Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan - A Novel [Paperback]

Vonda N. McIntyre (Author), Harve Bennett (Author), Jack B. Sowards (Author)

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Publication Date: October 3, 1984

Prepare Yourself For Warp-10 Excitement!

The Galaxy's ultimate future is in the hands of James Kirk, Mr. Spock and the indomitable crew of the Enterperprise.

The Galaxy's ultimate weapon is in the hands of the evil Khan and his followers.

A battle that will shake the universe cannot be avoided...And the ultimate adventure is about to begin!

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The Federation starship Reliant is on its surveying mission to find a lifeless planet to serve for the test site for Genesis Project. While surveying Ceti Alpha V they accidentally discover the camp of Khan Noonien Singh, who with his followers, quickly captures the ship. Khan then seizes space station Regula I where the Genesis Project is being developed. Khan lures his nemesis, Kirk and the Enterprise^TM crew to the space station. Kirk and the crew must then prevent Khan from destroying the Enterprise and detonating the Genesis device.END --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 223 pages
• Publisher: Star Trek (October 3, 1984)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0671552481
• ISBN-13: 978-0671552480
• Product Dimensions: 6 x 5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,583,747 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Wrath of Khan, April 19, 2002

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Jamy Shaffer (Edgerton, OH United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Wrath of Khan (Star Trek Movie 2): Wrath of Khan (Mass Market Paperback)

This is my favorite Star Trek movie novelization. It contains so much more than a play-by-play of the movie, but it also delves into tremendous characterization.. In the novel, Peter Preston Engineer's Mate is so much more. The reader also becomes aware that the young cadet is also the son of Scotty's sister. This revelation gives so much added meaning to the scene in which the chief engineer brings in the young man's charred remains after Khan's surprise attack. The theatrical release gives little more than Bones' heart-felt apology. The network television showing (which would appear from time to time on ABC) added scenes which did bring out this important plot point, but this has not been shown for many years. Why not issue a Director's Cut of this a la the original Motion Picture DVD. It would bring so much added meaning to this already classic film.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is one of the best Trek books!, January 2, 2004

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Cynthia Selene (Miskolc, Hungary) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Wrath of Khan (Star trek) (Hardcover)

This is an example how should movie novelizations be written. They tend to be flat and screenplay-like, but this one makes me feel like the movie were an adaptation of the book, not vice versa. It provides lots of background information (some of them were actually in the movie but were cut out later), mostly on Saavik, Peter Preston and Carol's Deltan co-workers. The main characters, Kirk, Spock, McCoy and the others are the very same characters we all love, they talk and act just like they do in any Trek episode, they never do anything out of character. Vonda McIntyre knows how to write Star Trek. A novel can't be more Star Trek than this.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars It is impossible to capture the tension of the movie in words, but reading them generated scenes from the movie in my mind, November 28, 2009

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Charles Ashbacher (Marion, Iowa United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Wrath of Khan (Star trek) (Hardcover)

This book suffers from the affliction that all novelizations of exciting and dramatic motion pictures must suffer from. It is simply not possible to put the dynamic tension of the Kirk/Khan battle and the sadness of the sacrificial death of Spock into words. In my opinion, some of the finest acting ever done was by Ricardo Montalban in this movie. Playing an intelligent lunatic has to be very hard for the region where it is done well is very narrow.
Nevertheless, McIntyre manages to capture enough of the drama to make this book worth reading and a few literary embellishments are added. It is a quick and simplistic read; my passage through it caused the involuntary recall of images from the movie to appear in my mind. Not surprisingly, shortly after I finished this book I was motivated to watch the movie once again.