Star Trek: Voyager: Ragnarok
By Nathan Archer
ISBN: 067152044X
Published 1995
Thirty chapters later, and Ragnarok ends where it began: a relatively calm moment aboard Voyager, with repairs underway and the crew looking ahead. But the ship and everyone on it are not the same. Here is what stuck with me after the full read.
Star Trek: Voyager - The Caretaker by L. A. Graf | ISBN 0-671-51914-X
Star Trek: Voyager #5 - Incident at Arbuk
By John Gregory Betancourt
ISBN: 0671520482
That wraps my chapter-by-chapter walkthrough of Incident at Arbuk. Twenty-one chapters, one epilogue, and a lot more arguing than I expected from a Star Trek adventure.
Title: The Garden
Author: Melissa Scott
ISBN: 0671567993
Series: Star Trek: Voyager #11
That wraps my chapter-by-chapter walkthrough of The Garden. Here’s what stuck with me after the last page.
Star Trek: Voyager #6 - The Murdered Sun
By Christie Golden
Copyright 1996
Previous: Peace and Holodeck Revelation
Eighteen chapters. One murdered sun. Two lizard-adjacent peoples who turn out to be cousins. And Voyager still does not get home. Here is where The Murdered Sun lands after the full read.
Star Trek: Voyager #4 - Violations
By Susan Wright
ISBN: 0671520466
That wraps my chapter-by-chapter walkthrough of Violations. Here’s where I land after 25 chapters, a prologue, and a lot of stolen hardware.
Star Trek: Voyager #5 - Incident at Arbuk
By John Gregory Betancourt
ISBN: 0671520482
Previous: Empty Galley
Next: Series Finale
Chapter 21 is the payoff chapter and the epilogue rolled into one. The bluff lands. The tube gets destroyed. Speria is a bureaucratic nightmare. And Neelix quietly wins the whole book.
Star Trek: Voyager #6 - The Murdered Sun
By Christie Golden
Copyright 1996
Previous: Janeway’s Science Fight
Next: Final Thoughts
Chapter 18 is the exhale after the explosion. Garai cooperates. Janeway gets stage fright. A child empress walks into the holodeck. And Tom Paris becomes a namesake on Veruna Four in the best possible way.
Star Trek: Voyager #5 - Incident at Arbuk
By John Gregory Betancourt
ISBN: 0671520482
Star Trek: Voyager - The Caretaker by L. A. Graf | ISBN 0-671-51914-X
Previous: The Caretaker Revealed in the Barn | Next: Paris and Janeway in the Ready Room
Star Trek: Voyager #6 - The Murdered Sun
By Christie Golden
Copyright 1996
Previous: Destroyer Pursuit
Next: Peace and Holodeck Revelation
Star Trek: Voyager #5 - Incident at Arbuk
By John Gregory Betancourt
ISBN: 0671520482
Star Trek: Voyager #6 - The Murdered Sun
By Christie Golden
Copyright 1996
Previous: Voyager’s Sun-Eater Gamble
Next: Janeway’s Science Fight
Star Trek: Voyager #5 - Incident at Arbuk
By John Gregory Betancourt
ISBN: 0671520482
Previous: Kes, Tuvok, and the Compliment
Next: Military Warship
Star Trek: Voyager #6 - The Murdered Sun
By Christie Golden
Copyright 1996
Previous: Sun-Eater Secrets
Next: Destroyer Pursuit
Chapter 15 is where the book stops talking and starts doing. Janeway commits to the gamble. Voyager enters Sun-Eater. Garai gets his first real POV. And Tom Paris goes back down to a dead planet to pull off the rescue nobody else can finish.
Star Trek: Voyager #5 - Incident at Arbuk
By John Gregory Betancourt
ISBN: 0671520482
Star Trek: Voyager #5 - Incident at Arbuk
By John Gregory Betancourt
ISBN: 9780671520482
Chapter 16 is the personality swap payoff. Sozoas wakes up calm, curious, and fluent. Tuvok wakes up… argumentative. The first contact scene is great. The Tuvok scene is genuinely unsettling.
Star Trek: Voyager #5 - Incident at Arbuk
By John Gregory Betancourt
ISBN: 9780671520482
Chapter 15 is sneaky. One plotline advances the mystery. The other is comedy that turns scary because Tuvok is not Tuvok anymore.
