We made it through Day of Honor, the 1997 Voyager novel by Michael Jan Friedman and Jeri Taylor tied to the TV two-parter. The book goes wider than the episode. More B’Elanna inner life, more Caatati politics, more Doctor comedy, and a full warp core disaster arc.
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.
Janeway sits in her command chair. Marima stands beside her watching everything with fascination. Kes runs a tricorder over her. Kim works at ops, fine tuning. He has the projection and channel open to Kolias.
While Tom and B’Elanna drift toward unconsciousness, Janeway faces Lumas and twenty-seven Caatati ships. He wants everything plus Seven of Nine. Janeway refuses to hand over a crew member for revenge.
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.
Janeway wants Paris and Kim in the ready room for a debrief. But they are not in sickbay anymore. Torres pulled them out under her authority to work on repairs. Paris walks onto the bridge looking thinner and pensive. He is happy to be back. Chakotay calls him Poocuh with a smile.
Tom and B’Elanna watch the Cochrane explode where they were standing seconds ago. Two tiny figures in environmental suits against infinite black. The warp core rides off with the Caatati. B’Elanna jokes Janeway will kill them once she finds them in the entire universe. Tom keeps his humor. It helps.
Torres asks the question everyone on the surface is thinking. What about Voyager?
Tuvok says contact is gone because of the ion field and citadel shields. But they have reason to believe the ship is holding its own. Torres does the math anyway. Five Andirrim hulls against one stranded Starfleet vessel. The odds do not comfort her.
Star Trek: Voyager #6 - The Murdered Sun
By Christie Golden
Copyright 1996
Previous: Destroyer Pursuit
Next: Peace and Holodeck Revelation
Star Trek: Voyager #4 - Violations
By Susan Wright
ISBN: 0671520466
Chapter 24 ties up the political loose ends and gives Paris one of his best character beats.
B’Elanna storms into sickbay and drags a protesting Kim out to help with engineering. She tells Paris to report to the bridge for helm checks once he is cleared.
The Doctor is still hunting for a holiday that fits him. His latest stop is the Phaelonian Wasteland, where purple-skinned locals in black headbands gather in a dry riverbed for the Vemal Processional. He skipped the research again, same mistake he made with the Betazoid wedding program. He figured knowing everything ahead of time would kill the fun.
Chapter 8 opens with Tom Paris blinking away transporter glare while Grayrose and Renehan wait at the orchard edge. Four crew members are safe aboard Voyager now. Maceda and Laek made it. Two more to go. Then static eats the comm channel whole.
Star Trek: Voyager #6 - The Murdered Sun
By Christie Golden
Copyright 1996
Previous: Voyager’s Sun-Eater Gamble
Next: Janeway’s Science Fight
Title: Star Trek: Voyager #16 - Day of Honor
Authors: Michael Jan Friedman and Jeri Taylor
ISBN: 978-0671019815
B’Elanna Torres sits in the mess hall picking at lunch like it personally offended her. The Day of Honor is winning. Neelix shows up with rokeg blood pie and a morale-officer grin. Last year she walked out on his Klingon feast. This year she tells him she is done with the holiday entirely.
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.
Paris wakes in sickbay next to Kim and Marima. He is thrilled to see the doctor. The doctor gives him a mild sedative to calm down.
Star Trek: Voyager #4 - Violations
By Susan Wright
ISBN: 0671520466
Chapter 21 is a blast. The jailbreak is tense, scrappy, and smart.
The sky turns ugly and the storm hits hard. Wind screams, sea churns, lightning everywhere. Sea bats get knocked down. The boat pitches violently and they huddle in the wheelhouse with no control left.
Book: Star Trek: Voyager - Chrysalis
Author: David Niall Wilson
ISBN: 9780671001503
Janeway is back on the bridge. Chakotay briefs her while Torres keeps hunting the missing. B’Elanna will not delegate. Harry and Tom are her friends. She is not letting the console go.
Book: Star Trek Voyager #8: Cybersong
Author: S. N. Lewitt
Previous: A Dead Captain’s Warning | Next: Chakotay Meets the AI Child
Star Trek: Voyager #4 - Violations
By Susan Wright
ISBN: 0671520466
Previous: Chakotay Goes Guerrilla
Chapter 20 is the emotional peak of the rescue storyline. Paris can’t trust his own senses. Kes proves herself anyway.
Star Trek: Voyager: Ragnarok
By Nathan Archer
ISBN: 067152044X
Chapter 24 is the exhale after Chapter 22’s sprint. For about two pages, Voyager is actually out.
Paris shows off a string of crudely made toy darra he found in Assurna’s cabin on the Micaszian boat. Kim thinks they might be decoration but Marima explains the Micaszians used to worship the darra as part of an old cult. She has no patience for it.
Book: Star Trek: Voyager - Chrysalis
Author: David Niall Wilson
ISBN: 9780671001503
Paris and Kes are still underground, chasing the sounds of phaser fire. Footprints show Urrythans flanking to set an ambush. Tom hopes Janeway was ready. Neither of them wants to think about the alternative.
Janeway sits with Tuvok. Borizus admitted he knew Paris and Kim were at sea with Marima. He claims he overheard it in Kolias’s office. Janeway does not buy it. Tuvok used a little tactical deception to get him talking. Janeway lets it slide.
Book: Star Trek: Voyager - Flashback | Author: Diane Carey | ISBN: 0671003836
Chapter 15 is mostly Paris and Torres in a broken shuttle accepting that they’re probably going to die. Then Tom Paris has one of his stupid ideas. This time it might save them.
The Garden by Melissa Scott (ISBN: 0671567993) follows through on the trade dilemma in Chapter 5, and then sends Harry Kim into the fields with questions he probably should have asked sooner.
