{"id":254,"date":"2001-01-16T23:31:35","date_gmt":"2001-01-16T23:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=254"},"modified":"2001-01-16T23:31:35","modified_gmt":"2001-01-16T23:31:35","slug":"the-psi-phi-project-re7519-questions-about-the-next-movie-novelization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=254","title":{"rendered":"The Psi Phi Project: Re(7519): Questions about next movie novelization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of mine and I had a conversation on <b>Star Trek: The Motion Picture<\/b> about two years back. Knowing I was a reader of the <i>Trek<\/i> novels, he said: &#8220;Roddenberry didn&#8217;t write the novelization.  Alan Dean Foster did.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I thought about it, filed that factoid away, and eventually decided that no, Alan Dead Foster did not write the <b>ST:TMP<\/b> novelization. I&#8217;ve read a lot of Foster&#8217;s work, and <b>ST:TMP<\/b> doesn&#8217;t feel like his work. Hell, it doesn&#8217;t even feel like his <i>Star Trek Log<\/i>s.<\/p>\n<p>For all I know, though, it could have been ghost-written.<\/p>\n<p>But if Roddenberry did write it, it&#8217;s a shame that he ignored it in later years. I liked the partial version of 21st century history he gave. I liked the drained Mediterranean Sea.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s different. That&#8217;s all there is to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of mine and I had a conversation on Star Trek: The Motion Picture about two years back. Knowing I was a reader of the Trek novels, he said: &#8220;Roddenberry didn&#8217;t write the novelization. Alan Dean Foster did.&#8221; I thought about it, filed that factoid away, and eventually decided that no, Alan Dead Foster<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=254\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;The Psi Phi Project: Re(7519): Questions about next movie novelization&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[395],"class_list":["post-254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-star-trek-novels","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}