From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: graemecree@aol.com   
   Subject: Re: Beyond the Farthest Star (TAS): my review   
      
   I don't know, but there was a minor episode order controversy around   
   TAS once.  There was an episode guide put out in the late 70's that   
   showed Yesteryear first, and didn't list Farthest Star until the date   
   that it was first re-run.  But that was cleared up years ago.   
      
   I imagine Foster just did them in the order he felt like it, but he   
   does have a website, so you might ask him.  He answered a question for   
   me once.  We used to believe that he'd ghost-written the novelization   
   of TMP, but when I asked he said no, absolutely not.   
      
   Speaking of that, I read the novelization of TMP before I saw the   
   movie, so the movie also looked scrunched and compressed to me.   
      
   The last 4 Foster logs have only one episode each.  The half hour   
   animated episode isn't long enough to fill a whole novel, so what he   
   did was to novelize the episode, and then write a sequel story that   
   took place immediately afterwards.  The sequels are completely   
   original stories of his own.  My favorite was the one he did for The   
   Counter-Clock Incident.  The sequel story involves what seems to be a   
   totally different story, involving Kirk and his former Klingon   
   exchange student roommate (who turned up a few times in Foster's   
   books) both fighting over the same scientist on a gypsy world.  The   
   whole thing is interrupted by Organian like aliens, who chide Kirk and   
   Spock both for not spotting the gaping plot holes in this story that   
   made it impossible to believe in.  They ALSO chided him for not   
   picking up similar plot holes in Counter-Clock Incident that made the   
   story completely believable, and said that Kirk and Spock should have   
   been able to figure out that both stories were illusions.  I loved the   
   attitude, because it was as if Foster was saying "You can make me   
   novelize this, but you can't make me say it makes sense."  He said   
   that's exactly what he was thinking when he wrote it.   
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