Star Trek 6 [Mass Market Paperback]

James Blish (Adapter)

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 149 pages
• Publisher: Bantam Books (1972)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0553140507
• ISBN-13: 978-0553140507
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.1 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,382,844 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Star Trek 3 - The series finest encapsulated, August 29, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Star Trek 3 (No. 3) (Paperback)

7 episode summarized, The trouble w/ Tribbles, The Last Gunfight, The Doomsday Machine, Assignment : Earth, Mirror Mirror, Friday's Child & Amok Time. Originally printed in 1969 by Bantam Books.

4.0 out of 5 stars Blish manages to capture a great deal of the tension and action of the episodes, May 16, 2008

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Charles Ashbacher (Marion, Iowa United States) - See all my reviews
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A few years after the original Star Trek series was cancelled, a phenomenon began. Once the series went into syndication it was a staple of the afternoon television fare and a publishing "enterprise" also began. The books where James Blish adapted episodes from the original series were the first steps in the development of what has become an enormous genre.
In this book, Blish adapts the episodes:

*) The Savage Curtain
*) The Lights of Zetar
*) The Apple
*) By Any Other Name
*) The Cloud Minders
*) The Mark of Gideon

None of these episodes even cracks the upper half of my rankings of episodes in the original series. However, Blish makes the paper expenditure worthwhile by engaging in some of his best writing in this series of books. He manages to capture a great deal of the tension and action of the episodes, something that can be especially difficult in a science fiction series. It is still a worthwhile book to read.

4.0 out of 5 stars Blish manages to capture a great deal of the tension and action of the episodes, May 16, 2008

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Charles Ashbacher (Marion, Iowa United States) - See all my reviews
(TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (VINE VOICE)    (HALL OF FAME REVIEWER)   

A few years after the original Star Trek series was cancelled, a phenomenon began. Once the series went into syndication it was a staple of the afternoon television fare and a publishing "enterprise" also began. The books where James Blish adapted episodes from the original series were the first steps in the development of what has become an enormous genre.
In this book, Blish adapts the episodes:

*) The Savage Curtain
*) The Lights of Zetar
*) The Apple
*) By Any Other Name
*) The Cloud Minders
*) The Mark of Gideon

None of these episodes even cracks the upper half of my rankings of episodes in the original series. However, Blish makes the paper expenditure worthwhile by engaging in some of his best writing in this series of books. He manages to capture a great deal of the tension and action of the episodes, something that can be especially difficult in a science fiction series. It is still a worthwhile book to read.