{"id":53158,"date":"2026-09-29T18:44:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T01:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=53158"},"modified":"2026-10-02T18:44:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T01:44:22","slug":"star-trek-iv-the-voyage-home-the-making-of-the-classic-film-by-john-and-maria-jose-tenuto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2026\/09\/29\/star-trek-iv-the-voyage-home-the-making-of-the-classic-film-by-john-and-maria-jose-tenuto\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home: The Making of the Classic Film by John and Maria Jose Tenuto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Book 43 of 2026: <a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/books\/f024dd26-5c19-472d-9975-27344b0f7788\"><cite>Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home: The Making of the Classic Film<\/cite><\/a> by John and Maria Jose Tenuto.<\/p>\n<p>\u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f: Another good entry in the Tenutos&#8217; series of &#8220;making of&#8221; books for the Star Trek films, now covering the &#8220;Genesis trilogy&#8221; of films II-IV. The same coffee table book style, with lots of photos and interviews throughout. This one features an introduction by Kirk Thatcher (the punk on the bus), and I particularly appreciated the chapter looking at matte paintings and the artists behind them. Books like this always make me a little sad that today&#8217;s computer effects mean that so much of this physical artistry has gone by the wayside.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_7265.jpeg\" alt=\"Me holding Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home: The Making of the Classic Film\" title=\"IMG_7265.jpeg\" border=\"0\" width=\"749\" height=\"562\" \/><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n<p><span hidden class=\"__iawmlf-post-loop-links\" data-iawmlf-links=\"[{&quot;id&quot;:17593,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/app.thestorygraph.com\\\/books\\\/f024dd26-5c19-472d-9975-27344b0f7788&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book 43 of 2026: \u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f: Another good entry in the Tenutos&#8217; series of &#8216;making of&#8217; books for the Star Trek films, now covering the &#8216;Genesis trilogy&#8217; of films II-IV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2036,2049,2047],"tags":[5793,5794,4097],"class_list":["post-53158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-photos","category-star-trek","tag-john-tenuto","tag-maria-jose-tenuto","tag-star-trek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53159,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53158\/revisions\/53159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}