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Star Trek: CineMcCollough
by Patrick Brennan
Welcome to the CineMcCollough Podcast - specifically all things original Star Trek - episode reviews and rankings, movie reviews and rankings, and Star Trek novel reviews and rankings, compiled over the past six years as an ongoing project of fandom. Lifelong Star Trek fans and Friends "Lord Rob" McCollough and Patrick "Butch" Brennan grew up in the 1980s with the original 1960s Star Trek. Having been born less than a year after Star Trek went off the air, they actually grew up on reruns of the original series, with an occasional theatrical movie ever few years, as well as the thing that REALLY bonded them, dozens of Star Trek novels that were released throughout the 1970s and 1980s and today. When Rob and Butch decided to start a podcast, fortuitously in December 2019, right before the COVID pandemic, they had a few topics that seemed like obvious topics - Star Trek being the primary one (along with the films of Alfred Hitchcock, the sport of boxing, and mo
Episodes
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Star Trek Pocket Novel #28: The Abode of Life (#6)
Our next mission takes us to a little-traveled portion of the galaxy between the Sagittarius Arm and Orion Arm of the galaxy, where a gravitational anomaly has sent the Enterprise while also crippling it and leaving it potentially stranded. The only hope that the Enterprise crew has is to try and...
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BONUS - Star Trek Las Vegas 60 Report
Rob and Butch have been life long Star Trek fans, and have enjoyed watching and reading Star Trek since 1984. But this summer, August 5-10, they took their wives to Las Vegas and attended their first-ever Star Trek convention, which just so happened to be the 60th Anniversary year since the first...
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Star Trek Pocket Novel #27: The Covenant of the Crown (#4)
We are back on mission at Star Trek CineMcCollough, going way back to the earliest days of the Pocket Books novels for number four, "The Covenant of the Crown." Written by Howard Weinstein - this is our second book review for Weinstein, who also wrote Deep Domain, after becoming famous for having…
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Star Trek Pocket Novel #26: The Pandora Principle (#49)
Your friends at CineMcCollough are kicking off our third season of Trek Novel Madness today with the next randomly-selected novel from the pool of the first 50 Pocket Books novels -- what we call "Is That a Trek in Your Pocket?" The only Star Trek novel ever published - heck, the only novel of…
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Star Trek Pocket Novel #25: Black Fire (#8)
Now, at last, we reach the Season 2 Finale, which finishes off the first half of our FIFTY BOOK mission through the Pocket Books Universe - what we call Is That a Trek in Your Pocket? -- before we begin the cruise through the second half we will take up the lone book by author Sonni Cooper (who…
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Star Trek Short Audio Treks #5: To Starve a Fleaver
One last brief bit of shore leave to take care of before we get to our final mission of Season 2... and that mission takes us back to the Peter Pan Audio and Book collection of stories from the 1970s for the fifth episode of that series, the 1975 short story "To Starve a Fleaver." Once again...
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Cinematic Star Trek #6: Star Trek VI The Undiscovered Country
The big stop on our final shore leave of Season 2 of our Star Trek novels multi-year mission takes us to Camp Khitomer and the last best chance for galactic peace - aka the 1991 theatrical release "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country." The final film featuring all of the main cast from the...
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Star Trek Short Audio Treks #4: The Time Stealer
One last shore leave before our Season 2 finale, this one is a three-parter, starting with the fourth episode of the Peter Pan Records Star Trek book-and-audio series. Released in 1975 and coming in at a breezy 16 minutes, "The Time Stealer" was written by Cary Bates and Neal Adams. This short...
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Star Trek Pocket Novel #24: Crisis on Centaurus (#28)
We have revisited many novels in the Pocket Universe of Star Trek about which Rob and Butch remember very little from their first time reading them forty-or-so years ago. But today's novel is one that both Butch and Rob remember pretty well, and found that they still enjoyed it quite a lot. Ah…
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Star Trek Pocket Novel #23: Star Trek III The Search for Spock (#17)
Despite the fact that there are two more movies that released during the run of first 50 Pocket Books Star Trek novels, today's random selection, "Star Trek III: The Search for Spock," is the last we will be visiting in our 50-planet mission, as the ST-IV and ST-V novelizations, while published,...
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Star Trek Pocket Novel #22: The Wounded Sky (#13)
We finish off Diane Duane's contribution to the first 50 Pocket Books Star Trek novels today with "The Wounded Sky," released in December of 1983. Like a Romulan Sandwich, the fourth novel and the first we reviewed (Doctor's Orders) are not Romulan-centric, while the other two are quintessential...
