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This unofficial episode companion covers every episode of Star Trek: The Original Series, and The Animated Series, as well as the original cast and reboot movies. Available now on Amazon for free for the next 24 hours.
Star Trek: The Original Series began in 1966 as a bold experiment. An hour of televised adventure that used distant stars to ask urgent, human questions. This book is a guided tour of that three-season voyage, charting how a network show became a cultural touchstone and an enduring language for ideas.
We’ll travel from bridge to planet surface, exploring the series’ blend of pulp energy, moral inquiry, and wry humour: the alchemy that made phasers and starfields feel like instruments of wonder rather than props. Along the way we’ll meet a starship crew whose contrasting temperaments form a compass: decisiveness, curiosity, logic, compassion, and the courage to challenge easy answers.
Episode by episode, we’ll see how the show tackled prejudice, power, technology, and the fragile ethics of exploration, with sincerity and a spark of mischief. This is not just nostalgia; it is a conversation with the present, because the problems that faced the Enterprise seldom stayed in the twenty-third century.
Whether you are discovering these stories for the first time or renewing an old friendship, consider this your captain’s log to the strange new worlds ahead: a map of themes, memorable images, and the reasons these adventures continue to matter.
Craig Hill is a Brisbane-based author, journalist, teacher, business consultant and social justice campaigner. He is the General Manager of the Australian Business and Leadership School.
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