Star Trek

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Book Title: Various Star Trek adaptations

Author(s):  James Blish

Publishing Year: Late 60's - Early 70's

Review: 

I'm a Star Trek fan, I've seen the original series, and so I started reading these books.

James Blish wrote 12 of these Star Trek books, stories based on the episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series, which aired starting in 1966. There are about six episode adaptations per book, and even though the books are small, the stories are still well-written, and enjoyable.

It's interesting seeing the parts where the adaptations are different from the original episodes. Whereas a lot of them are nearly identical, some vary quite a bit, and I wonder if he was working with the original scripts from the show when he wrote these. I liked seeing even the small changes in dialogue, and some of the motives of the characters are explained a bit better in the books. 

And not to judge a book by its cover, but the book cover art really is amazing on all of them. They're all quite bright and colorful!

Favorite Part(s):

Oh wow... I definitely know my favorite part. In the adaptation of "Spectre of the Gun" (aka "The Last Gunfight") I love the part where Kirk says this to Spock:

"Mr. Spock, once again we owe you our thanks for quick, thorough and logical thinking. But I

will tell you something else. Privately, and for no other ears than yours, I think you are a

sentimental bag of mush."

XD Best moment ever. It really was.