The Star Trek franchise's first tie-in publications were James Blish's 1967 volume of episode novelizations and Mack Reynolds's 1968 young adult novel Mission to Horatius.[1] Since 1968, more than 850 original novels, short story collections, episode and film novelizations, and omnibus editions have been published.
Novels based on Star Trek, The Next Generation, Discovery, and Picard are currently in print. As recently as 2020, novels based on Deep Space Nine, Enterprise, and Voyager were published. Original concept and flagship series such as New Frontier, Titan, Seekers, and Vanguard have also been published since 1994.
Official publishers of Star Trek novels include Simon & Schuster and U.K. publisher Titan Books. Bantam Books published novels from 1967 to 1981. Past publishers include: Western Publishing, Random House imprints Ballantine and Del Rey Books, Science Fiction Book Club.[1][2] Publishers Heyne and Cross Cult publish German-language translations of Star Trek novels.
In 2001, Pocket Books estimated there were 85 million copies in print.[3] Michael Epstein, writing for Television Quarterly in 1996, said Star Trek was "by far the biggest series of fiction in the history of western literature".[4]
| All novels published as paperback editions, except where indicated. | |
| † | Hardcover first edition
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| ^ | Children's or young adult book
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| ◊ | Published as an ebook exclusive
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| ‡ | Included in omnibus or collection
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| # | Published as a numbered novel
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| ≈ | Variant or retitled novel
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| Teal | Book line or flagship series name
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| Navy | Miniseries name
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| Pink | Crossover series name
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| ed. | Omnibus or collection editor(s).
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| et al. | Multiple authors, see note
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- ^ a b Ayers, Jeff (November 14, 2006). Voyages of the Imagination: The Star Trek Fiction Companion. New York: Pocket Books. ISBN 9781416503491.
- ^ Svetkey, Benjamin (September 27, 1991). "Books on Star Trek". EW.com. Retrieved March 3, 2010.
- ^ Raugust, Karen (August 20, 2001). "Star Trek: Celebrating 35 Years". Publishers Weekly. Vol. 248, no. 34. pp. 44–46. ISSN 0000-0019. Retrieved January 17, 2024.
- ^ Epstein, Michael M. (1996). "Spaced Out: The Star Trek Literary Phenomenon: Where No TV Series Has Gone Before". Television Quarterly. Vol. 28, no. 1. pp. 47–57. ISSN 0040-2796.