Happy 50 Years to Treklit

[ryan123450]

Congratulations to everyone involved on Treklit's 50th birthday this month. James Blish's Star Trek 1 was published in January 1967 marking the first Star Trek publication.

Think of all the great stories we've seen in prose and comics since then. Here's to a bright future of more Treklit!

 

[JD]

Happy Anniversary Trek Lit!
I honestly don't think I would still be as big of a Trekkie if it weren't for Trek Lit. It has given me some of my favorite all time Trek stories, and helped keep the Prime Universe alive when it's series and movies had stopped.

 

[Bibliomike]

Yes, happy birthday indeed! Not only have I enjoyed it since becoming a fan (I think the first Trek fiction I read apart from the Blish books was Yesterday's Son - I'm certain it's the first I bought with my own quatloos), but I was so thrilled to make a minor contribution to it in 1999 through Strange New Worlds II. Thanks to all the authors who keep turning out tales of the final frontier - here's to many, many more (in whatever continuity or universe!)

 

[Dayton Ward]

Thanks for the reminder, and the easy blog fodder.

https://daytonward.wordpress.com/2017/01/03/happy-50th-anniversary-treklit/

 

[Reanok]

Happy Birthday Treklit I just wanted to say how much I've enjoyed reading all of the different novels from all the different series. I've been reading the books for a long time and want to say thank you to all the different Star trek book authors. .

 

[ryan123450]

Thanks for the reminder, and the easy blog fodder.

https://daytonward.wordpress.com/2017/01/03/happy-50th-anniversary-treklit/

You said it alot better than I did. Ya know, you might have some real skill at writing.

 

[Jinn]

Happy fifty years TrekLit, thanks for years of entertainment!

 

[Jinn]

You said it alot better than I did. Ya know, you might have some real skill at writing.

Yeah, that happens when you fire your publicist, Dayton!

 

[Nancy Debretsion]

Yes! My older sister bought Blish's book when it came out and both of us read it. I haven't laid eyes on the volume in decades, but was that the one that had Kirk refer to McCoy as "Doc" instead of "Bones"?

 

[Christopher]

Yes! My older sister bought Blish's book when it came out and both of us read it. I haven't laid eyes on the volume in decades, but was that the one that had Kirk refer to McCoy as "Doc" instead of "Bones"?

That was Blish's 1970 novel Spock Must Die! It was an editorially mandated change, for some reason.

 

[Nancy Debretsion]

Ah, Treklit and editorially mandated changes. I had some uh, interesting experiences with those myself last year. I wrote one of the DS9 entries, "The Manhunt Pool," in Strange New Worlds 2016. I couldn't get the editors to agree that Wompat is a Star Trek reference despite e-mailing a screenshot (and that the Star Wars creature is a distinctly different Womp Rat). At least they compromised with my last minute invention of a "Cardassian Lemur." The vole they wanted to use would have been an egregiously bad choice for the story.

 

[Jinn]

Ah, Treklit and editorially mandated changes. I had some uh, interesting experiences with those myself last year. I wrote one of the DS9 entries, "The Manhunt Pool," in Strange New Worlds 2016. I couldn't get the editors to agree that Wompat is a Star Trek reference despite e-mailing a screenshot (and that the Star Wars creature is a distinctly different Womp Rat). At least they compromised with my last minute invention of a "Cardassian Lemur." The vole they wanted to use would have been an egregiously bad choice for the story.

By the way, you can ask the moderators to change your status to "writer", if you want.

 

[Nancy Debretsion]

By the way, you can ask the moderators to change your status to "writer", if you want.

Thanks! I'll do that. I probably have to post enough to be off "cadet" status first. I'm actually a longer-term member under the nom MultiplePOV, though only intermittently active.

 

[Steve Roby]

Happy Anniversary Trek Lit!
I honestly don't think I would still be as big of a Trekkie if it weren't for Trek Lit. It has given me some of my favorite all time Trek stories, and helped keep the Prime Universe alive when its series and movies had stopped.

Amen to that. I got into the books when I'd hardly seen any of the TV episodes. Same with Doctor Who quite a few years later. A healthy tie-in line makes a TV series a broader, more complex, and more wonderful experience than the show itself. Star Trek without SCE and Vanguard and the DS9 relaunch (I could go on) would be a much lesser experience, as far as I'm concerned.

 

[Nancy Debretsion]

Personally, I'd like to see DS9 stories that take place during the timeline of the series.

 

[Starbreaker]

I've told this story before, but I read Q-Space before I ever saw any Star Trek on TV, because I was 12 and thought the cover was cool and was just getting into discovering books written for adults. I've read close to 100 Star Trek books over the past 16 years. Nowhere near the level of some of you, but they have brought me much joy.

 

[Avro Arrow]

I might not be a Star Trek fan today if it wasn't for TrekLit. For reasons long since forgotten, when I was a child, I had some irrational dislike of the Star Trek TV show, and would actually go do other things whenever my parents would watch it. However, I was very much into SF literature. So one day, a family member gave me a Star Trek book as a joke, since they knew how much I disliked it. Well, I loved reading, so I gave it a try anyway... and realized I actually kinda liked it. So I searched out more Star Trek books, and liked them. Eventually I gave the show a chance, and discovered it was actually pretty good after all! And the rest, as they say, is history.

So happy anniversary, TrekLit, and thank you! (Or as my relatives say, curse you! )

 

[T'Bonz]

Thanks! I'll do that. I probably have to post enough to be off "cadet" status first. I'm actually a longer-term member under the nom MultiplePOV, though only intermittently active.

We only allow one account per person here. Why the new account?

 

[JD]

Where would Trek rank when it comes to longest continuing tie-in lines? I'm assuming it's gotta be somewhere towards the top, along with maybe Star Wars and Doctor Who

 

[Stevil2001]

Where would Trek rank when it comes to longest continuing tie-in lines? I'm assuming it's gotta be somewhere towards the top, along with maybe Star Wars and Doctor Who

The first Doctor Who novels (novelisations) came out in 1964-65. Then there's a gap until 1974, and Doctor Who novels have been in continuous publication since.