Little Golden Books featuring Star Trek: The Original Series?
That has to be the absolute coolest find this Trekkie has encountered in a very long time.
They are not rare, they are not expensive but they are absolutely awesome. And the artwork by Ethen Beavers is the best new presentation of the original Enterprise and the TOS crew that I have seen an a long long time.
The first three -- Too Many Tribbles, I Am Captain Kirk, and I am Mr. Spock -- came out in 2019 but the fourth, and best -- Star Trek Alphabet Book -- is as recent as 2020. I don't know if they intend to bring out more but I sincerely hope so.
My favourite is the Alphabet Book for a variety of reasons. First, since it covers the 26 letters of the alphabet, it offers a much wider variety of images than do the other books.
And, as the images on the cover suggest, it includes all of the Star Trek series -- see Kirk, Janeway and Sisko hanging out together on that planet?
It also features a wide variety of aliens, including Andorians, Gorn, Ferengi and Borg, and all three major versions of the Enterprise (the original warp-five ship, the TOS original Enterprise and even the Enterprise C).
Written by Dennis R. Shealy, Alphabet Book makes some interesting decisions as to what Star Trek option it is going to feature for each letter.
"J" is for Janeway, captured holding her trademark coffee, and "K" is for Kirk, who is shown battling a many limbed alien. But "A" is not for Archer, but for Aliens. And "P" is for Phaser, not Picard, while "S" is not for "Sisko" or "Spock" but for "Starfleet Academy" instead. Hmmm.... I like these decisions. They made me laugh out loud.
Now, "N" is for Number One so Riker gets hit say in the sun and Spock gets a two-page spread, representing both "L", which is for Live Long and Prosper, and "M", which is for the Mirror Universe.
"O" stands for Odo, for the DS9 fans. And "Q" stands for the Q, which gives us our one opportunity to see Picard in the pictures while, in case you were worried about the Enterprise series, X is for Xindi.
"U" is for Uhura, another fantastic decision with a great image.
And guess what "Z" is? Zetaran! Yes, indeed. Shealy's fandom takes him all the way to a minor third season TOS episode called "Lights of Zetar"!
I love these books. And the price ($6.99 Canadian each) is absolutely right.
I just hope they pick up on the idea of adapting episodes into children's stories that is set in Too Many Tribbles -- if they wanted to follow up on it, that would give them hundreds of more book ideas -- and I would have to have an all-new custom book shelf made.
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