Poul Anderson's "Sargasso of Lost Starships" has a human spaceship trapped in a Black Nebula by beautiful humanoid aliens with superior psychic powers and therefore obviously is a potential Star Trek episode. Larry Niven adapted a Known Space short story as a Star Trek animated episode, then Alan Dean Foster novelized the animation. A.E. van Vogt's The Voyage Of The Space Beagle is another potential Star Trek sequence and even has a Spock-like Japanese character. Charles Montieth, the British publisher, described James Blish's Cities In Flight as "...a higher and greater Star Trek." (Quoting from memory.)
I have posted about Spaceship Stories which obviously include Star Trek and much prose sf by Anderson and others. Some works would be easily adapted to Star Trek; others not.
3 comments:
Paul:
James Blish included at least one reference to the Cities in Flight in his adaption of Star Trek episodes: After an accident flings Enterprise back in time to 20th century Earth, Scotty points out to Kirk that though the engines still work, "we've no place to go in this time!" The Blish adaptation adds the statement (approximate quote), "Space in this region was dominated by the Vegan Tyranny, and you'll recall what happened when we first ran into them."
Kaor, DAVID!
But what I would REALLY like to is a WELL DONE filmed series giving us some of the adventures of Nicholas van Rijn and Dominic Flandry. See my essay "Textual Crawl for Flandry Movies" where I discussed this in greater detail.
It ticks me off that only ONE previous attempt at filming one of Anderson's stories was made: for THE HIGH CRUSADE. And the comments I've seen panned that as execrably made, not worth watching.
Sean
David,
Blish also had Kirk referring to Bonner the Stochastic and "cultural morphology," both from CITIES IN FLIGHT.
Paul.
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