So, who's got the most Star Trek books? Please post a picture of your collection.

[Eagan]

Photographic evidence requested!

Here's my collection: (click on picture to see it full-size)



Current count is 37, though I have Amazon price-watches set up for several more, which I will get when they become available for reasonable prices. Patience is a virtue... I know from experience it can take years.

I will be pleased if I make the top ten, assuming that many of you participate, as I do not have many paperbacks, preferring reference books, with lots of pictures, to novels.

 

[Ronald Held]

Do you mean novels or all Trek themed books?

 

[Eagan]

Anything and everything anyone cares to include

 

[Stevil2001]

I would guess there is very little chance you make the top ten on this forum!

According to LibraryThing, I physically own 592 books I've tagged "star trek." I have a further 27 in my "Downloaded" collection.

 

[Avro Arrow]

I would guess there is very little chance you make the top ten on this forum!

Yeah, I mean, OP… you’ve wandered into a forum full of novel fans.

I generally find discussions of how much x we’ve accumulated slightly distasteful. But if I’m being honest, I’ve got more than 37 ST novels just piled up on a desk because I don’t have any space on the bookshelves for them!

 

[JD]

Photographic evidence requested!

Here's my collection: (click on picture to see it full-size)



Current count is 37, though I have Amazon price-watches set up for several more, which I will get when they become available for reasonable prices. Patience is a virtue... I know from experience it can take years.

I will be pleased if I make the top ten, assuming that many of you participate, as I do not have many paperbacks, preferring reference books, with lots of pictures, to novels.

I hate to break it to you, but at 37 you're probably going to be pretty close to the bottom, there are a lot of people on here who have been collection Trek books almost as long as they've been publishing them. Even I've been collecting them for 30+, since I started before I was even old enough to read them myself.
My collection is pretty even split between digital and physical books and comics, so instead of pictures, I'm going to do links to my two Trek shelves on Goodreads,
Star Trek: 192 books
Star Trek Novelverse: 232
Total: 424

 

[Ray Hardgrit]

I have 34 books (half fiction, half not), so I claim last place.

 

[Therin of Andor]

I have at least one of everything. Started collecting in December 1979 and had to delve through many second hand stores to get everything that had come before. Until the first eBooks started, I was totally current, meaning I had read them all. My reading has slumped quite a bit in the past ten years. Quite a bit of the book collection has been in storage since 2014, which drives me insane not having it all in the same room. No recent pics.

I have resisted a few extremely expensive academic texts, but otherwise if has "Star Trek" on the cover, I own it. I even sought out a few books in languages I can't read, often for the unique cover art.


Greetings from Sydney, Australia... by Ian McLean, on Flickr

 

[David Mack]

Current count is 37…

Only 37? I have more than that just counting the ones with my name on them.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

All of the novels (including the Pocket reprint of Mission to Horatius) and anthologies that have been issued in print editions, and most of the nonfiction, including both Fannish and Licensed editions of the Medical Reference. Along with the Fotonovels, and a curious little volume of stills with silly captions. And the overwhelming majority of the wall calendars. And maybe a tiny handful of comics, and of ebook-only stuff that's never been issued in any kind of hardcopy. And no, I'm not going to post pictures; I'll only say that if I were to do so, I'd be posting more than half the stack space in my library, well over 50 shelf-feet. Compared to less than 5 shelf-feet each of Humanx Commonwealth and Tolkien.

 

[Cicero]

I have 34 books (half fiction, half not), so I claim last place.

I have a bit more than that for each of TOS, TNG, and DS9 (and almost that many combined for New Frontier, SCE, Vanguard, etc.). Weirdly, I own more than a dozen Voyager books, but have always put off actually reading them.

I'd forgotten how many books I actually read through the library.

 

[Therin of Andor]

... including the Pocket reprint of Mission to Horatius...

I think the original Whitman "Mission to Horatius" was the one that inspired my quest to buy up everything Trek. In the last few days of December 1979, I had just located a few Bantam and Ballantine titles in a second hand store and I noticed a plastic-wrapped "Mission to Horatius" on a high shelf. The price tag read "$70" -- in 1979?

