^^It just struck me: you can't be home sick and homesick at the same time. 
Hmm.
Hmm.
Your first Trek novel?
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Star Trek #63: Shell Game by Melissa Crandall.
^^It just struck me: you can't be home sick and homesick at the same time.
And that's when I phasered him, your honor.
My first Trek book was James Blish's Star Trek 10. I got it when it first came out. I still love the cover with the Enterprisefiring on a klingon battlecruiser. Awesome covers on some of those old books! My first novel was Spock, Messiah. I don't remember much about it except for some passages about Spock acting very...un-Spock like
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Now that I think about it, I did read several of those that I borrowed from the local library around the same time I bought that set of books, so it's possible I read one of the Foster adaptations before Final Frontier.
Those books were really a big part of my introduction to TOS. At the time I discovered Trek via the movies, no station in my area was showing the original series. When I read my first novels, I had only seen the two episodes I bought on VHS ("The Corbomite Maneuver" and "The Trouble With Tribbles"), plus TAS (thanks to Nickelodeon) and the first four films.
Well, the Blish and Foster novelisations were anthologies of sorts, rather than novels, so it'd be the novelisation of The Motion Picture. The first original tie-in Trek novel I recall reading was The Entropy Effect, which I still think is one of the best.
While it wasn't my first and was actually my second, Sarek by A.C. Crispin, was the one that stuck with me the longest. I still love that book.
First read Trek novel was "Q Squared" by Peter David, followed by "Vendetta." I was inclined to read anything written by PAD since I had read his Trek comic book work for some time. I was always of the opinion that Trelane and Q were one in the same. Both are, as Picard once remarked, "next of kin to chaos." Afterwards, I ventured into the works of Reeves-Stevens starting out with the magnum opus that is "Federation" 8 years and 145 books later I have just completed "Prime Directive" Reading Trek books is what I most anticipate at the end of the day or on a quiet Sunday. Allow me to offer my thanks to ALL the fine authors who regularly post on these boards. I look forward to Shore Leave in July where I may meet some in the flesh.
^ Agreed. Wonderful work. I hope to join those ranks someday myself.
Ooh I'm not sure I remember the first one, since it was *grumble, grumble* years ago... I think it may have been the Blish adaptations, which I got in HC as the "Star Trek Readers" from a book-club. Either that or the novelizations of TMP and TWOK. I think the first original story I read was The Business, as Usual, During Altercations from Blish/Lawrence's Mudd's Angels. I also recall picking up Entropy Effect around that time as well. Its all fuzzy.
Didn't they sell the Blish Adaptations in a box set at one point? I remember that because my school library had the whole set and I distinctly remember trying to buy it from them. I offered them $200 at the time. That was years ago.
The first novel I owned was/is Timetrap (and I agree, it's not as bad as some make it out to be). I also ended up getting the novelisation to "Encounter at Farpoint" around the same time.
The first novel I read, though, may have been Memory Prime.
Afterwards, I started working my way back through the existing TOS line (and emerging TNG line), and kept going from there...
The first novel I read, though, may have been Memory Prime.
Afterwards, I started working my way back through the existing TOS line (and emerging TNG line), and kept going from there...
My first was "Mutiny on the Enterprise". I think I was 12 or so. I bought it in a five and dime type store on vacation. It had the cover ripped off, as Christopher said above was probably illegal. Still have it to.:thumbsup:
The Blish books were my first too. After that it was a novel about the Klingons, The Final Reflection.
"Mutiny" was my third Star Trek book I had ever read.
Thank you! I was wondering if anyone would draw that distinction...
I also have a complete set of the Blish adaptations (although not the Foster "logs," alas) from the early 70s. The first Trek novel I read was Blish's "Spock Must Die!" -- 11th printing, purchased circa 1973 for the whopping cover price of 95 cents.
Those were the days
Again, as many have said, one of the James Blish adaptations, with a big number on the front cover; I forget which.
The first original ST novel I read was Vonda McIntyre's The Entropy Effect. It was one of the first tie-ins I ever read that wasn't actually an adaptation of something else; I remember thinking "Wow, what cool idea that is. New stories in book form. Someone should write more of these."
The first original ST novel I read was Vonda McIntyre's The Entropy Effect. It was one of the first tie-ins I ever read that wasn't actually an adaptation of something else; I remember thinking "Wow, what cool idea that is. New stories in book form. Someone should write more of these."
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