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.

Mirror Universe: Obsidian Alliances

Keith RA DeCandido, Peter David, and Sarah Shaw, bring us the Mirror Universe from three different perspectives- Voyager, New Frontier, and Deep Space Nine. This book takes a lot of liberty not just with relationships, but with killing. All of the stories ended with more of the characters dead than alive. There is also a large amount of cruelty in these books, probably a level I have not yet seen in Star Trek books. Do not read if torture or other types of abuse will upset you.

Star Trek 101 by Erdmann and Block

Star Trek 101 by Terry J Erdmann and Paula M Block, is listed as "A Practical Guide to Who, What, Where and Why". True to it's name, ST 101 assumes you know nothing about Star Trek and goes from there. There are brief articles on the fundamentals of everything from Klingons to Captain Proton.
My favorite feature of this book is the "Spock's Brain Award", which ranks the stupidest episode of each series.
Even if you feel you could have written all the articles form memory, this is a great resource for it's chronological synopsis of every episode. I will be unhappy when the library wants it back, as we almost daily turn to it to answer questions that start with "What was that episode....?"

Book: TNG: Greater than The Sum

The latest book in the continuation of the story of the Enterprise E crew, post Nemesis. Read by both myself and Matthew, Christopher Bennet's book was a quick read, and enjoyable. This is another Borg story, one that brings Hugh back into the picture with his band of liberated Borg. The story brings an intriguing concept to the idea of what constitutes intelligence, and the tricky nature of managing first contact with an intelligence that is vastly different than humanoids.
It also introduces a new character, and half human, half Vulcan science officer ( now, that's original!) named T'ryssa Chen. Chen, unlike other half Vulcan characters, has embraced her human side. I did feel Bennet went to far, made her TOO over the top, to show how mush she disdained her Vulcan half. People ONLY act like that in stories.
Matthew especially liked the assimilated Federation ship nicknamed "Frankenstein" by Chen.

Enterprise: Kobyashi Maru By Martin and Mangels

I am usually a fan of Michael Martin and Andy Mangels, but I will say I found this book a bit slow. Not a bad story..but it took me over a month to read it (although Charlaine Harris is at least partly to blame for that).
Any fan of Star Trek knows what the Kobyashi Maru is- a no win test that command level cadets at Starfleet Academy must take in which they must decide whether, or how, to rescue a Federation freighter under attck my Romulans. This book looks at the origins of that test, casting the maru as a real ship manned by real, unusual and flamboyant people ( of the type it's hard to imagine survivin into the Next Gen era Federation)- and of course, with Jonathon Archer as the captain who must make the hard decision.