I think those might have been the first Trek books I read, too! God, that is really, really weird. And then, like, The Entropy Effect. Why were all the first books I read the weird ones??

Seriously, though, TOS novels rule. I still have some. I’m rather partial to The Three-Minute Universe - with the Vinithi and how they offend every sense, and how one ends up being named Orangejuiceandwodka - and it’s hard to top How Much For Just the Planet? which once started a flame war on an echo I frequented -

God, and anything by Diane Duane, especially if it has K’t'lk in it - I love the Hamalki! My latest fic has one in it because of her! And oh, her Rihannsu stuff - I have another fic, a DD9 fic, that has a lovely Rihanha in it, and she’s going to speak Duane-Romulan because I like it much, much better than canon.

Oh, one disappointment, though… Uhura’s Song. It used to be one of my favourites, but God, I reread it last year… Imagine my surprise to discover it’s one big fat giant Mary Sue. /sigh/ Oh, Doctor Tailkinker To'Ennien, how can you betray me so? (Meanwhile, I hear Janet Kagan was super cool… but wow, this is fanfic, and lookit my cool OC~~~)