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Star Trek: Voyager - Invasion #4: The Final Fury
By Dafydd ab Hugh
ISBN: 0671541811
Published 1996
Voyager
Mosaic Final Thoughts: How Jeri Taylor's Novel Defines Captain Janeway
Mosaic
By Jeri Taylor
ISBN: 0-671-56312-2
Previous: Janeway Faces the Iceberg Memory and Voyager’s Crew Escapes the Tokath
I finished Mosaic. Twenty-three chapters, a frame story in the Delta Quadrant, and decades of Kathryn Janeway’s life woven between them. This isn’t a plot-heavy Voyager adventure in the usual sense. It’s a character biography disguised as a Starfleet novel, written by the woman who helped create the show.
The Black Shore: Final Thoughts on Voyager's Creepiest Shore Leave
We made it through all seventeen chapters of The Black Shore. Voyager limps away from Ryolanov with salvaged antimatter, a warning beacon for the exiled Ryol, and one dead crew member too many. Time to step back and talk about the book as a whole.
Bless the Beasts Final Thoughts: Star Trek Voyager Ethical Dilemmas
We made it through all 27 chapters of Bless the Beasts.
The story boils down to this. Voyager needs repairs and dilithium. They land in the middle of a planet’s health crisis and civil unrest over a treatment that requires harvesting blood from what turn out to be intelligent sea animals. The crew gets pulled into raids, hostage situations, debates, and a medical breakthrough.
Chrysalis Finale: Faith, Mind-Melds, and Ten Thousand Years of Waiting
Star Trek: Voyager - Chrysalis
By David Niall Wilson
ISBN: 9780671001503
That wraps my chapter-by-chapter walkthrough of Chrysalis. Nineteen chapters, one planet, and more spiritual weight than I expected from a Voyager supply-run story.
Day of Honor: Final Thoughts on the Voyager Novel
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.
Finale: What Star Trek Voyager Ragnarok Gets Right and Wrong
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.
Ghost of a Chance: Final Thoughts on the Voyager Novel
Book: Star Trek: Voyager #7 - Ghost of a Chance
Authors: Mark A. Garland and Charles G. McGraw
ISBN: 0671567985
The Chance Factor Conclusion: Kathryn Janeway Learns to Handle the Unknown
The story wraps up with the team making it back by the skin of their teeth. Kathryn saves the serpent with some quick thinking and Fiona’s help. They hit the countdown with seconds left. Then the big twist: Jup the targ was never dead. Captain Holbrook had beamed the animals and the predator out when things got real. He knew the whole time.
Violations Finale: A Messy Victory 70,000 Light-Years From Home
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.
The Black Shore Chapter 17: Kes Watches the Neffaler Rise as Voyager Leaves the Black Shore
Torres yelps when Kes probes the bump on her head. The injury is not serious, but they all want sickbay. Varathael stands across the hold, talking into a portable monitor, probably negotiating with Voyager. Kes can still hear murdered neffaler wailing in the back of her mind. She feeds herself, feeds Neelix, and waits.
Bless the Beasts Chapter 27: Borizus Is Tricked and the Crew Heads Home
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.
Day of Honor: Rescue, Reunion, and the Doctor's Epilogue
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.
Flashback Ch. 22: Tuvok Returns to the Mess Hall and Befriends Neelix
Star Trek: Voyager - Flashback
By Diane Carey
ISBN 0671003836
Previous: Khitomer Saved, Kirk Speaks, Spock Changes Tuvok’s Life
Next: Flashback Novel Series Finale
Salvage, Answers, and Janeway's Take Us Home
Book: Star Trek: Voyager #7 - Ghost of a Chance
Authors: Mark A. Garland and Charles G. McGraw
ISBN: 0671567985
The Chance Factor Chapter 12: The Final Rescue and Making It in Time
Kathryn kept her eyes on Rayonica. Tango’s hooves pounded. The serpent was almost to the spiked bushes marking the quicksand edge. The horse was gaining but not fast enough.
Tuvok Reveals the Hachai and P'nir May Ally Against Voyager
Star Trek: Voyager: Ragnarok
By Nathan Archer
ISBN: 067152044X
Published 1995
Chapter 30 is the last chapter of Ragnarok, and it lands with a twist that is dark even for early Voyager tie-in fiction. Voyager is safe. Repairs are underway. Kim is resting. The battle is far behind them. Janeway gathers her department heads in the ready room for a postmortem on the whole disaster.
