Star Trek: The Motion Picture by Gene Roddenberry

Author and Star Trek (TOS &TNG) creator Gene Roddenberry brings us the novelization of the very first Star Trek film, Star Trek: The Motion Picture. As the book opens its been three years since now Admiral James Kirk has sat in the command chair of the Enterprise and while he is on vacation he revives mental images due to an implant that Starfleet Medical had put in about an attack by Klingons using their updated D-7 class design on what looks like a luminescent cloud that has crossed through their space. The Klingons fire a volley of torpedoes at the cloud but the cloud answers with a volley of its own breaking down the three battle ships and proceeding on a direct course for Earth. This emergency gives Admiral Kirk the chance to retake command of the Enterprise and to face the intruder at the earliest possible moment. The rest of the book plays a little like the film dose where we see the refitted Enterprise in dry dock to where Kirk takes the center seat from Decker. And to where they have an imbalanced warp core that creates a wormhole effect that is only stopped when they fire a torpedo at an asteroid that had gotten pulled in. But there are minor changes, since this novelization would be from an early version of the script. One change is that we get to read what V'Ger was thinking when the Ila probe began to think for itself and recognize Decker. And considering the nature of V'Ger it is possible that along its voyage back to Earth that it created the Borg. But that interpretation is left up to the reader. It should be noted that the script for this film was the pilot episode for the canceled series Star Trek: Phase II which would've reunited the crew of the original series for another five year mission. I highly recommend this novelization to all Star Trek fans for as the tag line says "The Human Adventure is just beginning."