This week co-hosts Bob Turner and Kelly Casto discuss the Star Trek Log series of books by Alan Dean Foster. They were adaptations of the animated series episodes.
Foster wrote these adaptation from 1974 to 1978. There were three episodes per book in the first six books. That means Foster filled in a lot of detail that never appeared in The Animated Series. It's this aspect of the Log books that makes these books so fun to read.
In the last four books of the Log series, Foster was assigned the job of taking one 22-minute episode and making it into a novel-length story. He did this by really writing two stories that connected at the end.
After The Animated Series left the air in 1974, there was no new Trek until 1979. Foster's Log series, along with the James Blish novelizations, gave Star Trek fans something to look forward to as they hoped for something new to get produced.
