Star Trek Dramatized Audiobooks Collection – Various Free Audiobook

Written by Various
Read by William Shatner, James Doohan, Leonard Nimoy, Jonathan Frakes, Gates McFadden, Michael Dorn, John de Lancie
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Dramatization

Original audio cassette rips for most, which are getting harder to find these days. Quality for nearly all is very good to excellent, but depends on source cassette health.

Volume normalized on each file to a max upper end of -3.3db with a boost/gain of 2db for low volume areas in order to ensure a smooth listening environment within the book and between books, no JUMP volume issues 🙂

Simon & Schuster Audioworks started their “Star Trek” fiction line in 1987, making audios of their sister company’s licensed Star Trek novels and novelizations. The first one rode the tail of the publicity and marketing frenzy for the movie, “Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home”. They followed up quickly with some solid sellers from the Pocket fiction line, somehow squeezing the three, then-new, “giant” novels into 90-minute presentations. The early audios were read by either George Takei or James Doohan, “with Leonard Nimoy as the voice of Spock”, a clever compromise to cash in on the pulling power of busy actor/director Nimoy, and yet not be too taxing for the ever-popular Mr Spock to squeeze a little narration into his schedule.

The audios, especially in those early days, were abridged by their own authors, although as deadlines became more difficult to meet, George Truett became “the man” behind most abridgments. Music and sound effects on the productions are unique to this audio line, although some use is made of the key TV theme music for TOS by Alexander Courage. Original music was by Carl Schurtz, Sam Micale and Richard Emmett, among others.

As we approached the 21st century, S&S Audio (as they are now known) pulled back on frequency of their Trek releases – they had settled into adapting mainly hardcovers (simultaneous with the release of each one), and dropped the regular use of Trek alumni as narrators, but the ST audios were still a fascinating, and always enjoyable, aspect of the Trek licensing juggernaut. The audio program has survived some interesting package format changes, and eventually embraced the rising popularity of CDs (eventually replacing audiocassettes) and now downloadable mp3 e-files.

Captain Sulu Adventures:

01 – Transformations – A Captain Sulu Adventure
02 – Cacophony – A Captain Sulu Adventure
03 – Envoy – A Captain Sulu Adventure

Star Trek – Deep Space Nine:

01 – Emissary
02 – Fallen Heroes
03 – Warped
04 – Legends of the Ferengi
05 – The 34th Rule
06 – Millennium, Book 1 – The Fall of Terok Nor

Star Trek – The Next Generation:

01 – Gulliver’s Fugitives
02 – Contamination
03 – Reunion
04 – Imzadi
05 – Q-in-Law
06 – Dark Mirror
07 – The Devil’s Heart
08 – Relics
09 – All Good Things…
10 – Star Trek VII Generations
11 – Q-Squared
12 – Crossover
13 – Star Trek VIII First Contact
14 – Kahless
15 – Ship of the Line
16 – Star Trek IX Insurrection
17 – Triangle – Imzadi II
18 – I, Q
19 – The Valiant
20 – The Genesis Wave, Book 1
21 – The Genesis Wave, Book 2
22 – The Genesis Wave, Book 3
23 – Genesis Force, The Genesis Wave Book 4
24 – Star Trek X Nemesis
25 – Gateways – What Lay Beyond
26 – Borg
27 – Klingon – A Fully Dramatized Adventure
28 – The Klingon Way (A Warrior’s Guide)
29 – Conversational Klingon
30 – Power Klingon
Spock Vs Q I
Spock Vs Q II The Sequel

Star Trek – The Original Series:

01 – Star Trek IV – The Voyage Home
02 – Strangers from the Sky
03 – Enterprise The First Adventure
04 – Web of the Romulans
05 – The Entropy Effect
06 – Yesterday’s Son
07 – Final Frontier
08 – Time for Yesterday
09 – Spock’s World
10 – Star Trek V – The Final Frontier
11 – The Lost Years
12 – The Kobayashi Maru
13 – Prime Directive
14 – Star Trek VI – The Undiscovered Country
15 – Faces of Fire
16 – Probe
17 – Best Destiny
18 – Windows on a Lost World
19 – Shadows on the Sun
20 – Sarek
21 – Federation
22 – Vulcan’s Forge
23 – Vulcan’s Heart
24 – The Eugenics Wars The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh, Volume 1
25 – The Eugenics Wars The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh, Volume 2
26 – The Last Roundup
27 – Vulcan’s Soul (Abridged)

Star Trek – Voyager:

01 – Caretaker
02 – Mosaic
03 – Pathways
04 – Captain Proton – Defender of the Earth

Star Trek – William Shatner Novels:

01 – The Ashes of Eden
02 – The Return
03 – Avenger
04 – Spectre
05 – Dark Victory
06 – Preserver
07 – Captain’s Peril
08 – Captain’s Blood
09 – Captain’s Glory

Star Trek Story LPs:

Star Trek – Crier In Emptiness
Star Trek – Dinosaur Planet
Star Trek – Human Factor
Star Trek – In Vino Veritas
Star Trek – Logistics of Stampede
Star Trek – Man who Trained Meteors
Star Trek – Mirror for Futility
Star Trek – Passage to Moauv
Star Trek – Robot Masters
Star Trek – Time Stealer
Star Trek – To Starve a Fleaver