The Black Shore Chapter 16: Torres Kills Naxor and Janeway Fires the Rescue Phaser Blast
Down in the flooded cargohold of the ancient Ryol starship, B’Elanna Torres keeps her temper on a short leash. Kes and Neelix sit nearby under harsh crystal light. The night cold creeps in. No new hostages arrive, which might be good news or might mean the Ryol already own Voyager.
The Tokath Brown Cloud Rises and Janeway Refuses to Abandon Her Crew
Mosaic
By Jeri Taylor
ISBN: 0-671-56312-2
Previous: Janeway’s Review Board Clash With Tuvok and Tom Paris’s Academy Accident
Chapter 23 opens with a brown cloud rising from the planet. Thick, relentless, spreading into space toward Voyager and the Kazon ship. Dr. Trakis says they must leave now. The Tokath emit a caustic substance that will eat through shields and hull within an hour.
Bless the Beasts Chapter 26: Janeway Finds a Trade Solution as the Darra's Fate Hangs in the Balance
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.
Day of Honor: Adrift in Space and a Confession
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.
The Chance Factor Chapter 11: River Crossings and Bolting Dinosaurs
Kathryn stayed awake thinking after the snake scare. Jup’s death had changed things. The barriers were down. Everyone cared about the animals, and that made them care about each other too.
The Garden Chapter 8 Part 2: Paris Fights in Orbit and Loses Grayrose
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.
The Ghost Entities Turn on the Televek Fleet
Book: Star Trek: Voyager #7 - Ghost of a Chance
Authors: Mark A. Garland and Charles G. McGraw
ISBN: 0671567985
Voyager Bursts Out of the Derelict Under Fire
Star Trek: Voyager: Ragnarok
By Nathan Archer
ISBN: 067152044X
Published 1995
Chapter 29 is the escape chapter, and nothing about it is clean. Janeway got her people back. Harry Kim is in sickbay. The shuttle is aboard. Then Paris punches Voyager out of the First Federation derelict and straight into the kind of fight where everyone suddenly has opinions about whose side you are on.
The Black Shore Chapter 15: Janeway's Hologram Trap and Paris Turns Off the Translator
The fight in Engineering turns brutal fast. Ryol warriors shed their civilized masks and become snarling were-creatures. Phaser fire scorches the corridor. The beams hurt them but do not drop them. Then the drain starts. Stevenson collapses. Rodriguez wobbles. Kim goes pale and whispers, “Not again.”
Bless the Beasts Chapter 25: The Doctor Cures Marima Who Then Takes Him Hostage
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.
Day of Honor: Lumas's Bargain and the Warp Core Crisis
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.
Janeway Uses a Tractor Beam to Rescue the Shuttle
Star Trek: Voyager: Ragnarok
By Nathan Archer
ISBN: 067152044X
Published 1995
Chapter 28 is Janeway at her most Janeway. Locking the tractor beam on the shuttle was the easy part. Getting everyone out alive while a dozen P’nir cruisers converge and the shuttle’s shields are basically decorative? That is the job.
Paris's Moon Gambit and the Antimatter Probe Trap
Book: Star Trek: Voyager #7 - Ghost of a Chance
Authors: Mark A. Garland and Charles G. McGraw
ISBN: 0671567985
The Chance Factor Chapter 10: Rats, Snakes and an Unexpected Tango
“We’re on our own?” Jon asked. Captain Holbrook didn’t know where they were or that Jup had died.
It made sense. The captain would have saved the targ if he could. They had to stick to the plan and reach the beam-out point. If the ship couldn’t monitor, that’s where a shuttle would look.
The Black Shore Chapter 14: Paris Breaks Free as Laazia Becomes a Monster on the Bridge
Janeway reaches Engineering through the Jeffries tubes and takes charge. Lieutenant Carey kills warp drive, then impulse. Voyager goes dead in the water. Tuvok confirms the Ryol have no working spacecraft and no transporter range to Ryolanov anymore. Chakotay and Paris bought them that distance.
Bless the Beasts Chapter 24: Micaszia Cuts Darra Blood as Janeway Learns Marima's Secret
The doctor scans the orange darra meat Kes delivered. He starts running tests with analyzers and replicators. Paris tries to get up but the doctor threatens to use him for experiments too.
