James Blish's novelisations. First original Trek novel was, I think, The Entropy Effect
What was your first Star Trek book?
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Entropy was probably my first original ST novel read too...
Star Trek 1 by James Blish. My mother was using it to teach a reading program, and brought me home a copy. This would have been around 1977. I sampled other Bantam books after that, but didn't really like them. Pocket's The Abode of Life was the one that finally won me over and got me to start reading them regularly.
It's certainly one of my earliest after The Blish Logs, and Gordon Eklund's two novels (both of which I very much enjoyed). Indeed, I have very fond memories of that novel, and still have it (and the sequel).
I wish I could remember what my first book was. Pocket has been publishing them since I was nine (with the release of TMP), and Bantam roughly a decade prior to that, which would go back before I was born, so my first book was most likely the TMP novelization. Although my mom has been reading to me since I was born in a (successful) bid to make me literate, I don't really remember her reading Star Trek books to me (other than the stories she made up when I was really little). I discovered the Bantam novels at used book stores and garage sales all though the 1980's when I was in my teens, and by then, the Pocket line was well established, so, yes, I think it may have been the TMP novelization.
TNG's Foreign Foes. Can anyone remember why Data went rogue in that novel? It was something to do with some substance the crew encountered.
Imzadi. No, I don't know why I picked that one up.
Star Trek Deep Space Nine Number 4 The Big Game. I saw it at the library and said thought to myself i'd love to read a grown up book about star trek, I had just seen All Good Things on tv, i thought it was a movie, and a then a few more TNG reruns. I thought Deep Space Nine was the new star trek (and it was) and gravitated toward it. It was a fun read at the time, i didnt know that things always reset in the end of the numbered books and was like holy shit the whole stations basically blowing up to bits, and it didnt even make it to an episode, thank god they fixed all this stuff before the next episode. I alwayws was of the mentality that the stuff that happened in books was secret information that only the fans knew about and there fore was sort of privledged info. So yes that was my first. One of my firsts, also was THE SIeGE and that remains a favorite to this day! Deep space nine NUmber 2. I think thats the first book I bought! Now of course over time I prefer a different kind of novel, but the adventure ones were always great fun as a kid. i know that my first TNG book from the Library was here there be dragons, my first tos The GReat Starship race. The first TNG book i bought was Balance of Power. But the first one i remember really reading was the 2nd one i got "Ghost Ship" and thinking who the hell is this Ro Person. In my mind i thought that must be (as i now know her to be ensign regar? the black girl at helm.) but it confused me as to Rikers no beard, Always callined Laforge Lt. (i thought they were be disrespectful to his rank), and i coundnt figure out other little things who the hell is ARgyle, whs Picard so crotchety, Who the hell is the other guy with Laforge on the cover, (Riker) i understood this later, why do they not have uniforms on thier collars? why is Geordi's red? its yellow on TV, and why does Riker HATE data?
all this confused me since i had never seen anything but season 7 reruns, where ro is not present, and all the other stuff make me confused for obvious reason.
So they were the firsts. Didnt like Orignal Series at the time, Deep Space was and still is fav. TNG was 2nd, but has since switched places with TOS for the most part now
all this confused me since i had never seen anything but season 7 reruns, where ro is not present, and all the other stuff make me confused for obvious reason.
So they were the firsts. Didnt like Orignal Series at the time, Deep Space was and still is fav. TNG was 2nd, but has since switched places with TOS for the most part now
Star Trek Concordance was the first Trek book and Spock, Messiah was the first novel.
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