Star Trek: Voyager #5 - Incident at Arbuk
By John Gregory Betancourt
ISBN: 9780671520482
Chapter 14 runs on two tracks again. Fairman starts his con. Tuvok dumps a mountain of Sperian politics on Janeway’s desk. Both set up trouble for later.
Star Trek: Voyager #5 - Incident at Arbuk
By John Gregory Betancourt
ISBN: 9780671520482
Chapter 13 is where the book stops being a shootout and starts being a mystery. Tuvok wakes up wrong. Torres finds a smoking gun. Janeway has to decide how much to poke the hornet’s nest.
Star Trek: Voyager #5 - Incident at Arbuk
By John Gregory Betancourt
ISBN: 9780671520482
Chapter 12 cuts between a con artist having the worst day of his life and a captain making a call that could kill three ships. Both threads land hard.
Star Trek: Voyager #5 - Incident at Arbuk
By John Gregory Betancourt
ISBN: 9780671520482
Chapter 11 is pure helplessness. Three round silver Sperian warships open fire on Voyager with photon torpedoes and electromagnetic bolts. Torres watches from inside the warp accelerator tube as flames shoot out of a hull breach above her.
Book: Star Trek: Voyager #5 - Incident at Arbuk
Author: John Gregory Betancourt
ISBN: 9780671520482
This post covers the second half of Chapter 9. Fair warning: the book labels a short section “Chapter 10” in the text, then jumps straight to Chapter 11 after the battle. There is no real Chapter 10 here. Just a quirk of the print edition.
Book: Star Trek: Voyager #5 - Incident at Arbuk
Author: John Gregory Betancourt
ISBN: 9780671520482
Chapter 9 is long enough that this post covers the first half: the spacewalk, the hunt for controls, and the sabotage reveal. If you have seen the show, you know B’Elanna Torres and outer space engineering go together. This chapter leans all the way into that.
Book: Star Trek: Voyager #5 - Incident at Arbuk
Author: John Gregory Betancourt
ISBN: 9780671520482
Chapter 8 is the weirdest and most intense stretch of the book so far. Tuvok walks into sickbay after Vulcan mental exercises and tells the Doctor to monitor him through the mind-meld. The Doctor is not thrilled. His databases scream warnings about joining with unconscious, unwilling, unfamiliar, possibly brain-damaged subjects. Tuvok already knows. He has taken precautions.
Star Trek: Voyager: Ragnarok
By Nathan Archer
ISBN: 067152044X
Chapter 16 splits between Harry Kim alone in the dark and Chakotay meeting the P’nir face to face. Both halves are tense. One is claustrophobic. The other is deeply weird.
Book: Star Trek: Voyager #5 - Incident at Arbuk
Author: John Gregory Betancourt
ISBN: 9780671520482
Chapter 7 splits the story into two moods. Up in docking bay two, Neelix and Kes wander through melted wreckage like it is a romantic afternoon. Down in sickbay, Janeway is staring at a clock that nobody on this ship can afford to ignore.
Star Trek: Voyager: Ragnarok
By Nathan Archer
ISBN: 067152044X
Chapter 15 opens with Rollins asking what everyone is thinking.
“What the hell are you doing, Commander?”
Book: Star Trek: Voyager - Marooned
Author: Christie Golden
I’m starting a retelling of Marooned, Christie Golden’s second Voyager novel. If you watched the show, you know the setup: a Federation ship stranded 70,000 light-years from home. This book drops them into a pirate trap built around one crew member nobody would expect to be the target.
Title: The Garden
Author: Melissa Scott
ISBN: 0671567993
Series: Star Trek: Voyager #11
I’m starting a walkthrough of The Garden, a 1997 Star Trek: Voyager novel by Melissa Scott. This is not a chapter dump. It’s a retelling with my reactions as I go.
Book: Star Trek: Voyager #5 - Incident at Arbuk
Author: John Gregory Betancourt
ISBN: 9780671520482
Chapter 6 is one of those moments where the book reminds you that Voyager is still a crew trying to eat dinner while a planet-killer spins in the background. Captain Janeway calls her senior officers together at 1700 hours. The tube is building power again. Tuvok and Ensign Dvorak think it fires in about an hour and ten minutes. Everyone shows up looking grim, which is fair, because they just watched a space city get wiped out.
