User:Thunderstrike78

Introduction (blurb)
I'm a fairly new participant at Memory Beta, and I've made a few edits here and there to portions of articles. I'd like to become more involved as time permits, although my schedule is sometime pretty hectic.

Summary
I've been a fan of licensed Star Trek material since I was about twelve years old. One year for Christmas, my parents bought me John Vornholt's Masks, and I've been hooked ever since. My main love has always been the novels (of which I have a large collection), but I have also periodically enjoyed other licensed material. In particular, I have a deep love for the old Birth of the Federation PC game, and I spent a lot of time playing the DS9 game The Fallen. I've also enjoyed various comics and role-playing games, but I always seem to come back to the novels.

Within the last year or so, my oldest son (now eleven years old) has become a huge fan of Star Trek as well. He hasn't watched past the 4th Season of TNG yet, but he's working on it, and he's devoured many of the novels set in that time period. Most recently, he's become a big fan of Michael Jan Friedman's Stargazer novels (he's read more of them than I have) and he plans on inventing a transporter after he graduates from MIT.

Series
I grew up with Star Trek: The Next Generation, and that series continues to be my favorite. I'm also a big fan of Deep Space 9, and I enjoy TOS as well.

While I can't claim to have a complete collection of Trek novels, I think I have a pretty impressive collection that centers mostly on TNG and DS9 books (as well as a healthy sprinkling of TOS and VOY books).

I was not a big fan of Enterprise when it aired, but I've seen a few episodes on rerun and I'm slowly accepting it more and more. I floated an idea a few years ago about Enterprise being a change to the original Trek timeline that resulted from the events of Star Trek: First Contact, and I find the series more easy to digest in that context. I haven't read any of the Enterprise novels yet, although it sounds like characters from that era will be heavily involved in Star Trek: Destiny later this year.

Other Interests
Being a confirmed nerd, I'm also a big fan of Babylon 5, Star Wars, Marvel comics, and a lot of other stuff. For now, my kids seem to love it, and it gives us all something to do together.