Day of Honor: B'Elanna's Holodeck Ceremony Goes Completely Wrong
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.
Into the Cavern Beneath Drenar Four With Antimatter
Book: Star Trek: Voyager #7 - Ghost of a Chance
Authors: Mark A. Garland and Charles G. McGraw
ISBN: 0671567985
Janeway Outruns the P'nir to Find the Shuttle
Star Trek: Voyager: Ragnarok
By Nathan Archer
ISBN: 067152044X
Published 1995
Chapter 27 splits the action in two. Up on Voyager’s bridge, Janeway is running a dangerous game of cat and mouse through the battle zone. Down in the wreckage, Chakotay’s shuttle is bleeding air and losing Harry Kim by the minute. The chapter ends the moment those two storylines finally touch.
The Chance Factor Chapter 9: Loss, Realizations and Retrieving the Probe
The next seconds dragged in slow motion. The alien cat raced for easy prey on the trapped ledge. Kathryn could only picture three ways out. Captain Holbrook beams them to safety. The cat turns away. Or someone gets knocked off the cliff.
The Black Shore Chapter 13: Laazia Seizes the Bridge and the Doctor Faces the Empty Ones
Chakotay is in the captain’s chair when the crisis hits, and it hits fast. Susan Tukwila reports to the bridge on time despite her injuries, which gives him a flicker of hope that the crew is pulling together. That hope does not last.
Bless the Beasts Chapter 23: Paris and Kim Return While Marima Fights the Gray Plague
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.
Chrysalis Chapter 15: Tuvok Carries Vok Toward the Awakening
Book: Star Trek: Voyager - Chrysalis
Author: David Niall Wilson
ISBN: 9780671001503
Tuvok wakes on cold stone with a knot on his temple. He hit the wall hard diving into the side tunnel during the quake. Pain is manageable. Kim is not.
Day of Honor: Shipboard Tensions as Voyager Meets the Caatati
Title: Star Trek: Voyager #16 - Day of Honor
Authors: Michael Jan Friedman and Jeri Taylor
ISBN: 978-0671019815
Out in the void, Temmis Rahmin steps onto the bridge of a Caatati survivor ship and tries not to think about hunger. His crew left their home system a year ago. Power is dying. Food is scarce. The viewscreen flickers with static. Then technician Aruun spots something that changes everything: a red blip. An alien vessel traveling at twenty times light speed, and their courses are converging.
Flashback Ch. 18: Janeway Pulls Tuvok Back From Centuries of Guilt
Star Trek: Voyager - Flashback
By Diane Carey
ISBN 0671003836
Previous: Janeway and Kes Enter Tuvok’s Mindscape
Next: The Memory Virus Cover-Up Revealed
Gantel Destroyed by Voyager's Last Photon Torpedoes
Book: Star Trek: Voyager #7 - Ghost of a Chance
Authors: Mark A. Garland and Charles G. McGraw
ISBN: 0671567985
Kim and K't'rien Board the P'nir Ship by Transporter
Star Trek: Voyager: Ragnarok
By Nathan Archer
ISBN: 067152044X
Published 1995
Chapter 26 is the chapter where a transporter hop turns into a horror show. The P’nir energy projector in the hangar is not ready yet. Guards have retreated behind shielded corridors. Only a handful of unarmed workers remain near the assembly. Chakotay decides it is safe enough to drop shields for a moment.
The Chance Factor Chapter 8: The Predator Attack and a Heroic Targ
Aches and pains hit hard the next morning. The team rode up the mountain stiff and sore from the long day before and the cold rocky camp. No one complained out loud. The Chance Factor had been working against them nonstop.
Bless the Beasts Chapter 22: Storm Batters the Boat as Chakotay Locks Onto Paris
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.
Chrysalis Chapter 14: Paris and Kes Storm Kayla's Long Sleep Ceremony
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.
Janeway Returns as Gantel Opens Fire on Voyager
Book: Star Trek: Voyager #7 - Ghost of a Chance
Authors: Mark A. Garland and Charles G. McGraw
ISBN: 0671567985
The Chance Factor Chapter 7: Long Ride, Night Chaos and Camping Mishaps
Kathryn’s body was already complaining after ten hours in the saddle. They had only stopped once to rest and water the animals. The climb through the mountain forest was steady with rocks and brush making it slow. No trail. Jon up ahead was slumping too.