Book: Star Trek: Voyager #5 - Incident at Arbuk
Author: John Gregory Betancourt
ISBN: 9780671520482
Previous: Chapter 4: The Tube Destroys the Space City | Next: Chapter 6: Senior Staff Briefing
Star Trek: Voyager: Ragnarok
By Nathan Archer
ISBN: 067152044X
Chapter 14 cuts back to Voyager at the worst possible moment. Paris says “Look!” Janeway is already on her feet. A random surge in the battle just swallowed the shuttle.
Book: Star Trek: Voyager #5 - Incident at Arbuk
Author: John Gregory Betancourt
ISBN: 9780671520482
Previous: Chapter 3: Paris, Dvorak, and the Space City | Next: Chapter 5: Neelix, Pagaloaf, and Sickbay
I picked up The Black Shore because I wanted a self-contained Voyager adventure that felt like a long episode, not a galaxy-spanning epic. Greg Cox delivered exactly that. One planet. One trap. Seventeen chapters of slow-burn dread that ends in a full crew crisis.
Star Trek: Voyager: Ragnarok
By Nathan Archer
ISBN: 067152044X
Chapter 13 stays with the shuttle crew while the peace broadcast drones on loop. Computer voice. Federation shuttlecraft. Neutral party. Ready to negotiate or arbitrate. Please contact us. Then it starts again.
Book: Star Trek: Voyager #5 - Incident at Arbuk
Author: John Gregory Betancourt
ISBN: 9780671520482
Previous: Chapter 2: Neelix Warns About the Sperians | Next: Chapter 4: The Tube Fires Again
Star Trek: Voyager: Ragnarok
By Nathan Archer
ISBN: 067152044X
Chapter 12 opens with one of the weirdest lines in the book. Kes stares at the main viewer and says the battle is beautiful.
Book: Star Trek: Voyager #6 - The Murdered Sun
Author: Christie Golden
Year: 1996
I’m starting a chapter-by-chapter retelling of The Murdered Sun, the sixth Voyager tie-in novel from Pocket Books. Christie Golden wrote it in 1996, right when the show was hitting its stride and the books could go bigger than a single TV episode.
Book: Star Trek: Voyager #5 - Incident at Arbuk
Author: John Gregory Betancourt
ISBN: 9780671520482
Previous: Chapter 1: Harry Kim Finds a Distress Signal | Next: Chapter 3: Paris, Dvorak, and the Space City
Book: Star Trek Voyager #8: Cybersong
Author: S. N. Lewitt
Previous: Kes Dreams of the Kazon Mines | Next: Voyager Can’t Steer Away
Star Trek: Voyager: Ragnarok
By Nathan Archer
ISBN: 067152044X
Chapter 11 is the bridge argument everyone knew was coming. Neelix asks the question straight out. Are we getting involved in the battle?
Book: Star Trek: Voyager #5 - Incident at Arbuk
Author: John Gregory Betancourt
ISBN: 9780671520482
Previous: Series Intro | Next: Chapter 2: Neelix Warns About the Sperians
Star Trek: Voyager: Ragnarok
By Nathan Archer
ISBN: 067152044X
Chapter 10 is Janeway putting her offer on the table and getting slapped for it. She broadcasts to the whole battlefield. Clear voice. Federation starship Voyager. Neutral party. Ready to help negotiate.
Star Trek: Voyager: Ragnarok
By Nathan Archer
ISBN: 067152044X
Chapter 9 is basically a history lesson on the bridge, and it is one of the best parts of the book so far. Janeway asks Neelix to explain the Hachai-P’nir war. The whole senior staff turns and stares at him. He clears his throat and starts talking.
Book: Star Trek: Voyager #5 - Incident at Arbuk
Author: John Gregory Betancourt
ISBN: 9780671520482
I’m starting a chapter-by-chapter retelling of Incident at Arbuk, the fifth Voyager tie-in novel from Pocket Books. John Gregory Betancourt wrote it in 1995, right in that early window when the show was still finding its feet and the books could go bigger than a single TV episode.
Star Trek: Voyager #4 - Violations
By Susan Wright
ISBN: 0671520466
I’m starting a full walkthrough of Susan Wright’s 1995 Voyager novel Violations. Not a dry summary. More like sitting with a friend who just finished the book and wants to tell you what happened, what worked, and what still bugs them.
Star Trek: Voyager: Ragnarok
By Nathan Archer
ISBN: 067152044X
Published 1995
I’m starting a full walkthrough of Ragnarok, the third numbered Voyager novel. Nathan Archer wrote it right after Valhalla for Deep Space Nine, and this one drops the crew into a centuries-old war zone with almost no way out.