As always with the Blish adaptations, these are quick, workmanlike retellings of the original episodes. They mostly work, I think, as reminders of those episodes, with the odd unusual addition. For instance, in one of the episodes collected here, "Bread and Circuses," Blish persists in his use of the phrase "space karate" (and every time I read it I wondered how space karate differed from actual karate... especially as it was actually performed on a planet, and not in any sort of antigravity environment). Which is a picky observation but it caught my attention even so.

Of the six episodes collected here, the most interesting is "Plato's Stepchildren," I think: famous of course for the Kirk/Uhura kiss, the first interracial kiss on television, if I recall rightly. I certainly remember watching that episode more than I do the others; I didn't recall a single thing about "Wink of an Eye" when reading it, which may mean it's time to rewatch the series.