These Are The Voyages, TOS, Season One Author: Marc Cushman | Language: English | ISBN:
B00H2RPG8U | Format: EPUB
These Are The Voyages, TOS, Season One Description
In the 1980s Gene Roddenberry and Robert H. Justman gave Marc Cushman permission to write the definitive history of the first Star Trek. They backed their stamp of approval by providing documentation never before shared with the public. These are the Voyages, published in three volumes - one designated for each season of TOS - will take you back in time and put you into the producers' offices, the writers' room, onto the soundstages, and in front of your TV sets for the first historic broadcasts. Included are hundreds of memos between Roddenberry and his staff, production schedules, budgets, fan letters, behind-the-scenes images, and the TV ratings, documenting the making of each episode of the "Classic 79" in staggering detail. Buckle your seat belts, the trek of a lifetime begins here.
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OMG, this is amazing. It's like Stephen E. Whitfield's classic THE MAKING OF STAR TREK on steroids. The level of detail is astonishing. The book covers the conceiving and making of the first two pilot and all the episodes of the first season, quoting hundreds of memos from Gene Roddenberry, Robert Justman, John D.F. Black, and others, and providing a wealth of information that I've never seen anywhere before.
As just one example of the fascinating level of detail: Robert Bloch's script for "What Are Little Girls Made of?" had to be rewritten because Bloch had heavily relied on three of his own older short stories in creating the script -- a fact not disclosed to the STAR TREK producers, but discovered by their outside research firm. No real problem, right? Except Bloch didn't own the copyright to those stories; the magazine they were published in did. There was also concern that the episode infringed on an earlier "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" episode, and so the twist ending -- that Korby was an android, too -- was added, and not by Bloch.
The book is illustrated with lots of small (although sharp) photographs, many of which are "trims" -- unaired beginnings and endings of scenes, or otherwise unused footage, often taken from old Lincoln Enterprise film clips; others are behind-the-scene photos or publicity shots from other series of guest actors.
I co-edited (with David Gerrold) a book about STAR TREK myself (
Boarding the Enterprise: Transporters, Tribbles, And the Vulcan Death Grip in Gene Rodenberry's Star Trek (Smart Pop series) and I've read every previous making-of TREK book. I say again: none come close to this level of detail.
The book itself is a large-format, handsome, well-produced, print-on-demand edition, fully professional -- and worth every penny. Five stars.
Over the last 5 decades, there have been a LOT of books written about the making of the original STAR TREK. As a lifelong Trekker, I've read them ALL, but Marc Cushman's THESE ARE THE VOYAGES is the very best of them, by far. The research, background, attention to detail and (most importantly) the breakdown of the making of each individual episode all make this book a landmark achievement and an essential read for both Star Trek fans and anyone with even a passing interest of what it's like to produce a weekly television series (especially a groundbreaking TV series like Star Trek).
Revised, expanded and corrected from the August 2013 edition, this new release is indeed the FINAL word about the making of Star Trek -- or at least, the FIRST SEASON of Star Trek (separate books about Seasons 2 and 3 will be released as the year rolls on, and I can't wait to get my hot little hands on them).
I read some gripes that the revised edition came out so soon after the first edition, but trust me when I say that THIS is the one you want, even if you already have the first edition. All the typos have been corrected, there are a LOT more never-before-seen photos, and this new version has all new interviews with cast and crew members not in the first version, including LEONARD NIMOY -- and that alone makes this revision worth the price of admission.
A must-read in every sense of the word. Entertaining, informative, revealing and -- dare I say it? -- FASCINATING!
By scott
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