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Star Trek: The Motion Picture

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I agree with Joe's comments. This book has changed my life so much, that I find myself helping all men. I was once a conservative, this book transformed me into a liberal, for it shows all men as they should be -- working together for the Common Good. I joined the Peace Corps and I wear V-Neck jump-suits made of spandex. I have my own personal pleasure room. Just like Spock..... Thank you Gene, I hope when we meet in the future, we can have some of those experiences you always dreamed about.

Now you'd think a movie novelization usually isn't very good and with the title Star Trek: The Motion Picture The Book most would stear clear. However, this is a book every Star Trek fan (especially TOS) should read. The majority of fans I know look at The Motion Picture as a very boring movie (or story). When the directors cut was released I bought it and realized this story embodies many of Star Trek's biggest motifs. Yes, it isn't an action movie but it is very deep and the book adds so much to both the story and the over all Star Trek universe as seen by Gene Roddenberry. If this guy says it's canon, who can argue. Some of the coolest additions were the alien ruins from an unknown race found on the moon, all flag officers in the Federation have a brain implant communicator for emergencies and when Admiral Kirk refects on a TV show called "Star Trek" created (inaccurately) so all the people of the United Federation of Planets can watch Kirks legendary 5 year mission explains why the show looks fake. I mean we all go along with it but deep down we all know the future doesn't look like cardboard painted red with flashy lights on them. Another point to this fact is ST II: TWOK, where Khan has a Starfleet logo around a chain around his neck. A logo that didn't exist in TOS TV series. Aluding to the fact that things were a little more realistic that previously envisioned.

I loved it. It was great. It was wondeful. it was stupendious, exciting, marvelous, beautiful, terrific. Grand in its scope; terrifying in it's beauty. ; complex in its simplicity. Light-years ahead of it's time. Roddenberry's masterwork. Thought-provoking. This book satisfies the mind, the spirit, the body. You will rememeber this book for all of eternity. After you read this book, you will read no other. it will make you illiterate. This book has inspired me to create art, as it will inspire you to find you to find symphonies in your soul. Gene Roddenberry, God rest his soul, I owe you an eternal debt of gratitiude

This book is a must for every fan of the movie. It actually starts some time before the movie scenario, showing Kirk pursuing the command of the Enterprise at Starfleet. It reveals the identities of the 2 people caught in the transporter accident and their connection to Kirk, along with more backstory on Spock's adventures. And it cuts out the long boring trip through V'jer's special effects cloud. Can't beat that!

I haven't seen the movie in about fifteen years, but this book is adequate. That's about all I can say about that.

Hello everyone,

Don't get me wrong... Gene Roddenberry is a great guy and I think we're all very greatful to him for creating Star Trek. My belief is that this book came up extremely short of the standard of Star Trek novels, and novelizations especially. Granted, this book was written almost 25 years ago, but still, it was not all that good.

Admiral Lori Ciani, Kirk's wife? Where did this come from? It comes out of thin air. Nobody knows anything about this woman. And apparently they were "married" during Kirk's stint on Earth. Not a necessary part of the book.

In my opinion, this could have been a lot better.

The five year mission has ended, the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise has moved on to other assignments and been promoted. Life has moved on. Then, from the depths of space, comes a huge cloud with incredibly destructive powers, and it is on a course for Earth. Once again James T. Kirk, now an Admiral, must lead the U.S.S. Enterprise on an incredible adventure.

This novelization of the plodding movie that detractors call Star Trek - The Motionless Picture was ghostwritten for Roddenberry by Alan Dean Foster, the man who penned the unoriginal concept story the script was based on. Although little more than the script in narrative form, Foster gives the tale a sense of urgency and tension that the film sorely lacked. It also reads better than it plays. Still it's strictly for Trek buffs.