Star Trek: Voyager #4 - Violations
By Susan Wright
ISBN: 0671520466
Chapter 17 is psychological horror wearing a Starfleet uniform. The scariest line is clinical, not dramatic.
On the boat Paris tells Marima it is time to come clean about the darra. Are they just fish or are they smart? Marima waves it off. Big stupid fish with useful blood. Nothing more.
Star Trek: Voyager - Chrysalis by David Niall Wilson (ISBN 9780671001503) goes full action in Chapter 10. Note the typo in the original book header: CHAPTER 1O. Janeway’s team loses their tech edge. Ban’s followers rush them anyway. Paris and Kes are not far behind.
Previous: Torres About to Cry After the Fury Terror Projector Hits | Next: Torres Jammed Door Maze
Star Trek: Voyager - Invasion #4: The Final Fury
By Dafydd ab Hugh
ISBN: 0671541811
Star Trek: Voyager #4 - Violations
By Susan Wright
ISBN: 0671520466
Previous: The Doctor Takes the Wheel
Chapter 15 makes the Tutopans properly sinister. Not mustache-twirling villains. Bureaucrats who treat psychological torture as policy.
Star Trek: Voyager - Chrysalis by David Niall Wilson (ISBN 9780671001503) finally gives the away team a break in Chapter 8. The Doctor’s antidote lands. People wake up. Then the chapter yanks the safety net away again.
Book: Star Trek Voyager #8: Cybersong
Author: S. N. Lewitt
Previous: Ensign Mandel Joins the Hunt | Next: Zero-G Rescue in the Wreck
Previous: Carey Bends the Shields and Torres Launches Into Fury Space | Next: Torres About to Cry
Star Trek: Voyager - Invasion #4: The Final Fury
By Dafydd ab Hugh
ISBN: 0671541811
Kim hates life on the water. Seasick, bad food, wet clothes. Paris eats like it is fine. Marima is getting weaker every day.
Book: Star Trek Voyager #8: Cybersong
Author: S. N. Lewitt
Previous: The Duplicate Faces Reveal | Next: Ensign Mandel Joins the Hunt
Star Trek: Voyager #4 - Violations
By Susan Wright
ISBN: 0671520466
Chapter 12 gives Neelix his action scene and puts Paris in a literal death trap.
Book: Star Trek Voyager #8: Cybersong
Author: S. N. Lewitt
Previous: Angels on the Viewscreen | Next: The Paradise Hologram Trap
Star Trek: Voyager #4 - Violations
By Susan Wright
ISBN: 0671520466
Previous: Hub Deals and Gel Packs
Chapter 9 splits the book in two. Political chess upstairs. Pulp adventure downstairs.
Torres finishes the recast with the fresh alloy. Borizus helps her move the parts to the fabricator and then to the main engineering bay. The casings fit perfectly into the conduit cradle. She welds the last connectors and feels a small thaw toward the guy. He brought the metal and stuck around through the process. She tells him it might have worked out better than she thought after all the earlier headaches.
Star Trek: Voyager #4 - Violations
By Susan Wright
ISBN: 0671520466
Chapter 8 is where both storylines start breathing. Hub comedy with teeth. Sickbay horror with heart.
Paris wakes up on the Micasz ship with a lump on his head from the fight. The guards now keep the two officers from feeding duty. Kim watches the darra outside and worries. If they do not eat they will start eating each other. He sneaks below, fills a bucket of the wriggling spiderworms, and heads for the deserted bow on tiptoe. The darra are already gathering and moving closer as if they notice him. He swings the bucket to pour when Assurna’s long jointed arm blocks him. She grabs the bucket and slams it down.
Star Trek: Voyager #4 - Violations
By Susan Wright
ISBN: 0671520466
Previous: The Lobotomized Ship
Chapter 7 is setup with teeth. Everyone splits up. Nobody is safe.
On the Micasz vessel the darra gather around the ship at feeding time. Paris and Kim toss buckets of squirming spiderworms over the side. The creatures churn the water with their tails as they eat. Marima drags herself on deck to help even though she is shaking badly. Her knees buckle in several places. She collapses again with her eyes rolling back. Harry catches her head in his lap. Paris calls to the guards for medical help for the lord councillor’s daughter. The guard just grunts and turns away. Paris shoves the issue and gets slugged hard. He ducks and lands solid hits on the alien’s face and neck before the big Micaszian slams him across the deck. Paris’s head hits something and he blacks out.
Star Trek: Voyager - Invasion #4: The Final Fury
By Dafydd ab Hugh
ISBN 0671541811
Previous: Chakotay’s Bridge Crisis and the Trip Into the Sun
Next: Janeway Hacks Fury Computer Security With a Commbadge
Janeway is done with protocol. She sends Kolias packing and tells Chakotay and Tuvok to cancel all shore leave. Find Paris and Kim now. She also wants Borizus, the engineering guild head from the reception, brought up for a private talk. He looked like he had something to say before Kolias’s daughter interrupted.
Star Trek: Voyager - Invasion #4: The Final Fury
By Dafydd ab Hugh
ISBN 0671541811
Previous: Neelix and the Phaser-Proof Prison Bars
Next: Paris Pilots Voyager Inside the Sun
Torres has had it with the guest engineer. Jovic from Vandorra keeps poking at controls in engineering. One wrong tap and the inertial dampers could slam the whole crew into the walls. She warns him twice. On the third time she calls security and has him hauled out.
Star Trek: Voyager #4 - Violations
By Susan Wright
ISBN: 0671520466
Chapter 4 is where the novel opens up. The Hub sequence mixes dread and dark comedy.
Star Trek: Voyager #4 - Violations
By Susan Wright
ISBN: 0671520466
Chapter 2 is the engine room chapter, literally and figuratively. We learn what was taken and what it costs.