Boarding The Enterprise - Edited By: David Gerrold and Robert J. Sawyer

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215 Pages
August 2006
BenBella Books Inc.
Paperback

ISBN: 1-932100-87-3

BOARDING THE ENTERPRISE
Transporters, Tribbles and the Vulcan Death Grip in Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek

Edited By: David Gerrold and Robert J. Sawyer

It's hard to imagine what our lives would be like had the Enterprise never boldly gone
where no man and no television show had gone before. Forty years after Star Trek:
The Original Series premiered, the show still looms large in our cultural imagination,
shaping our image of the television past and our view of the real-world future.

Here, Star Trek writers and the generation of writers and scientists they inspired
remember the show and its influence our our society and our lives with a mix of
nostalgia, humor, analysis and delight.

INSIDE:

Communications and media theorist Paul Levinson shows how the unprecedented success of the "seventy-nine jewels" in syndication changed the way we look at television forever.

Star Trek writer D.C. Fontana remembers Gene Roddenberry, and her days on the set and behind the scenes.

Science fiction novelist Allen Steele praises the series' writers, and the strong science fiction tradition that made Star Trek so great.

Cultural theorist Eric Greene details the show's complex dialogue with the Vietnam War, highlighting the show's evolving stances on interventionist politics and the relevance of American cultural myths.

Science fiction novelist Don DeBrandt contends that the famously logical Spock isn't quite as rational as Star Trek's writers would have you believe.

Scientist Robert Metzger proves that his ability to lie makes Scotty the most valuable member of the Enterprise crew.

Fanfiction author Mesissa Dickinson explains why we still feel compelled to write our own stories about Kirk, Spock and the rest of the Enterprise crew almost forty years after the original series ended.

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