Book: TOS: Inception by SD Perry and Britta Dennison

Before they were stationed aboard the Enterprise, Captain Kirk and Mr Spock met two brilliant women who would gain their own places in Trek history. While their relationships with Dr Carol Marcus and Leila Kalomi took different paths...with very different consequences- there is no doubt that these relationships affected them and their futures deeply. Perry and Dennison's book brings the two scientists together as colleagues. This book meets my current standard of needing to be a fast read. Enjoyable!

ENT: Harbinger

The Enterprise rescues and alien caught in a spatial anomaly. The alien appears to be dying when he is brought aboard, but it soon becomes evident that those who has placed his ship in the anomaly had sinister purposes.

ENT: Strategem

Stratagem opens with a scruffy looking Captain Archer in a shuttle with an equally scruffy Xindi Primate, Degra. It soon becomes apparent that Archer is not actually fleeing a Xindi prison camp, but has set up an elaborate ruse to get information out of Degra. While they do not get quite the information they wanted, they do get one step closer to their goals.

ST Mirror Universe: The Sorrows of Empire

Combining short stories from previous Mirror Universe collections and weaving them into a cohesive whole, The book by David Mack looks at the question of "Our Universe's crew exposed the logical Mirror Universe Spock to dangerous concepts; what did he do with them?". Starting with Spock's inevitable assassination of Captain Kirk and ending with slightly after his death, this is a must read for anyone who thinks the Mirror Universe is much cooler.

ENT: Chosen Realm, Proving Ground

In Chosen Realm, the Enterrpise meets a ship full of aliens who worship the Xindi spheres. While helping them repair their ship at first seems a way to get much needed information about the spheres, it drags the Enterprise into an internecine war. Nice use of "Let's fake an execution with the transporter".
Proving Ground has some familiar characters joining the Enterprise in Xindi space. General Shran has taken advantage of the Andorian's superior warp capability to catch up to the Enterprise, ostensibly to offer assistance. In the end, it is of course revealed that the Andorians had an ulterior motive.

IDW- Best of Star Trek:DS9

A collection of Deep Space 9 comics from early in the series run. The first story arc has the station taken over by fast growing green mold. (Something you could get here in the PNW without having to travel to the edge of the quadrant). The second story has the crew of DS9 placed in the middle of a Prime Directive straining situation between slavers and slave...whom I have to say have very creepy split forearms. Bonus is an 8 page "ashcan" story where a Klingon prison ship places Dr Bashir in Danger.

Book: TNG: Breaking the Peace

In the wake of the Borg incursion into Fedration territory, planets are left devestated, familes torn apart, and billions of beings displaced. The USS Enterprise has been tasked with patrolling the near Earth vicinity, doing whatever is needed to find the lost and alleviate suffering. Doctor Crusher has been asked to go to the ocean world of Pacifica, which escaped Borg attack but has taken in a large number of refugees. This book was fastpaced despite the lack of "action"- perhaps my timely reading of it made the book more poignant. We learn things about the families and loved ones of minor characters that we hadn't known before.

Book:ENT: The Romulan War: Under the Raptor's Wing.

This book is written by Micheal A Martin, who usually collaborates with Andy Mangels, and whose collaborations I usually love. Under the Raptor's Wing, however, I found very slow. I had to renew it in order to finish it, and it was the only book I was reading. Along with the slowly advancing plot it tries- too hard sometimes- to integrate "future" Trek with the past it has created- such as Tobin Dax, and a slew of Romulans named after "future" ships. The main reason I finished the book was because I do not want to be wondering what is going on when the next book comes out.

ENT: Carpenter Street

Daniels appears and sends Archer and T'Pol back to Detroit in 2004. A blood bank worker, under the unknowing employ of the Xindi reptilians, has been kidnapping one person of every blood type so they might use them to synthesise a bio weapon. Archer and T'Pol must navigate an unfamiliar time period and stop the Xindi before they release their weapon into the past.