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Star Trek Pocket Novel #21: Star Trek the Motion Picture (#1)
Well we were bound to roll #1 at some point and today our mission takes us to the first cinematic Star Trek adventure, "Star Trek the Motion Picture." Released in December 1979, essentially at the same time as the film itself, the book is a fascinating look into the earlier version of what the...
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Star Trek Pocket Novel #20: Bloodthirst (#37)
If you have ever wondered whether Star Trek has done a vampire story, hold on to your horse, my friends, because author J.M. Dillard is about to go gothic on our good ship and crew. This is Dillard's second novel we've reviewed out of three that she wrote for the first 50 Pocket novels, released...
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Star Trek Pocket Novel #19: Memory Prime (#42)
Two of the most prolific Star Trek writers contribute today's Pocket Books mission to our Pocket Treks... Garfield and Judith Reeves-Stevens, a married couple of science fiction authors, had already contributed two hardcover novels to the Star Trek universe before today's numbered adventure,...
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Cinematic Star Trek #5: Star Trek V The Final Frontier
For the second half of our season 2 third quarter shore leave, we are going to THAT one - yes, that is right, we are going to bite the bullet and set course for the center of the galaxy to encounter God, or whatever else we might find there. Today, we set course for "Star Trek V: The Final...
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Star Trek Short Audio Treks #3: The Crier in Emptiness
Well, it is time for shore leave again, so we are taking our quick stop at the third Peter Pan Records audio-and-book adventure from the mid-1970s, "The Crier in Emptiness." Once again penned by Alan Dean Foster, this short Trek has the ship encounter an area of space where music pervades the...
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Star Trek Pocket Novel #18: Time for Yesterday (#39)
While we here at CineMcCollough are proud of our strategy of random selection and review of the first fifty Pocket Books novels, it DOES have its drawbacks... take today's adventure, for example, where the dice of destiny selected "Time For Yesterday" by A.C. Crispin... which, while it is a…
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Star Trek Pocket Novel #17: Ishmael (#23)
Today's mission takes us to a novel published May 1985 and featuring something that, when I first saw it, I admit I scoffed at the idea. "Ishmael" by Barbara Hambly (who will go on to write two more Trek novels) tells the story of Spock being lost in time as a Klingon ship he has secretly...
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Star Trek Pocket Novel #16: Chain of Attack (#32)
On today's mission we really DO go where no one has gone before, as we join the crew in progress when they encounter a gravitational anomaly that, seemingly without warning, transports the Enterprise to another galaxy. In "Chain of Attack," prolific Trek author Gene DeWeese (in their first Trek...
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Star Trek Pocket Novel #15: The Prometheus Design (#5)
Our next mission finds Rob and Butch running things back to the good ol' days of the Journey to Bantam, as Bantam Books alums Sondra Marshak and Myrna Culbreth (of the Phoenix novel fame) try their hand at a Trek story NOT involving the baddest man in the galaxy, Omne. Instead, this March 1982...
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Star Trek Pocket Novel #14: The Final Reflection (#16)
Writer John Ford brings us the first of his two Pocket Books Star Trek novels today, "The Final Reflection." First published in May 1984, this is really a book-within-a-book, as it opens and closes with Captain Kirk reading a brand-new novel that is taking his crew by storm... a novel about a...
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Star Trek Pocket Novel #13: Mindshadow (#27)
Back on our "Is That a Trek in Your Pocket" mission for lucky number thirteen... the one where Spock has a great fall and suffers a traumatic brain injury. "Mindshadow" was published on January 1986 and was written by J.M. Dillard, aka Jeanne Kalogridis. It is our first time picking one of her...
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Cinematic Star Trek #4: Star Trek IV The Voyage Home
For our cinematic stop on this shore leave, we go back to when Rob and Butch were high school juniors and living a state apart (after Rob moved to Wenatchee, Washington) - arguably the most successful TOS theatrical release, the 1986 trilogy-ending "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home." Once again...
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Star Trek Short Audio Treks #2: In Vino Veritas
For our second shore leave during our Season Two "Is That a Trek in Your Pocket" mission, we make another quick stop at the Peter Pan Records-and-Books series for the second short audio adventure "In Vino Veritas." Once again penned by Alan Dean Foster, this short adventure has Captain Kirk in...
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Star Trek Pocket Novel #12: Killing Time (#24)
Hey, guess who's back - yep... it is the Romulans, once again. Continuing their heavy presence in our mix of "Is That a Trek in Your Pocket?" so far, this novel is brought to us by Della Van Hise, in her only Star Trek novel (though she had published under other titles) and yet blends fairly...
