Probably not the best, but I enjoyed the novelization of Star Trek IV. You get to actually see what the probe is thinking from its point of view, which was fun and super interesting.

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Who wrote the novelization?

No idea. I read it when I was like 12.

Vonda N McIntyre is one of the strongest Star Trek writers of that era.

She was very successful in writing her own original science fiction novels and short stories. She was a collaborator of Ursula LeGuin and a leader in a group of writers in the Northwest.

Here’s a TOR feature retrospective of her work.

A Brief Guide to the Extraordinary Fiction of Vonda N. McIntyre

“Vonda McIntyre writes science fiction.” So sings the author’s pithy bio at the magazine Strange Horizons. Yet the contributions of the science fiction and fantasy icon and founder of Clarion West …

Tor.com