Ever since James Blish first wrote novelisations of Star Trek episodes back in the 60s, fans have enjoyed reading adventures of their favourite Starfleet crews almost as much as watching them. These novelisations expanded into original novels, and as the number of readers grew so did the number of authors. Over the decades there have been countless writers to have their works published under the hallowed Star Trek banner, with many who have written adventures for the various Starships (and stations) over the past few years alone. Ever since J.J. Abrams and co. gave big screen Star Trek a brand spanking new parallel universe to play in, it has been up to the prose writers to continue the adventures of the five TV series, and here is the best of those who do so in various page turning ways.