^Not the same thing.  We read or watch series fiction for its characters and storylines.  The ship is just a setting.  There are Sherlock Holmes stories set during times when Holmes wasn't residing at 221B Baker Street, but that doesn't make them any less Sherlock Holmes stories, because they still featured the main characters. 

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who gives the books their tittles. 

Besides its kind of hard to claim the characters are that big in making something a Star Trek book, when a TOS changed the cast three times. 

Plus the characters and storylines argument also falls apart when you remember TNG didn't have the TOS cast, DS9 only had two TNG characters, VOY didn't have the TNG or DS9 cast, and ENT didn't have the VOY, TNG, or DS9 casts and yet their still considered Star Trek. 

^You're all over the place there.  All you're showing is that there's no universal rule where titles are concerned, that it's an enormous mistake to confuse the label of a thing with its contents.  What Greg suggested about a Holmes "spinoff" is nothing like what I'm doing with Rise of the Federation.  I should know, because I wrote the darn thing.  Your analogy between them is completely wrong because you're fixating on the titles rather than the content. 

I admit I am waaaaaaaaaay (like, probably a decade) behind on my Trek Lit reading, but has anything ever been written about Spock's plan for Vulcan/Romulan Re-Unification?  I always liked Spock's appearances in TNG, but when he got sucked back in time in ST09, I couldn't help thinking about his life's work that he left behind in the Prime Universe. 

I admit I am waaaaaaaaaay (like, probably a decade) behind on my Trek Lit reading, but has anything ever been written about Spock's plan for Vulcan/Romulan Re-Unification?  I always liked Spock's appearances in TNG, but when he got sucked back in time in ST09, I couldn't help thinking about his life's work that he left behind in the Prime Universe. 

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Various Typhon Pact novels feature Spock on Romulus, including Rough Beasts of Empire. 

I admit I am waaaaaaaaaay (like, probably a decade) behind on my Trek Lit reading, but has anything ever been written about Spock's plan for Vulcan/Romulan Re-Unification?  I always liked Spock's appearances in TNG, but when he got sucked back in time in ST09, I couldn't help thinking about his life's work that he left behind in the Prime Universe. 

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Various Typhon Pact novels feature Spock on Romulus, including Rough Beasts of Empire. 

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More than that, the arc has actually been carried forward, rather than waiting in limbo. 

I'd love to see a definitive "Ro Laren's history" story.  I've been told there are one or two versions out there about what happened on Garon II that made her such a disgrace in Starfleet at the time of her introduction on TNG, but somewhere in the DS9 post finale novels there was a scene where Vaughn told her "I know what really happened" that seemed like a tease for an eventual definitive version of that part of her history.