2011 (collected 2015) / Ebook / 336 pages / UK
***
Contemporary adventures from the time when I was most immersed in the silly show, reading these is primarily an exercise in nostalgia, and Tony Lee crucially remembers that it's a sitcom. The art's all over the place and a bit uncanny.
1994 / Audiobook / 288 pages / USA
**
A good premise for an episode or comic story, stretched way beyond the point of interest. The series would inevitably get around to similar themes.
1996 / Ecomics / 154 pages / USA
**
Some of the stories would have made better episodes than others, but the comic pandering makes it occasionally unreadable.
1983 / Audiobook / 255 pages / USA
****
What fans want, but are rarely served by a Star Trek novel: cosmic wonder and adventure achieved through convincing technobabble with a strong grasp of character, though that part shouldn't be hard. It's also notably similar to some future episodes with experimental drives.
2021 / Ebook / 375 pages / Canada
****
I preferred Tom and Jerry, but this was an interesting history and analysis of those other violent schedule fillers.
