Michael Jan Friedman
Michael Jan Friedman is an experienced author who specializes in both fiction and nonfiction. The author of more than seventy books, eleven of his titles have appeared on the New York Times bestseller list and half of his work takes place in the Star Trek universe. He has also worked on cable television and radio and has an original DC superhero series, the Darkstars.
All Books By Michael Jan Friedman
All Good Things…
- By: Michael Jan Friedman
- Narrator: Jonathan Frakes
- Length: 2 hours 55 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 1994
- Language: English
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3.91(990 ratings)
Seven years ago, Captain Jean-Luc Picard first faced the judgment of the Q Continuum — a race of beings with God-like powers over time and space who presumed to gauge humanity’s fitness to exist in the galaxy. Seven years ago they suspended judgment, but now a decision has been reached: The human race will be eliminated, not only in the present, but throughout time. Humanity will never have existed at all.
The only chance to save mankind lies with Captain Picard. An old enemy has granted him the power to revisit his life as it was seven years before, and to experience his life twenty-five years in the future. With the help of friendships that span time and space, Picard struggles to defeat the plans of the Q Continuum. But even as he fights to save the human race from total extinction, he has been set up to be the unwitting agent of mankind’s destruction.
In an effort to save humanity, Picard must sacrifice himself and all those he commands and if their sacrifice fails all mankind is doomed.
Crossover
- By: Michael Jan Friedman
- Narrator: Jonathan Frakes
- Length: 3 hours 0 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 1995
- Language: English
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3.75(1078 ratings)
Ambassador Spock continues his mission to unify the Romulan and Vulcan peoples, but is captured by a Romulan spy. Starfleet dispatches its best ship, the U.S.S. EnterpriseTM 1701-D, and its most respected captain, Jean-Luc Picard, to secure the release of the ambassador. Ambassador McCoy, now over 140 years old, is also sent to assist in the negotiations. But the situation becomes further complicated when another of Spock’s former shipmates, Montgomery “Scotty” Scott confiscates an out-of-service starship and effects his own daring rescue of his friend.
... Read moreFantastic Four
- By: Michael Jan Friedman
- Narrator: Andrew Eiden
- Length: 7 hours 37 minutes
- Publisher: Marvel
- Publish date: February 08, 2022
- Language: English
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3.18(69 ratings)
When three of the Fantastic Four are lured into the Negative Zone by the evil Blastaar, the Invisible Woman enlists the Silver Surfer to help. But they face an even greater threat: Prodigion, a destroyer of worlds akin to Galactus, the planet devourer to whom the Surfer was once Herald. Can the Surfer atone for his past actions with Galactus? And is Prodigion truly a Negative Zone version of Galactus… or is the truth more deadly than even the world’s greatest heroes can imagine?
... Read moreKahless
- By: Michael Jan Friedman
- Narrator: Kevin Conway
- Length: 2 hours 36 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 1996
- Language: English
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3.64(511 ratings)
For 1500 years, the Klingons have revered him as their first emperor, the legendary warrior who united their people and taught them the meaning of honor, but the truth of his incredible life has been shrouded in myth and fables… until now.
A clone of the original Kahless now reigns as emperor, but the discovery of an ancient scroll throws the legends into doubt and threatens to tear the Klingon empire apart. Surrounded by treachery and rumors of revolt, this new Kahless can trust no one – except Captain Jean-Luc Picard and Lieutenant Worf of the U.S.S. Enterprise.
Reunion
- By: Michael Jan Friedman
- Narrator: Gates McFadden
- Length: 2 hours 49 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2013
- Language: English
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3.66(1322 ratings)
Before he commanded the Starship Enterprise, Jean-Luc Picard was the captain of the deep space exploration vessel, the U.S.S. Stargazer, on an incredible twenty-two year voyage. Now Picard is reunited with his old crew for the first time in over a decade, on a mission to see his former first officer installed as ruler of the Daa’Vit Empire.
The reunion turns deadly when a ruthless assassin begins eliminating the U.S.S. Stargazer crew one by one. Picard’s present and former shipmates must join forces to solve the mystery of the Captain’s past, before the killer strikes again.
Shadows of the Sun
- By: Michael Jan Friedman
- Narrator: James Doohan
- Length: 3 hours 1 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 1993
- Language: English
As a young doctor with a beautiful family and a promising medical career, Dr. Leonard McCoy thought he had it all. But when the woman he loved betrayed him, McCoy fled to Starfleet, hoping to lose his pain in the depths of space. Now, more than forty years later, the EnterpriseTM and her crew are ordered to transport a group of mediators to the planet Ssan, a world where assassination is a time-honored tradition, and McCoy is surprised to learn that his ex-wife, now remarried, is one of the mediators. And before he can come to terms with his conflicted feelings for his former love, she and Captain Kirk are trapped on Susan, and McCoy is caught in an explosive civil war, the only one with the power to save the woman who once nearly destroyed him.
