Mudd's Angels was the last of 13 TOS episode novelization collections produced by Bantam Books in the 1970s. J.A. Lawrence, the widow of James Blish, adapted the series' two Harry Mudd episodes, then wrote a framing story and the original short story "The Business, As Usual, During Altercations". The collection debuted in May 1978.
Description[]
- Join Kirk, Spock, McCoy and the rest of the Enterprise crew as they encounter his majesty, fat Harry Mudd the First, thief, swindler, con artist, liar and intragalactic rogue. Meet a strange cargo of beauties destined for the men of frontier planets. Visit with Harcourt Fenton Mudd, supreme sovereign of Mudd's Planet, 200,000 androids and 500 identical Alices.
- In addition to adaptations of the television shows "Mudd's Women" and "I, Mudd", this volume contains an all-original third adventure featuring the inimitable Harry Mudd.
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Background[]
- Establishes an author called J.A. Lawrence was asked by Kirk to put the events of Mudd's Women, I, Mudd and The Business, As Usual, During Altercations into literary form.
- This collection was also republished under the title Mudd's Enterprise. It is the final book in the series of episode novelizations, and the only one to not have a numerical title, and the only one to contain an original, non-adapted, story.
- According to J.A. Lawrence's foreward to Star Trek 12, James Blish did write adaptations for "Mudd's Women" and "I, Mudd" before he died.
- Blish and Lawrence each tried to weave Mudd's TOS adventures into one novel-length story, but could not come up with an idea that worked. (ST reference: Voyages of Imagination)
- Blish had intended to adapt TAS episode: "Mudd's Passion" in this volume, but Lawrence pointed out in the foreward that Bantam Books did not hold the rights to that story. Alan Dean Foster adapted it for Ballantine Books in Log Three, which was published in 1974.
- With this publication, Star Trek: The Original Series became one of the first television series in history (not counting limited-run productions) to have every one of its episodes adapted into literary form; it was predated, however, by the Star Trek Logs series, which concluded its adaptations of TAS episodes earlier in 1978.
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| Media featuring Harry Mudd | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Episodes | "Mudd's Women" • "I, Mudd" • "Mudd's Passion" • "Choose Your Pain" • "Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad" • "The Escape Artist" | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Novels and collections | Mudd's Angels • Mudd's Enterprise • Mudd in Your Eye • The Light Fantastic | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Short stories | "The Business, As Usual, During Altercations" • "Dilithium Is a Girl's Best Friend" • "A Sucker Born" | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| RPGs and games | The Adventure Game • 25th Anniversary • 25th Anniversary (NES) • Starfleet Academy • Through a Glass, Darkly m • Trexels • Timelines • Fleet Command | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Comics | "Operation Con Game" • "It's a Living" • "Made Out of Mudd" • "The Survival Equation" • Discovery - Succession, Issue 1 m • "Vote Mudd!" (Year Five, Issue 15 • Issue 16) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The Return of Mudd | "When You Wish Upon a Star...!" • "Mudd's Magic!" | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The Return of Harry Mudd | "Mission: Muddled" • "The Sky Above...The Mudd Below" • "Target: Mudd!" | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| m : Mirror universe | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Timeline[]
| published order | ||
|---|---|---|
| Previous book: Star Trek 12 |
TOS novelizations | Next book: The Motion Picture |
| Previous book: The New Voyages 2 |
Bantam TOS | Next book: Vulcan! |
| Previous book: Perry's Planet |
Star Trek Adventures | Next book: Trek to Madworld |
| Previous story: Star Trek 12 |
Stories by: J.A. Lawrence |
Next story: last Star Trek book |
| chronological order | ||
| Previous adventure: see individual stories |
Pocket Books Timeline | Next adventure: see individual stories |
| Previous adventure: see individual stories |
Memory Beta Chronology | Next adventure: see individual stories |
Publication history[]
- May 1978
- First published by Bantam Books. (ISBN 978-0-553-11802-5)
- August 1978
- First printed in Great Britain. (Corgi Books, ISBN 978-0-552-10865-2)
- December 1985
- Reprinted in USA by Bantam Spectra. (ISBN 978-0-553-24666-7)
- April 1994
- Reissued in Great Britain as Star Trek Adventures #5, cover by Alister Pearson. (Titan Books, ISBN 978-1-85286-510-8)
- October 1994
- Reissued as Mudd's Enterprise by Bantam Spectra, cover by Kazuhiko Sano. (ISBN 0-553-56982-1)
Translations[]
- 1985
- Japanese : マッドの天使たち, translated by Hiroshi Saito. (Hayakawa Bunko)
- August 1988
- Italian: As Gli angeli di Mudd, translated by Annarita Guarnieri, cover by Marilena Maiocco. (Garden Editoriale)
- 1989
- German: As Die falschen Engel (The Wrong Angels), Raumschiff Enterprise #16. (Goldmann, ISBN 3442236037)
- 1999
- Italian: As Gli angeli di Mudd, translated by Annarita Guarnieri. (Fanucci)
External links[]
- Mudd's Angels article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
- Mudd's Angels article at the Orion Press blog.
- Mudd's Angels article at the SpaceBeer blog.
- Mudd's Angels article at The Internet Speculative Fiction Database.