Star Trek books (multiple series have been removed from)

I've been updating my records of my books, and noticed that a lot of the Star Trek Novels have had their Series information altered from what I remember. Notably a lot have been removed from the main series at https://www.librarything.com/nseries/106/Star-Trek

https://www.librarything.com/nseries/659/Star-Trek-novels also seems to have had a number of novels purged from it.

Before I make any attempt to add them back in I want to know that I'm not going against some decision I haven't seen referenced.

>1 Avron: Looking at the first series, it seems to be a catch-all. There's a lot of 'technical' manuals, I also see a lot of the FASA Star Trek: The Roleplaying Game supplements, so it looks like someone is moving the novels out. What may be happening is that novelisations are being split into different series related to the different TV series.

I don't know; apart from the two John M Ford novelisations and the TOS material, I purged most of the ST novel-length fiction from my library.

>1 Avron: Looking at the edit history on the two listed series, it looks like there are two users who are moving things around, though I didn't dig deep into what they were doing, since I couldn't trace all that they were doing. I'd suggest contacting them directly to get their thought processes on what they're doing, to see if you could help or something.

One is removing all sorts of things from all sorts of series: https://www.librarything.com/nseries/userhistory/2594917

It's possible they don't really get the communal aspect of series.

The other has done a lot of work on this series: https://www.librarything.com/nseries/33556/Star-Trek-Heyne

Which 1) mostly seems to be made of works that should be combined with ones they are translations of, and thus 2) ought to be a Publisher Series.

>4 Stevil2001: I looked at the link in message 4, but it looks like the books that reported to have been removed are still in the series. Such as "The Chosen" is still in the series "Stargate". Am I mis-reading that page? I was wondering if that member had deleted something from a series I know a little more about, but couldn't confirm that any of the deletions had actually happened. Maybe I am terribly confused here...sorry if I am mis-understanding something obvious.

>5 al.vick: One user deletes, another adds them back. It had been awhile since the deletions - and these are popular series. I’ve had to add back books into series often. For the last one:

https://www.librarything.com/nseries/history/3944 - Avron re-added it back in one of the series for example.
https://www.librarything.com/nseries/history/10852 - gilroy into the other.

Above was the page for one user. In order to see the history of the series, you need to get to the series page.

Ah... thanks! That makes sense.

I have about 40 star trek novels. These are in the UK edition, published by Titan Books. They were published deliberately as a numbered series and are exclusively about the "Star-Trek the Original Series" characters.

I was under the impression that a publishers series would be where disparate books are gathered together into a collection of uniformly bound editions and numbered as a series. Examples of that would be "everyman's library" (i collect the 1920's editions of these).

The Titan star trek books are in a different series order from the pocket-books series and so need to exist as a series in their own right. Otherwise it is not possible to check which ones are missing when in a second-hand bookshop, or browibngf on Abebooks (other sellers are available...). For me, this is the main use of librarything., I have over 3,500 books catalogued so far, and have no room for duplicates on my shelves!.

I have created the Titan Star Trek series at least twice, and each time someone has helpfully stripped the whole lot out.

Now that publishers series are no longer visible, how do i manage this series?

>8 theozannes: Do you mean this series here?
https://www.librarything.com/nseries/322130/Star-Trek-Adventures-Titan

The last edit to it was merely updating the title to the new protocol, according to the edit history.

On LT a publishers series is one which contains works where different editions of the work may appear in different series or no series. An example would be a series of great American works containing Huckleberry Finn and The Great Gatsby. Your Star Trek books would be a regular series which are allowed to have alternate orderings.

https://www.librarything.com/nseries/9907/Star-Trek-%5BTitan%5D

There's a possibility someone is thinking that Titan is reference to the ship commanded by Riker in post TNG series books.

>9 gilroy: the series you list is the "star trek adventures " series, reprints of the 12 novel series published by Bantam.

I mean the Titan Books series "The New Star Trek Novel" starting in 1987. These are the same novels as the 87 TOS novels published by Pocket Books, but published in a different order by Titan.

eg: (the original series)
1: Chain of Attack ISBN 0907610854 (republication of pocket books ISBN 0671666584, #32 in that series))
2: Deep Domain (pocket books #33)
3: Dreams of the Raven (pocket books #34)
4: The Romulan Way (pocket books #35)
5: how much for just the planet (pocket books #36)

>10 jjwilson61: Thanks jjwilson61. that is what i had assumed. But that has not stopped someone from deleting it!

>13 theozannes: If they're just in a different order then I believe there's a way to add a new ordering to an existing series

New ordering doesn't work when the Titan publisher didn't even get close to publishing all that had been published to that point. Let alone what came later.