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Welcome to the fifth last #TMPRead of the week! Can you believe we've made it this far? Don't know what the heck a "conic section flight path" is? Well, this certainly isn't one! 
Chapter 16. Kirk wants all sensors off while approaching the cloud. He's worried about what the Epsilon 9 did to get blasted. They are still transmitting friendship messages via "Linguacode". #TMPRead
Gene goes over the relative speed of the Enterprise and the cloud as they approach each other. An "eyeblink of a navigational error" in hyperspace could send them zooming by the cloud? Is navigation that manual a process? #TMPRead
I am back for part four of #TMPRead. Today we find out if Kirk was really that stupid for ordering phasers instead of torpedoes. (Hint: he wasn't).
Capter 12. The time distortion the crew faces in the film is here, but thankfully seems much shorter in writing. It's only a littler more than page total. Kirk orders phasers, Decker countermands, and the asteroid is destroyed. #TMPRead
A sizable chunk of the asteroid actually hits the ship, but does no apparent damage. A hint of the new screens that will deflect V'Ger's torpedoes later. #TMPRead
Welcome to part three of #TMPRead. Today will see a few more familiar faces join the crew and the Enterprise's launch.
The live broadcast of the Epsilon 9 station was frightening enough to make 31 crew members request reassignment. So Star Fleet lets you bow out of a critical mission a few hours from launch? #TMPRead
Kirk appreciates his new seatbelt, or " emergency motion restraints" the moment he first sits down in the center chair. They are sensor controlled. #TMPRead
Welcome back to part two of the Star Trek: The Motion Picture novelization read through, #TMPRead. Today we'll be learning more about future Earth, Kirk's years as an admiral, and his relationship with Admiral Heihachiro Nogura all straight from Roddenberry's pen.
Chapter 4 finds Kirk on approach to Star Fleet headquarters which is nestled in the redwood forest that is what was San Francisco. Its a lone building on a planet where most stuff in now underground. #TMPRead
Kirk takes a "tube" from Gibraltar to Los Angeles and then the air tram to SF from there. World spanning subshuttles and underground living are two concepts from Roddenberry's 1970's pilot "Genesis II" (trekmovie.com/2016/11/17/for…)
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Welcome to the first day of #TMPRead where I'll be reading Gene Roddenberry's novelization of Star Trek: The Motion Picture and commenting on the interesting bits that aren't in the film. You can read along, but it's not necessary. I'll be adding plot details as well.
The book starts with a preface written by Admiral Kirk. He starts with explaining his name. "James" is the name of his father's brother as well as his mother's "first Love Instructor".
We can only guess what a "love instructor" is. Is it someone who teaches you love poetry? Is it a sexual surrogate who teaches you methods and positions for love making? What age is instruction and is it mandatory? No flipping idea.
