First TrekLit Read?

[Admiral_Young]

My first novel was Imazdi by Peter David. I was ten and loved it. Read it in a week, bought the audio book and had that signed by Marina Sirtis at my first Trek convention a few years later. Second book was the Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country novelization.

 

[Almost Unique]

In the fourth grade I tried to read Traitor Winds, but it was above my reading level at that point. My junior year of high school I read Double Double, and that triggered my first extended period of reading Trek books. Not dissimilar to Thrawn, I petered out in 2006. Destiny (the book trilogy, not just the predetermined plan of God) brought me back to Trek lit last fall.

 

[label]

My first one was either Best Destiny or Q-Squared......can't remember which one but I know it was one of those two.

 

[Tirius]

The Generations novelization was the first one I read, it was the only Trek book they had at our local library. First ones I owned were the 4 Dominion War books, and Wrath of the Prophets.

 

[RonG]

Mine was PAD's Vendetta - to this day a favorite

 

[Johnhead99]

TNG's Masks and Rock and a Hard Place from the local library here in India back in '98. Never looked back and really digging the relaunch novels.

TNG's Masks was also my first. Like Thrawn, I am now over 200. Hitting 200 was a landmark for me in 2010. I've never really looked back since; however, I did take a few breaks between the years.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

Blish's Star Trek 9. I was in about 6th or 7th grade at the time.

First novel was, of course, his Spock Must Die. Followed by Cogswell & Spano's Spock: Messiah. Then Marshak & Culbreath's The Price of the Phoenix, and Haldeman's Planet of Judgment. And somewhere in there, Star Trek: The New Voyages.

 

[Thrawn]

Destiny (the book trilogy, not just the predetermined plan of God) brought me back to Trek lit last fall.

Made me

 

[Mysterion]

Spock Must Die! Wayyyy back when.

 

[Cap'n Crunch]

For me it was the Maximum Warp duology. I got them in 2001 to read on the bus during our eighth grade trip to DC, but I didn't really read them until I got back home. At the time I was only familiar with TNG, so I didn't recognize the characters from DS9 and VOY that made cameos, and because I had never seen the TNG movies I couldn't figure out why the cover artist drew the Enterprise so weird.

 

[bfollowell]

Blish's Star Trek 9. I was in about 6th or 7th grade at the time.

Same here, though I think I was in about the 4th grade at the time. My first original TrekLit was Spock's World in about 1986.

- Byron

 

[Satyrquaze]

Vendetta by PAD. I never went any further though.

 

[Amaris]

My very first was James Blish's wonderful Star Trek adaptations (Book #6).

 

[ST-One]

I'm not quite sure, but I think it was The Entropy Effect.

 

[jhempel24]

Oh man, I started off on the wrong foot.....Star Trek V Movie Novelization. Watched my baby sister for 5 hours when it came out so I could get the money to buy it, was very excited, loved it....now I know better LOL.

Yeah....may bad. LOL

 

[Taran'atar]

I am not really sure, but I believe I was around 7 years old and I was reading one of the Blish episode novelizations. Here in Germany they were also published as omnibuses with maybe 10 novelizations per volume. Those are actually some of my oldest (actual) books.

 

[T'Ressa Dax]

I bought Shell Game and the novelization of Emissary at the same time, but I think I actually read Shell Game first because I'd already seen Emissary a few months earlier. About all I knew about the TOS crew at the time was from The Undiscovered Country, so it was interesting to read a bit about them.

 

[flandry84]

"Deep domain".
It remains one of my favourite treklit books.

 

[DrCorby]

Spock Must Die! was my first book read, it might have been first in treklit other than novelizations of tos episodes. Anyway, the book was really bad...

I really liked Spock Must Die! - and it wasn't until years later I learned that Blish had never actually seen an episode of the show. I had lots of fun spotting the references to his non-Trek books (A Dirac transmitter! The Vegan Tyranny!) too.

In late 1971, a friend gave me Star Trek 4, one of the Blish novelizations. I quickly found the previous volumes and then snatched up subsequent volumes as they were released.

My first original novel was Spock Must Die! I really liked it, despite being so different from the show and other original novels that followed. A few years later, when I read Blish's "Cities in Flight" series, I realized that he'd inserted references into his Star Trek adaptations. I'd mistakenly thought I hadn't seen certain scenes or heard bits of dialogue due to local TV stations snipping out bits of shows during syndication.

 

[Steve Roby]

My first Trek read, circa late 1971 or so. Mission to Horatius by Mack Reynolds. The first Star Trek novel.