The P'nir Build a Mysterious Energy Projector
Star Trek: Voyager: Ragnarok
By Nathan Archer
ISBN: 067152044X
Published 1995
Chapter 25 is where the siege metaphor stops being a metaphor. Chakotay, Kim, Rollins, and Bereyt are trapped in their shuttle inside a P’nir hangar bay, and the enemy has stopped shooting at them. That sounds like good news until you see what they are building instead.
A Brief Respite Before the Battle Swallows Voyager Again
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.
Bless the Beasts Chapter 21: Darra Toys Spark Debate as Chakotay Scans for Paris
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.
Chrysalis Chapter 13: Paris Climbs Down to Save Kim
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.
The Chance Factor Chapter 6: Landing on Diehr IV and First Arguments
The ride to Diehr IV on the McMurray was weirdly quiet. No more fights between the boys. Endar never apologized for decking Thorn on the dock but the Klingon let it go. They blew off steam playing Parrises Squares with the crew. Everyone hoped the physical mission would keep them too tired to brawl again.
Tuvok's Forest Rescue and the One-Person Transporter Pulse
Book: Star Trek: Voyager #7 - Ghost of a Chance
Authors: Mark A. Garland and Charles G. McGraw
ISBN: 0671567985
Bless the Beasts Chapter 20: A Darra Lifts Kim as Chakotay Finds a Clue
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.
Chrysalis Chapter 12: Tunnel Ambush, Kim Falls, and Janeway Beams Home
Book: Star Trek: Voyager - Chrysalis
Author: David Niall Wilson
ISBN: 9780671001503
Ban knows he cannot beat Starfleet in a straight fight. Surprise is his only play. He sends groups left and right to box Janeway’s party in while he trails from behind. His people know these tunnels. The visitors do not.
Dozens of P'nir Guns Point at the Shuttle
Star Trek: Voyager: Ragnarok
By Nathan Archer
ISBN: 067152044X
The standoff from Chapter 23 does not improve. It gets worse in very P’nir-specific ways.
Reading Day of Honor: A Voyager Novel About B'Elanna Torres and Klingon Courage
I picked up Day of Honor because I wanted a Voyager story that goes deep on B’Elanna Torres. Not a side plot. Not a cameo. The whole book is built around her Klingon half, her childhood wounds, and a holiday she has spent her whole life dreading.
Televek Treachery on Voyager's Bridge and B'Elanna's Trap
Book: Star Trek: Voyager #7 - Ghost of a Chance
Authors: Mark A. Garland and Charles G. McGraw
ISBN: 0671567985
The Chance Factor Chapter 5: Beaming Up and Finding Purpose
A rush of excitement hit Kathryn when Captain Holbrook showed up on the cargo dock. She had Tango the quarter horse and Fiona the hawk in her travel cage. The horse was calmer than any of the cadets.
Bless the Beasts Chapter 19: Torres Secures the Ligature but Kim's Rope Snaps
Torres clutches the ligature and almost lets herself think about Chakotay smiling at her for real. She pushes the thought away. Klingon pride and all that. She calls for beam up but her tricorder starts beeping. A signal. Harry and Paris maybe. She cancels the beam.
Chakotay Needs to Talk to the P'nir Captain
Star Trek: Voyager: Ragnarok
By Nathan Archer
ISBN: 067152044X
Chakotay meant what he said at the end of Chapter 21. If they cannot fly out, they have to talk their way out. Chapter 23 opens with him making that case to the shuttle crew.
Chrysalis Chapter 11: Torres Hacks the One Voice and Vok Races Underground
Book: Star Trek: Voyager - Chrysalis
Author: David Niall Wilson
ISBN: 9780671001503
Up on Voyager, things are getting worse fast. Torres has tried every frequency and modulation she can think of. Nothing cuts through the life-force bubbling off Urrytha. The interference is so bad it is messing with ship computers in ways she cannot even trace.
The Chance Factor Chapter 4: Switching Horses and Team Tensions
Kathryn led Pride out knowing this was going to be bad. The big thoroughbred was already sweating and fidgety just from seeing the other animals. The rest of the team was walking their mounts around the paddock like they had this. Endar with his hook spider on his neck. Jon with his bag of sandbats. Thorn and T’Lor with targ and sehlat.
