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One of our favorite books on tape
This recording has been a favorite of mine for nearly 20 years, and now my 9 year old son's favorite bedtime book on tape. Well read by George Takei with his wonderful resonant bass.You can almost hear the voices of the other characters, and of course with the occasional insertion of Nimoy's Spock, you can really follow the movie in your head as you listen. Good sound effects and music too.
Worth the price for a classic. ... Read more

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Sulu finds himself in a difficult situation when he discovers a world that actually worships "noise pollution". Basing its entire religion on old broadcast signals from Earth, the world totters on the brink of civil war. Sulu has to decide whether to kill the "god" of noise. ... Read more

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DVD movie by Feature Films for Families rated G. ... Read more

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Kirk and Spock are caught under the spell of a recurring nightmare and are plunged into an unknown chapter of their own past. ... Read more

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Day and a Night
Alternative to "First Contact" (movie). Vulcans arrive earlier and possible changes to Star Trek universe, could have been better written but still a good read. "Strangers from the Sky" can be read in a day and one night. Enjoy.

~ Earth's first contact with Vulcuns~
You won't find a better book in the Star Trek genre. Well written, close to canon. Bonanno captures Kirk,Spock and McCoy thoroughly, you can hear their voices as you read the story. Excellent, if you are a Trek fan don't miss this classic.

An oldie but a goodie
This is the rerelease of a book written in the early-to-mid 80's. It's still a great read. Bonanno brings the strengths of book-writing to a film property - flash backs, out-of-sequence story-telling and a wider landscape, and makes it all work.

Since it was written pre-almost-everything-else, there are a few anachronisms that must be forgiven, but I didn't find them distracting.The characters are spot on, the dillemma interesting, and the pace brisk.I remember reading this when it was first written and really enjoying knowing what was going on after the TV show and before the second movie. This time it takes a bit to re-orient where everything takes place (has this happened yet? No? Okay...)
The new characters are likable and instantly accessible.Of all the 40th Anniversary books, this is the one to read.

Separating fact from fantasy
A controversial best seller has been sweeping through the Federation and the Enterprise was no exception but when Dr. McCoy offered his copy to Capt. Kirk, Kirk was oddly resistent to reading it.When he finally began reading though he found that he could not put it down, that it even began to invade his dreams and sent him on a pilgrimage to one of the locations of the story.Had Kirk's obsession with the book driven him to madness?

When McCoy called in Spock to help him save Kirk they discovered that Kirk was not the only one who had a strange reaction to the novel, leading them all to question what was fantasy and what was reality.After all, everyone knew when Vulcans and humans first made contact and it was long before Kirk and Spock were born.Wasn't it?

Bonanno has woven a compelling story, her characterizations of the Enterprise crew that we all know and love is excellent.They, and the rest of the characters in the book all come to life as reasonable, believeable and engaging.She also manages to keep the various threads of the story interesting as they begin to wind their ways towards the climax.

This is a definite 'don't miss' for fans of the series and would also be enjoyable to anyone with more than a passing interest in classic Trek, particularly the earliest episodes.

A minor complaint.
While the book is good, my problem with it is the new foreword by the author.She mentions that the book was written six years before the official first contact between humans and Vulcans depicted in the movie "First Contact" set in 2063 - wrong.That was not the first contact between humans and Vulcans in the STAR TREK universe.The TRUE first contact in the official cannon STAR TREK universe was depicted in the STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE episode "Carbon Creek" in which a Vulcan science vessel observing the launch of the Earth satellite SPUTNIK 1 on October 4, 1957, crashed and it's survivors had to interact with humans (the humans not knowing that they were aliens, of course) while waiting for a Vulcan rescue ship to come for them.A minor objection, of course, but MWB should have realized this. ... Read more

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A compendium for Trekkers who can't get enough of their favorite show. It's great fun to find the mistakes (or cost-cutting ploys). 2 cassettes. ... Read more

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Classic Trek foul ups and blunders
I had a copy of this book when it first came out, but I lost it and thought it was out of print. I was delighted to see it still available and ordered it, especially since I have the TV series and movies on DVD now. I this book, author Phil Farrand goes through each and every episode of the Original series and the six feature films. In each he discusses changed premises, plot oversites, equipment oddies, and props that don't work like they should. Also he points out scenes that were cut when the show was syndicated, and what stills where shown during the end credits. Also Farrand also includes what are called tote boards, that lists things like the number of times Kirk's shirt gets torn, number of people who slap Spock, number of times McCoy pronounces someone dead etc. This book is a must for fans of Classic Star Trek.
PS, in the episode The Savage Curtain, during a fight scene, Kirk is on his back, and he draws up his legs to push away his opponet, his pants cleary split!! I laughed until i almost could'nt breathe.

