I think Chekov's Enterprise is the one major TMP-related book that I've never read.
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Just thinking about that, and the only thought that comes back, is the author talking about their playing softball after, or between filming. For some reason that's the only thing that sticks from that book.
As I remember, Blish used shooting scripts, and sometimes earlier versions than what was filmed, to do his writing from (from which to do his writing?). Hence the differences from what we saw on film - I imagine that's the reason for the occasional title changes as well - such as 'The Unreal McCoy' and 'The Last Gunfight'. I have them on the shelf too, along with the fotonovels, but it's been ages since I read them.
I used to have the program from the opening night of TMP. No idea what became of it. Probably buried in a box in the attic somewhere!
I also had an issue of Starlog autographed by Robert Wise that's probably in the same box.
Except for a couple of them, I read all of these when I was growing up during those years. I'll throw in a couple of Ace Books: A Star Trek Catalog and Shatner: Where No Man...
I used to have quite the Trek library, until the ex stole it all. [There is a very special place in Hell for her!!] Mostly, I miss the old TOS Foto-novels. For a kid with a 13" black & white TV, those color foto-novels were amazing! [The first time I saw color television was in college.]
These days, my collection consists of:
- all the movies on DVD
- TOS-R on DVD
- TAS on DVD (drooling over a probable Blu-ray version), a Father's Day gift
- StarFleet Technical Manual, First Edition
- life-sized store display with ST09 Burger King glasses + 2 extra sets
- The Making of Star Trek, Trouble with Tribbles books, at least I think I still have them
I'd love to find the set of Foto-novels some day...
These days, my collection consists of:
- all the movies on DVD
- TOS-R on DVD
- TAS on DVD (drooling over a probable Blu-ray version), a Father's Day gift
- StarFleet Technical Manual, First Edition
- life-sized store display with ST09 Burger King glasses + 2 extra sets
- The Making of Star Trek, Trouble with Tribbles books, at least I think I still have them
I'd love to find the set of Foto-novels some day...
Here are my Blish books:
and some more old ones from my shelf:
I'm never parting with these things.
and some more old ones from my shelf:
I'm never parting with these things.
This is my entire collection of ST non-fiction plus some quasi-fiction:
^Wow, you take good care of your books. They're in better shape than my copies, in a lot of cases.
Here are my Blish books:
and some more old ones from my shelf:
I'm never parting with these things.
I recommend the two Haldeman books if you haven't read them...a little wonky on characterization, but fun.
I used to have the program from the opening night of TMP. No idea what became of it. Probably buried in a box in the attic somewhere!
I also had an issue of Starlog autographed by Robert Wise that's probably in the same box.
Should maybe dig those old boxes out and have a look - never know what kind of goodies might be there.
I have the opening night programs from the first three movies - treasured mementos.
Ah yes, I have these as well although in a three book compendium from SciFi book club.
I have those at home but I haven't read them in about three decades. I went through a long period where I had every STAR TREK book there was [except the 1968 children's novel MISSION TO HORATIUS, which I never even heard of until very recently].
Then, shortly into the TMP era, the novels became too numerous and some of them were just terrible, so I went astray.
Yep!
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