Star Trek: The Motion Picture

Gene Roddenberry

Oct 2019 · Simon and Schuster · Narrated by Robert Petkoff

About this audiobook

Available for the first time on audio!

Celebrate the 40th anniversary of Star Trek: The Motion Picture with this classic movie novelization written by legendary Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry!

The original five-year mission of the Starship Enterprise to explore strange new worlds and to seek out new life and new civilizations has ended. Now James T. Kirk, Spock, Dr. McCoy, and the rest of the crew of the Enterprise have separated to follow their own career paths and different lives. But now, an overwhelming alien threat—one that is ignoring all attempts at communication and annihilating all opposition in its path—is on a collision course with Earth, the very heart of the United Federation of Planets. And the only vessel that Starfleet can send in time to intercept this menace is a refitted Enterprise, with her old crew heeding the call to once again boldly go where no one has gone before….

Ratings and reviews

Interesting Novel but nothing memorable. Gene Roddenberry attempts to enrich the original story with middling success, with perspective switching so quickly it gets hard to follow. While the performance is fantastic—the reader giving very accurate impressions of characters with good energy and focus—He unfortunately has fairly uninteresting material to work with. If you want to watch the movie but can only listen, you'll get the movie accurately told to you, but it isn't a new experience.

Such a great legacy. Star trek was once a genre of The true virtues of honor, chivalry, justice and sense of love and respect for all life forms. The best of humanity even in desperate times. Now Jar Jar Abrams and discovery, bad reboot ect. Has laid ruin to what once was.

Only at Chapter 2, but Robert Petkoff and the production staff of this audiobook are to be praised for taking a lackluster story and energizing it as only the Director's Edition production team had previously done.

About the author

Gene Roddenberry (1921-1991) was the legendary writer, producer, and creator of Star Trek: The Original Series and Star Trek: The Next Generation, and the bestselling author of the novelization for Star Trek: The Motion Picture.