Bantam also produced a line of photo comics which adapted popular episodes of the television series using full-color photographic stills.

James Blish was known to have expressed an extreme dislike for tie-in fiction; however, he accepted the commission from Bantam Books to novelize episodes of Star Trek, at $2,000 per volume.

Adaptations published after 1970 aligned more with the narrative tone and pacing from the television series, indicating Blish had seen some episodes, mostly likely via broadcasts by the BBC, which began in the summer of 1969.

[1]: 25  Blish's personal feelings regarding the merit of Star Trek were expressed by the pun "an enterprise so well conceived" in the "Author's Note" of Spock Must Die!.

Adaptations of episodes involving the character Harry Mudd were reserved by Blish for inclusion in an original novel, possibly a follow-up to Spock Must Die!

[6] The series included novelizations of "The City on the Edge of Forever" and "Amok Time", all credited to the original teleplay writers.

"[3]: 17  Among the first writers Pohl reached out to was his long-time friend Theodore Cogswell, whom he tasked with getting the crew of the Enterprise "off the damned ship!

(1978) and Death's Angel (1981), said Paramount and Pohl made very few requests, except to add "more aliens" and for the last novel to give "Kirk a romance.

was a bestseller, and Pohl began exploring the possibility of publishing an anthology of fan-written stories based on the television series.

Fan fiction was explored in the last chapter of Star Trek Lives!, and co-writer Sondra Marshak, along with her writing partner Myrna Culbreath, had collected a number of fan-written stories to potentially anthologize.

Pohl eventually encouraged Marshak and Culbreath to move forward with an anthology after persuading Paramount Pictures such a book would be "impeccably professional.

The box set included four four-color wall maps, and a detailed instructional booklet demonstrating the navigation system utilized by the television series.

Highly praised, the charts received special mention during the 1992 Star Trek Exhibition presented by the National Air & Space Museum.

The first volume, Star Trek 1, received twenty-nine printings between 1967 and 1980; the cover art was originally created by illustrator James Bama as part of an advertising campaign for NBC.

[12] Star Trek 11 was reprinted as Day of the Dove in 1985, along with the entire range of original novels, with new cover art by Eric Torres-Prat.

[13][14] From 1993 to 2000, the original novels and The New Voyages anthologies were reprinted by Spectra, featuring cover art by Japanese artist Kazuhiko Sano.

The license for tie-in fiction was awarded to Pocket Books sometime prior to the release of the novelization of Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979).

Bantam never applied an official series name to the novels, instead marketing each volume as a new or original "Star Trek Adventure".

Star Trek: The New Voyages collects fan fiction curated and edited by Sondra Marshak and Myrna Culbreath.

Reprints of Star Trek: The New Voyages short story collections edited by Sondra Marshak and Myrna Culbreath.