Book Log 2017 #33: The Fifty-Year Mission: The Complete, Uncensored, Unauthorized Oral History of Star Trek - The First 25 Years by Edward Gross and Mark A. Altman
There are two things I remember about reading this book:
1. It seems like the people behind Star Trek spent as much time trying to work around Gene Rodenberry as they did working with him.
2. People generally didn't like Gene Rodenberry.
I suppose these could be combined into one thing, but it did strike me while reading this exhaustive (and occasionally exhausting) oral history that the success and longevity of Star Trek may be attributed to how much its creator could be kept away from it.
There are a ton of additional details about the original series and its eventual transfer to film, which will entertain even the novice Trekkie.
09 December 2017
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