Using the original scripts, which sometimes differed from the final filmed episode, Hugo Award winning science fiction author, James Blish, turned each episode of The Original Star Trek into a short story, which were collected into anthologies and published as paperback originals. The Star Trek Reader II, collects three of these anthologies: Star Trek 1, Star Trek 4, and Star Trek 9, into this Hardcover original. The episodes present include:

　　Star Trek 1

　　Charlie's Law;

　　Dagger of the Mind;

　　The Unreal McCoy;

　　Balance of Terror;

　　The Naked Time;

　　Miri;

　　The Conscience of the King;

　　Star Trek 4

　　All Our Yesterdays;

　　The Devil in the Dark;

　　Journey to Babel;

　　The Menagerie;

　　The Enterprise Incident;

　　A Piece of the Action;

　　Star Trek 9

　　Return to Tomorrow;

　　The Ultimate Computer;

　　That Which Survives;

　　Obsession;

　　The Return of the Archons; and

　　The Immunity Syndrome.

　　This is a

　　rare out of print Hardbound Star Trek TOS book. 457 pages. Library Copy, The cover is preserved in Celo Wrap and is stamped Salt Lake County Library inside. The Outside stickers and tape have been removed.