How did you come to Trek-Lit

[DarKush]

The first Trek novel I read was the novelization to Star Trek V: The Final Frontier. I was very impressed with that book. To this day I think it makes me look at the film less judgmentally.

I think after that was TNG's Contamination. Tears of the Singers was an early one for me as well. And then there was Rules of Engagement and The Pandora Principle (which I loved). And Vendetta and Imzadi were some of the books I read in high school. I know I read Imzadi while in my late teenage years and probably Vendetta too. A Rock and Hard Place and likely The Rift I also read during my high school years. But then I started reading more Trek novels during my college years.

 

[Captain April]

So hard to remember that far back. I think it may have been a copy of Star Trek 6 or 7 I found somewhere. I definitely remember reading Spock Must Die! in the mid 70s.

 

[Kinggodzillak]

My parents took me to the Star Trek exhibition at the London science museum in...1995, I think. The gift shop had a massive selection of the books and I chose the novelisation of Descent, by Diane Carey. Not sure why, although I don't think Descent had been shown on the BBC at that point so it was like getting a sneak preview of sorts. Still have it to this day.

Wish I knew what my first regular Trek novel was...

 

[Kor]

I came to Trek literature when I was about nine years old and my brother gave me a box full of his used Trek novels, mostly TOS and a few TNG. It was like entering a whole new universe.

Kor

 

[DBR]

DS9 had ended, then Voyager ended. Enterprise wasn't really doing anything for me, and I was looking for a Star Trek fix. I was pointed in the direction of the DS9 Relaunch from someone on one of the Star Trek Usenet groups, and I think that's how I found TrekBBS.

Funnily, I'm once again looking for a Star Trek fix. Haven't read anything since the Destiny series, and wondering where the heck to jump in.

 

[Jinn]

, and wondering where the heck to jump in.

Voyager relaunch by Kirsten Beyer. You don't have to read any stories set in other series and generally very good.

 

[Steve Roby]

Like a couple other people, I'll post what I said last time.

I saw a couple of Star Trek reruns in the very early 70s and got a Gold Key comic but the first actual book, probably at Christmas 1971, came as one of a few of Whitman's TV novels. I was more excited about the Rat Patrol and Hawaii Five-O novels but I was happy enough to get Mission to Horatius. But it didn't change my life.

But in late 1973 or early '74 I moved from the kids' books section of a bookstore to the SF section and James Blish's Star Trek 3 caught my eye. That was the one that changed things. I was hooked, even though it was months before Trek reruns made it back to TV, so I was often reading adaptations of episodes I'd never seen. I got loads of Blish books, then the Foster books started, and I rediscovered my almost forgotten Mission to Horatius, and Gerrold's books and The Making of Star Trek and Star Trek Lives... all of that in the first year or two. And here we are.

Expanding on that... my memory nowadays isn't what it used to be, but I can remember a lot of great Trek book experiences. That copy of Star Trek 3 at Allison the Bookman in North Bay, Ontario. Or the day I found the first two Star Trek Logs by Alan Dean Foster in a Towers department store. Took a minute to process what I was looking at because I was only vaguely aware of the animated series; it was hard to get the US TV signals there and then. Visiting the Pocket Books Star Trek office in 2003 while in New York and meeting Marco Palmieri, Keith DeCandido, John Ordover, and a couple other people (and not even thinking to pitch an SCE story or something, just wallowing in glorious fanboyism). Had a lot of fun tracking books down for the old Complete Starfleet Library website, too, with help from folks like Mark Martinez, John Patuto, and many others. Buying Star Trek ebooks when that meant Microsoft Reader .lit files you read on your PC. And the first modern ebook I bought for one of my Kobos was a Star Trek book, of course.

 

[Tom Paris' Cellmate]

I was taking a little vacation in the county jail and their extensive Star Trek library consisted of one wrinkled old book called Ghost-Walker. It was probably terrible but given the circumstances I found it very enjoyable.

 

[XManRCJ]

The TNG done in ones back in the 90s. Man those were great. Pretty much an episode in novel form. Q In Law is still my favorite. I would love it if Pocket would drop the arcs and would go back to that. Enterprise-E done in ones would be great.

 

[Idran]

They actually have; that's exactly what the last TNG book, "Armageddon's Arrow", was. "Light Fantastic" was essentially a TNG done-in-one too. It left plot threads to pick up later, admittedly, but it was still pretty much self-contained.