A lot of nitpicks in this book are invalid
For example he picks on one Trek ep for mentioning the Euygenics Wars of the 1990's and the fact that in the real life 1990's the Eugenics wars never took place. Also, he mentions inconsistencies beween the TOS and TNG shows. If these are nitpicks they should be in the TNG nitpickers guide. Also I hate when he talks about how Miri would be a shorter show if they (the landing party) could talk to the ship. Wrong author Phil! It would be a different show if they could talk to the ship.

This Trek Fan Loved It
I loved this book. Whenever I'm in need of a laugh I still return to it. Every blooper, every continuity problem and and every single episode is discussed in this veryfunny guide. The authorwas obviously a huge fan of Star Trek.

Surprise!A reference book that is actually humorous.
Phil Farrand does a wonderful job here of pointing out things the creators of Trek got wrong (and right!)--small things most of us would never give a second thought to.My favorite glitch:

"Return of the Archons--Just after Festival begins, Kirk & the others scamper for cover.In one shot, a rock about the size of a cantaloupe arches down and whacks a crew member on the top of his head.Surprisingly, the man seems unaffected, and the rock simply bounces off.Now that's the kind of guy you want to take on landing party missions!"

I couldn't stop laughing for about five straight minutes after I read this one.If you like Star Trek, and you like to laugh--get Phil Farrand's Nitpicker's Guides for Trekkers.You will not be disappointed.

CITY ON THE EDGE OE FOREVER
Kirk and spock are sweeping the floor when spocks notices a man using small tools, the sceen cuts and shows the man's hand picking a a sharp looking tool, then the sceen changes back to Kirk and Spock some words are passedthen sceen shows the man's hand again doing the same motion. ... Read more

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Three Classic Star Trek Adventures
Three Classic Star Trek Adventures with Narration by William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, George Takei and James Doohan on 4 CD's

Disk 1:

* Introduction
* Enterprise: THE FIRST ADVENTURE - Part I

Disk 2:

* Enterprise:THE FIRST ADVENTURE - Part II
* FINAL FRONTIER - Part I

Disk 3:

* FINAL FRONTIER - Part II
* STRANGERS FROM THE SKY - Part I

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* STRANGERS FROM THE SKY - Part II ... Read more

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Happily Ever AfterFairy Tales for Every Child ... Read more

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The U.S.S. EnterpriseTM is summoned to transport a dangerous criminal from Starbase prison to a rehabilitation center, the brilliant physicist Dr. Georges Mordreaux, accused of promising to send people back in time, and then killing them instead.

But there's more at stake than just a few lives. For Mordreaux's experiments have somehow thrown the entire universe into a deadly time warp. All of existence is closing in on itself, and only Spock can stop the Entropy Effect. ... Read more

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Another great Audio Book!!!
The Enterprise was summoned by way of an emergency channel to appear and help transfer a very dangerous prisoner named Dr. George Mordreaux to the Penal colony. Once aboard the Enterprise Dr. Mordreaux breaks out of his cell and kills Captain Kirk! Spock sends out a security alert, security almost immediately reports to him that Dr. Mordreaux was never out of the cell, that he has been there the whole time.Spock finally discovered that Dr. Mordreaux who had been trying to learn the secrets of time travel had used this to murder Captain Kirk and now Spock had to use these same secrets to get Kirk back.

I love time travel books!Even though time travel had been done many times in Star Trek this was a very unique story. McIntyre knows the main three characters very well and knows how to write them.The best thing about Star Trek is the characters, the friendships between these heroes.Spock and McCoy who never see eye to eyehave to work together to bring back there friend.Kirk (the little of this book that he is in), Spock & McCoy were written first rate.

I recommend the Audio Book and I certainly want to read the book and I think you should too.

Grade: B

Firmly in the top 10% of all Star Trek novels
[Review written Nov 2004]

This is one of the earliest Star Trek novels, and still ranks among the best in the genre. It's a fast no-frills read, weighing in at only around 225 pages, and the story involves murder, intrigue, theoretical physics and a classic time travel & save-the-universe type plot ... a theme that has since been mined nearly to death by a host of imitators over the past 20+ years.

