Your first Trek novel?

[Garth Rockett]

The discussion of Janet Kagan and Uhura's Song got me thinking about when I first discovered Star Trek novels. Not long after I discovered Star Trek I came across a box set of four Trek novels: Final Frontier by Diane Carey, Corona by Greg Bear, The Vulcan Academy Murders by Jean Lorrah, and Uhura's Song by Janet Kagan (at my local K-Mart, I believe). This box set represented my first purchase of Trek novels, and Final Frontier was the first one I read.

What was the first Trek novel you read?

 

[LightningStorm]

Star Trek Voyager: Echoes by Dean Wesley Smith, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, and Nina Kiriki Hoffman, and been hooked ever since.

 

[Turbo]

TNG: Rogue Saucer by John Vornholt.

 

[ronny]

Timetrap. I don't see it mentioned very much and usually not in a positive light. I liked it though.

 

[DS9forever]

It was the DS9 novelizations that got me into the novels. The Way of the Warrior was my first novelization and Time's Enemy was my first novel. Its still one of my favorites too.

 

[cardinal biggles]

David Gerrold's novelization of Encounter at Farpoint. Coincidentally, "Farpoint" was my first episode, too.

 

[Steve Roby]

What was the first Trek novel you read?

Mission to Horatius, which I first read in 1971 or '72. Took a couple years before I got my next Star Trek book, but from then on, there was no stopping me.

 

[Dayton Ward]

One of the Blish adaptation volumes in the 70s. I don't recall which one, but I think it was #5.

 

[David Mack]

One of the early James Blish Star Trek Logs of the Original Series.

 

[bok2384]

The first Star Trek anyone ever bought for me was the TOS short story anthology The New Voyages. It was in the early 1990s and I had just discovered the series through The Next Generation and my grandmother bought the book because of that. When she gave it to me I was less than impressed and all I kept asking was where is Captain Picard and Data?

Anyway, my first Star Trek novel that I read was Reunion by Michael Jan Friedman, a fantastic read and still one of my favorites today :thumbsup:. I hired both this and the Young Adult novel, Mystery of the Missing Crew from the local library.

 

[Defcon]

Enterprise: The first Adventure by Vonda N. McIntyre

 

[Christopher]

My first was Star Trek Log Three, a used-bookstore edition with the cover torn off (and thus probably illegal, a book that was meant to be destroyed, although I don't know if they did it that way back in 1975 or so).

I'm not sure, but my first wholly original Trek novel (as opposed to a novelization) may have been The Galactic Whirlpool by David Gerrold. I remember coming across it in a bookstore on the same trip where I bought Pocket's shiny new ST:TMP novelization, and finding it something of a novelty that there was an ST novel that wasn't one of Blish or Foster's adaptations. Although now that I think about it, I have conflicting memories: the first one may have been Gordon Eklund's The Starless World. I think I may have bought that, or had it bought for me, around the same time I got my copy of The Star Trek Concordance. I also may have gotten the ST: The New Voyages anthology before I got Gerrold's novel. But those were definitely among the first.

 

[JD]

I've actually been "reading" Trek since before I could even read. When I was very young one of my parents would read the TNG Starfleet Academy books to me before I fell asleep. So my first expierience with Trek Lit was Worf's First Adventure by Peter David, which actually introduced Soleta, Mark McHeny, Zak Kebron, and Tonia Tobias to the Trekverse. My first adult Trek book I actually read myself was the first NF book House of Cards. I don't mean to ramble but I actually have a somewhat humorous (to me at least) story to go along with this one. When I first read this I was still in like 5th or 6th Grade, and my teacher used to check the books we were reading in class to make sure it was appropriate for us to be reading. I still remember to this day that I was really nervous that she would just happen to open the book to one of the more adult scenes in the book.

 

[Smiley]

I don't really know. It might have been the ST III novelization. I was dependent on what my school library had, and I read a lot in a short time, so it all runs together. The first books I remember owning are the Dominion War quartet, The Romulan Prize (TNG #26), and the Q books by Cox and David.

 

[KRAD]

Star Trek 3 by James Blish.

 

[VanCardboardbox]

I only started reading Trek about three years ago. My first novel was Vanguard: Harbinger, by David Mack. I knew nothing about the book and chose it largely because it had the nicest cover art on the shelf. I absolutely loved it and credit the book with launching an enthusiasm for Trek lit that continues unabated.

 

[JeremyW]

If I recall my own memory...and sometimes, it really sucks...my first Trek novel ever was the novel Federation. And I was so hooked onto it, that I couldn't put it down, and have re-read it several times. Unfortunately, my paperback copy got lost along the way, but alongside Vulcan's Heart, I got a first edition hardcover at a used book store for a whopping five bucks last night, so I look forward to reading about Adrik Thorsen, the Grigari, Cochrane and the Companion and everything else that made this book real good.

 

[vanguarduk]

Even though , being a relatively newcomer to Trek-Lit, with the DS9 novel "Warped". (Which was a Christmas present). The next a "shatnerverse" novel, which I cannot remember what the title was at this moment! (Also a present)It was a visit to the local bookstore for my first buy, which was the series opener for "Enterprise", "Broken Bow" I thoroughly enjoyed that!
Since then, I've bought all the latest novels of all the series, since 2002.
Also I've invested in a Reader for all the series of ebooks.
If any of the family decide to buy me a present, I log on to Amazon, to order the next latest, or buy from the list of pre 2001 books on sale there.
I now have over 200 books of fiction or non-fiction. The dusting takes a while!

 

[Jim Johnson]

Do the photonovels count? I remember reading a couple of those way back as a kid. I think they were "Trouble with Tribbles" and "The Galileo Seven."

If we're talking novel novels, then I'm pretty sure the first one I read was the novelization for Star Trek II: TWOK. Then a whole bunch after that because I started working at Waldenbooks and had the entire sf/f section to devour.

 

[trampledamage]

I can't actually remember (very dim and distant past ) - my dad owns all of the Star Trek novels, so I guess it was one of those, but I've no way of narrowing it down!