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The Almighty Star Trek Lit-verse Reading Order Flow Chart

TrekBBS user Thrawn constructed an intricate flow chart to help you navigate the many Star Trek novels by where they fit into the continuity of the Star Trek universe. The screenshot here is just a small corner of the huge chart.

Whether you're a fan of TNG, DS9, Voyager, or Enterprise the chart below will show how they spin off into New Frontier, Titan, Klingon Empire, or Vanguard, and crossover into Destiny, Typhon Pact, The Fall, Mirror Universe, and more; letting you chart your own path through the Trek-litverse. Once you've got to grips with the flow chart you might also find some of my lists a useful reference too.

The chart encourages a reader to start anywhere they like, as the novels themselves fill you in on what you need to know. However, the chart will help you to decide what to read next and how the stories fit with each other. There aren’t many novels included from the era of Kirk and Spock, just a few that were set after the movie era began. More reading suggestions can be found with the chart at the Trek Collective. -via Metafilter

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The Almighty Star Trek Lit-Verse Reading Order

With upwards of 500 novels in publication, it’s no surprise that many people are confused about the continuity of the Star Trek novels. With the help of   TrekBBS user Thrawn , there is now a fantastic aid called the  Star Trek Lit-Verse Reading Order Flowchart . Click the image below to see it in full size.

Don’t know where to begin? Here are some suggested jumping off points from The Trek Collective themselves:

• If you want to get straight into the modern prose continuity the  Destiny  crossover trilogy is a great place to jump in, leading to stories from several series set after it. One step back from Destiny  is  Articles of the Federation , which is the perfect introduction to the world of Federation politics which becomes prominent in  Destiny  and beyond.
• DS9  was the first series to enjoy a post-TV relaunch; the main new  DS9  adventures start from  Avatar . If you’d prefer to jump ahead to the  more recent  DS9  stories  they have a good jumping on point comes after  Destiny , in  Rough Beasts of Empire .
• The ongoing  TNG  narrative really starts from the  A Time to…  series, but you could jump on from the first book set after  Nemesis ,  Death in Winter . The other branch of  TNG ,  Titan , gets going from  Taking Wing .
• Voyager ‘s first post- Endgame  stories start from  Homecoming , but the series got something of a second start later with  Full Circle .
• Enterprise ‘s post finale adventures begin from  The Good That Men Do . This series also has secondary relaunch with the post  Romulan War  era in  A Choice of Futures .
• While there isn’t such a solid ongoing narrative for  TOS , 23rd century fans can start  Vanguard  from  Harbinger . There is also a small run of  TOS  stories set after  The Motion Picture , those start from  Ex Machina .

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The Almighty Star Trek Lit-verse Reading Order Flow Chart, Mark II!

Discussion in ' Trek Literature ' started by 8of5 , Dec 5, 2012 .

8of5 Fleet Captain Fleet Captain

I'm sure many of you are aware of Thrawn's fantastic flow chart to guide us through the interconnectivity of the lit-verse. That was made nearly a year ago, so it felt like time to make the next version, adding on the latest releases (and few not out yet), and adding in some more of the related older books, as well as finding room for New Frontier. Thrawn has been helping me refine the mark II, which has now been released onto the page on my blog where I host it . I hope you all continue to find it a useful guide. Thanks once again to Thrawn for creating it in the first place!  

Markonian Fleet Admiral Moderator

Re: The Almighty Star Trek Lit-verse Reading Order Flow Chart, Mark II Thank you for updating the Almighty Reading Order Flow Chart! It is useful to keep track of new novels and will also help me finding the right order when I start reading older series.  

Thrawn Rear Admiral Premium Member

Re: The Almighty Star Trek Lit-verse Reading Order Flow Chart, Mark II This is really an awesome piece of work; much better than mine. 8of5 did a great job! This is the best community, I swear. I did monthly review threads with identical polls for a couple years - along comes Sho, taking all those, standardizing them, and writing a program to collect and compare them. Boom. I do a flowchart to explain some continuity concepts - along comes 8of5, to host and vastly improve it. You people are cool.  

ryan123450 Rear Admiral Rear Admiral

Re: The Almighty Star Trek Lit-verse Reading Order Flow Chart, Mark II I really like this flowchart. Even better than the first! Makes me want to hurry up with my big chronological reading lists website.  

