What was the 1st Trek novel you ever read?

[shanejayell]

I think the first Trek novel I read was Dreadnought. Good story, got the sequel later too.

 

[Nerys Ghemor]

Interestingly, that novel introduced several characters that were later used throughout David's New Frontier series. I have to say, to this day, there's something strange about reading about the sex lives of characters that I was first introduced to as a fourth grader in a children's novel!

I know!!!

Part of the reason (besides the generally stupid plots) that I could never stand NF.

 

[Sci]

Interestingly, that novel introduced several characters that were later used throughout David's New Frontier series. I have to say, to this day, there's something strange about reading about the sex lives of characters that I was first introduced to as a fourth grader in a children's novel!

I know!!!

Part of the reason (besides the generally stupid plots) that I could never stand NF.

I said it was strange, not that it was bad.

 

[Claudia]

I think the first ST-novel I ever owned was the novelization of ST III. But I really got into TrekLit with the early TNG-novels (all the German translations). I began reading the English original versions with Imzadi - and never even looked at the translations again. *g*

Interestingly, before ordering online the OV cost more than double the German version which was why I started to order my ST-books online. Nowadays it's the other way around. I'd like to know why amazon.de has the OVs at about 6 to 7 Euro, the German novels at nearly 13 Euro - both paperback...

 

[Even_Odds]

The first book I read in the Star Trek universe was 'STV: Pathways,' by Jeri Taylor. I read it back in the summer of 2000, and I enjoyed the book immensely.

I have since read hundreds and hundreds of Star Trek books since then, and I think the authors have done an incredible job. I just finished 'A Singular Destiny,' and I am going to read the SCE collection 'Grand Designs,' then tackle the DS9 anthology 'Prophecy and Change.'

 

[Mooch]

The first one I read was TNG #1, Ghost Ship. My first TOS novel was The Three-Minute Universe. That would have been in the early 90's...I'm not sure exactly when.

 

[Cheile]

when i was eleven and first got into Trek, a classmate's parent lent me her copy of "Uhura's Song" because Uhura was my fave and the aliens were a feline species. i still love that book today.

 

[ClayinCA]

That's a great book, isn't it? I was very distressed to learn that its author (Janet Kagan?) died recently...

 

[Greg Cox]

That's a great book, isn't it? I was very distressed to learn that its author (Janet Kagan?) died recently...

If you can track down a copy, Janet's non-Trek sf novel, MIRABILE, is also worth reading.

 

[ClayinCA]

Oh, cool. Thanks for the tip - I'll have to see what I can find....

 

[Therin of Andor]

If you can track down a copy, Janet's non-Trek sf novel, MIRABILE, is also worth reading.

I searched out that, and "Hellspark", the week she died and grabbed pristine copies of both from Amazon's secondary marketplace.

My copy of "Hellspark" is the special 1998 Meisha Merlin Publishing edition, ten years after the original, that includes a 1997 Afterword to "Uhura's Song"!

 

[KimMH]

Spock's World, Spock Messiah, Spock Must Die, Mutiny on the Enterprise; 25 years ago - all excellent reads but I am grateful for the huge array available today! Just read A House on Fire - so entertaining to see Klingon Grandmas just like ours . . .

 

[KimMH]

My first Trek book was Jean Lorrah's The Vulcan Academy Murders. I got it from a friend in .. I think .. 1988? I remember it had a lot! of! exclamation! points!

Just re-read that one for fun - just as good the 2nd time around - or is it the 22nd ? Either way a lot of fun!

 

[TJ Sinclair]

^That it is. I know it's a little odd for some people, but I really enjoy re-reading that one from time to time.

 

[Misfit Toy]

Blish's Star Trek 8, quickly followed by Foster's Star Trek Log One. Like many others my first original was Spock Must Die!

 

[popsicle]

Mine was Imzadi by Peter David. I loved it and then went on to read all other trek novels by Peter David. And I've been reading trek novels ever since.

 

[Jolaris]

First ST books I read were the Invasion crossover books.

Bought all four in the shop at the same time as they sounded cool from the blurb. Would have been around 15/16 at the time. Cant say I found the books to be overally good and didnt read any others until I bought the Destiny trilogy a couple of weeks ago, which were much better.

Until just now I actually thought the Invasion! omnibus was the first Star Trek book I ever read sometime in the late 90's, but then I started thinking and I suddenly remembered that I actually read the novelization of TMP several times beginning in the late 80's or early 90's in Swedish.
To this day it is still the only Star Trek book I have ever found translated into my native language.

 

[Jbarney]

I think my first Star Trek novel was either Spock Must Die or Demons. My dad got me into Star Trek when I was a kid. I can remember it would be on Sunday mornings on one of the stations from Canada and he would try to get up and tape the episodes. This was probably in the very early 80s. He must have also purchased Spock Must Die and Demons because I would have been too you to purchase them on my own. I found them hanging around the house....and have been reading trek ever sense. Its odd to think....but either of those books could have been the first novel I ever read. Encyclopdia Brown, Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators....would have been hanging around the house too, but those Trek books have provided a lasting impression.

 

[seigezunt]

The James Blish novelizations, when they first came out and before videotape!

The first original novel I read was, I think, "Spock, Messiah." The one with the red-headed Scotty.

 

[ClayinCA]

Encyclopdia Brown, Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators....would have been hanging around the house too

Oh MAN, I loved those Three Investigators books when I was a kid. Too bad they're all out of print now...

The first original novel I read was, I think, "Spock, Messiah." The one with the red-headed Scotty.

Wow, I had completely forgotten that little detail. They must have done their research using the Gold Key comic books - Scotty was a burly redhead in some of those, as well!