I suddenly realised that my younger brother probably had this book in our old childhood toy box, alongside my copy of Whitman's "I Spy"? I checked the box... and there they were! I must admit, I said to my brother, "You don't want this old 'Star Trek' book, do you...?" (I didn't tell him about the one I'd seen in the city!)

And yes, I did buy Pocket's pristine edition in 1999, too.

 

[ace2k]

If my estimates are correct, I own about 130 novels, plus some extra nonfiction books. These include a first printing of Killing Time (which I found for a great price), most of the Bantam original novels, a signed copy of David Gerrold's autobiography The Trouble with Tribbles, and I wanna say both Shatner's and Grace Whitney's autobiographies.

EDIT: Thinking about it further, a majority of my collection is TOS/TNG. I think the rest goes multiple for New Frontier, Lost Era, Enterprise and Voyager, and then one each for DS9 and Discovery. I'd post pics, but I need to get a shelf for them!

 

[ICW]

I have a very extensive collection that is currently being stored in several large bins in my parents' garage.

I started my collection when I was about 17 years old. I was browsing in a Barnes and Noble and stumbled upon Planet X, the X-Men/TNG crossover novel. I was immediately intrigued and ultimately enjoyed its silly premise. I believe I read Section 31: Rogue, before discovering the entire novel-verse.

The collection expanded (and grew way out of control!) thanks to a different Barnes and Noble with a unique feature: a large section of used books. I was able to collect novels from the DS9 and Voyager relaunches, then started to find New Frontier and the numbered paperbacks across every franchise.

I have most of the omnibuses, and I'm now re-collecting them in eBook form. I have no idea what I'm going to do with the hard copies, but I don't want to give them away.

 

[Steve Roby]

This is probably most of the collection. Two full bookcases and the lower shelves on the third bookcase. And piles of books. Not enough bookcase space, though I want to reorganize things and made a very brief start. There are also at least a few dozen books in a couple of other spots, as well as a couple of hundred fanzines, hundreds of comics, and a few dozen items I have only as ebooks.

I think I hit a thousand books by 2010.

 

[serdogthehound]

I would estimate
~100 print
5 digital
30 audio

 

[mastadge]

Until 20-ish years ago I had pretty much all of the novels and many of the licensed reference books. The numbered ones shelves in order, the hardcovers and giant novels well loved, the crossovers and early litverse stuff grouped nicely.

Much more impressive was my Star Wars shelf, which had basically the whole EU -- from Del Rey through the entire Bantam Era and then back to Del Rey, the whole of what is now the Legends era, plus all the Dark Horse comics in TPB form, plus the LucasArts games, all arranged chronologically.

 

[tomswift2002]

I have a 7-foot bookshelf that's double-rowed with books lying on top of all the books, plus a metal five-shelf utility shelf (like 6-feet tall) that is double-rowed, with books stuck in between each row, and books on top that display my Star Trek book collection. Plus I have a few Rubbermaid totes with Trek books, as well as a few cardboard boxes filled with Trek books. I probably have about 3,000 Trek books.

 

[tomswift2002]

I think the original Whitman "Mission to Horatius" was the one that inspired my quest to buy up everything Trek. In the last few days of December 1979, I had just located a few Bantam and Ballantine titles in a second hand store and I noticed a plastic-wrapped "Mission to Horatius" on a high shelf. The price tag read "$70" -- in 1979?

I suddenly realised that my younger brother probably had this book in our old childhood toy box, alongside my copy of Whitman's "I Spy"? I checked the box... and there they were! I must admit, I said to my brother, "You don't want this old 'Star Trek' book, do you...?" (I didn't tell him about the one I'd seen in the city!)

And yes, I did buy Pocket's pristine edition in 1999, too.

Do you still have the original wrapper that came with the 1999 edition proclaiming it as "The Lost Star Trek Novel"? I still have the wrapper for mine.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Do you still have the original wrapper that came with the 1999 edition proclaiming it as "The Lost Star Trek Novel"? I still have the wrapper for mine.

Of course!