The Unauthorized Trekkers’ Guide to the Next Generation and Deep Space Nine
Your complete guide to STAR TREK’s most popular progeny – both spectacular series guidebooks complete in one volume!Originally published in 1997, this edition covers all seven seasons of The Next Generation and seasons one and two of Deep Space Nine.• Episodes detailed – plot setting, action, writers, directors, stars and special guests• Biographies of all major characters• Exclusive profiles of actors and actresses• Alien spacecraft and planet reports• Wormhole and Warp-speed travel tips• Starfleet ship descriptions• Trek-by-Trek series comparisons• Villains you have known and loved• The starship Enterprise connection• Behind-the-scenes beginnings and first steps• Special effects and make-up geniuses
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Voyager
THE UNAUTHORIZED
TREKKERS’GUIDE TO
THE NEXT
GENERATION
AND
DEEP SPACE
NINE
BY JAMES VAN HISE
Star Trek, Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek Deep Space Nine are registered trademarks of Paramount Pictures Corporation. This book was not prepared, approved, licensed or endorsed by any entity involved in creating or producing the Star Trek television series or films.
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HOW ENTERTAINMENT BECOMES LEGEND
The phenomenal success of Star Trek inspired two spectacular spin-offs, both of which have gone on to join the ranks of the most-watched television shows of all time.
This unauthorized guidebook, two complete volumes in one, examines both of these shows in fascinating detail – the characters and the creators, the episodes behind the episodes, the actors, the make-up artists, the special-effect geniuses and the voyages that landed on the cutting room floor.
This complete guidebook to The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine is more than just a reference book. It is a behind-the-scenes look at how a success story continues.
Author James Van Hise, considered by many to be the world’s leading Star Trek expert, is also known for his work as editor of Midnight Graffiti magazine, where he brought to public attention such authors as Stephen King and Harlan Ellison.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER 1: ENTER THE NEXT GENERATION
CHAPTER 2: CHARACTERS AND CAST
CHAPTER 3: THE NEXT GENERATION OVERVIEW
INTRODUCTION: THE THIRD GENERATION
Behind the Scenes: The Creation
Laying the Groundwork—From The Next Generation to Deep Space Nine
Special Corner of the Galaxy: The Realm of Deep Space Nine
CHAPTER 2: CHARACTERS AND CAST
Chief of Operations Miles O’Brien
The Next Generation: Episode Guide Seasons 1-7
“Like Spain’s Francisco Franco, Star Trek has been fatally dead for a long time. Now and then the mortuary shoots an electric current through the corpse, and the resultant spasm releases yet another manual or quiz or convention or novel or book of fan fiction or whathaveyou, but after nearly a decade there’s little life left in the old cadaver.”
—Gil Lamont & James K. Burk DeLap’s F & SF Review (March/April 1978)
This quote reflects the reception science fiction fandom gave Star Trek fans in the mid to late seventies. They looked down on Star Trek, and chose to dismiss it. These intemperate remarks ignored growing popular interests as fan interest attained a life greater than the TV image that inspired it.
This touched common chords in many individuals. Some went through life quietly enamored with the series, unaware they shared a common bond with countless strangers until they found a Star Trek fanzine or walked into a convention.
Before Star Trek’s fitful return to the screen in the 1979 Star Trek: The Motion Picture, a backlash of anti-Star Trek sentiment raged. It began with the attitude that “those people” were “invading” otherwise sedate science fiction and comic book conventions.
I wonder how many times those critics have watched the new incarnations of
