#77 on Glenn's Top 100 Movie ListThis is my second favorite Star Trek movie, after Khan, but as a kid it was the one that I watched the most. Probably that is because it was at the beginning of the tape we had it on, whereas Star Trek II was after The Muppet Movie and about an hour of infomercials, so I always had to fast forward to get to it. I still think that when the Enterprise is self-destructed it is much more tragic than when Spock died in part II. Or when Kirk went out like a bitch in part 7. Or when Data died for some stupid reason in part 10. Man, I really hope they fix all these serious problems when the reboot comes out next year. Anyway, even though this is directed by an actor (not a very good outcome, usually), it is the second most beautiful of the Star Trek movies, after The Motion Picture, which I like but did not make my top 100, because you guys would really think I was a nerd if more than 5% of my top 100 movies were Star Trek movies.
RATING: 87%
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Don't know if you have ever read a Star Trek novel, but there are a few really good ones out there. I really liked "Federation"--the history behind Zefram Cochrane and warp technology before the morons on the Next Generation decided to toss it aside for their drunken version of Cochrane for the "movie" versions which becomes bonafide official Paramount lore over all else.
I enjoyed the authors' (Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens) Star Trek books so much, I even read Shatner's Star Trek books that were really written by his two co-authors; however, they became crap when Picard, Janeway, and the Next Generation crew were added to the mix in order to "bridge" the gap between the series and films. Morons.
In passing, Kirk was resurrected after that debacle of a Next Gen movie. I can't remember exactly how though. He had new adventures with his Spock (Vulcans can live nearly 200 years), Bones (new organs and alloy bones are keeping him barely alive), Scotty (somewhat younger do to that transporter malfunction), and with his good buddy, J-L, and the crews of the good ships Enterprise NCC-1701X and Titan (Riker and Deana's ship).
He revisited the mirror universe in which his doppelganger had become the emperor. He vanquished himself, returned to the present-day future and met/rescued a group of genetically altered hy-brid beings (human, romulan, reman, vulcan, klingon, horta, gorn, trill, etc.). One of whom became his wife. She died due to poisoning at Halkan, but they had a son/daughter who would eventually save and unite the universe due to his/her unique genetical makeup (shades of "Wrath of Khan/Genesis project" and "The Voyage Home/V'ger) with the sacrifice of his own life.
They aren't "War and Peace," "The Grapes of Wrath," or even, "The Bridges of Madison County," but they passed the time for this someone who wished that that original 5-year mission had gone at least 5 years. Because these books that place in the "Shatnerverse," Paramount and Pocket Books discredit them in the overall history of Trek, but they still enjoy their shares of the cash cow that is Captain Kirk and "Star Trek: TOS."
John from Daejeon
I've never checked out any of the Shatnerverse novels, but always kind of wished they had made those into movies instead of First Contact, Insurrection, and especially Nemesis.
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