that includes a Deanna Troi who is in a state of medical and emotional crisis- and with Captain Erika Hernandez as the only surviving crew member of the lost pre-Federation era Columbia NX-02.
Well written and enjoyable, this book brings together different eras and crews in the ST universe without feeling forced.
Destiny concludes in Lost Souls.

SCE: Collective Hindsight by Aaron Rosenberg

In the fourth story in the Aftermath anthology, the daVinci's crew of engineers;, still reeling from great loss and tragedy, must face their ghosts head on when a ship they thought they had destroyed in the past shows up again. The Dancing Star had first shown up near a covert Federation listening post at the height of the Dominion War, and with regret, the crew of the DaVinci had destroyed it- or so they thought- to avoid detection by Cardassian forces. Why their plan didn't work I will leave to you, dear reader, to find out for yourself. The pain as the surviving crew must review logs of now dead crewmates, friends, and even lovers is poignant.

ST: Mirror Universe: Glass Empires

This book, which follows the rise and fall of the Terran Empire, is better ( and less dark) than the volume which follows.

Age of the Empress, by Dayton Ward and Kevin Dilmore (story by Mike Sussman), has the First Empress Hoshi Sate rise to power by assassinating Jonathon Archer, Although she plans for a more benevolent empire, her strategically married husband, Shran and the rebel T'pol have other ideas. This story leaves several loose ends ( a few of them created by Arik Soong ) that I hope to find are woven in in another volume.

In The Sorrows of Empire, Spock assassinates Captain Kirk and cultivates a cadre loyal to him as a means to become Emperor- and to the destroy the illogical and unsustainable Empire. He does manage to destroy it, with the help of the Empress Marlena Moreau, Saavik, and other loyal Vulcans. The Vulcans must keep their touch telepathy secret to his generations long plan to succeed...

The final story in the volume, The Worst of Both Worlds, sees Terran archaeologist Luc Picard in the employ of Gul Madred. When Alliance Klingons beat the stree urchin Wesley within an inch of his life for trying to guard the Stargazer, Luc joins with the rebels Vash and Noonien Soong to seek the aid of a fabled advanced cut lure- the Borg.