Forty-seven years after NBC killed it off,Star Trek celebrates its half-century in a state of rude health. Boldly going where several other people have been before,Marcus Berkmann tells the story of this sturdy science fiction vehicle from its first five-year mission (rudely curtailed to three),through the dark years of the 1970s,the triumphant film series and The Next Generation,to the current'reboot'films,with a younger cast taking on the characters of Kirk,Spock,McCoy and co.With wit,insight and a huge pile of DVDs,he seeks to answer all the important questions. Why did Kirk's shirt always get torn when he had a fist fight What's the most number of times Uhura said'Hailing frequencies open,sir'in a single episode (Seven.) And what's the worst imaginable insult in Klingon (Your mother has a smooth forehead.)
Publisher: Little,Brown Book GroupISBN: 9780349141152Number of pages: 320Weight: 255 gDimensions: 195 x 131 x 21 mm
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For gossip and backstage inttrigue,the history and the myth,turn to Markus Berkmann's Set Phasers to Stun,a lively and witty historyMarcus Berkmann extracts buckets of fun in this witty mixture of anecdote and episode guide...Berkmann's triumph is the way he evokes that time and sends the reader hurrying to watch the show again
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