Inside Star Trek: The Real Story

Summary

 * From the book jacket


 * Before the actors were cast, before the U.S.S. Enterprise&trade; was designed, before the phenomenon exploded, there were three men who set about creating the Star Trek legend. Gene Roddenberry died in . Herb Solow and Bob Justman now remain the only two people on the planet Earth who really know what happened in those early, heady days.


 * INSIDE STAR TREK is a comprehensive look at the development and life of a television and cultural phenomenon. It is also the story no one else could tell. Between them, Solow and Justman had a hand in virtually every aspect of the development and production of Star Trek – from the battles with NBC and the internal conflicts with studio executives to the behind-the-scenes decisions about actors and their characters, writers, scripts, directors, budgets, and the endless details of weekly television production.


 * Together, the two men debunk many of the myths that have developed around Star Trek in the last thirty years. At last, here is the fascinating and accurate account of a unique television series launched against astronomical odds – a television series that transported millions of viewers into another world and into an unprecedented, thirty-year, multimedia, multibillion-dollar cultural phenomenon.

Background information

 * The audiobook version was abridged by George Truett.
 * A film version of the book was released in Japan in 1999 as an English language laserdisc.