new ST-TMP book

[mb22]

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.

 

[Kor]

I'm a little skeptical about anything Trek-related from an academic publisher. But we shall see.

Kor

 

[Firebird]

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.

 

[Mysterion]

Well, seeing that her other book is about the "History and culture" of My Little Pony... Gonna pass.

 

[Maurice]

The chapter titles are all plays on Discovery episode titles...talk about missing the target audience.

 

[BillJ]

$40? I think I’ll pass. Would rather pick up Return to Tomorrow.

 

[Khan 2.0]

Hmm, idk about this..

will have to wait for some reviews ..

 

[mb22]

$40? I think I’ll pass. Would rather pick up Return to Tomorrow.

McFarland books are usually that price. I try to use interlibrary loan.

 

[Kor]

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

 

[mb22]

Where is the listing of chapter titles? I don't see that on either the Amazon listing or the publisher's page.

Kor

Strange, the other books in the catalog have it.

 

[jgf]

It's bound to be more interesting than the movie.

 

[BillJ]

It's bound to be more interesting than the movie.

Personally, I love TMP. Am going on September 15th to see it on the big screen.

 

[Galileo7]

Personally, I love TMP. ...

Agree.

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[publiusr]

I'm a little skeptical about anything Trek-related from an academic publisher. But we shall see.

Kor

They have some nice books
https://mcfarlandbooks.com/shop/science-technology/dinosaurs/

 

[mb22]

They have some nice books
https://mcfarlandbooks.com/shop/science-technology/dinosaurs/

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.

 

[David cgc]

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:

Fathom Events is holding 40th Anniversary screenings of the Robert Wise film on Sept. 15 and 18 in about a dozen multiplexes throughout the Bay Area. There will be two screenings each day, and according to Fandango’s reserved-seating widget, only a handful of tickets have been sold as of mid-August. What a difference a reputation as the worst film in a 50-year, multi-billion dollar franchise makes, huh?

Most commonly referred to as “the slow, boring one with the bald chick” when it’s referred to at all, the first Star Trek movie has long been considered an embarrassment by both Paramount Pictures and fans alike, especially after the immediate sanctification of Nicholas Meyer’s overpraised 1982 sequel The Wrath of Khan. Indeed, a recent screening of Wrath at the Castro was “to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Star Trek motion pictures,” but not to commemorate Star Trek—The Motion Picture itself, because it’s not the one where William Shatner yells “Khaaan!” (It’s so funny when William Shatner yells “Khaaan!”, LOL!)

In spite of it not being the one where William Shatner yells “Khaaan!,” The Motion Picture is still worth seeing in the theater if only because it’s the only original Star Trek film designed to be seen on as big and wide a screen as possible. It was intended to be a truly cinematic experience, with a scope and sense of grandeur none of the later films attempted.

Remarkably, there’s still a 35mm print of The Motion Picture in circulation. It played at the Castro in 2016 but as is so often the case with repertory exhibition in general and Fathom in particular, what will be shown in September is for all intents and purposes the same as the commercially-available Blu-ray.

So it’ll be a digital projection mostly in the smaller auditoriums of the participating multiplexes, meaning it won’t truly recreate what it was like to see the film in 1979 at the Paramount Theater, or even at the Castro in 2016. But it’s as close as this singularly unloved film can get to a proper theatrical exhibition in 2019, and it’s still worth seeing, even though it doesn’t have William Shatner yelling “Khaaan!”

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.

 

[Firebird]

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.

 

[Maurice]

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.

 

[Indysolo]

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.

Hi, I have a new book to sell. In the meantime, let me trash the very subject the book's about.

Neil

 

[Khan 2.0]

lol