Star Trek: The Next Generation

Star Trek: The Next Generation rebuilt the franchise for a new era, trading the cowboy swagger of the original for a more diplomatic, ensemble-driven vision of Starfleet under Captain Picard. The 1987 series is the spine here, and this collection shows how far its universe spread onto the page.

The tie-in novels do real work expanding the show's ideas: Q-Squared and Q-In-Law play with the franchise's trickster god, the Dominion War and the Time-To books deepen the political fallout the series and films set up, and entries like Kahless dig into Klingon mythology. The screen items, the Journey's End retrospective and the feature-length cut of The Best of Both Worlds, point back to the episodes fans hold up as the show's peak. It reads best as proof that this crew's stories outgrew their seven TV seasons.

The Star Trek: The Next Generation franchise spans 1 series, 17 books, 2 films in the CrossBinge catalog.