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Vintage first printing Star Trek Animated Series TV Tie-In by Alan Dean Foster.

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Publisher's Summary:

More lively adaptations from television's most popular science fiction series!
Complete in this volume:
Once Upon a Planet - The crew lands on a planet for rest and recreation, a planet programmed to play out each person's favorite fantasies. Suddenly, the system runs amok, and the crew is chased by fantastic creations of their own imaginings.
Mudd's Passion - That reprobate trader Harry Mudd smuggles a love potion aboard the Enterprise. The first two people affected are Nurse Chapel and - would you believe - Mr. Spock.
The Magicks of Megas Tu - Captain Kirk and company meet a strange goat-man named Lucien on a mysterious planet. But why does he look so familiar?

From Memory Alpha:

This is the third of Alan Dean Foster's TAS adaptation collections which have been reprinted a number of times, often in omnibuses with other Star Trek Log books. Most recently in 2006 by Del Rey Books, an imprint of the original Ballantine Books publishers, as part of Star Trek's 40th Anniversary celebrations.

The first printings of this book had a cover frontispiece from the animation cel artwork depicting the planet Megas-Tu. Later reprints had a plain orange wraparound color scheme with a painted Constitution-class vessel on the cover.

Alan Dean Foster Bibliography:

Novelizations:

Star Trek universe:

Star Trek: The Animated Series:
Star Trek Log One (1974) ISBN 0-345-24014-6
Star Trek Log Two (1974) ISBN 0-345-25812-6
Star Trek Log Three (1975) ISBN 0-345-24260-2
Star Trek Log Four (1975) ISBN 0-345-24435-4
Star Trek Log Five (1975) ISBN 0-345-33351-9
Star Trek Log Six (1976) ISBN 0-345-24655-1
Star Trek Log Seven (1976) ISBN 0-345-24965-8
Star Trek Log Eight (1976) ISBN 0-345-25141-5
Star Trek Log Nine (1977) ISBN 0-345-25557-7
Star Trek Log Ten (1978) ISBN 0-345-27212-9[19]

Star Trek movies:
Star Trek (2009) ISBN 978-1-4391-5886-9, movie novelization
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) ISBN 978-1-4767-1648-0, movie novelization
Star Trek: The Unsettling Stars (2020) ISBN 1982140607, movie tie-in

Star Wars universe:

Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker (1976) ISBN 0-345-26079-1, novelization of Star Wars ghost writing as George Lucas
Splinter of the Mind's Eye (1978) ISBN 0-345-27566-7
The Approaching Storm (2002) ISBN 0-345-44300-4
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015),[20] movie novelization
Bait (2015) short story

Alien Nation:

Alien Nation (1988) ISBN 0-446-35264-0, movie novelization

Alien universe:

Alien (1979) ISBN 0-446-82977-3
Aliens (1986) ISBN 0-446-30139-6
Alien 3 (1992) ISBN 0-446-36216-6
Alien: Covenant (2017) ISBN 1-785-65478-0
Alien: Covenant - Origins (2017) ISBN 9781785654763

Terminator universe:

Terminator Salvation (2009) ISBN 1-84856-085-0, movie novelization

Transformers:

Transformers (2007) ISBN 0-345-49799-6
Transformers: Ghosts of Yesterday (2007) ISBN 0-345-49798-8
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) ISBN 978-0-345-51593-3
Transformers: The Veiled Threat (2009) ISBN 0-345-51592-7

Standalone novelizations:

Dark Star (1974) ISBN 0-345-24267-X, movie novelization
Luana (Italian film) (1974) ISBN 0-345-23793-5, movie novelization
Maude (unpublished 1974), television novelization ("Maude's Dilemma")[21]
The Black Hole (1979) ISBN 0-345-28538-7, movie novelization
Clash of the Titans (1981) ISBN 0-446-93675-8, movie novelization
Outland (1981) ISBN 0-446-95829-8, movie novelization
The Thing (1981) ISBN 0-553-20477-7, movie novelization
Krull (1983) ISBN 0-446-30642-8, movie novelization
The Last Starfighter (1984) ISBN 0-425-07255-X, movie novelization
The Last Starfighter Storybook (1984) with Lynn Haney and Jonathan Betuel
Shadowkeep (1984) ISBN 0-446-32553-8, also a computer game (1984)
Starman (1984) ISBN 0-446-32598-8, movie novelization
Pale Rider (1985) ISBN 0-446-32767-0, movie novelization
The Dig (1995) ISBN 0-446-51853-0, also a computer game
The Chronicles of Riddick (2004) ISBN 0-345-46839-2, movie novelization