Deranged Nasat Vice Admiral Admiral

Re: The Almighty Star Trek Lit-verse Reading Order Flow Chart, Mark II Very nice work.  

Turtletrekker Admiral Admiral

CaptainDonovin Fleet Captain Fleet Captain

Re: The Almighty Star Trek Lit-verse Reading Order Flow Chart, Mark II Gotta say that's pretty impressive. Beautifully done.  

JD Fleet Admiral Admiral

Re: The Almighty Star Trek Lit-verse Reading Order Flow Chart, Mark II Awesome stuff.  

Garrovick Commander Red Shirt

Re: The Almighty Star Trek Lit-verse Reading Order Flow Chart, Mark II Thanks so much for updating this! Great work!  

bbailey861 Admiral Admiral

Re: The Almighty Star Trek Lit-verse Reading Order Flow Chart, Mark II Nicely done and so easy to follow. Merci.  

DigificWriter Vice Admiral Admiral

Re: The Almighty Star Trek Lit-verse Reading Order Flow Chart, Mark II I like the flow-chart, although I personally would've included more than a single direct 'link-line' from the DS9-R to its Typhon Pact continuations (RBoE, ZSG, PoN, and RtD) and placed the latter four in chronological order.  

shanejayell Captain Captain

Re: The Almighty Star Trek Lit-verse Reading Order Flow Chart, Mark II That is pretty cool.  

Re: The Almighty Star Trek Lit-verse Reading Order Flow Chart, Mark II DigificWriter said: ↑ [...] (RBoE, ZSG, PoN, and RtD) and placed the latter four in chronological order. Click to expand...

rfmcdpei Fleet Captain Fleet Captain

Re: The Almighty Star Trek Lit-verse Reading Order Flow Chart, Mark II The Reeves-Stevens' Millennium should be listed with DS9. Spectacular job!  

Sho Fleet Captain Fleet Captain

Re: The Almighty Star Trek Lit-verse Reading Order Flow Chart, Mark II Great work!  

Skywalker Admiral Admiral

Re: The Almighty Star Trek Lit-verse Reading Order Flow Chart, Mark II Awesome work! Thrawn 's original flowchart helped me put together a chronological list of the novels because that's how I wanted to read them for some reason. It's nice to see someone take that chart and update/refine it further.  

Snaploud Admiral Admiral

Re: The Almighty Star Trek Lit-verse Reading Order Flow Chart, Mark II Great job!  

vorador33 Lieutenant Junior Grade Red Shirt

Re: The Almighty Star Trek Lit-verse Reading Order Flow Chart, Mark II Fantastic! This is very helpful thanks.  

Sci Fleet Admiral Admiral

Re: The Almighty Star Trek Lit-verse Reading Order Flow Chart, Mark II Great job!!  

Patrick O'Brien Captain Captain

Re: The Almighty Star Trek Lit-verse Reading Order Flow Chart, Mark II You guys did an awesome job  

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Lit-verse reading order flowchart, now even more almighty.

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The Almighty Reading Order Flow Chart is terribly helpful to me for what to read next, and I love you for making (and continuing to remake) it! However, it's an Almighty Mess for suggesting how to organize all my Star Trek books on the shelves! How do you do it?

hahaha! Oh I know! I generally have a hybrid chronological order/series arrangement. So I try and keep the series in blocks, but also split them up in TV and movie eras, and books after major evens like Destiny and The Fall. Mine go like this: Enterprise, Pike era, TOS TV era, TOS move era, Lost Era, pre-TNG, TNG TV era, TNG movie era, DS9 TV era, Voyager TV era, New Frontier, SCE, early DS9 relaunch, first Voyager relaunch, A Time To... Articles, Titan, TNG relaunch, Destiny. Then I used Destiny as a new starting point, so I've got the various TNG, Titan and other books in more or less chronological order, the Voyager relaunch, Typhon Pact, DTI, Cold Equations, The Fall, post-The Fall books. !!!

LIKE! Keep it up!

I really appreciate yours and Thrawn's efforts in the initial development of it and even more so in keeping this chart updated. I refer to the chart quite often to see where a book I'm reading fits in. You both have done such a wonderful job and in my opinion the charts value is priceless. Kevin aka Ktrek

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