I also came to Star Trek through the novels! Although if the thread you're referring to is the one I think it might be, then I believe I mentioned it in there too, so you may already know that!
I Came To Star Trek Through the Novels
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I also came to Star Trek through the novels! Although if the thread you're referring to is the one I think it might be, then I believe I mentioned it in there too, so you may already know that!
Harbinger series, in a parallel universe this was televised..
I've read this before on this forum, but I really don't see it. I still watch TOS reruns as often as TNG or DS9.
I have told this story before, but Gene Roddenberry's "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" novelization made me a lifetime Trek fan.
Topic of conversation at my 21st birthday party in December 1979 was my school friend's enthusiastic review of the Sydney gala premiere of TMP. I had to wait another week for the movie to start its theatrical run, by which time I had read a Aussie journalist's serialized visit to the set in the afternoon newspaper, used a birthday gift voucher to buy the soundtrack LP, and found the book on a spinner rack at my local supermarket. I started reading the novelization while awaiting someone to agree to go to the movie with me. I had planned to stop reading about halfway through, to maintain surprise at the theatre, but couldn't put it down. I ended up going to the movie alone. At least five times over the next few weeks.
Until that book, my only exposure to Trek had been about eight episodes of TOS when colour TV came Down Under (March 1975) and random episodes of TAS (in b/w first-run on Saturday mornings, and then repeats in colour in 1975).
I owe my fandom experience to a Trek book.
Had several crossover episodes with "Phase II', starring David Gautreaux as Xon.
Topic of conversation at my 21st birthday party in December 1979 was my school friend's enthusiastic review of the Sydney gala premiere of TMP. I had to wait another week for the movie to start its theatrical run, by which time I had read a Aussie journalist's serialized visit to the set in the afternoon newspaper, used a birthday gift voucher to buy the soundtrack LP, and found the book on a spinner rack at my local supermarket. I started reading the novelization while awaiting someone to agree to go to the movie with me. I had planned to stop reading about halfway through, to maintain surprise at the theatre, but couldn't put it down. I ended up going to the movie alone. At least five times over the next few weeks.
Until that book, my only exposure to Trek had been about eight episodes of TOS when colour TV came Down Under (March 1975) and random episodes of TAS (in b/w first-run on Saturday mornings, and then repeats in colour in 1975).
I owe my fandom experience to a Trek book.
Had several crossover episodes with "Phase II', starring David Gautreaux as Xon.
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That is amazing! I am so excited to hear this! What is your favorite novel?I also came to Star Trek through the novels! Although if the thread you're referring to is the one I think it might be, then I believe I mentioned it in there too, so you may already know that!
I came back to Star Trek through the novels.
I watched all of TOS and TNG at the time of their first broadcast. I did watch the first couple of seasons of DE9 but not after that. I have not seen any episodes of VOY and ENT.
In 2016 I finished K J Anderson’s Saga of Seven Suns and asked on Twitter if someone could recommend something similar. “Something like Star Trek.”
I then realised I had answered my own question.
Since then I’ve read dozens of novels, watched Discovery and Picard but have no inclination to go back and watch the older series.
I watched all of TOS and TNG at the time of their first broadcast. I did watch the first couple of seasons of DE9 but not after that. I have not seen any episodes of VOY and ENT.
In 2016 I finished K J Anderson’s Saga of Seven Suns and asked on Twitter if someone could recommend something similar. “Something like Star Trek.”
I then realised I had answered my own question.
Since then I’ve read dozens of novels, watched Discovery and Picard but have no inclination to go back and watch the older series.
The novelization of TMP is very special to me as well.
I pretty much discovered Trek and Treklit simultaneously.
I've always been a voracious reader, and sometime in middle school I discovered science fiction. I had seen an episode of Star Trek here and there before that, but never had much interest. A couple of my friends were getting into Trek, so I asked for some Trek books for Christmas and got James Blish's Star Trek 3 and Alan Dean Foster's Star Trek Log Four episode adaptations in December 1977. In January I started watched Star Trek episodes at every opportunity. In L.A. at that time they aired every Saturday and Sunday afternoon, with two episodes of TAS occasionally thrown in instead of a live-action episode. By the time TMP premiered in December '79 I think I had seen all the TOS episodes and a good chunk of TAS as well. I had also read all the Blish and Foster adaptations (maybe not Log Ten - I don't remember when it was first published) and all the Bantam novels published to that point.
Like others have mentioned, I was excited to get Roddenberry's novelization of TMP, and read that one multiple times in subsequent years. For a very long time (until the mid-90s) I purchased and read every Trek novel as they came out. By then, there were just too many of them, I had other things going on in my life, and too many of them just weren't that good, so I stopped bothering with most of them. A few years later though, the DS9 relaunch came along. Since that's my favorite series after TOS, I gave it a try and got hooked again. I still don't buy every Trek book that comes out, but there's been plenty over the past 20 years that have seemed interesting enough to purchase.
I've always been a voracious reader, and sometime in middle school I discovered science fiction. I had seen an episode of Star Trek here and there before that, but never had much interest. A couple of my friends were getting into Trek, so I asked for some Trek books for Christmas and got James Blish's Star Trek 3 and Alan Dean Foster's Star Trek Log Four episode adaptations in December 1977. In January I started watched Star Trek episodes at every opportunity. In L.A. at that time they aired every Saturday and Sunday afternoon, with two episodes of TAS occasionally thrown in instead of a live-action episode. By the time TMP premiered in December '79 I think I had seen all the TOS episodes and a good chunk of TAS as well. I had also read all the Blish and Foster adaptations (maybe not Log Ten - I don't remember when it was first published) and all the Bantam novels published to that point.
Like others have mentioned, I was excited to get Roddenberry's novelization of TMP, and read that one multiple times in subsequent years. For a very long time (until the mid-90s) I purchased and read every Trek novel as they came out. By then, there were just too many of them, I had other things going on in my life, and too many of them just weren't that good, so I stopped bothering with most of them. A few years later though, the DS9 relaunch came along. Since that's my favorite series after TOS, I gave it a try and got hooked again. I still don't buy every Trek book that comes out, but there's been plenty over the past 20 years that have seemed interesting enough to purchase.
I didn't come to Star Trek via the novels per se, but growing up in the mid-1990s it was much easier to access Star Trek books via the local library than it was to watch Star Trek on tv, so I read a lot more original series and TNG novels than I saw episodes. Bits of those novels have really baked themselves into my conception of Star Trek. I still think of the three great "enemy powers" of the original series era as the Klingons, the Romulans, and the Ksahtryans, for example, thanks to Corona!
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