These Are The Voyages: TOS, Season Two

These Are The Voyages: TOS, Season Two

Front Cover
Author Marc Cushman
Country United States
Language English
Subject Star Trek
Published 2014 (Jacobs Brown Press)
Pages 688
ISBN 978-0-9892-3814-4

These Are The Voyages: TOS, Season Two is a non-fiction reference book by Marc Cushman with Susan Osborn and with foreword by Walter Koenig (who played Pavel Chekov)[1] about the second season of Star Trek. The information revealed inside primarily comes from production documents that were donated by Gene Roddenberry and Robert H. Justman to the UCLA Film and Television Archive.[2]

Contents

Originally, These Are The Voyages was to be published as one book, but with over 2,000 pages of material, it was decided to break it into three books, one book for each season. As in the first book, this second book documents hundreds of previously unpublished insights, including recollections from actors, directors, producers, and production crew.[3] The book collects original staff memos (including memos dictated by Roddenberry while reading drafts to the series scripts), contracts, schedules, budgets, network correspondence, and the censor reports from NBC. Also included in this second book are excerpts of fan mail and many other indications that Star Trek had become a huge success despite the series uncertain future. There are also details of Bjo Trimble's letter writing campaign to save Star Trek from cancellation, and the tens of thousands letters that arrived at NBC as a result. The entire trilogy also contains hundreds of rare, behind-the-scenes photos from the filming of the episodes; that are displayed in black and white format on the pages and were restored and contributed to the effort by Gerald Gurian, who served on the Jacobs Brown Press project team for the book series.

History

In 1982, Marc Cushman interviewed Gene Roddenberry for a TV special about Star Trek. Later in 1989, he pitched the story for the episode "Sarek", for Star Trek: The Next Generation. Roddenberry gave Cushman all the scripts from the original series and showed him the immense amount of documents he had saved. He invited Cushman to take his previous research for the TV special, expand on it by utilizing the UCLA Archives, and turn it into a book. Cushman was too busy with his own career as a screenwriter and director to begin work on the book until after Roddenberry had died, but during those years, he continued to collect interviews from the creative staff (Bob Justman, D.C. Fontana, John D.F. Black), members of the production crew, the cast, and guest players. In 2007, he began writing the book.

Reception

At the 40th Saturn Awards, Cushman received a Special Recognition Award for his work on the book series.[4] Chris Gardner of Stuff.co.nz rated it 4/5 stars and called it "a compelling read for the Star Trek aficionado as well as anyone interested in television history."[5] Wesley Britton of Blogcritics quoted Rod Roddenberry's statement that "these are the new essential Star Trek reference books."[6]

References

  1. ↑ Mantz, Scott (2014-06-26). "Part 1 of 5 - Interview featuring Marc Cushman and Walter Koenig.". Access Hollywood. Retrieved 2014-07-17.
  2. ↑ Mantz, Scott (2014-06-26). "Part 1 of 5 - Interview featuring Marc Cushman and John D.F. Black.". Access Hollywood. Retrieved 2014-07-17.
  3. ↑ Mantz, Scott (2014-06-26). "Part 2 of 5 - Interview featuring Marc Cushman and Walter Koenig.". Access Hollywood. Retrieved 2014-07-17.
  4. ↑ Hennon, Blake (2014-06-27). "Saturn Awards: 'Gravity,' 'Iron Man 3,' 'Her,' 'Walking Dead' win big". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2014-07-01.
  5. ↑ Gardner, Chris (2014-04-10). "Book review: These Are the Voyages 1". Stuff.co.nz. Retrieved 2014-07-01.
  6. ↑ Britton, Wesley (2013-08-28). "Book Review: 'These Are the Voyages: The Original Series, Season One' by Marc Cushman and Susan Osborn". Blogcritics. Retrieved 2014-07-01 – via Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
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