I have been a Star Trek fan since the 1990s with Star Trek: The Next Generation. I have not even watched the entire Original Series. Some purist may tell me that I am not a true fan because of that. But, in all honesty, Star Trek began with The Next Generation for me. I equate it to Doctor Who—Matt Smith is the Doctor that I first watched—so he is “MY” Doctor, and always will be. However, just because that is where my experience began, doesn’t mean that is where it will remain.
One of the areas, I have been wanting to get into are the Star Trek novels. I have read a couple through the years and they are always enjoyable to read. They aren’t too deep and the author doesn’t have to work too hard to develop the characters—I already have a picture of who they are before the book begins. I’m also not that “nerdy” of a fan that I would notice if they varied the story line a little bit. So, lately, I’ve wanted to focus more toward reading the books. I recently did some research and three titles that repeatedly show up on best Star Trek book lists are “Enterprise”, “Prime Directive”, and “Final Frontier”. I checked Amazon.com and none of these were available in Kindle format, so I thought I had to wait awhile until I could find them. Last week, at a local used books store, I found all of them—and an entire wall of Star Trek books as well.
I think I will take all three with me on my upcoming trip and maybe read them all!
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