A Piece of the Action

Star Trek Fotonovel #8

by David P. Harmon, Gene Roddenberry (Designer)

A Piece of the Action (Star Trek Fotonovel #8) [Paperback]

Genres: Star Trek, Science Fiction, Fiction, Media Tie In, Graphic Novels

156 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1978

Reviews

[Charles]

Another fun fotonovel based upon the Star Trek original series episode of the same name. Dialogue from the show matched with stills of the action, with a little internal monologue supplied. I could hear the character's voices throughout and even the theme music. Good fun.

[Benjamin Plume]

I don’t think this format has aged well, but this was about as good as such a thing could be I suppose.

[Pam Hurd]

I guess it's not surprising that this was a rather hokey read since it it just the dialog from one of the original Star Trek episodes. It did first air in the 1960s. I found the actual episode streaming. It was hokey also, but we didn't think so back then.

[Daniel Kukwa]

In the days before DVDs and VCRs, I relied on the Target novelization to relive episodes of "Doctor Who"...but what did "Star Trek" have? They too had prose versions of the episodes (although they were more short stories than novelizations), but they also had a series of "fotonovels" that used still pictures to re-enact each episode. I didn't even know they existed, until an older fan friend showed me this at the tender age of 9...and I must have read it about a dozen times in the span of an hour! It's nowhere near my favourite Original Series episodes, but for nostalgia value & fanboy thrills, my memory gives it a very golden glow.

[bluetyson]

isbn,original

[Curtiss]

Another clever use of stills from the TV series combined with conversation/narrative "balloons" to create a graphic novel of an original Classic Star Trek episode.

[Bev]

I love these fotonovels from the Classic Trek. I would like to own all of them.

[Susan Schnelbach]

Star Trek Fotonovel 8: A Piece of the Action

[Fangirl]

In the days before the internet a book like this was precious to a fan.
I remember waiting impatiently for each of the photo novels to come out.

[James Crawford]

The Star Trek episode about a planet where gangsters run everything (gangsters of the Al Capone variety, not modern-day ones.) It's a rather cute episode with some good funny parts.