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From: smw@tilt.UUCP (Stewart Wiener)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: The animated episodes
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Date: Sun, 8-Apr-84 01:05:28 EST
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Posted: Sun Apr  8 01:05:28 1984
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>>From: moriarty@uw-june (Jeff Meyer)
>>I would just like to add that the written adaptations of the animated
>>episodes, called Star Trek Logs, are also excellent; they were all written
>>by Alan Dean Foster, and while he occasionally took liberties with the
>>episode plots, he did a succesful job of filling in a lot of characteization
>>and scientific detail that the animated episodes left out.

Actually, he did more than take a few liberties; in the later ones, from #7
through #10, he got around the restriction preventing Ballantine Books from 
printing original ST stories by "expanding" the episodes to include a novelette
size story of his own.

He did fill in the backgrounds of the two alien bridge crewmembers very well;
Lt. Arex, the three-armed Edoan navigator, and Lt. M'ress, the Caitian feline
second communications officer.  I think it would be terrific to affirm their
place in the crew by putting them in the movies.  How about Betty Buckley
as M'ress? :-)
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