It was the 1970s and Star Trek was adrift in the doldrums. The last original series episode had aired back in June 1969, the last animated series episode had aired in October 1974, and fans who were eager for new Trek had to retreat to the pages of various circulating…
Star Trek Book Review: Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) by Gene Roddenberry
“Captain, this is not a vessel… it is a life form!” (190). There is a longstanding fan theory that Gene Roddenberry’s novelization of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, the first novel in Simon & Schuster’s Star Trek Pocket Books line, was actually ghost-written by Alan Dean Foster (celebrated science fiction…
Star Trek Book Review: Death’s Angel (1981) by Kathleen Sky
“Do you believe in the Angel of Death?” Stardate: 6914.6 It’s been ten days since a survey mission returned from Delta Gamma Four (located at the edge of space between the Federation and the Klingon Empire). The Enterprise was investigating the planet as a potential place for a new colony…
Star Trek Book Review: The Galactic Whirlpool (1980) by David Gerrold
“Any idiot can die for his ship, James; what takes real genius is surviving!” (58). Stardate: 4496.1 Written by Star Trek legend David Gerrold (famous for penning the classic episode “The Trouble With Tribbles” along with a couple other Trek episodes), The Galactic Whirlpool was originally conceived as a two-part…