... Read moreStar Trek: Faces of Fire
- By: Michael Jan Friedman
- Narrator: Bibi Besch
- Length: 2 hours 54 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 1992
- Language: English
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3.49(438 ratings)
En route to Alpha Malurian Six to settle a dispute between two religions, the U.S.S. EnterpriseTM first stops to do a routine check on the progress of a terraforming colony on Beta Canzandia Three, a colony whose inhabitants include Carol and David Marcus.
Spock is left behind at the terraforming colony to continue his scientific studies and the rest of the crew heads to Alpha Malurian Six to find the dispute has turned to war.
As Kirk, McCoy, and Scotty search for a solution to end the conflict, a ship piloted by a Klingon faction arrives at the terraforming colony to take control of the facility. When colonists are imprisoned, and Spock and David must defeat the Klingons or face certain death.
STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION: RELICS
- By: Michael Jan Friedman
- Narrator: James Doohan
- Length: 2 hours 13 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2013
- Language: English
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3.73(670 ratings)
The U.S.S. EnterpriseTM discovers the wreckage of a starship upon the monstrous surface of a Dyson sphere, an artificially-constructed habitat built around a star; and preserved in a weak transporter pattern is Starfleet engineering legend Montgomery “Scotty” Scott. Mr. Scott boards the Enterprise to find himself lost in a world that he barely recognizes, a world that has passed him by.
But soon the Enterprise finds itself trapped within the Dyson sphere and pulled into the star, and Scotty must work with Lt. Geordi La Forge to rescue the Enterprise.
The Ultimates
- By: Michael Jan Friedman
- Narrator: Richard Rohan
- Length: 5 hours 6 minutes
- Publisher: Marvel
- Publish date: October 22, 2019
- Language: English
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3.54(208 ratings)
The Ultimates–the first government-sponsored cadre of Super Heroes–was assembled to face threats to humanity too insanely powerful for other operatives to handle. Led by a general who gave an eye in the service of his country, the super-powered roster includes a billionaire playboy in a high-tech suit of armor, a World War II super-soldier whom fate has thrust into the twenty-first century, an environmentalist icon who claims to be an ancient Norse god, and a scientist whose mutant powers allow her to shrink to the stature of an insect. But even the Ultimates are unprepared for a quintet of mysterious visitors who appear in the midst of the team’s top-security base of operations, claiming to be emissaries from the future. These Tomorrow Men say Earth’s civilization are at a crossroads–on the verge of enslavement by a secret, immensely efficient organization known in the future as Tiber. Only the Ultimates have the skills and the firepower to ferret Tiber out of its nests around the world and crush its plans for global conquest. But there is much more the Tomorrow Men will not say. After all, they don’t want to alter the timeline any more than they have to. But wealthy Tony Stark, A.K.A Iron Man, is dying by degrees of an incurable medical condition. For him, the temptation to make an additional change in the timeline may be too great to ignore–even though mankind’s future might be damaged in the process. GraphicAudio(r) Production.
... Read moreThe Valiant
- By: Michael Jan Friedman
- Narrator: Anthony Stewart Head
- Length: 2 hours 50 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2000
- Language: English
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3.57(455 ratings)
Three hundred years ago, the S.S. Valiant was destroyed during an ill-fated attempted to cross the legendary Galactic Barrier. Starfleet had always assumed that the Valiant had perished with all hands aboard, until a pair of unusual humanoids arrive at Starbase 209, claiming to be the descendants of a handful of Valiant survivors who found refuge on an M-Class planet beyond the Barrier.
Even more shocking, the visitors warn that a hostile alien species, the Nuyyad, are preparing to invade our galaxy. Starfleet orders the U.S.S. Stargazer to investigate at once.
Lieutenant Commander Jean-Luc Picard is second office on the Stargazer and yet to command a vessel of his own. He soon develops a special bond with one of the visitors, a strikingly beautiful woman who has inherited mysterious psychic abilities from her alleged Starfleet ancestors. But can Picard truly trust her?
His doubts deepen when the Stargazer is ambushed by Nuyyad warships. Picard finds himself in command – trapped on the wrong side of the Barrier, cut off from Starfleet. Not only the Stargazer, but perhaps the entire Federation, may depend on the decisions he must make.
The Valiant is a gripping saga that explores an untold chapter in the life of Jean-Luc Picard – and reveals the making of a captain!