Star Trek: The Motion Picture

The Final Frontier goes to the Big Screen! THE FORCE FACTOR This is the novelization of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, written by Gene Roddenberry, but I think that Alan Dean Foster must be the "ghost writer" of the novelization. I think that all was due the "competition" between Star Trek and......more

All right, I'm going to come right out and say it: because of this book, The Motion Picture is my actual favorite Star Trek movie. Really. Not kidding at all. And yes, the book's quality is MUCH better than the movie, though I like to think of it as a supplement (or, perhaps, the movie is a suppleme......more

The Star Trek: The Motion Picture novelization initiates a whole new set of novels distributed by Pocket Books, beginning with this novel as #1 for the ST: TOS (The Original Series). When Admiral James T. Kirk finds out that there is an imminent threat approaching the Earth, he returns to Captain th......more

I remember going to see this movie when it first came out in 1979. My mom was a huge Star Trek fan, and she was so excited that there was a movie after years of watching re-runs of the television show. I liked the show too....but I wasn't sure what to expect from a movie version. I remember being im......more

This novelisation of Star Trek TMP is one part nostalgic heaven and one part Freudian hellscape. From the very first to the very final page I was reminded over and over of that giddy feeling of excitement that only sci-fi gives me, and that I used to feel watching TOS as a child and young adolescent.......more