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Ballantine Books is a publisher that was given license to produce series of original Star Trek books and Animated Series episode novelizations. Especially noteworthy in this respect was their September 1968 publication of Star Trek's very first reference book, The Making of Star Trek.
Ballantine Books published the Star Trek material of artist Franz Joseph in 1973, and a series of Star Trek Logs by author Alan Dean Foster. This was not an exclusive license, as comics, technical publications and adaptations were published concurrently by Gold Key Comics and Bantam Books.
Ballantine's Trek material has been reprinted sporadically since then, even after the official license was passed on to Pocket Books in 1979. Again noteworthy was The Making of Star Trek, which was regularly reprinted by them for over three decades, initially under their own imprint and later on under the Del Rey imprint, resulting in more than thirty reprint editions.
See also
- Star Trek (Ballantine) for novels and publications by Ballantine Books