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swynn
Star Trek-the Motion Picture: A Novel | Alan Dean Foster, Gene Roddenberry, Harold Livingston
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(1979) I know I'm supposed to dislike the movie but y'all, I remember going to see it (at the drive-in, kids, remind me to tell you about drive-ins sometime) and you can't tell me it wasn't awesome because man I was there. The book is not objectively good -- it has *footnotes* for crying out loud, and the prose about Ilia's pheremone powers is cringey -- but so what? I can't hear old-man-me's objections over the cheers of my inner 11-year-old.

CatLass007 It was a visually stunning film. I think that watching it on the big screen was a bit tedious after a while. But later on, I remember watching it on the small screen and enjoying it. I don‘t think Roddenberry knew how to do theatrically released movies but he definitely knew how to do television. It was just the wrong medium for the film. I remember reading the book and thinking it was ho-hum. I don‘t remember seeing Alan Dean Foster as (cont)⬇️ 5d
CatLass007 an author or co-author when I read it in when it was published (I was in high school and so many of my friends were looking forward to seeing the movie and we all were disappointed). I thought Foster did a very good job with the book adaptation of TAS. His work was superior to the James Blish adaptation of TOS. But I was so starved for Star Trek when the Blish books were published, that I read them multiple times. 5d
swynn @CatLass007 Thanks for sharing those memories! I definitely remember hearing disappointment from other fans, and would probably have shared it if I had been a little older. But yes, whatever the story's flaws the film was gorgeous. I'm not sure what role exactly Foster played in the novelization, but critical-me thinks that awkwardness in the prose hints that it's more Rodenberry's work than Foster's. 4d
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Chittavrtti
The Wounded Sky | Diane Duane
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Thought I had read this one but it‘s not on my shelf. ETA Diane Duane has yet to go awry. Another excellent voyage with an underlying theme regarding the essential nature of play.

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Chittavrtti
Black Fire | Sonni Cooper
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khooliha

A couple more thoughts on this Federation history:
1) fucking Malcolm Reed makes captain? And he expected to roll up and big dog the Organians?!
2) convergent evolution already exists on planet Earth, I don't think it's that radical to think it could exist across planets (the extent it exists with the humanoids does seem unlikely)

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khooliha
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In a book full of drawings, this page was a real lol

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tournevis
The Entropy Effect | Vonda N. McIntyre
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#bookhaul 15 Star Trek books for 40$. It's a great find!

Ruthiella What a steal! 👍 2mo
tournevis @Ruthiella Amazing! 2mo
Leftcoastzen Nice haul 2mo
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tournevis @Leftcoastzen Very happy with it! 2mo
RamsFan1963 Nice haul!! I've read several of those, and still have a few on my TBR shelves 2mo
Gissy Great!🤩 2mo
tournevis @RamsFan1963 @ leftcoastzen A lot of them are doubles, but I\'m slowly preparing for the second volume I\'ll be editing on ST novels that\'s getting interest already. 2mo
tournevis @Gissy 💕 1mo
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Chittavrtti
Spock, Messiah! | Theodore R Cogswell
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On this 94F day Spock loses his cool.

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tournevis
Star Trek Lives! | Sondra Marshak, Joan Winston, Jacqueline Lichtenberg
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Today's thrift store #bookhaul

It's all for research purposes *cough* It's Star Trek Day today, on the 57th anniversary of Amok Time, from which slash emerged.

TheBookgeekFrau Great finds! 🤩 2mo
Aimeesue 🖖🏽!!! (edited) 2mo
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swynn
Encounter at Farpoint | David Gerrold
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(1987) The first ST:TNG tie-in novel is a novelization of the pilot episode. It's been a long long time since I watched "Encounter at Farpoint," and this seemed to match my hazy memory pretty well, except that the tone of the ending was quite different. Still, even with the difference it felt more like an episode of the show than like a pastiche, so Gerrold gets a passing grade from me.

RamsFan1963 It always amazes me how big a fan I became of ST:NG considering how much I detested the first season. Except for Data, I didn't care for any of the characters. 3mo
swynn @RamsFan1963 I remember being very underimpressed by the first season also, and watched very few episodes. It wasn't until I think the fourth season that I got into it, when a group of friends in college started having watch parties. At first I wasn't sure whether the show was getting better or I just enjoyed the company. From here I can see it was a generous helping of both 3mo
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James263 How are you doing 3mo
RamsFan1963 @swynn Looking back on it, ST:NG Season One did have some quality episodes. The Big Goodbye, Datalore (introducing Data's evil twin brother Lore), Heart of Glory and Conspiracy were all entertaining, but they were surrounded by utter crap like Code of Honor (the worse ST episode I've ever seen), Justice (cringy Wesley Crusher episode), and We'll Always Have Paris 3mo
swynn @RamsFan1963 After reading this, I started a re-watch of the first season episodes, and still think they're mostly weak, even knowing -- heck *especially* knowing some of the series' strengths to come. And if my goodness yes, Code of Honor made my jaw drop early and left it gaping. I hope I can forget it again but I'm not optimistic 3mo
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