https://mcfarlandbooks.com/product/the-first-star-trek-movie/ https://www.amazon.com/First-Star-T...first+star+trek&qid=1566490284&s=books&sr=1-3 Hope it has some new info in it.
Given how negative the end of the book's blurb comes across, I hesitate to give it a shot. Sounds like the author has an axe to grind over the movie.
The chapter titles are all plays on Discovery episode titles...talk about missing the target audience.
Where is the listing of chapter titles? I don't see that on either the Amazon listing or the publisher's page. Kor
I take it you like dinosaurs... McFarland books are generally quite good, although content quality varies. I'm not a big fan of academic navel gazing, preferring history and research.
I was trying to track down the table of contents with the DSC references, and found a gem from her newspaper blurb about the Fathom TMP anniversary exhibition: I was going to make a joke about how even if TWOK is my least-favorite even-numbered TOS film, "no place to go but down" after TMP was pretty harsh on it, but it seems that wasn't just awkward phrasing, and she really doesn't like either of them. ETA: Whoops, didn't notice there were three more paragraphs after the "related articles" ad.
TMP is the worst film of the franchise? She's obviously never seen Nemesis or The Final Frontier. Looks like my suspicions on her bias against the film were right, after all.
That quote says it has "a reputation as the worst film" and goes on to say "Nicholas Meyer’s overpraised 1982 sequel". So I don't know what you're grousing about.