Nardpuncher
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Funny...that was my 2nd book, the first one being the one published two months before, Deep Domain. I wonder why I ever read another book what with that being my first.
What was the 1st Trek novel you ever read?
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Funny...that was my 2nd book, the first one being the one published two months before, Deep Domain. I wonder why I ever read another book what with that being my first.
The IDIC Epidemic was my 1st. I got it as a kid, and I absolutely hated it! I'm not even sure why at this point, but I think it didn't seem like enough like the show to me. I've been meaning to try re-reading it as an adult to see what I think of it now, I just haven't come across a copy of it yet.
Nardpuncher
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It's been 20 years but I don't remember it leaving a good taste in my mouth.
Me, too. But I apparently remember it more fondly than you do. In fact, I've re-read it fairly recently and still enjoyed it. A truly nerdy pleasure.
Ok, guys, the question was "What was the 1st Trek novel you ever read?" Are you telling me that, as published authors, you don't differentiate between novels and short story collections?
^ What, I put Spock Must Die! right there!
Yeah, but I'm in the mood to pick motes out of my brother's eye tonight...
i've gone through 3 phases of reading ST books
my first phase it was either one of the blish or foster books, i can't remember. i was reading those while the foster books were coming out and i remember waiting for them to be published and being bummed when they change the cover format from being a shot from the show to a drawing of the ship. once those all came out i thought that was the end of trek books.
years later i stumbled upon a huge bunch of used ST books at a store and was blown away that they not only kept coming out but there were so many. i tried timetrap, like it and read them for awhile but after awhile there were multiple series of books coming out and I think this was during Arnolds era and the books just got kind of boring and I couldn't keep up and I just sort of faded away from them.
years after that i read somewhere andrew robinson wrote a book with a lot of garak backstory in it. my first reaction was "great, another ghost written book with an actors name on the cover" but i kept reading comments from people saying he really wrote it and it was good. i picked it up and it blew me away. then i read there was this thing called DS9R going on. i've been reading ever since.
my first phase it was either one of the blish or foster books, i can't remember. i was reading those while the foster books were coming out and i remember waiting for them to be published and being bummed when they change the cover format from being a shot from the show to a drawing of the ship. once those all came out i thought that was the end of trek books.
years later i stumbled upon a huge bunch of used ST books at a store and was blown away that they not only kept coming out but there were so many. i tried timetrap, like it and read them for awhile but after awhile there were multiple series of books coming out and I think this was during Arnolds era and the books just got kind of boring and I couldn't keep up and I just sort of faded away from them.
years after that i read somewhere andrew robinson wrote a book with a lot of garak backstory in it. my first reaction was "great, another ghost written book with an actors name on the cover" but i kept reading comments from people saying he really wrote it and it was good. i picked it up and it blew me away. then i read there was this thing called DS9R going on. i've been reading ever since.
BTW, I just checked and I don't have anything this ancient in my library, although my editions of Blish's ST 8 - 12 are all first printings as is my copy of Foster's Log Four. Bought 'em all at my Junior High School's book store.
Don't know that it means anything or that they're worth anything, but it's kind of fun!
Star Trek The Next Generation: Q Squared, by Peter David.
Greatest novel of any type ever.
Greatest novel of any type ever.
Peter David's Vendetta back in 1991 IIRC
I bought it, thinking it was a sequel to Q Who (I think that's the episode that introduced the Borg), without ever seeing The Best of Both Worlds.
I remember being confused as it referenced events I hadn't recalled from the episode..
This just started an ongoing obsession with Trek books (restarted early last year with the TNG, Titan and Vanguard books!
I bought it, thinking it was a sequel to Q Who (I think that's the episode that introduced the Borg), without ever seeing The Best of Both Worlds.
I remember being confused as it referenced events I hadn't recalled from the episode..
This just started an ongoing obsession with Trek books (restarted early last year with the TNG, Titan and Vanguard books!
Pardon?
Ok, guys, the question was "What was the 1st Trek novel you ever read?" Are you telling me that, as published authors, you don't differentiate between novels and short story collections?
The "ST Log" books are written like novels. Even the three-eps-to-a-book examples are interconnected with bonus scenes and a continuing narrative, in ways that TAS could never hope to do on Saturday morning TV.
Maybe because it was a sequel? To "The Vulcan Academy Murders".
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For me, it was the novelization of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, which I got back in '86 (I think). It really turned me from a casual sci-fi fan to a Trekker. I don't think I ever looked at Trek the same way again, because it added so much depth to Starfleet, Kirk, Spock, and the overall story for me...
dunno, Spock must Die! and Entropy Effect were among the earliest though...
I think that my first Star Trek novel was Star Trek VI The Undiscovered Country followed a couple of years later by my first purhcase Imazdi. I remember because I was riding in the back of the bus reading TUC with my mom during an outing and I brought my copy of Imazadi with me to dreaded summer camp in the summer of 93 and was planning on reading it but ended up reading only a chapter and having a good time. I finished reading it when I got back home and loved it lol.
Wow, most of you have been reading the books longer than I've been alive.
My first exposure to Trek books, was my mother reading the first TNG: Starfleet Academy book to me before I was able to read myself. Then I started reading those myself, and eventually moved on to New Fronteir as both my first adult books. But I didn't really start getting into trek lit back in the '03-'05 range when I started reading the DS9R.
My first exposure to Trek books, was my mother reading the first TNG: Starfleet Academy book to me before I was able to read myself. Then I started reading those myself, and eventually moved on to New Fronteir as both my first adult books. But I didn't really start getting into trek lit back in the '03-'05 range when I started reading the DS9R.
Voy: Homecoming
In hind sight I doubt it is as good as I thought it was back then in spring 2005, but I might re-read it before Full Circle.
In hind sight I doubt it is as good as I thought it was back then in spring 2005, but I might re-read it before Full Circle.
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