Star Trek: the Motion Picture
Pocket Books/Star Trek · Print & ebook · October 1, 2019
A Star Trek pick for readers exploring Star Trek: the Motion Picture.
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- Who it’s for
- A classic Star Trek novelization pairs a returning crew with an alien threat headed for Earth.
- Themes
- Alien threat to Earth, Crew reuniting for a mission, Communication with alien life
- Pacing
- Fast
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Celebrate the 40th anniversary of Star Trek: The Motion Picture with this classic movie novelization written by legendary Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry! The original five-year mission of the Starship Enterprise to explore strange new worlds and to seek out new life and new civilizations has ended. Now James T. Kirk, Spock, Dr. McCoy, and the rest of the crew of the Enterprise have separated to follow their own career paths and different lives.
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But now, an overwhelming alien threat—one that is ignoring all attempts at communication and annihilating all opposition in its path—is on a collision course with Earth, the very heart of the United Federation of Planets. And the only vessel that Starfleet can send in time to intercept this menace is a refitted Enterprise, with her old crew heeding the call to once again boldly go where no one has gone before….
An Enterprise Reunited
A classic Star Trek novelization pairs a returning crew with an alien threat headed for Earth.
Come here for
- The pull of deep space and an unanswered alien threat
- Gene Roddenberry’s take on a landmark Star Trek story
Expect
- A crew reunited after following separate paths
- A sustained science-fiction adventure centered on communication and discovery
Where it sits
| Space Opera | 70% |
|---|---|
| Media Tie-In | 66% |
| Space Exploration Fiction | 44% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Media Tie-In
- Sci-Fi Adventure
- Alien Contact
- Authors
- Gene Roddenberry
- Publisher
- Pocket Books/Star Trek
- Published
- October 1, 2019
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Alien threat to Earth · Crew reuniting for a mission · Communication with alien life
- Reading lane
- Media Tie-In