10 Essential Star Trek Books For Pre-Internet Trekkies

10. Star Trek III novelisation

Of all the novels encountered in Trekkie travels, the novelisations of the movies are the most...useful.

The Motion Picture was glaringly covered in the fingerprints of one Gene Roddenberry with some oddly over sexualised content making its way into the book that, fortunately (or unfortunately?) never made it to the finished product.

The subsequent tie in novel for Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan turned in a more graphic interpretation of the story especially once phasers and photon torpedoes started flying plus it provided greater depth to the characters of both the half-Romulan, half-Vulcan Saavik and Scotty's nephew Peter Preston.

Yet The Search for Spock deserves a special place here since it deep-dived into precisely what pon farr entailed many years before Voyager touched on it again. Uhura too receives more page time with her choice to remain on Earth and not travel to Genesis making a lot more sense than it does onscreen.