James Blish

James Blish

James Benjamin Blish was an American author of fantasy and science fiction. Blish also wrote literary criticism of science fiction using the pen-name William Atheling, Jr.-Biography:...

 wrote a series of short stories adaptations of Star Trek

Star Trek: The Original Series

Star Trek is an American science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry, produced by Desilu Productions . Star Trek was telecast on NBC from September 8, 1966, through June 3, 1969...

episodes from 1967 to 1975, called simply Star Trek. The adaptations were generally written based on scripts (often earlier versions than filmed), and initially without reference to the finished episodes, as they had not yet aired in the United Kingdom, Blish's base of operations.

James Blish wrote the stories for Star Trek 1 through to Star Trek 11. Star Trek 12 was jointly credited to Blish and J.A. Lawrence (his wife), after the death of Blish in July 1975. The stories were collected in four hardcover titles named The Star Trek Reader 1,2,3 and 4 in 1976 and 1977. The Harry Mudd stories had been saved for a novel, and eventually were published together, with an original story written by Lawrence.

Bantam Books republished the stories in 1991, in three volumes, one per season (excluding the Harry Mudd stories).

Alan Dean Foster

Alan Dean Foster

Alan Dean Foster is an American author of fantasy and science fiction. He currently resides in Prescott, Arizona, with his wife, and is also known for his novelizations of film scripts...

 wrote a similar series of Star Trek Logs, adapting episodes of the animated series

Star Trek: The Animated Series

Star Trek: The Animated Series is an animated science fiction television series set in the Star Trek universe following the events of Star Trek: The Original Series of the 1960s...

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List

• Star Trek, 1967 (a.k.a. Star Trek 1)
  • "Charlie's Law" (a.k.a. "Charlie X")
  • "Dagger of the Mind"
  • "The Unreal McCoy" (a.k.a. "The Man Trap")
  • "Balance of Terror
    Balance of terror
    The phrase "balance of terror" is usually used in reference to the nuclear arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War....
    
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  • "The Naked Time"
  • "Miri"
  • "The Conscience of the King"
• Star Trek 2, 1968
  • "Arena
    Arena (TOS episode)
    "Arena" is an episode of Star Trek: The Original Series. It is a first season episode, #18, production #19, first broadcast January 19, 1967 and repeated on July 6, 1967. It was written by Gene L. Coon, based on a short story of the same name by Fredric Brown, and directed by Joseph Pevney. The...
    
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  • "A Taste of Armageddon"
  • "Tomorrow is Yesterday"
  • "Errand of Mercy"
  • "Court Martial"
  • "Operation: Annihilate!"
  • "The City on the Edge of Forever"
  • "Space Seed"
• Star Trek 3, 1969
  • "The Trouble with Tribbles"
  • "The Last Gunfight" (a.k.a. "Spectre of the Gun")
  • "The Doomsday Machine"
  • "Assignment: Earth"
  • "Mirror, Mirror
    Mirror, Mirror (TOS episode)
    "Mirror, Mirror" is an episode of Star Trek: The Original Series. It is a second-season episode, #33, production #39, and was broadcast for the first time on October 6, 1967, and repeated on April 12, 1968. It was written by Jerome Bixby and directed by Marc Daniels...
    
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  • "Friday's Child"
  • "Amok Time"
• Star Trek 4, 1971
  • "All Our Yesterdays"
  • "Devil in the Dark"
  • "Journey to Babel"
  • "The Menagerie
    The Menagerie (TOS episode)
    "The Menagerie" is a two-part episode of Star Trek: The Original Series. It is episodes #11 and 12 of the show's first season, and is the only two-part story in the original series. Part one of the episode was broadcast on November 17, 1966 with the second part broadcast a week later on November...
    
    " (really "The Cage
    The Cage (TOS episode)
    "The Cage" is the first pilot episode of the Star Trek: The Original Series science fiction series. It was completed in early 1965 , but not broadcast on television in its complete form until the autumn of 1988. The episode was written by Gene Roddenberry and directed by Robert Butler...
    
    ", the framing story for "The Menagerie" was not adapted)
  • "The Enterprise Incident"
  • "A Piece of the Action
    A Piece of the Action (TOS episode)
    "A Piece of the Action" is a second-season episode of Star Trek: The Original Series first broadcast on January 12, 1968. It was repeated on August 30, 1968, the last episode to air in the 8:30 pm time slot on Friday nights. It is episode #46, production #49, written by David P. Harmon and Gene L...
    
