The movie
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Well we were bound to roll #1 at some point and today our mission takes us to the first cinematic Star Trek adventure, "Star Trek the Motion Picture." Released in December 1979, essentially at the same time as the film itself, the book is a fascinating look into the earlier version of what the movie was supposed to be - PLUS it has the added bonus of being a look inside of the mind of the Great Bird of the Galaxy himself - Gene Roddenberry - as the aforementioned Great Bird wrote the book himself! Roddenberry's novelization fleshes out a great number of things that are introduced in the movie but not adequately explained - such as background on the Deltans, marriage contracts in the 23rd century, and a number of sexual proclivities of our characters. Suffice to say, had THAT all been in the movie it would NOT have been rated G. But how does one compare a novelization of a cinematic movie to novels made out of whole cloth? And how will it compare to OTHER novelizations of other movies? You know how to find out...
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