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Star Trek Pocket Novel #11: The IDIC Epidemic (#38)
We at CineMcCollough are off on another Pocket Trek adventure, this one from February of 1988 - "The IDIC Epidemic" by Jean Lorrah. We are off to a planet where countless races work side-by-side, including Humans and Klingons. Except something is terribly wrong - a new disease is taking down the...
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Star Trek Pocket Novels #10: Double, Double (#45)
Today's mission is a novel by one of Star Trek's most prolific novelists - Michael Jan Friedman, who has penned EIGHT TOS novels, and over 20 novels for other series (including an inexplicable TNG-X-Men crossover), all starting with this one, published April 1989. The one thing we have REALLY…
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Star Trek Pocket Novels #9: The Romulan Way (#35)
Having already delved quite deeply into Romulan stories so far in the Pocket Books mission (recall that all our selections are randomly chosen from the first 50 Pocket Books novels), we once again draw a Romulan mission, and once again one written by Diane Duane, our THIRD novel so far by that...
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Star Trek Pocket Novels #8: Deep Domain (#33)
From the frying pan into the ocean for this mission, as Enterprise is deployed to a diplomatic mission to Akkala - a world nearly entirely covered by oceans. Sent to help a struggling government protect itself from dissidents, our heroes uncover evidence that something might be rotten in Denmark,...
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Star Trek Pocket Novels #7: The Three-Minute Universe (#41)
Things are heating up in the galaxy in today's Pocket Books Star Trek novel, Barbara Paul's "The Three-Minute Universe" == her only Star Trek writing credit. It seems that there are inexplicable incursions of 'early universe' type space into regular space - you know, the kind just minutes after…
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Cinematic Star Trek #3: Star Trek III The Search For Spock
Looks like this is going to be an extended shore leave from the Pocket Books missions, as Rob and Butch take CineMcCollough to the middle of the franchise's movie trilogy - Star Trek III: The Search for Spock. Released in 1984, the third cinematic adventure in the Star Trek universe was a direct...
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Star Trek Short Audio Treks #1: Passage to Moauv
For our first bonus episode of Season 2, we take some shore leave from our Pocket Treks to make a quick side trip to an almost-forgotten corner of 1970s Star Trek... the Peter Pan Records book-and-record adventures. There were eleven such adventures produced between 1975 and 1979 that were…
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Star Trek Pocket Novels #6: Star Trek II The Wrath of Khan (#7)
Having just posted the movie review for Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan just a few days ago, today we roll and read and review the novelization of that movie, as written by Vonda N. McIntyre, who would go on to write the novelizations of Star Trek III (which will be on this list) and Star Trek IV...
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Star Trek Pocket Novels #4: The Klingon Gambit (#3)
This is the first Star Trek novel I ever remember seeing in a bookstore, way back in 1981 in a new and used bookstore in Traverse City, Michigan. I was totally hooked by the Klingon battlecruiser on the cover, but, alas, I didn't have any money of my own and my parents would not buy it for me...
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Star Trek Pocket Novel #3: My Enemy, My Ally (#18)
Happenstance has us reading the second of Diane Duane's four novels in the Pocket Books series in our first three dice-selected random choice - this time we are going full Romulan with her July 1984 novel "My Enemy, My Ally" -- a novel that finally, after almost zero signs of Romulans in the…
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Star Trek Pocket Novel #2: Corona (#15)
Stop two of fifty on our quest to determine Is That a Trek in Your Pocket? (as selected by the dice of destiny) was "Corona" by Greg Bear. A 'hard science' fiction writer, this is Bear's only Star Trek novel, though he published fairly prolifically through his career, even writing a novel within...
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Star Trek Pocket Novel #1: Doctor's Orders (#50)
Now that we have completed the Journey through Bantam's 13 novels (and one non-Bantam novel) it is time to move on to our wheelhouse... the Pocket Books Star Trek novels! Rob and Butch used to ride their 10-speeds to the local mall to buy the new novel that came out every few months (there was...
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Cinematic Star Trek #2: Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Our second bonus episode fits perfectly with the ending of the Bantam Books and the beginning of the Pocket Books novels, as we completed our episode recordings for Bantam Books in 2022, then recorded our 40th Anniversary review of the second cinematic Star Trek adventure. It goes without saying...