The Shuttle Trap, Tuvok's Infiltration, and Voyager's First Moon Push
Book: Star Trek: Voyager #7 - Ghost of a Chance
Authors: Mark A. Garland and Charles G. McGraw
ISBN: 0671567985
Bless the Beasts Chapter 18: Kim Flies a Hang Glider as Torres Fights for the Ligature
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.
Chakotay Tries to Move a Moon While the Televek Say No
Book: Star Trek: Voyager #7 - Ghost of a Chance
Authors: Mark A. Garland and Charles G. McGraw
ISBN: 0671567985
Paris Flies Voyager Like a Fighter Through Hachai Fire
Star Trek: Voyager: Ragnarok
By Nathan Archer
ISBN: 067152044X
Chapter 22 is pure adrenaline. Tom Paris is flying Voyager like it is a fighter jet in the middle of a war that has eaten star systems for centuries.
The Chance Factor Chapter 3: Meeting the Wild Animal Team
Kathryn walks to the stables the next morning still turning over the talk with Commander Brannon. She didn’t get kicked out. Not yet. Captain Holbrook asked for her because of how she handled the runaway lizard. Brannon thinks the change of scene will help her figure things out better than more counseling.
Janeway the Bear Against the Fury Wolves as the Sun Collapses
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
Bless the Beasts Chapter 17: Tuvok Tricks Borizus and Torres Breaks Into the Building
Kim is spoon feeding soup to Marima on the abandoned Micaszian ship. Paris is trying to figure out how to steer back to Vandorra. Marima perks up enough to give directions. Head toward the sun in the morning.
Harry Kim Lost in the P'nir Ship Maze
Star Trek: Voyager: Ragnarok
By Nathan Archer
ISBN: 067152044X
B’Elanna Torres hates being pulled off the engines, but Janeway’s order is clear. Study the Hachai shields and find a weakness. Carey gets the warp core. Torres gets Tuvok’s sensor analysis.
The Chance Factor Chapter 2: The Lesson of the Chance Factor
Kathryn walks in late to the debrief. Commander Roberts gives her the cold stare. Her face burns. The rest of her team is already there and looking miserable. At least they’re not getting roasted in front of the whole class. Small win.
Twenty-Nine Hours Until Lunar Alignment Destroys Drenar
Book: Star Trek: Voyager #7 - Ghost of a Chance
Authors: Mark A. Garland and Charles G. McGraw
ISBN: 0671567985
Bless the Beasts Chapter 16: Torres Rescues a Darra Protester as Janeway Holds the Line
Torres is on the streets of Vandorra with a wrist beacon hunting the missing ligature. The place feels off right away. People dance in the street but ignore one woman who faints. Two merchants fight over a cab and nobody stops them.
Kim Hides From P'nir in Dark Corridors
Star Trek: Voyager: Ragnarok
By Nathan Archer
ISBN: 067152044X
Chapter 20 splits the action in two. On Voyager, the phasers are useless. In the P’nir ship, Harry Kim is trying not to breathe too loud.
The Chance Factor Chapter 1: Simulation Failure and a Three-Headed Lizard
Kathryn Janeway can’t shake the memory. In the holosimulation, her team was supposed to analyze a poisonous alien microorganism on the U.S.S. Lancaster. Containment field drops because of a power glitch. Tava, the Andorian, misses the warning on her panel. Choy, the Tellarite, freezes up instead of acting fast. Mario Santori is watching the boards but doesn’t jump in with a backup plan.
The Wandering Third Moon Causing Drenar's Quakes
Book: Star Trek: Voyager #7 - Ghost of a Chance
Authors: Mark A. Garland and Charles G. McGraw
ISBN: 0671567985
Janeway Into the Breach as Redbay Threads the Moon
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
The Black Shore Chapter 5: Tom Paris Faces Laazia's Temptation at the Ryol Nightclub
Chapter 5 is where the party planet stops feeling like a harmless vacation and starts feeling like a trap with a really good DJ.
Bless the Beasts Chapter 15: Torres Hunts the Stolen Part While Kolias Falls for Janeway's Holodeck Trick
Torres beams down to the planet. Fresh air feels good. She has a molecular tracer on her wrist and a medical tricorder hidden. Phaser too. She follows the signal for the missing ligature northwest.