By today's standards, it's a bit short, and I wished the authoress had spent more time exploring some of the interesting new characters she introduces, and not rushed the plot along quite so quickly ... but it's still an enjoyable read.

It's one of the few books in my Star Trek collection that's on my periodic rereading rotation.

my first
This was the first ST book I read, have had it for years, but just recently re-read it. It's a good book, a bit sad, but a good one. It delves a lot into Kirk/Spock/McCoy's relationships. I also like how Sulu gets some special treatment in this story, which unfortunatly, we wont see again for quite a while.definitly check it out

Mystery and Suspense mixed with the Star Trek theme!
This story reminded me a little of the ST:TNG episode, "Yesterday's Enterprise" -in regards to the ripple effects of time travel and how it is portayed in the story telling.

In my opinion, even though Star Trek usually goes overboard in their time travel stories, this one is written very well and is not to corny. Vonda McIntyre mixes mystery and suspense along with the original Star Trek theme. I found myself not wanting to put the book down -as to see the conclusion of the suspense and mystery. Vonda McIntyre stayed in on the Star Trek theme and focused on character development.

In this story the story focused mainly on Spock and Sulu. There is the usual romance for Kirk. It's not really a romance. He runs into an old flame that gets him thinking about marriage, life, etc. But here Sulu has the more passionate and tender romance and Spock meets up with an old science mentor who is the hero/villian of the story.

This book is a great read and hard to put down! Enjoy!

-rlw

Entropy Effects
The first all-new novel published by Pocket in the Star Trek franchise was written by an accomplished science fiction novelist, with a background in her own fiction, and a winner of a Hugo and a Nebula. One of the dangers of this type of author is a tendency to view the characters independently, rather than to use them as established in series continuity. Every author will play favorites with the characters, writing up the ones they like and assigning secondary roles, or completely ignoring, those they do not like. This is evident in McIntyre's first outing with the Star Trek characters.

The Enterprise is dispatched to observe a singularity, and discover the reason for its appearence. None like it, with no apparent explanation for its existence, has been observed previously. Spock is the closest qualified observer, and so he conducts the measurements, as the Enterprise spends six weeks in close proximity to the dangerous gravity well and radiation output. As Spock is working on the confirming observations, the Enterprise receives a top-priority call to a nearby starbase. The starbase personnel are confused, but they do have one duty that must be carried out: the ferrying of a dangerous prisoner to a maximum-security facility. The prisoner turns out to be a former physics teacher of Spock's, and the Vulcan cannot understand the danger posed. All records of the trial have been sealed and/or expunged.

Soon after the prisoner is taken on board, he breaks onto the bridge and shoots Captain Kirk with a spiderweb bullet, a terrorist device which causes prolonged death with great pain. The crew is horrified. The new security chief, Commander Flynn, is also killed in the assault. Spock finds that the dangerous nature of the prisoner, and his crime, is related to the professor's discovery of a simple method for time travel. This has also caused the singularity to appear, so the method is increasing the entropy of the universe, and will cause its end in less than 100 years. Spock must travel back in time himself to repair the damage to the time continuum, and save his captain and the universe. McIntyre writes well, and the book has a good plot, so the problem here is mostly with characterization.

So many of the regulars are out of character that it is often hard to take the book seriously. The author obviously likes Sulu, and to an extent Spock, while disliking Scotty and Kirk. Scott only gets "grumpy old man" stuff to do, and shows no other side of his character, aside from a measure of loyalty to Kirk. The captain is killed off halfway through the book, and might have remained that way had this book been made only of McIntyre's characters (which would have made a better book). The author also is enamored with her own characters, Commander Flynn and her security crew, and Captain Hunter, an old lover of Kirk's and the captain of a border patrol ship. There is a strongly feminist bent here, despite the small amount of time given to Uhura. The spiderweb bullet is a good invention, a projectile with tendrils that grow and crush the nervous system, reaching to the brain. The problem is, at one point McIntyre writes about visible tendrils that Spock avoids on a near-miss shot. Tendrils small enough to infiltrate the nervous system would likely be invisible to the naked eye. And another thing: when Spock endeavors to go back through time, he tells only McCoy, and ostensibly leaves the Doctor in charge of the ship. At no time was McCoy ever shown to be a command officer, and it would have been procedure (which Spock would have followed) to inform Scotty, who both was the next ranking officer, and thus should have been designated the conn, as well as being able to help to engineer the necessary parts for time travel.

It's a good story. It just doesn't work, as written, as a Star Trek story. ... Read more

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Collectible magazine is in good shape. ... Read more