Your first Trek novel?
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It's been a long time, but i believe it was the TNG Hardcover novel Reunion. I was reading it in english class for silent reading time!
The first Star Trek book I read is also the first 'adult' novel I've ever read -- Q-Squared, by Peter David. I was in fourth grade at the time and my teachers were getting mad at me for not reading anything more than Garfield or Peanuts collections from the library so my parents took me to a local bookstore and made look for stuff. Q-Squared was appealing because I was quite fond of Q episodes and I wasn't aware Star Trek had books besides TV shows and movies.
It blew me away, basically. There's a part near the end where Trelane interacts with a certain thing and the prose turns into something more resembling poetry for a couple of pages -- I'd never really thought that you could just switch gears like that then switch back. I still look back on the book fondly and re-read it ever couple of years. I've also become a fan of Peter David's non Star Treks works; such as the Modern Aurthur Series and the Sir Apropos of Nothing series.
It blew me away, basically. There's a part near the end where Trelane interacts with a certain thing and the prose turns into something more resembling poetry for a couple of pages -- I'd never really thought that you could just switch gears like that then switch back. I still look back on the book fondly and re-read it ever couple of years. I've also become a fan of Peter David's non Star Treks works; such as the Modern Aurthur Series and the Sir Apropos of Nothing series.
Reunion was my first novel too, though it was the paperback version back when it was the latest release. I remember quite enjoying it, and it led to my reading a string of about 60 novels in the next three years.
I read the Blish adaptations as a 9-10 year old and I remember how disappointed I was that he wasn't done releasing them. I thought, c'mon, the show's already been on, all you're doing is copying. The first stand-alone novel was Spock Must Die! (sobs quietly) This makes me old, doesn't it?
The fotonovels - A Taste of Armageddon and Day of the Dove. Bought them on my way to UPCAT exam in '84.
RobertScorpio
Pariah
Mine was ENTROPY EFFECT. And didn't they use some of that for TNG. I also remember reading a book about reptiles on earth evolving, leaving earth, then coming back..did they use this for that episode of Voyager which was nearly about the same topic??
Rob
Rob
"First Frontier". I often wondered if it inspired the VOY episode, but it's probably coincidence.
Diane Duane's "The Wounded Sky" did inspire her cowritten episode "Where No One Has Gone Before" for TNG.
I don't recall any particular commonalities between that novel and TNG.
Prime Directive. Don't remember who wrote it, but I believe it was a sequel of sorts to the events in The Voyage Home. Very good, as I remember. Though I would say Federation was the best ever. I love the Reeves-Stevens books.
Q-Squared is the only Peter David book I've read I didn't like. It really turned me off.
Uhh, no, the Voyage Home sequel was Probe (credited to Margaret Wander Bonanno but actually mostly written by Gene DeWeese). Prime Directive was set during the 5-year mission, long before TVH.
Ironically, Prime Directive was a Reeves-Stevens book.
"We'll Always Have Paris" shared many elements with The Entropy Effect, actually.
My first Trek book I read was Vendetta in the 4th grade. I was so proud of myself for reading and finishing a 400 page book at the time. 
I remember she had her original novel on her website for download for sometime. Don't know if it is still there and I am too lazy at the moment to do a Google search (which, I realize, would probably take as much, if not less, energy as I am using now to type all of this).
I remember she had her original novel on her website for download for sometime. Don't know if it is still there and I am too lazy at the moment to do a Google search (which, I realize, would probably take as much, if not less, energy as I am using now to type all of this).
The Death of Princes by John Peel. It was my first entry into Trek on my own (previously I had watched episodes with my dad). And I haven't looked back since.
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