Author: James Van Hise
Publisher: Movie Publisher Services
ISBN: 9781556983184
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 164

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Author: Robert Greenberger
Publisher: Voyageur Press (MN)
ISBN: 0760343594
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 258

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This is the first book to combine an authoritative history of the Star Trek franchise—including all six television series and eleven feature films—with anecdotes about the show from those who helped shape it from the outside in: the fans. Star Trek expert Robert Greenberger covers everything from show creator Gene Roddenberry’s initial plans for a series combining science-fiction and Western elements, the premiere of the original series in 1966, its cancellation, the franchise’s return in an animated series, and its subsequent history on television and film, up to expectations for the 2013 J.J. Abrams film. Along the way, Greenberger analyzes Star Trek’s unique cultural impact and tremendous cult following, including the famous (and first ever) save-the-show mail campaign. But this isn't a sugarcoated history; this book chronicles the missteps as well as the achievements of Roddenberry and others behind the franchise. Approximately two dozen sidebars provide personal experiences of dedicated Trekkies who influenced or became a part of the franchise. Star Trek fandom is unparalleled in the effects it has had on the franchise itself. The book is illustrated with a large collection of photographs of memorabilia, many of which have never been seen before in print.

Author: Lance Parkin
Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA
ISBN: 1781314829
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 209

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A biographer goes in search of Gene Roddenberry, creator of the world’s most successful science fiction franchise. This book reveals how an undistinguished writer of cop shows set out to produce “Hornblower in space” —and ended up with Star Trek, an optimistic, almost utopian view of humanity’s future that has been watched and loved by hundreds of millions of people around the world. Along the way, Lance Parkin examines some of the great myths and turning points in the franchise’s history, and Roddenberry’s particular contribution to them. He looks at the view that the early Star Trek advanced a liberal, egalitarian, and multi-racial agenda; charts the various attempts to resuscitate the show during its wilderness years in the 1970s; explores Roddenberry’s initial early involvement in the movies and spin-off Star Trek: The Next Generation (as well as his later estrangement from both), and sheds light on the colorful personal life, self-mythologizing, and strange beliefs of a man who nonetheless gifted popular culture one if its most enduring narratives.

Author: Joel Engel
Publisher: Hyperion
ISBN: 9780786880881
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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A no-holds-barred look at the complex and driven visionary who created Star Trek gives a backstage portrait based on inside sources that reveals the whole man, alcoholic, self-promoting, womanizing, yet intensely creative.

Author: James Van Hise
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781511803731
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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"In this intimate and fascinating biography, James Van Hise reveals Roddenberry's career as never before: its triumphs, failures, resurrections and the pivotal decisions that preceded them. More importantly, it tells the story of the man behind the single biggest phenomenon in media history--and one of the 20th century's most universal myths"--Back cover

Author: David Alexander
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780451545183
Category : Star trek (Television program)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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This volume is an authorized biography of American television screenwriter, producer and futurist, Gene Roddenberry (1921-1991). He is best known for creating the original Star Trek television series and thus the Star Trek science fiction franchise. The author, drawing largely from Roddenberry's papers as well as the papers of and interviews with those close to him, he reveals Roddenberry's real-life inspiration for Mr. Spock, how his background influenced the show, and his relationships with the colorful cast of the TV show. He also traces Roddenberry's career in the Army Air Corps in WW II, as a Pan Am pilot and member of the Los Angeles Police Department, the author shows Roddenberry as a brave and adventurous man who proved to be hardworking and tenacious as well.

Author: Gene Roddenberry
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0671253247
Category : Interplanetary voyages
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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Author: Herbert F. Solow
Publisher: Pocket Books/Star Trek
ISBN: 9780671896287
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 458

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A history of the classic television series describes the 1964 collaboration of the authors and Gene Roddenberry and chronicles the personalities, production methods, and special effects that resulted in the show's phenomenal legacy

Author: Edward Gross
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250065844
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 577

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Volume one of a fifty year oral history of Star Trek by the people who were there, in their own words, sharing never-before-told stories.

Author: Alan Dean Foster
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1847399010
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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Few films have been so keenly awaited or the subject of so much internet debate as the twelfth Star Trek movie -- the first since 2002 -- which is scheduled to be released in May 2009. Directed by J.J. Abrams, creator of cutting-edge cult television shows Lostand Alias, the film is expected to launch the Star Trekfranchise into a new stellar era. Going back to the very beginnings of the classic Star Trek, the film tells how James T. Kirk, the half-Vulcan Spock, Dr McCoy, engineer Montgomery Scott and crew members Chekov, Sulu and Uhura first came together as rookie Starfleet recruits, and how they embraced the destiny that would later send them out across the galaxy accompanied by the immortal words: 'These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise…' A largely brand new cast including Chris Pine as Kirk, Zachary Quinto (Heroes) as Spock, Simon Pegg as Scotty, Karl Urban as McCoy alongside Eric Bana, Winona Ryder and Leonard Nimoy will bring Star Trekto a whole new audience, while at the same time Alan Dean Foster's novelization will enthrall both existing fans and a new generation of readers.