Janeway Wakes Among the Drenarians on Drenar Four
Book: Star Trek: Voyager #7 - Ghost of a Chance
Authors: Mark A. Garland and Charles G. McGraw
ISBN: 0671567985
Kim Blasts His Way Through a P'nir Door
Star Trek: Voyager: Ragnarok
By Nathan Archer
ISBN: 067152044X
Harry Kim has been alone in the dark on a P’nir cruiser for a long time. Chapter 18 finally gives him a way forward. He finds the door. He cannot feel a latch anywhere from knee height to the top of his head. So he does what any stranded ensign with a phaser would do. He aims carefully and fires.
The Chance Factor: Kathryn Janeway's Starfleet Academy Story Begins
This book is a young adult Star Trek story. It goes back to when Kathryn Janeway was still a cadet at Starfleet Academy. Not the captain we know from Voyager. Just a driven teen trying to make it through training.
Carey Bends the Shields and Torres Launches Into Fury Space
Previous: Janeway Ambushed in a Passageway and Torres Finds the Answer | Next: Janeway Into the Breach
Star Trek: Voyager - Invasion #4: The Final Fury
By Dafydd ab Hugh
ISBN: 0671541811
Bless the Beasts Chapter 14: Paris and Kim Hijack the Boat but Face Deadly Storm at Sea
Kim hates life on the water. Seasick, bad food, wet clothes. Paris eats like it is fine. Marima is getting weaker every day.
Gantel's Half-Truth and a Televek Fleet on the Way
Book: Star Trek: Voyager #7 - Ghost of a Chance
Authors: Mark A. Garland and Charles G. McGraw
ISBN: 0671567985
Voyager Takes Fire From the Hachai Fleet
Star Trek: Voyager: Ragnarok
By Nathan Archer
ISBN: 067152044X
The Hachai fleet has Voyager boxed in, and Chapter 17 opens with the ship shuddering hard enough that Janeway has to grab a railing just to stay upright. She shouts down to Engineering for more shield power. Down below, it is chaos. Conduits are buckling. The deck vibrates with every hit. B’Elanna Torres is doing a dozen things at once and tells the captain she has already given her everything she can spare.
Bless the Beasts Chapter 13: Darra Secrets Shared as Voyager's Crucial Part Vanishes
Marima drags herself across the deck to sit by Paris. She looks worse. The plague is wearing her down fast. She refuses food and rests in the sun.
Harry Kim Alone Aboard a P'nir Warship
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.
Janeway Stranded on Drenar Four After a Massive Earthquake
Book: Star Trek: Voyager #7 - Ghost of a Chance
Authors: Mark A. Garland and Charles G. McGraw
ISBN: 0671567985
Bless the Beasts Chapter 12: Janeway Confronts Kolias Over the Stolen Tricorder
Janeway and Tuvok question Borizus in the brig. She bluffs hard. Long prison time far from home. No return ever. He starts to crack. Says it is all Kolias fault. He just followed orders to get medical tools.
Chakotay Dives the Shuttle Toward a P'nir Cruiser
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?”
Marooned: A Voyager Novel Retelling Series
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.
The Televek Charm Offensive and Applied Incentives
Book: Star Trek: Voyager #7 - Ghost of a Chance
Authors: Mark A. Garland and Charles G. McGraw
ISBN: 0671567985
Bless the Beasts Chapter 11: Kim and Paris Shackled for Darra Butchering
Kim and Paris wake up to a guard yelling. New work detail. Marima is already up. They get led to a smelly fish hold. Bloody aprons and gloves wait for them.
Chakotay Faces the Televek After Janeway's Shuttle Is Hit
Book: Star Trek: Voyager #7 - Ghost of a Chance
Authors: Mark A. Garland and Charles G. McGraw
ISBN: 0671567985
The Shuttle Gets Swallowed by the Battle
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.
Reading the Black Shore: A Voyager Novel About Paradise That Bites Back
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.
Bless the Beasts Chapter 10: Borizus Vanishes on Voyager as Paris's File Goes Missing
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.
Chakotay's Shuttle Broadcasts a Peace Offer
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.
Janeway's Shuttle Shot Down Over Drenar Four
Book: Star Trek: Voyager #7 - Ghost of a Chance
Authors: Mark A. Garland and Charles G. McGraw
ISBN: 0671567985
Bless the Beasts Chapter 9: Kim Sneaks Food to the Darra and Borizus Heads Back to the Factory
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.
