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Star Trek-The Motion Picture: A Novel (Hardcover)

by Gene Roddenberry (Author), Harold Livingston (Author), Alan Dean Foster (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 252 pages
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster; 1st Edition. edition (Mar 1980)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0671253247
  • ISBN-13: 978-0671253240
  • Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 14.5 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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5.0 out of 5 stars "It's on a precise heading to Earth.", 22 May 2008
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This review is from: Star Trek - The Motion Picture (Paperback)
Titan Books continue their series of novels based on Classic Star Trek with #14: Star Trek The Motion Picture written by Star Trek's creator himself - Gene Roddenberry.
Most novelisations of a film are usually somewhat dull, often filled with random thoughts on what the author believes the character is thinking. However, this novel is absolutely first rate. After all, who knows the crew of the Enterprise better than the man who created them in the first place.
As much as I like the original Star Trek The Motion Picture, this novel actually reads more like the latest `director's cut' of the film and as such it is more satisfying than the original screenplay.
The story is classic Trek, a massive energy cloud is heading on a direct course to Earth and the only ship within interception range is the Enterprise. There are problems however as the ship is just finishing a massive refit, the systems are untested and the warp drive is not ready. Kirk, now an Admiral, uses the current crisis to get back command of the Enterprise, much to Captain Decker's (son of Matt Decker from TOS's The Doomsday Machine) disgust and the ship has only two days to stop the alien menace before it destroys the planet.
Roddenberry expands on all the characters in the novel and gives a nice amount of back story to fill in the events between the end of the Enterprise's first five year mission and now. Kirk's missions within the Admiralty are alluded to and his relationship with Admiral Lori Ciana also make a certain event have more impact and this in turn leads to a connection with the series of Classic Trek books which cover `the lost years' between the original series and this movie.
The characters of Matt Decker and Ilia are also given a fair amount of coverage in the story, slightly more so than in the film and again this makes certain elements of the plot have more meaning later on.
The dialogue itself is almost word for word as it is in the film but there are a couple of sequences in the novel which never made it to the final cut. The infamous crystalline antibodies inside V'Ger make a couple of appearances but the much talked about `memory wall' sequence which made it into the Marvel Comics adaptation is also absent here.
The story is a quick read, partially because you may have seen the film and also because Roddenberry keeps the pace going and avoids lengthy descriptions and keeps to the story focused.
A great novel and a must have for any Trek library.
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