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Star Trek Bantam Novel #14: Death's Angel
One last mission on our Journey to Bantam before we bring the podcast into drydock for a refit to the Pocket Books novels - and it is our second and final book by Kathleen Sky, the April 1981 release entitled "Death's Angel." The obvious benefit of writing Star Trek stories as novels, rather than...
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Star Trek Bantam Novel #13: The Galactic Whirlpool
As we set sail for the penultimate mission on our Journey to Bantam, we come across a novel written by perhaps one of the best-known authors of early Star Trek. "The Galactic Whirlpool" was published in October of 1980, and was penned by David Gerrold, a relative unknown until he wrote the TOS...
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Star Trek Bantam Novel #12: Perry's Planet
Closing in on the end of our 14-novel Bantam Books mission, tonight's journey takes us to "Perry's Planet" - a novel written by the OTHER Haldeman, Joe's older brother Jack Haldemann II. Primarily a published author of short stories, this is the elder Haldemann's only published novel. Published…
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Star Trek Bantam Novel #11: Devil World
Next Bantam mission is to "Devil World," our second selection authored by Gordon Eklund, though not a sequel to his earlier work The Starless World. This volume was released in November 1979, just one month before the eagerly awaited release of Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Rob and Butch were...
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Star Trek Bantam Novel #10: The Fate of the Phoenix
Our next Bantam Books Star Trek novel is our first sequel novel, as the writing team of Sondra Marshak and Myrna Culbreth literally bring Omne back from the dead to once again challenge Kirk and Spock in their follow-up novel, "The Fate of the Phoenix," published in May of 1979. When last we...
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Star Trek Bantam Novel #9: World Without End
The ninth Bantam novel excursion will take us to yet another "world" in the title, and brings us the second of two novels by Joe Haldeman (the first having been Planet of Judgment) -- but don't fear, because while this is Joe's last Bantam novel, his older brother Jack Haldeman II will bringing…
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Star Trek Bantam Novel #8: Trek to Madworld
For our eighth Bantam mission, we get even more evidence about just how small and insulated the Star Trek novelist community was in the early years. "Trek to Madworld" was published January 1979, and is author Stephen Goldin's only Trek adventure for Bantam books, though years later he would…
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Cinematic Star Trek #1: Star Trek The Motion Picture
Just to spice things up a bit, for our first bonus episode we bring you our movie review and retrospective of what we collectively consider the most underappreciated of the Star Trek movies, the original - Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Released on December 7, 1979 (a release date it shared with...
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Star Trek Bantam Novel #7: The Starless World
For our seventh Bantam adventure, we join the Enterprise as it explores one of science fiction's most interesting concepts - one that on-screen Star Trek would eventually bring out during the run of Star Trek: The Next Generation, ironically in an episode featuring a TOS character. It also...
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Star Trek Bantam Novel #6: Vulcan!
If we here at CineMcCollough have learned one thing about the Bantam Books Star Trek novels so far, they really, really like their exclamation points in book titles. Published in September 1978, Kathleen Sky's first Trek novel continues the OTHER strong theme of Bantam Books Trek novels by…
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Star Trek Bantam Novel #5 - Mission to Horatius
OK - truth in advertising time. Today's Star Trek novel is NOT a "Bantam Books" novel per se - nor is it the fifth novel in the line of Star Trek novels in history... in that, today's book "Mission to Horatius" is, by most reckonings, the FIRST Star Trek novel, except that it is ostensibly a...
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Star Trek Bantam Novel #4 - Planet of Judgment
Published just a month after its predecessor novel, "Planet of Judgment" is the first of two novels within the Bantam series by established sci-fi writer Joe Haldeman, best known for his Forever War series for which he won both a Nebula and a Hugo award. As such, the Bantam publishers approached...
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Welcome to the CineMcCollough Podcast - specifically all things original Star Trek - episode reviews and rankings, movie reviews and rankings, and Star Trek novel reviews and rankings, compiled over the past six years as an ongoing project of fandom.
Lifelong Star Trek fans and Friends "Lord Rob" McCollough and Patrick "Butch" Brennan grew up in the 1980s with the original 1960s Star Trek. Having been born less than a year after Star Trek went off the air, they actually grew up on reruns of the original series, with an occasional theatrical movie ever few years, as well as the thing that REALLY bonded them, dozens of Star Trek novels that were released throughout the 1970s and 1980s and today.
When Rob and Butch decided to start a podcast, fortuitously in December 2019, right before the COVID pandemic, they had a few topics that seemed like obvious topics - Star Trek being the primary one (along with the films of Alfred Hitchcock, the sport of boxing, and mo
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