ST:TWOK Photostory

Similar to the first film, Pocket Books published a photostory adaptation of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Unfortunatley, presumably in an effort to cut costs, all of the interior photos are black-and-white. It was published in October 1982.

My copy is (probably) from the first printing and was purchased on 2 September 1982.

ST:TMP Photostory

Pocket Books put out a glorious full-colour photostory version of Star Trek: The Motion Picture in April 1980.

My copy is from the first printing.

TOS Fotonovels

Back in the Stone Age, before DVDs or even VCRs, the photonovel was the king of cool. I recall voraciously devouring several of the Star Trek fotonovels I borrowed from my friend, Martin Haulena. I may have borrowed some from the library as well. Eventually I picked up a few for myself:

The three fotonovels above -- #1, #2, and #12 -- were purchased on 19 July 1985. They remained my only TOS fotonovels for nearly25 years until one day...

After spending a few days sifting through my Star Trek goodies I was tempted to try to fill in a few particularly aggravating holes. On 29 January 2010 I ordered three more of the TOS photonovels from a Canadian seller on amazon.ca marketplace. Sometimes I wonder what it would have been like if online shopping had been available when I was a teen. I suspect I would have been much poorer for it!

In all, twelve TOS fotonovels were published by Bantam Books. See Memory Alpha for additional details.