"SPACE. THE FINAL FRONTIER . . . These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise(TM)." Celebrate the fortieth anniversary of Star Trek(R) with the original mission logs chronicling some of the crew's most bizarre missions and strangest encounters with alien races across the galaxy . . . where no man has gone before(TM).
Once Upon a Planet Ready for a holiday, the Enterprise crew returns to the planet of fantasies expressly designed to make every wish come true. But the resort has become a mad dream world where nightmares are hideously real.
Mudd's Passion When space scoundrel Harry Mudd is arrested and brought aboard the Enterprise, he subjects the crew to a liquid-crystal love potion-with devastating results.
The Magicks of Megas-tu After penetrating the very heart of the galaxy, Kirk and his crew confront a strange half-man, half-goat creature, who introduces the Enterprise to a fantastic world of good . . . and evil.
The Terratin Incident A garbled distress signal leads the Enterprise to certain doom in a fiery mass of radiant particles-as all living matter begins to shrink to nothingness, including Kirk and his crew.
Time Trap A Klingon attack on the Enterprise causes both ships to disappear into the Delta Triangle, a dead-end time warp of lost ships. Escape is impossible- unless sworn enemies Kor, the Klingon leader, and Kirk work together.
More Tribbles, More Troubles After saving a Federation scout ship from Klingon attack, Kirk also rescues Cyrano Jones and a pile of tribbles. Jones insists that these tribbles don't multiply-but they do grow bigger, and bigger, and bigger.
Bestselling science fiction writer Alan Dean Foster was born in New York City in 1946, but raised mainly in California. He received a B.A. in Political Science from UCLA in 1968, and a M.F.A. in 1969. Foster lives in Arizona with his wife, but he enjoys traveling because it gives him opportunities to meet new people and explore new places and cultures. This interest is carried over to his writing, but with a twist: the new places encountered in his books are likely to be on another planet, and the people may belong to an alien race.
Foster began his career as an author when a letter he sent to Arkham Collection was purchased by the editor and published in the magazine in 1968. His first novel, The Tar-Aiym Krang, introduced the Humanx Commonwealth, a galactic alliance between humans and an insectlike race called Thranx. Several other novels, including the Icerigger trilogy, are also set in the world of the Commonwealth. The Tar-Aiym Krang also marked the first appearance of Flinx, a young man with paranormal abilities, who reappears in other books, including Orphan Star, For Love of Mother-Not, and Flinx in Flux.
Foster has also written The Damned series and the Spellsinger series, which includes The Hour of the Gate, The Moment of the Magician, The Paths of the Perambulator, and Son of Spellsinger, among others. Other books include novelizations of science fiction movies and television shows such as Star Trek, The Black Hole, Starman, Star Wars, and the Alien movies. Splinter of the Mind's Eye, a bestselling novel based on the Star Wars movies, received the Galaxy Award in 1979. The book Cyber Way won the Southwest Book Award for Fiction in 1990. His novel Our Lady of the Machine won him the UPC Award (Spain) in 1993. He also won the Ignotus Award (Spain) in 1994 and the Stannik Award (Russia) in 2000.
Ok, I don't have anything to say about the book itself, but I'm giving it a three star review because the reading experience was rock-bottom terrible. The book's pages were scrambled, pages just were missing altogether, It skips from pages 88-153 once, and everything in the middle was just gone. So it was a 5 star book, but only 1-star experience.