Title: The Making of Star Trek
Authors: Stephen E. Whitfield & Gene Roddenberry
Cover artist: photos
Yours for: [SOLD! 12-5-10]
Best things about this cover:
- If I were a Star Trek fan, I would be geeking out so hard over this very cool paperback original
- That Enterprise is absurdly model-kit-looking in this photo. Maybe that's the point? "How it works!—we make cheap-ass models and use trick photography, suckers."
- Further, "How it works"? I like how it implies that the tech is real.
- Those are two handsome spacemen.
Best things about this back cover:
- A "biography" of a TV show! Printed while said show was still on the air. Pretty visionary / ballsy.
- Seriously, this back cover isn't lying. This book is Thick and chock full of photos, internal memos, a miniature episode guide, and a chapter entitled "Whither Star Trek?"! Oh, and whoever owned this book originally was a megageek, as there are tiny clipped-out TV Guide epsiode summaries taped and/or paperclipped into the episode guide section. Also, this section is annotated in some kind of code.
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When the first screening was over, the general reaction from the people in the room was, "This is the most fantastic thing we've ever seen."
~RP
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