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Post by Falconer on Feb 11, 2010 16:32:01 GMT -5
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Post by coffee on Feb 11, 2010 18:20:22 GMT -5
I loved the Trouble with Tribbles; my copy got quite threadbare as I read it over and over again.
Much of it is about how Gerrold came to write the episode, but it does include some funny backstage stuff and of course the complete shooting script.
I highly recommend it.
The World of Star Trek was (to me anyway) sort of a companion to the Whitfield Making Of... book. Only Gerrold wrote this one after the series (possibly after TAS; I honestly don't recall). Gerrold takes his views of what Star Trek was and what it could be and puts them down on paper. Much of this was useful when he went on to help create TNG.
Although as I recall his description of Klingons was of the old TOS version, not the "noble savage" they became in the movies/TNG.
I recommend this one, too, but not quite as highly. (Although now I have to get them both and re-read them...)
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Post by rsaintjohn on Feb 11, 2010 20:53:41 GMT -5
I'm sure I read both in the mid-70s, but I know I read TwT over and over again. I just loved it. I even used to sit there with a tape recorder and read through the script doing the different voices on my own to recreate my own copy of the story. Hey, I was probably 8 and it was before the VCR!
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Post by finarvyn on Feb 12, 2010 10:16:58 GMT -5
The World of Star Trek was (to me anyway) sort of a companion to the Whitfield Making Of... book. Only Gerrold wrote this one after the series (possibly after TAS; I honestly don't recall). Gerrold takes his views of what Star Trek was and what it could be and puts them down on paper. Much of this was useful when he went on to help create TNG. I liked the Whitfield book a lot better because it had a more global sense of what was going on behind the scenes. Gerrold's books were okay, but not as cool as Whitfield's.
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Post by coffee on Feb 12, 2010 13:10:45 GMT -5
I liked the Whitfield book a lot better because it had a more global sense of what was going on behind the scenes. Gerrold's books were okay, but not as cool as Whitfield's. I completely agree. The one advantage Gerrold's book had was that it was entirely after the fact, so it could look back on the entire series. (Whereas Whitfield's was written between the second and third season.)
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Post by blackbat242 on Feb 15, 2010 1:17:19 GMT -5
I've got both (had them since the mid-70s)... they are cool, but I've had difficulty with all of the other of DG's works I tried to read.
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