The next stop with the U.S.S. Enterprise according to the Sci-Fi Chronicles is the fifth film in the series, as I’d previously reviewed IV. Shatner takes the helm both as Captain James T. Kirk and as director and helped with the story as well. Big ideas get caught up in budget restrictions and less…
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984) – Leonard Nimoy
I continue to boldly go with the Star Trek films, courtesy of the Sci-Fi Chronicles, and having previously covered Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, I moved onto the third film in the series, helmed by Nimoy himself, one of the caveats about his reprising the Spock character. Spock is dead. The events…
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) – Robert Wise
The Sci-Fi Chronicles lets me settle in to enjoy another one of my favorites… featuring one of my favorite film scores, this one by Jerry Goldmsith, the U.S.S. Enterprise leaps from the small screen to the the theatrical one with this first film which isn’t for everyone, but the older I get, the more…
Star Trek: Triangle (1983) – Sondra Marshak and Myrna Culbreath
There is one thing, and one thing only that is good about this Star Trek novel. It’s the last one written by Marshak and Culbreath. Once again, this one seems as nothing more than an excuse to write some shoddy fan fiction. One could argue that all the Star Trek novels are fan fiction,…
Star Trek: Black Fire (1983) – Sonni Cooper
It’s time for more non-canon journeys with the stalwart crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise this week as I dove into the next Star Trek novel in the Pocket Books collection. Set after, or towards the end of, the original five year mission, but before the events of the first film, this one literally starts…
Leonard (2016) -William Shatner with David Fisher
It was just over a year ago, that Leonard Nimoy passed, and like many people around the globe, I was profoundly affected by it. I grew up with Leonard, well not literally, I grew up with his most famous character, Mr. Spock on my television screen, in the books I read, and every few…
Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan (1982) – Vonda N. McIntyre
Vonda N. McIntyre who had previously written the Trek tale, The Entropy Effect, which is given a bit of a reference in this one, adapts the screenplay for the second film, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan into novel form. There are some nice differences, changes in dialogue and expanded scenes and characters…
Star Trek: The Abode of Life (1982) – Lee Correy
And we boldy, well, sadly in this case, blandly go, with the next story in the Star Trek non-canon Pocket Book universe. And also, don’t let the cover fool you, this one takes place before The Motion Picture, somewhere during the original five year mission. Now, to be clear, this one could have been…
Star Trek: The Prometheus Design (1982) – Sondra Marshak and Myrna Culbreath
Sigh. There are some books that just shouldn’t be read, or to be really proactive, shouldn’t be written. I don’t know who gave Sondra Marshak and Myrna Culbreath the go-ahead on this one, but it’s obvious that they didn’t read the pair’s previous efforts when they wrote a couple of Trek books for Bantam. Set…
Star Trek: The Covenant of the Crown (1981) – Howard Weinstein
It’s time to continue going boldy with the next installment in the Pocket Books non-canon Star Trek series. The next novel in the collection is The Covenant of the Crown. It’s special because its author, Howard Weinstein also wrote an episode of the Star Trek: Animated Series, The Pirates of Orion. This novel joins…
The Mind Reels 