Name the first ST novel you read
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That came as a surprise to me, too.
I started watching- and loving- Star Trek at age 11, and I was really suprised to see a Star Trek magazine. I thought "they have a magazine of Star Trek? How odd- but pleasing". I just didn't understand that it was a big franchise- I just thought of it as a collection of related Tv shows that I happened to like. Then I saw books, and had the same reaction. At age 12, I bought my first Trek novel...but I've already been over that...
The first Star Trek book I read was actually "The Return by William Shatner." That drew me into the world of Trek so much so that even though I had been watching the first run eps of TNG that I started hunting down every Star Trek Book I could (Ebay was my friend).
I used to almost have the entire TOS and TNG series. But due to other people's needs to have every single thing they ever touched since they were born. and unwillingness to compromise it was either a cluttered house or glorious tidyness I had to get rid of all my Trek books because I am a neat freak.
And as for my favorite series hands down it's TOS.
I used to almost have the entire TOS and TNG series. But due to other people's needs to have every single thing they ever touched since they were born. and unwillingness to compromise it was either a cluttered house or glorious tidyness I had to get rid of all my Trek books because I am a neat freak.
And as for my favorite series hands down it's TOS.
Now imagine my experience. I had an awareness of TOS as a kid, but my grandmother owned the b/w TV, so we watched what she wanted to watch.
I had an appreciation of TAS, from b/w Saturday morning cartoons (and then midweek colour broadcasts during breakfast TV in the late 70s) and then became overwhelmed by ST:TMP a few days after it had premiered. The novelization was everywhere, even in racks at my local supermarket checkout, but I started to notice there were ST episode adaptation omnibuses and original novels out there, waiting to be found.
Every Thursday night and Saturday morning became a regular "what second hand bookstore can I raid today?" adventure. I had a well-worn path that circuited past about seven big second hand stores in the CBD (alas there's only one of them left now), plus numerous suburban stores. Country towns' second hand bookstores made road-trip vacations extra exciting.
It was the thrill of the hunt! eBay and Amazon make it way too easy, but have certainly helped me fill the last remaining gaps!
It was the thrill of the hunt! eBay and Amazon make it way too easy, but have certainly helped me fill the last remaining gaps!
The hunt is great... but it wasn't until here recently that I had any hunting ground. there were surprisingly few bookstores around here and what few there were dealt primarily in romance novels.
I would kill to have all my Star Trek books back...
This was the early 80s, though. The situation is pretty dire here all these years later.
I see, different generation different hunting grounds. my second hand book stores can be counted on two fingers..... and only one new bookstore.
It was Deep Space 9 - Fallen Heroes back in 1994, when I was at university.
Lucky find as your first! A real page turner.
"Memory Prime". ("Memory Alpha" is way too big to read all in one sitting, at least these days.)
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