Film and television storylines:

Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
Welcome to Paradox (1998, episode 'Our Lady of the Machine')

From IMDB:

After the cancellation of the original Star Trek TV series in 1969, network executives over at NBC came up with one of the most innovative and the best 'Star Trek' series ever. Even though it ran on Saturday Mornings, and was aimed directly at children, the series wasn't able to do what it predecessor would have in the original, but it had a whole lot more going than expected, being the first ever to have its own cartoon show and also have the same cast from the original show to do the voiceovers. The animation was excellent throughout, and since it had interesting stories that went along with it, the show won several awards including two Peabody's during its two-year run on the NBC network (from 1973-1975).

If you do catch some of episodes there are some good ones out on video that are worth seeing, including Lieutenant Uhura commanding the ship when Captain Kirk and Mister Spock faced great danger on a hostile planet.

* Gene Roddenberry decided that this animated series was not "canon" (as the live-action series movies are) because he did the series for the money, and he would not have let the writers do some of things they did if he knew Star Trek would return in live-action. However, some of the writers of Star Trek: Enterprise (2001) strongly disagree with Roddenberry's opinion in this matter, and in Drawn to the Final Frontier (2006) they state that they regard this series as a legitimate continuation of the original Star Trek: The Original Series (1966) series. They point out, in those interviews, how they incorporated Trek Universe details from The Animated Series into the Enterprise prequel.

* Walter Koenig, who wrote Star Trek: The Animated Series: The Infinite Vulcan (1973), became the first Star Trek: The Original Series (1966) actor to ever write a Star Trek story. Over the following decades, many Trek actors would write films, novels and comic books based upon Star Trek, and many more would direct television episodes and movies.

* The life-support belts came about simply because the bulky spacesuits created for Star Trek: The Original Series (1966) were too complex to draw. (In the original series, the concept of the transporter had come about the same way: it got the crew to the planet without the expense of filming a landing sequence every week.) Ironically, the belts were never adapted for the later live-action movies and television series because making the actors "glow" via special effects would have cost more than making spacesuits.

* Originally, the series was not going to include George Takei, Walter Koenig, and Nichelle Nichols due to budget considerations. However, when Leonard Nimoy learned about this, he refused to join the cast unless his friends were included. Rather than lose the most popular cast member, Filmation agreed to sign on Takei and Nichols. While Koenig could not be included because of the budget, he provided the script for Star Trek: The Animated Series: The Infinite Vulcan (1973).

* Had the animated series continued, a series finale would have shown the Enterprise crew completing their five-year mission and returning home to Earth with the Enterprise beginning its overdue refit that would be completed on screen in "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" in 1979.

* The first recording session for the series took place at Filmation's studios in Reseda, California, and featured the entire cast together. This was the first time the cast had been reunited since the end of the original Star Trek: The Original Series (1966) series. The cast recorded three episodes (Star Trek: The Animated Series: Beyond the Farthest Star (1973), Star Trek: The Animated Series: Yesteryear (1973), Star Trek: The Animated Series: More Tribbles, More Troubles (1973)). After that, the cast would record their lines separately whenever their schedules permitted.

* Some episodes were based on scripts that were rejected by the live Star Trek: The Original Series (1966), and others that were unused for another reason, e.g. that the live show ended before they could be filmed.

* The new alien Starfleet officer Lieutenant Arex has three arms and three legs. The animators found it nearly impossible to create a convincing walk cycle and therefore Arex is only shown seated on the bridge or standing still.

* Filmation rotoscoped three live action U.S.S. Enterprise shots from the original Star Trek: The Original Series (1966) series to use as stock animation. The shots rotoscoped were the ones where the Enterprise is coming toward camera in orbit (used in most of the original series), the shot where the camera zooms in on the top of the Enterprise (where the bridge is) seen in full on Star Trek: The Original Series: The Cage (1986) and a shot of the Enterprise zooming toward camera which also came from The Cage (1966) and was used rarely as stock footage. Interestingly, all three live-action stock shots were created by the same VFX company, Howard Anderson & Associates using an 11-foot model of the Enterprise.

* James Doohan voiced a total of 51 different characters on the series.

* The "Rec Room" seen in this series resembles the holodeck seen on Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Title: Star Trek Log Three
Author: Alan Dean Foster
Publisher: Ballantine Books ISBN #0-345-24260-2
Cover Illustration: Filmation
Printing: 1st, January 1975