{"id":4172,"date":"2008-01-01T21:06:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-02T02:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4172"},"modified":"2017-11-23T14:01:46","modified_gmt":"2017-11-23T20:01:46","slug":"book-report-star-trek-the-wrath-of-khan-by-vonda-n-mcintyre-1982","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/01\/book-report-star-trek-the-wrath-of-khan-by-vonda-n-mcintyre-1982\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan by Vonda N. McIntyre (1982)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All right, I think this author took slightly more liberty with this novelization than &#8220;Gene Roddenberry&#8221; did with the <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/01\/book-report-star-trek-the-motion-picture-by-gene-roddenberry-1979\/\" target=\"_new\">first one<\/a>; a lot of the scenes that I don&#8217;t remember from the movie are a little disparate (but nobody got implants that disappear).  Given what I&#8217;ve seen of the novelization of <i>The Search for Spock<\/i>, though, this one is relatively bang-on the novelization.<\/p>\n<p>To recap: While the Enterprise is on a training mission, it investigates a scientific lab outpost that sends a garbled message to Kirk.  Meanwhile, an enemy from Kirk&#8217;s past has put events in motion to steal that lab&#8217;s discovery and to kill Kirk in revenge.<\/p>\n<p>These books clock in under 200 pages, even with the additional emoting scenes and scientific mumbo-jumbo added.  If you&#8217;re into Star Trek, you will probably get a kick out of them.<\/p>\n<p><center><b>Books mentioned in this review:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=stlbrianj-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0671741497&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=000000&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All right, I think this author took slightly more liberty with this novelization than &#8220;Gene Roddenberry&#8221; did with the first one; a lot of the scenes that I don&#8217;t remember from the movie are a little disparate (but nobody got implants that disappear). Given what I&#8217;ve seen of the novelization of The Search for Spock, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4172"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17690,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4172\/revisions\/17690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}