Just curious what was your first Trek novel to read?

[ClayinCA]

The problem for me is that they weren't really aliens. They were just anthropomorphized Earth animals or creatures from mythology. Granted, there's precedent for that in Trek (e.g. Caitians), but they were all like that, and I found it very corny and unimaginative.

This was definitely true for me, too. Wasn't there some alien who looked like a Dracula-type vampire (right down to Lugosi-esque evening wear and cloak) who made Kirk--Kirk!--so nervous he couldn't bear to talk to him? Which is beyond ridiculous....

 

[Desert Kris]

I think the first ST book I read was almost the novelization of The Motion Picture. I was starting to read it, and I was very, very young. Naturally my eyes bugged out when Kirk uses stronger language than I had ever encountered before. There was this mystery to me, about a ST movie that I didn't even know about...Wrath of Khan was well liked and my family had seen it, and I think I went to the theater to see the Search For Spock, but information about an earlier ST movie was hard to come by. So reading the novelization was exciting, because otherwise I had no way of uncovering the mystery of the unknowable first ST movie. And then I lost the book, only a couple of chapters in. It just vanished, And The Motion Picture continued to be elusive for several more years. Eventually I was able to watch it, and eventually get a new copy of the book to read.

The one that ended up being my first read was Diane Carey's Final Frontier. It was a long reading commitment, being still a very young reader at the time. It was exciting learning about the history of the ship and crew that no one seemed to know. A fun book that I still have to this day, and periodically will read through every couple of years.

 

[jaime]

Star Trek 8 by James Bliss
Then Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan by Vonda McIntyre..
Think a few years pass and I get Children of Hamlyn and Ghost Ship around my 9th birthday. I think I had read Ghost Ship in the library before, so that's probably my first non adaptation Trek book.