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These were not just kid stories, even though they were aimed at children.
No, these audio records contained real action tales penned by veteran comic book writers Neal
Adams and Cary Bates, and several were written by well known Trek scribe Alan Dean Foster who
would go on to provide the story for STAR TREK: The Motion Picture.
In 1979, with the release of the first STAR TREK movie, merchandising of
STAR TREK took off like a rocket. Everyone, it seemed, was licensing STAR TREK for their
various products. Peter Pan Industries decided to produce four new stories and re-release the
first seven stories in several form factors with records containing one, two, three and four
stories per package. With all the packaging variants produced, the eleven stories ultimately
appeared in 23 different record packages. The 1980's audio adaptations of the first four
STAR TREK feature films were marketed, but these were produced by Buena Vista Records.
This site is a guide to the eleven original STAR TREK vinyl record stories.
This site was created for those who fondly recall these records from their childhood, and
for those who have heard about the vinyl story records of the 70's but never heard them, and
even for those people who were not aware that there ever were STAR TREK story records.
In fact, with the rise of the Compact Disc format in the late 1980's, many visitors to this
site may never have seen a phonograph and the large flat black vinyl discs that were once used
to store audio data in analog format. Be that as it may, all are welcome to browse this guide
to that tiny, oft-forgotten piece of the STAR TREK Universe, the STAR TREK Story Records.
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Enjoy,
Curt Danhauser
April 26, 2002
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