Star Trek: New Earth

Series of Star Trek novels

Star Trek: New Earth is a series of interlinked novels inspired by Gene Roddenberry's original pitch for Star Trek: "Wagon train to the stars." Created by John J. Ordover, the novels follow the crew of the Enterprise as they escort a colonial expedition into a hostile region of unexplored space. The novels occur during the second five year mission, sometime between the episode "Turnabout Intruder" and Star Trek: The Motion Picture. The series was intended to be the springboard for a flagship new book line similar to Star Trek: New Frontier, called Star Trek: Challenger.

John J. Ordover told Jeff Ayers, in Voyages of Imagination (2006), the concept for New Earth originated as "a personal reaction to Voyager."

Michelle Green of Little Review wrote, New Earth was "fun to read, with several compelling plots unfolding at once[,] and the original Enterprise crew having a lot of fun in between heroics." Jeff Millward commented Challenger was, "a pretty good ending to an extremely long series." However, his wish was that "nobody writes a story that spans [six] novels again" after offering less enthusiastic reviews for the previous books in the series. Randall Landers of Orion Press praised Carey's abilities as a storyteller, in Challenger. But, he noted, Carey's "purple prose" limited the appeal of the novel.

No. (Number)TitleAuthor(s)ReleasedISBN1Wagon Train to the StarsDiane CareyJune 20002Belle TerreDean Wesley Smith and Diane Carey3Rough TrailsL. A. GrafJuly 20004The Flaming ArrowKathy Oltion and Jerry Oltion5Thin AirKristine Kathryn Rusch and Dean Wesley SmithAugust 20006ChallengerDiane Carey