Kes Sees Something Beautiful in the Carnage
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.
The Drosary Advocates Arrive on Voyager
Book: Star Trek: Voyager #7 - Ghost of a Chance
Authors: Mark A. Garland and Charles G. McGraw
ISBN: 0671567985
Bless the Beasts Chapter 8: Paris Fights a Guard and Borizus Collapses on Voyager
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.
Chrysalis: Star Trek Voyager Novel Retelling and Review Series
Voyager is running on fumes. Replicators are broken. Food and water are low. The crew needs a planet, fast. That is where Chrysalis by David Niall Wilson picks up.
Negotiating With Gantel: Televek Arms Dealers at Drenar
Book: Star Trek: Voyager #7 - Ghost of a Chance
Authors: Mark A. Garland and Charles G. McGraw
ISBN: 0671567985
Prime Directive vs Getting Involved in the Battle
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?
Bless the Beasts Chapter 7: Janeway Hunts for the Missing While Kim and Paris Become Hostages
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.
Janeway Offers to Mediate the Ancient War
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.
Janeway's Ghost Vision and the Televek Attack on Voyager
Book: Star Trek: Voyager #7 - Ghost of a Chance
Authors: Mark A. Garland and Charles G. McGraw
ISBN: 0671567985
Chakotay's Bridge Crisis: Starburst Maneuver Into the Sun
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
Bless the Beasts Chapter 6: Torres Ejects the Clumsy Engineer and Paris and Kim Go Missing
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.
Flashback Chapter 1: Neelix's Coffee Experiment and a Bridge Call
Chapter 1 opens in the mess hall, and it’s pure Voyager comfort food before the weird stuff hits. Tuvok is sitting down to breakfast with Neelix, which already tells you this book is going to spend time on character moments, not just plot machinery.
Neelix Explains the Hachai-P'nir War
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.
Voyager Scavenges Fuel While Chakotay Confesses His Vision
Book: Star Trek: Voyager #7 - Ghost of a Chance
Authors: Mark A. Garland and Charles G. McGraw
ISBN: 0671567985
Janeway Wakes as the Kazon Threat Looms
Book: Mosaic | Author: Jeri Taylor | ISBN: 0-671-56312-2
Chapter 3 is a hinge. It’s short. Barely two pages. But it does important work.
Bless the Beasts Chapter 5: Paris and Kim Join the Risky Darra Harvest Raid
In the dim bar Paris and Kim try the local drink. Marima, Kolias’s daughter from the reception, slides in and buys them another round. She asks about their ship and travels. They dodge the tech questions.
Chakotay's Ghost Dream and Voyager's Brown Dwarf Crash
Book: Star Trek: Voyager #7 - Ghost of a Chance
Authors: Mark A. Garland and Charles G. McGraw
ISBN: 0671567985
The Hachai and P'nir Battle Erupts Around Voyager
Star Trek: Voyager: Ragnarok
By Nathan Archer
ISBN: 067152044X
Chapter 8 opens with Voyager hanging almost motionless inside a cloud of ionized metal dust, safely out of weapons range while thousands of ships tear into each other a few light-seconds away. The bridge crew watches. That is the whole situation. And it is terrifying.
Bless the Beasts Chapter 4: Harry Kim Hears the Plague Song and a Fortune Teller's Warning
Harry Kim is wide eyed in the market. Tall Sardalians everywhere, strange music, warm gems for sale. He buys pendants for his mom and girlfriend. He is thinking about home and all the stories he will tell.
Ghost of a Chance: Voyager Novel Retelling Series Intro
Book: Star Trek: Voyager #7 - Ghost of a Chance
Authors: Mark A. Garland and Charles G. McGraw
ISBN: 0671567985
Voyager Discovers a First Federation Derelict
Star Trek: Voyager: Ragnarok
By Nathan Archer
ISBN: 067152044X
Okay, the slug says First Federation derelict, but Chapter 7 is really about the moment the book’s title starts making sense. Janeway gets dragged out of a nightmare where Mark and her dog were mummified in a tunnel. Bridge to captain. She checks the clock. They should still be in interstellar void. Why is she needed?
Janeway's Daydream Ends in a Delta Quadrant Plasma Storm
Book: Mosaic | Author: Jeri Taylor | ISBN: 0-671-56312-2
Chapter 1 opens with Janeway lying on fluffy white bushes on an unnamed planet. For a minute it feels like Indiana. Warm air. Grass smell. Insects humming. She lets herself pretend she’s home, not sixty-eight thousand light-years away with everyone’s lives on her shoulders.
