Looking for Good Sources on TOS-only Stuff?

[cheimison]

I've been working for a few months now on a GURPS 4E/Prime Directive campaign, using the GURPS/PD rules (slightly modified from the standard PD GURPS) but I'm basically ignoring all the Star Fleet Universe stuff and just going with an Original Series/TAS/novel Universe. I've been trying to find some good summaries of this but most of it (Memory Alpha) has a bunch of stuff worked in from the later shows and movies that I have no interest in including/reflecting. As far as I'm concerned Klingons are still dudes with beards and spray-tans and Romulans look exactly like Vulcans except for their outfits, so I'm not even really taking account of the original-cast movies. I do like some of the various TOS-era novels so I'll be using bits and pieces of that, but basically what I am looking for is something that summarizes the stuff contained/explained in the TOS/TAS era stuff with no reference to later interpolation and interpretation.

It's pretty easy to find summaries of the novels online but I haven't found an integrated treatment of the novels. Memory Beta comes closest, but like Memory Alpha it includes later series/movies and books based on those timelines, whereas what I'm really looking for is something that takes the various Ballentine, Pocket Books, etc. altogether. I suspect this doesn't exist, since Paramount, et. al. don't even acknowledge the novels as having any canonicity, but I figured I'd ask, anyway.

[aramis]

The problem with the novels is that they were not all consistent to each other. EG: Vondra Macintire's Dreadnought pulls elements from the SFU; not surprising, she was an SFB player and playtester. John M. Ford pulls from FASA-Trek.

Oh, and there were over a hundred novels.

Memory Beta has a lot more of the novels, tho'.

[Falconer]

I gotta get into the TOS novels. I wish they were a little better known, because they are rather hard to systematize. Like, if you’re trying to get into Star Wars novels, it doesn’t take long to figure out what “the good ones” are, and what the eras and mini-canons are. Trek is rather more of a jumble. I’ve started to collect some.

[cheimison]

Apr 20, 2018 21:35:27 GMT -5 Falconer said:

I gotta get into the TOS novels. I wish they were a little better known, because they are rather hard to systematize. Like, if you’re trying to get into Star Wars novels, it doesn’t take long to figure out what “the good ones” are, and what the eras and mini-canons are. Trek is rather more of a jumble. I’ve started to collect some.

I've read quite a few of the Original Series novels, but mainly I'm looking for something that treats their contents in a systematic way (and as Aramis mentions they aren't consistent).
I liked Web of the Romulans.