Look at the collaborators. Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens. Two of the more prolific Star Trek writers. Then if you actually read the books, there are so so many things in the books that you would have to be a TRUE fan to know, and were talking Next Generation, Deep Space 9 AND Voyager. SHatner doesnt even really care for HIS Star Trek. They had to have been written by someone else. Real fans.