I’m curious if you’d ever read and review ST tie in novels besides the TMP one. In particular, I’d like to hear if you enjoy “How Much for Just the Planet?”
Oh, probably! I have a bunch of the James Blish novelizations of TOS (that I've heard both good and awful things about) and will probably get to those ones at the least.
There are a lot I probably won't read just because I'm not much of an expanded universe fan in the first place, but I do sometimes when something interests me even if the quality is shaky, for basically the same reason that I'll read a book of shaky literary criticism for a single compelling chapter with some insight I wouldn't have thought of by myself.
For instance, I got a kick out of Splinter the Mind's Eye for Star Wars, bad as it is. Is it or any novel something I regard as "canon" for the original trilogy? No, I'm a firm "if it were significant to the films, it would be in the films" kind of fan. Is the novel's insistence that Luke got so bored out of his skull on Tatooine that he just downloaded Space Rosetta Stone and started learning random languages to break up the tedium 100% accepted into my headcanon because I find the idea delightful? Yes.
So, with regards to Star Trek, I'll probably get around to trying ones that come more highly recommended (I did enjoy the dramatic reading of the TMP novelization, in some ways all the more because of the thirteen-year-old boy's first writing workshop level of prose—we pronounced all the italics and emphasis quotes!). Or if one has some detail I want to think about—and that one does sound really, really fun, with cameos from some of my favorite authors. And speaking of whom, I do want to get around to Spock's World someday as the kind of gold standard of Star Trek novels according to basically every super-intense Trekkie I know including my best friend.
