Me, neither. I owned one or two (Mutiny on the Enterprise comes to mind, if only because I remember being intrigued by the title as a middle schooler, having just read Mutiny on the Bounty), but I never got around to reading them. I did read a couple of Choose Your Own Adventure-type Trek books, though (part of either the Find Your Fate or Doorway to Adventure series, I can’t remember which), and those were alright, IIRC.

Well, I loved the TOS novels when I was an adolescent (or do they call it being a “tweenager” now?). I can’t really remember any of their plots (except maybe one that involved Dr. McCoy taking command. . .).

I remember reading this, when I was about 10 yrs old! I had that very paperback edition. Down the line I also bought a couple of the other Marshak/Culbreath Star Trek collabs. I have to say I found them somewhat difficult reading; a little inaccessible for a kid. I was never quite sure exactly what was supposed to be happening. Thinking back to them, now, I have to wonder if maybe Christopher Priest was influenced by them for his novel, The Prestige. Some similarities there with the major plot device. And the authors did seem to delight in stripping Kirk and Spock down and getting them tied up.

Right on. Duane’s first four or five Star Trek novels — THE WOUNDED SKY; MY ENEMY, MY ALLY; SPOCK’S WORLD; THE ROMULAN WAY and DOCTOR’S ORDERS (probably the one you’re thinking of, Prof!) — are excellent works of science fiction in their own right, and probably the best Trek novels ever written…though her attempts to link them thematically with her Wizard books feel a bit odd at times.