Your first Trek novel?

[DimesDan]

Like a few others on here, the first trek novel I read was PADs Vendetta. I can't exactly remember when I bought it (due to there not being many Trek books in the British Library system where I live I very rarely borrow them and just buy them out right) but it was the rather tiny sum of £4.99 and even though I had to ask my Dad what Vendetta meant I was inspired by the fact it had a Borg on the cover to pick it up.

 

[Starlock]

I have no choice but to admit it: The Price of the Phoenix

 

[KRAD]

I have no choice but to admit it: The Price of the Phoenix

Hey, there was nowhere to go but up!

(And I love the sig!!!!!!! )

 

[LightningStorm]

I have no choice but to admit it: The Price of the Phoenix

And I love the avatar. :thumbsup:

 

[TigerBait]

PAD's 'The Rift' combined with 'Perchance to Dream' by Weinstein.

And to further what was said earlier about the more 'adult' situations in PAD's books, i too remember vividly the descriptions of the female from beyond the rift emerging from a pool of water and the water rivulets running off her body. I think star trek taught me about sex, as I was only 9 when I read this book, ha!

BTW, Perchance was just not good, not good indeed. But Rift got me into Pike and company, and really led me to the movies, as TNG was all i'd seen up to that point. The only reason I read Rift, was that it was the only Trek book at the local library at the time.

 

[Starlock]

I have no choice but to admit it: The Price of the Phoenix

Hey, there was nowhere to go but up!

Yessssss it did..... 1979 was a very good year...

(And I love the sig!!!!!!! )

I first created that wee beastie some five years ago and resurrected it for the new incarnation of TrekBBS. It loves you too!

 

[Starlock]

PAD's 'The Rift' combined with 'Perchance to Dream' by Weinstein.

And to further what was said earlier about the more 'adult' situations in PAD's books, i too remember vividly the descriptions of the female from beyond the rift emerging from a pool of water and the water rivulets running off her body. I think star trek taught me about sex, as I was only 9 when I read this book, ha!

I may be showing my age, but there is a very similar scene in the '70's Ballantine novel Spock, Messiah that still hasn't been topped...

Oh-My. Oh-My.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

My first book was Q-Squared by Peter David. I was so blown away by it that I asked my mom to get me another Peter David book for a trip I went on. She got me the New Frontier four-book omnibus. I was hooked at that point.

 

[Christopher]

I may be showing my age, but there is a very similar scene in the '70's Ballantine novel Spock, Messiah that still hasn't been topped...

Oh-My. Oh-My.

I still vividly remember the phrase "Sara's arms unfurled to reveal jutting breasts..."

 

[KRAD]

^ Ah, to be eight years old again.....

 

[Christopher]

I think I was 13 or 14 when I first read that book. It wouldn't have done much for me at 8.

 

[Sci]

My first Trek novel was either Peter David's Vendetta or Diane Duane's Spock's World. I'm not sure which.

 

[Garth Rockett]

Note to self: keep an eye out for Spock, Messiah on my next trip to the used bookstore.

 

[Rabid Trekkie]

My first Trek novel was either House of Cards or the anthology book Enterprise Logs. Read them both the same year so I'm not sure exactly which came first.

 

[DanTheGrey]

First one I ever read was Crisis on Centaurus...

 

[T'Bonz]

Another lost phenomenon, along with the need for Fotonovels

One of my happiest fan moments was going into a used science fiction bookstore while visiting Jacksonville, Florida. My husband and I were out taking a walk and saw it. Inside was the ENTIRE set of Trek photonovels for sale!

I still have those and every other Star Trek book I've ever bought, dating back to around 1971.

 

[Christopher]

Note to self: keep an eye out for Spock, Messiah on my next trip to the used bookstore.

Don't go to any great lengths. Sure, it has a few sophomorically lurid passages, but on the whole it's pretty ridiculous.

 

[ialfan]

I'm pretty sure my first Trek novel was either Crossover or Imzadi.

 

[Garth Rockett]

Note to self: keep an eye out for Spock, Messiah on my next trip to the used bookstore.

Don't go to any great lengths. Sure, it has a few sophomorically lurid passages, but on the whole it's pretty ridiculous.

Yeah, that comment was meant tongue in cheek, but thanks.

 

[K-Star]

My first (and only) Trek NOVEL was TNG: Immortal Coil, which is frickin AWESOME! I did read some of Imzadi, too, but I skipped a good chunk of it and only focused on the parts that involved Future Riker and Future Data.

Afterwards, I decided to try out some Starfleet Academy books ("Mystery of the Missing Crew," "Secret of the Lizard People," and "Deceptions"), which, though well below my reading level, were VERY entertaining. Now, I'm looking forward to the continuation of IDW's TNG: Intelligence Gathering comic series. (I've got the first issue and I REALLY wanna see what happens next!)