Bless the Beasts Chapter 3: Shore Leave on Sardalia and Torres Gets a Useless Engineer
Janeway stares at the viewscreen and sees why everyone is hooked on this planet. Vandorra looks clean and green with nice buildings and parks. The people move slow and look a little gaunt though. Kolias’s collapse still bothers her.
The War Left Behind a Stripped, Lifeless Planet
Star Trek: Voyager: Ragnarok
By Nathan Archer
ISBN: 067152044X
Chapter 6 is short, but it might be the most emotional chapter so far. No away team. No red alert. Just Voyager passing another dead world and two exhausted officers talking honestly.
Violations Chapter 1: The Kapon Gas Attack
Star Trek: Voyager #4 - Violations
By Susan Wright
ISBN: 0671520466
Chapter 1 is the rug-pull. Everything before it is negotiation. Everything after is damage control.
Mosaic: The Voyager Novel That Builds Janeway Piece by Piece
Book: Mosaic | Author: Jeri Taylor | ISBN: 0-671-56312-2
I’m starting a chapter-by-chapter walk through of Mosaic, the first Star Trek: Voyager novel. Jeri Taylor wrote it. She helped create the show. That matters. This isn’t random tie-in fluff. It’s the person who shaped Janeway on TV trying to explain where that captain came from.
Bless the Beasts Chapter 2: Janeway's Awkward Reception With Sardalia's Lord Councillor
The plaza on Vandorra is pretty. Orange leaves, fountain, tall locals in silver outfits with braids and tattoos around their golden eyes. Chakotay and Tuvok arrive by transporter. The Sardalians act like this happens every day even though they claim to be a regular stop for other freighters.
Janeway Slows Down in a Dead Star System
Star Trek: Voyager: Ragnarok
By Nathan Archer
ISBN: 067152044X
Chapter 5 slows the pace, literally. Janeway orders impulse as Voyager nears another system. Neelix mutters that if she insists on crossing the cluster, she could at least do it faster. Nothing alive out here except the Hachai and P’nir, and you will not get supplies from them.
Bless the Beasts Chapter 1: Voyager Faces a Dilithium Crisis and First Contact
Voyager is in trouble. The dilithium isn’t recrystallizing right and power levels are dropping fast. Torres gives them maybe twenty six hours before warp capability is at risk.
Star Trek Voyager Violations: A Chapter-by-Chapter Retelling
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.
Voyager Finds a Planet Smashed Into an Asteroid Belt
Star Trek: Voyager: Ragnarok
By Nathan Archer
ISBN: 067152044X
Chapter 4 might be the hardest chapter in the opening stretch. The last system had boiled planets and stripped metal. This one used to have a habitable world. Now it has an asteroid belt and three gas giants.
Bless the Beasts: Star Trek Voyager Novel Chapter by Chapter Review
Voyager is stuck in the Delta Quadrant. Seventy thousand light years from home. They need dilithium to keep going. That’s how this story starts.
Neelix Fights Janeway on Heading Into War
Star Trek: Voyager: Ragnarok
By Nathan Archer
ISBN: 067152044X
If you thought Neelix would give up after Janeway set course into the Kuriyar Cluster, Chapter 3 says hello. He is waiting the second she steps back on the bridge. Captain, please reconsider. Hachai and P’nir warships could be anywhere. They have exhausted entire planets building fleets.
A Tetryon Beam Scans Voyager and Everything Changes
Star Trek: Voyager: Ragnarok
By Nathan Archer
ISBN: 067152044X
Chapter 2 picks up right after red alert. Lights dim. Janeway grips the railing and asks Kim if he reads a displacement wave anywhere.
Neelix Warns Janeway About the Kuriyar Cluster
Star Trek: Voyager: Ragnarok
By Nathan Archer
ISBN: 067152044X
Chapter 1 opens on a rare quiet moment aboard Voyager. Repairs are ongoing, the crew is short-handed as always, but nobody is dying right now. Engines work. Life support works. The hydroponics bay is doing fine. Janeway is on the bridge with Neelix, studying star charts and thinking about the long trip home.
Starting a Retelling of Star Trek: Voyager - Ragnarok
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.