Star Trek: Vanguard
Star Trek: Vanguard is a series of Star Trek books set during the time period of the original television series. It consists of seven novels, one novella collection, and one eBook.
A Starfleet Corps of Engineers eBook, Distant Early Warning, also acts as a prequel to the Vanguard storyline. The current novel series Star Trek: Seekers acts as a sequel to Vanguard.
Premise
The books largely take place on board the Federation space station Starbase 47, also known as "Vanguard", which serves as a support facility for a colonization push by the United Federation of Planets into an interstellar expanse called the Taurus Reach. While the station does in fact help colonies across the area, its true mission is to study a mystery that began with the discovery of genetically engineered DNA millions of times more complex than any previously encountered, known as the Taurus Meta-Genome.In its effort to understand the Meta-Genome, Starbase 47 has three vessels permanently assigned to it, the Constitution-class cruiser USS Endeavour, the tiny Archer-class scout USS Sagittarius, and the Daedalus-class Starfleet Corps of Engineers starship USS Lovell. Another starship, the USS Bombay, was destroyed during the events of Harbinger. In addition to the mission, those who know of Vanguard's true nature must also prevent others from becoming aware of the situation, especially the Klingon Empire and the Tholian Assembly, both of whom have interests in the region and are suspicious of the Federation's presence.
While the majority of the characters featured in the first novels are original to this series, the Vulcan lieutenant commander T'Prynn appeared in two other Star Trek novels—the ' novel The Art of the Impossible by Keith DeCandido, and ' novels Lesser Evil, by Robert Simpson, and Unity, by S. D. Perry. In addition, petty officer Razka first appears in the novel A Time to Kill by David Mack, and Carol Marcus from appears at the end of the same novel.
Novels
Declassified is an anthology of four novellas. In Tempest's Wake was published as an ebook exclusive.| Title | Author | Date | ISBN | |
| 1 | Harbinger | David Mack | ||
| 2 | Summon the Thunder | Dayton Ward and Kevin Dilmore | ||
| 3 | Reap the Whirlwind | David Mack | ||
| 4 | Open Secrets | Dayton Ward | ||
| 5 | Precipice | David Mack | ||
| 6 | Declassified | Dayton Ward, Kevin Dilmore,Marco Palmieri, and David Mack. | ||
| 7 | What Judgements Come | Dayton Ward and Kevin Dilmore | ||
| 8 | Storming Heaven | David Mack | ||
| — | In Tempest's Wake | Dayton Ward |
Seekers (2014–15)
Star Trek: Seekers is a continuation of Vanguard.| Title | Author | Date | ISBN | |
| 1 | Second Nature | David Mack | ||
| 2 | Point of Divergence | Dayton Ward and Kevin Dilmore | ||
| 3 | Long Shot | David Mack | ||
| 4 | All That's Left | Dayton Ward and Kevin Dilmore |