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Star Trek Log Six

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Foster has adapted 3 episodes from the Saturday morning cartoon spinoff of the original _Star Trek_ as short stories.

"The Practical Joker" (episode 19, screenplay Chuck Menville) For once, the dangerous phenomenon the ship passes through in space affects the ship's computer rather than the crew, turning it into a dangerous practical joker. The screenplay writer also wrote the other major AI episode of the animated series, "Once Upon a Planet".

"Albatross" (episode 20, screenplay Dario Finelli) A planet where McCoy ran a vaccination program against Saurian virus many years ago wants him for mass murder - they blame him for having started a plague that killed most of their people after his last visit.

"How Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth" (episode 21, screenplay Russell Bates and David Wise) (The full quote continues 'is a thankless child', from Shakespeare's _King Lear_.) As in 'Who Mourns for Adonais?' an ancient god, this one from the Mayan/Aztec pantheon, longs to regain human worshippers.

The Star Trek Log... series is an adaptation of the episodes from the old animated Star Trek series; the episodes in Log Six are "Albatross", in which Kirk and the Enterprise crew must find evidence to acquit Dr. McCoy of having accidentally caused a major plague nineteen years before; "The Practical Joker", in which the Enterprise's computer develops a deviant personality; and "How Sharper Than A Serpent's Tooth", in which the Enterprise meets the entity who was worshipped as Kukulkan by the ancient Aztecs. Foster does a fine job of portraying the characters and developing the plots, and the episodes are reasonably interesting although the last one strikes me as derivative of the episode from the original series, "Who Mourns For Adonais", in which Kirk and company meet Apollo.