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I picked up the first book in this series<\/a> for the 2022 Winter Reading Challenge<\/a>, and once I abandoned that effort (although I got eight of fifteen categories this year, which is not as good as last year, so I still get the undersized coffee cup), I decided to start running through some of the book sets I have. And, as I mentioned, I have a bunch of these books, short storizations of the Star Trek<\/em> episodes as well as the Alan Dean Foster short storifications of Star Trek: The Animated Series<\/em>. Sorry to bore you regular readers with the repeatings of the minutiae, but some people might someday hit this from a search and not have the proper context. Not that I’m providing that; what I am providing is a bunch of links for myself in the future when I re-read posts so I can click about in my own past. Thanks for joining me on that journey today, which, as I mentioned, is already the past.<\/p>\nSorry, where was I? Oh, yes, Star Trek 2<\/em>. Originally published in 1968, this is the 19th printing in 1975. Apparently, they were selling. Enough that a decade later, they’d make another television series and even launch a television network based on it. Remember those little television networks like Fox, Paramount, and what was that other one, CW? They had cutesy names and foreshadowed a bit the streaming services of today (tomorrow’s yesterday).<\/p>\n At any rate, this book includes:<\/p>\n As with the other books, this one has some anachronisms and variations from the mythos.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Out of Date Right After Publication<\/strong><\/p>\n In “Tomorrow Is Yesterday”, history does not align with the story:<\/p>\n Uhuru flicked a tumbler and the loudspeaker on her board burst out: “…five-thirty news summary. Cape Kennedy–the first manned moon shot is scheduled for Wednesday, six A.M., Eastern Standard Time, All three astronauts set to make this historic flight are…”<\/p>\n Kirk was up out of his chair on the instant. “The first manned moon shot!”\the said. “You’ve got some sort of dramatization. That shot was back in the 1970s.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n As we know, in our timeline, this was the late 1960s. But Blish would not have known that a year before Neil Armstrong stepped out of his capsule.<\/p>\n Whoops, Wrong Planet<\/strong><\/p>\n The Klingons were hard-faced, hard-muscled men, originally of Oriental stock.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Ackshually, they are an alien race altogether.<\/p>\n Where Have I Heard That Before<\/strong><\/p>\n “Fascinating,” Spock said. “Pure thought–or pure energy? In any event, totally incorporeal. Not life as we know it at all.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Where have I heard that? Oh, yeah.<\/p>\n\n