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Mostly notable in that it includes the episode where Yeoman Rand is nearly raped - and deals with it with some subtlety, in my opinion, although it is still markedly old fashioned in many ways.

In re-watching and re-reading all the ST:TOS episodes in 2020, I knew I'd eventually come to "Spock's Brain", an episode so awful it would take the whole way to Star Trek: Voyager to be surpassed. Why they chose to open this book with it I can't imagine, though I do agree with the reviewer below that dropping the part about bringing Spock's body along to the planet was an improvement. Showing how out of order the episodes are in the books, the 2nd pilot, "Where No Man Has Gone Before" is also found in this book and is by far the best of the stories novelized here, since in addition to "Spock's Brain", we get the evil twin episode "The Enemy Within" and the Halloween episode "Catspaw". ( )

More literary comfort food from Blish in the form of adapted Star Trek shooting scripts. Some famous names wrote episodes of Star Trek, including Richard Matheson and Robert Bloch. These books must have been amongst the last Blish published before his death. ( )

More adaptations of original Trek episodes. ( )