A good starting place for Trek literature?

[Damian]

Genesis allowed is not! Is planet forbidden!

That reminds me of a little joke I had with a friend of mine who also likes Star Trek. Genesis (the band) is my favorite music group. So I have this annoying little habit that every time a Genesis song comes on the radio I say "Genesis!" like the alien in TSFS does. Well one day my friend answered back, "Genesis allowed is not, is music forbidden".

I mean, it was funny in the moment, I can't quite capture it here because it was sort of a spontaneous thing.

But it's one way I combine two of my favorite things.

 

[Daddy Todd]

"Genesis allowed is not, is music forbidden".

Once Peter Gabriel bailed...

 

[JD]

I didn't think they were that far back, since they were historical fiction, after all. I just figured maybe Victorian Era or turn of the century. At least, not during my father's lifetime.

I really don't know much about them, other than they follow an officer in the British navy back in the 1700s or 1800s, and people have called them an influence on Star Trek.

 

[Damian]

Once Peter Gabriel bailed...

I'm actually one of those rare Genesis fans that likes their entire history. From Genesis to Revelation (1969) to Calling All Stations (1997) and everything in between.

I still remember when I was 5 years old listening to their album Duke on my little Fisher Price record player. While some kids were listening to Disney records I was listening to Genesis records (along with Pink Floyd, Supertramp, Moody Blues, Electric Light Orchestra, among others).

 

[thribs]

The start of the A Time to… series onwards would be a good start. It’s set after Insurrection and it builds up to Nemesis while introducing characters and storylines that will become important in the post Nemesis era.

 

[Stevil2001]

I really don't know much about them, other than they follow an officer in the British navy back in the 1700s or 1800s, and people have called them an influence on Star Trek.

They are pretty great! I (re)read the series a couple years ago. If you like "Balance of Terror" or Wrath of Khan, they will scratch that itch. Forester writes very energetic stuff, totally sucks you in. Hornblower somewhat resembled the Kirk of the earlier episodes (and TWOK): clever in command of a ship, but not always in command of his personal life. (Kirk is never so awkward as Hornblower, though.)