News Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home - The Making of the Classic Film Coming In September

[JD]

Titan Books has announced that they will be releasing Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home - The Making of the Classic Film by John and Maria Jose Tenuto on Sept. 1. This will be the third behind the scenes book for a TOS movie that the Tenutos have written for Titan following books for The Wrath of Khan and The Search for Spock.
https://trekmovie.com/2026/02/18/ex...n-the-making-of-star-trek-iv-the-voyage-home/

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Why did they skip TMP?

 

[Corran Horn]

Why did they skip TMP?

Because Titan put out a similar book in 2020, maybe?

 

[Smiley]

I'm seeing a 2020 book called Return to Tomorrow for the making of TMP, but Amazon lists it as coming from Creature Feature publishing. Are we talking about the same book, Corran, or are there two releases from 2020 about the topic?

I hope that the Search for Spock book is on track for a similar ebook release window as the Khan book, which was April after a September release.

The authors have spoken in various places about their work. I heard them on Blast Points podcast, and they sounded like really cool people.

 

[tharpdevenport]

"Classic Film"???

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Both their previous books in this series refer to TWOK and SFS as classics - consistency.

 

[Corran Horn]

I'm seeing a 2020 book called Return to Tomorrow for the making of TMP, but Amazon lists it as coming from Creature Feature publishing. Are we talking about the same book, Corran, or are there two releases from 2020 about the topic?

I don't own this book but it looks similar to the 2-3-4 books which are by different authors:

Star Trek: The Motion Picture: The Art and Visual Effects Hardcover – September 1, 2020
by Jeff Bond (Author)

 

[Christopher]

I don't own this book but it looks similar to the 2-3-4 books which are by different authors:

Star Trek: The Motion Picture: The Art and Visual Effects Hardcover – September 1, 2020
by Jeff Bond (Author)

No, Return to Tomorrow is more comprehensive than that, basically an oral history of TMP, compiling extensive contemporary interviews with dozens of people involved in its making.

 

[Corran Horn]

No, Return to Tomorrow is more comprehensive than that, basically an oral history of TMP, compiling extensive contemporary interviews with dozens of people involved in its making.

well, 'similar' is not 'identical' - Titan had just put out a TMP book in 2020. A few years later they started these releases by John and Maria Jose Tenuto and started with Star Trek II. I imagine they didn't go with TMP because either they'd just done a TMP non-fiction book a few years earlier or another publisher had done an all-up oral history already.

 

[Procutus]

Both books are definitely worth taking a look at, especially if one is a die-hard fan of the first movie (such as myself).

 

[JD]

Both their previous books in this series refer to TWOK and SFS as classics - consistency.

well, 'similar' is not 'identical' - Titan had just put out a TMP book in 2020. A few years later they started these releases by John and Maria Jose Tenuto and started with Star Trek II. I imagine they didn't go with TMP because either they'd just done a TMP non-fiction book a few years earlier or another publisher had done an all-up oral history already.

They also did one for First Contact, with the same Making of the Classic Film subtitle, between the TMP and WoK books. Personally I'm hoping they'll eventually do one for Insurrection too, but I guess I'm probably the only person who actually likes Insurrection enough to want one.
And yes I am aware of Michael Piller's book, but that is way out of my price range.