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• Star Trek 5, 1972
  • "Whom Gods Destroy"
  • "The Tholian Web"
  • "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield"
  • "This Side of Paradise
    This Side of Paradise
    This Side of Paradise is the debut novel of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Published in 1920, and taking its title from a line of the Rupert Brooke poem Tiare Tahiti, the book examines the lives and morality of post-World War I youth. Its protagonist, Amory Blaine, is an attractive Princeton University...
    
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  • "Turnabout Intruder"
  • "Requiem for Methuselah"
  • "The Way to Eden"
• Star Trek 6, 1972
  • "The Savage Curtain"
  • "The Lights of Zetar"
  • "The Apple
    The Apple (TOS episode)
    "The Apple" is a second season episode of Star Trek. It is episode #34, production #38, first broadcast on October 13, 1967 and repeated July 12, 1968...
    
    "
  • "By Any Other Name"
  • "The Cloud Minders"
  • "The Mark of Gideon"
• Star Trek 7, 1972
  • "Who Mourns for Adonais?"
  • "The Changeling
    The Changeling (TOS episode)
    "The Changeling" is a season two episode of Star Trek: The Original Series, first broadcast on September 29, 1967 and repeated May 17, 1968. It is episode #32, production #37 and was written by John Meredyth Lucas, and directed by Marc Daniels....
    
    "
  • "The Paradise Syndrome"
  • "Metamorphosis
    Metamorphosis (TOS episode)
    "Metamorphosis" is a second season episode of Star Trek: The Original Series first broadcast November 10, 1967 and repeated July 19, 1968. It is episode #38, production #31, written by Gene L...
    
    "
  • "The Deadly Years"
  • "Elaan of Troyius"
• Star Trek 8, 1972
  • "Spock's Brain"
  • "The Enemy Within
    The Enemy Within (TOS episode)
    "The Enemy Within" is an episode of Star Trek: The Original Series. It was first broadcast on October 6, 1966. It is the fifth episode of the first season, and was written by Richard Matheson and directed by Leo Penn....
    
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  • "Catspaw"
  • "Where No Man Has Gone Before
    Where No Man Has Gone Before
    "Where No Man Has Gone Before" is the second pilot episode of the television series Star Trek: The Original Series. It was produced in 1965 after the first pilot, "The Cage", had been rejected by NBC. The episode was eventually broadcast third in sequence on September 22, 1966, and was re-aired on...
    
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  • "Wolf in the Fold"
  • "For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky"
• Star Trek 9, 1973
  • "Return to Tomorrow"
  • "The Ultimate Computer"
  • "That Which Survives"
  • "Obsession
    Obsession (TOS episode)
    "Obsession" is a second season episode of Star Trek: The Original Series and was broadcast December 15, 1967. It is episode #42, production #47, written by Art Wallace, and directed by Ralph Senensky.Overview: Captain James T...
    
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  • "Return of the Archons"
  • "Immunity Syndrome"
• Star Trek 10, 1974
  • "The Alternative Factor"
  • "The Empath"
  • "The Galileo Seven"
  • "Is There in Truth No Beauty?"
  • "A Private Little War"
  • "The Omega Glory"
• Star Trek 11, 1975 (a.k.a. Day of the Dove)
  • "What Are Little Girls Made Of?"
  • "The Squire of Gothos"
  • "Wink of an Eye"
  • "Bread and Circuses"
  • "Day of the Dove"
  • "Plato's Stepchildren"
• Star Trek 12 (with J.A. Lawrence)
  • "Patterns of Force
    Patterns of Force (TOS episode)
    "Patterns of Force" is a second season episode of the science fiction television program Star Trek: The Original Series, and was broadcast on February 16, 1968...
    
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  • "Gamesters of Triskelion"
  • "And the Children Shall Lead"
  • "The Corbomite Maneuver"
  • "Shore Leave"
• Mudd's Angels (Lawrence), May 1978 (a.k.a. Mudd's Enterprise)
  • "Mudd's Women"
  • "I, Mudd"
  • "Business As Usual, During Altercations" - original novella.