You Bastards Got Me Hooked

[seigezunt]

Okay, here I was all innocent and just reading my TOS novels, when I started to get interested in the other shows...

I put the blame on that SOB Bennett, for dropping little references to "Enterprise" in his great Ex Machina. So that got me watching the show, which I never did when it first aired. Love it.

Now I'm catching up on all the shows I missed, which include the second half of DS9 and after, and I'm realizing I want to read the DS9 and ENT relaunches, not to mention the Destiny novels touted by you guys.

So now I'm not limiting myself to the TOS novels, but the unnumbered novels of the other series (that seems to when they got better and a little bit more consistent. I don't mind, and love aberant continuity in TOS lit, but I don't have the interest with the later stuff). Figure that's a good cutoff.

So, Damn you. Damn you all.

 

[Nerys Myk]

He made me read a TNG novel once. And god help me I liked it!!!!!!

 

[Thrawn]

Oh dude (dudette?), you seriously have no idea. No idea what you are in for. It's absurd, how good the books are these days.

And you might want to add Vanguard to your list, if you love TOS so much. It's brilliant.

 

[Turtletrekker]

And you might want to add Vanguard to your list, if you love TOS so much. It's brilliant.

Second this.

 

[bbailey861]

Agree with all. I just thank my lucky stars that I have a great wife and kids who are all too happy to feed my addiction. And to think that Christmas is right around the corner!!

 

[Corran Horn]

How great that you've gotten hooked and there's so much already written for you to catch up on!

I remember when I got into Dresden Files the 6th book had just been written. It was so great to be able to move straight from one to the next w/o a wait.

 

[rahullak]

Christopher made me read The Buried Age. Loved it.

 

[LightningStorm]

Posting here will do that to ya. I've had a similar experience. When I first started reading Trek Lit I was Voyager exclusive, thanks to this place I've been hooked into nearly all of the series and loving them all for the most part.

 

[Captain Randy Hall]

For one and all, you're welcome.

 

[Therin of Andor]

I have often tried - and failed - to convey here the excitement of my immersion into Star Trek in December 1979, which was caused by overhearing a friend at my 21st birthday party mention attending the Sydney premiere of ST:TMP just a few days earlier. His descriptions of the movie and its wacky, cheering, costumed audience of enthusiastic fans, intrigued me so much, I raced out and bought the novelization the next day - and then the soundtrack on LP - before even seeing the movie!

And then came the discovery of the fact that there were Blish adaptations, original novels, TAS adaptations and truly bizarre things like Concordances and Medical Reference Manuals and giant crossword puzzle posters. (I couldn't imagine why someone would want an encyclopedia-style reference book about Star Trek, or instructions for curing fictitious aliens of various weird ailments. Oooops. Me! I wanted them!)

Thank the stars that I started collecting in 1980 and not 2009. I'm a completist and it truly would have done my head in to do more treasure hunting than I had to do in those early years.

And "Ex Machina" is the movie, complete with characters and costumes, which I wanted to see in the cinemas a few weeks after TMP had been running.

 

[seigezunt]

How great that you've gotten hooked and there's so much already written for you to catch up on!

yeah, I'm glad for that, and the slower publishing schedule, as I'm not as fast a reader as some of the kids here!

 

[o'brien's scotch]

I was just a DS9-R reader until there was drought and decided to give the first two Titan books a try. Then Articles of the Federation. Then Vanguard. Then Post-Nemesis TNG. Then ENT-R. After the Destiny Trilogy it was too late and I was picking up Full Circle. Now I'm knee deep in Star Trek paperbacks.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Now I'm knee deep in Star Trek paperbacks.

Plenty of torso to go for you. I'm way past my neck.

 

[Steve Roby]

Thank the stars that I started collecting in 1980 and not 2009.

1973 or '74 for me. When I got my first Trek book, unless you counted the UK Star Trek Annuals (which, as far as I know, weren't available in North America), there weren't more than a dozen or so Star Trek books to be had.

Getting into Doctor Who a few years ago has given me a bit of an idea what it'd be like to get into Star Trek now. I decided not to be a completist, but I've still bought a crapload of books.

 

[seigezunt]

Thank the stars that I started collecting in 1980 and not 2009.

1973 or '74 for me. When I got my first Trek book, unless you counted the UK Star Trek Annuals (which, as far as I know, weren't available in North America), there weren't more than a dozen or so Star Trek books to be had.

Getting into Doctor Who a few years ago has given me a bit of an idea what it'd be like to get into Star Trek now. I decided not to be a completist, but I've still bought a crapload of books.

see, I think I'm getting in at an OK time. I had a lot of the TOS novels from years ago, but got rid of them at some point. It's been fairly cheap to replace them. The newer stuff as it goes out of print seems to go up a lot, so I may be catching up at a ok time.