Star Trek: The Motion Picture was the first Star Trek movie, released in 1979. As well as the novelization there was a comic adaptation. It is the only Star trek novel directly credited to Gene Roddenberry. It was the first of hundreds of Star Trek releases by Pocket Books, although it was actually published while the license still belonged to Bantam Books; as a result, the next Pocket Books release did not occur until 1981, after the final Bantam publications.