Do most Trek fiction collectors buy non-fiction titles too?

[Elemental]

I know there are a lot of people here who collect Trek fiction (myself included) and I was just curious if you guys make a point of collecting non-fiction titles as well such as the recently released "Captain Kirk's Guide to Women". I haven't looked much at the book yet so don't know if I'll get it

 

[Smiley]

If it's an area of interest to me, then I will give it a look. This year's offerings may be non-fiction, but they aren't really giving new information, so I'm less likely to buy them. I go more for behind-the-scenes stories. The best of this type that I've read have been the DS9 Companion, the TNG Companion, and Voyages of Imagination.

 

[Defcon]

I know there are a lot of people here who collect Trek fiction (myself included) and I was just curious if you guys make a point of collecting non-fiction titles as well such as the recently released "Captain Kirk's Guide to Women". I haven't looked much at the book yet so don't know if I'll get it

No, I only collect the fiction. I have a handful of non-fiction titles, but all but one of them (Voyages of Imagination) only because I found them relatively cheap at bargain tables.

 

[Kopernikus]

If it's an area of interest to me, then I will give it a look.

Same here, the last one I bought (And actualy the only one in many years) was "Voyages of Imagination". Overall I'm quite satisfied with reading the novels, and when there's really something I need check, well, what's Google been invented for?

 

[Therin of Andor]

I know there are a lot of people here who collect Trek fiction (myself included) and I was just curious if you guys make a point of collecting non-fiction titles as well such as the recently released "Captain Kirk's Guide to Women". I haven't looked much at the book yet so don't know if I'll get it

Completist here. I have a room overflowing with almost everything (fiction and non fiction) listed on Steve Roby's "Complete Star Trek Library" web pages - and happily paid full price for (almost) everything.

The only books I don't buy are reprint collections of books that do not have any new material in them. (I have been getting all the reprint omnibuses of the comics, though.)

 

[Trent Roman]

Fiction only, in my case. While I might enjoy the occasional behind-the-scenes anecdote, the simple truth is that I just don't care enough how the show is made (and much less tongue-in-cheek books like the Guide to Women or Guide to the Continuum) to spend money on it. Not when there's so much available for free online, anyway, and so much more great fiction clamouring for my disposable income...

Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Depends on the book. I have the second and third editions of the Enyclopedia, the second edition of the Chronology, Star Charts, Voyage of Imagination and the Deep Space Nine Companion. After that, I don't have much interest in the non-fiction books.

 

[DarkHorizon]

Usually only where the title interests me - the tech manuals, companions, 'making ofs', etc. I've been trying to fill in the gaps I have in the major titles recently, and have just received a copy of Phase II: The Lost Series.

The tongue-in-cheek stuff definitely doesn't interest me (although I did see Guide to Women at my LCS last week, and I was surprised at how small it is). I am looking forward to Star Trek 101 as it'll have Enterprise info in it.

 

[captcalhoun]

i have the TOS Compendium, TNG, DS9 and VGR companions, DS9 and TNG tech manuals, star charts, VOI, chronology (1st and 2nd) Encyclopaedia (1st and 2nd) and 'lost voyages of trek and the next generation', some unofficial making of TNG book from S1 or so and Art of Star Trek.

 

[Jim Johnson]

Nah, I just buy the books I'm interested in. I love the tech manuals and the DS9 Companion, and Star Charts, but some of the other non-fiction books just don't much value for me to bother with.

 

[JoeZhang]

Nah, I just buy the books I'm interested in. I love the tech manuals and the DS9 Companion, and Star Charts, but some of the other non-fiction books just don't much value for me to bother with.

I'll buy interesting real world stuff - I have no interest in "Guide to Enterprise (refit A) exhaust manifolds (3rd edition)"

 

[Ktrek]

I pretty much collect most non-fiction titles and every fiction title. I especially buy whatever Pocketbooks releases in non and fiction.

Kevin

 

[donners22]

Actually, I was thinking of posting a thread asking about the best non-fiction titles. I'll watch the responses here with interest.

I love "behind the scenes" info, and have the Captain's Log, DS9 Companion, TNG Companion, Voyages of Imagination, Making of Insurrection, Q's Guide to the Continuum, Everything I Need to Know I Learned from TNG, Delta Quadrant, Nitpickers Guide to TNG and possibly a few others that slipped my mind.

The last three are rather unimpressive, but I like the others. I'm trying to get the Compendium, but I don't know of any others that I should get aside from Harlan Ellison's rant about City on the Edge of Forever.

Oh, I also have the entire set of Star Trek Fact Files - that is, the one before the DVD edition, and I note a third version has just started...

 

[Steve Roby]

I know there are a lot of people here who collect Trek fiction (myself included) and I was just curious if you guys make a point of collecting non-fiction titles as well such as the recently released "Captain Kirk's Guide to Women". I haven't looked much at the book yet so don't know if I'll get it

Nonfiction? Absolutely. I can't claim to have everything, but I try to get everything I can, for the collection and for the website. There's a much wider variety of Trek nonfiction than people seem to realize.

As for Captain Kirk's Guide to Women, I bought it. Haven't read it yet. Not in any rush to do so.

 

[Kira Nerys]

If it interests me.

 

[Harvey]

I've bought nearly all of the non-fiction titles, although the latest releases don't interest me at all (the last one I bought, IIRC, was the glorious Star Charts).

As for fiction, I only buy and keep the titles that I've greatly enjoyed and can reconcile with televised Trek. Which means I only have about 30 titles on my shelf (maybe less).

 

[Good Will Riker]

Yes, I have purchased both in the past.

 

[Steve Roby]

I've bought nearly all of the non-fiction titles, although the latest releases don't interest me at all (the last one I bought, IIRC, was the glorious Star Charts).

I'm guessing you mean all the Pocket nonfiction titles, then. Star Charts was published in 2002. Here's a few of the nonfiction books from other publishers from 2003 on:

• Beyond the Final Frontier: An Unauthorised Review of the Trek Universe on Television and Film by Mark Jones and Lance Parkin
• Star Trek: Visions of Law and Justice edited by Robert Chaires and Bradley Chilton
• Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations: The Multicultural Evolution of Star Trek by Katja Kanzler
• Just a Geek by Wil Wheaton
• Star Trek: Technologies of Disappearance by Alan N. Shapiro
• 40 Years of Star Trek: The Collection (the Christie's auction catalogue), text by Michael and Denise Okuda
• Artificial Life Possibilities: A Star Trek Perspective by Penny Baillie-de Byl
• Boarding the Enterprise: Transporters, Tribbles and the Vulcan Death Grip in Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek edited by David Gerrold, Robert J. Sawyer, and Leah Wilson
• Drones, Clones, and Alpha Babes: Retrofitting Star Trek's Humanism, Post-9/11 by Diana M.A. Relke
• The Literary Galaxy of Star Trek: An Analysis of References and Themes in the Television Series and Films by James F. Broderick
• The Influence of Star Trek on Television, Film and Culture edited by Lincoln Geraghty
• Living With Star Trek: American Culture and Star Trek Fandom by Lincoln Geraghty

And there's more where those came from.

 

[donners22]

Retrofitting Star Trek's Humanism, Post-9/11

Am I the only one who groaned at that?

 

[Trent Roman]

^ Why? The Table of Contents on Steve's website makes it seem more concerned with VOY, but one could probably go on at length about the impact 9/11 and the subsequent culture of fear and paranoia had on ENT, from not-so-subtle critiques of racial profiling to pretty much all of Season 3.

Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman