read star trek a brief guide by Brian J Robb as an avid 40 year trekkie believed this book would tell me little did not already know despite most of my reading being technical manuals and star fleet chronologies
useful read ( but as expected you can find the same info on wikis and fan sites ) spending equal time on all the franchise from early roddenberry pilots to next generation and the other ones all the way to a good chapter on unfilmed episodes and plot ideas with less on the usual actor memoirs and studio politics
lot of interesting info ie from early next generation casting of Roy (The Invaders) Thinnes as Picard , pre movie star Wesley snipes as Riker and Jenny Agutter as Dr Crusher - useful to wonder what first contact woud have been like with Tom Hanks in the role of zefrem cochrane and that first contact was originally to be called Star trek Renaissance with Picard and leonardo da vinci taking out the Borg
some excellent detail on what we did not see ie a 1970s planet of the Titans (Star trek play on chariots of gods) Star Trek phase II new series of 1978 and the planned next generation movies "Star trek Prime Directive " and "Star trek Stardust"
good chapters only went to prove that Deep space Nine started well with good plotlines tacking colonialism and gender stereotype but ended up in dominion war Ray gun battles, that Voyager honestly did make it up as it went along and that Star trek Enterprise has some good story arcs such as temporal cold war and founding of the federation but gave up on these early in the shows run ended up replaying old 1960s ideas but at least that failure saved us from other series ideas such star trek academy(cadets lost in space) and star trek federation( the 30th century federation treking in andromeda galaxy )
the book only went to prove that as I know from experience it is truly possible to draft the story board for a complete two season star trek series on one side of A4 on a wet sunday afternoon yes I am looking at you Star Trek Glory ( the aftermath of a Galaxy wide Borg Dominion war ) and Star Trek Resistance ( an alternative history where Earth lost the pre federation Earth-Romulan war)
Despite mention in the book of Star trek 2012 (Star Trek Evolution? ) still waiting for this to be released it is now Star Trek 2013 latest rumour that Benedict Cumberbach is playing either Khan wrathing again or the lesser known TOS character Captain Garth or an English accent villain with PSI powers "Montagu Fanshaw- Cholmondeley" and it will be bigger and character led rather than bringing in Klingons this time instead of Romulans but that is what they said about DS9 and voyager
the best art you have never seen 101 hidden treasures from around the world by julian spalding picture book guide on treasures in private collections , artists homes or in museum basements from parts of buddhas to painted over religious art from art hidden by hate to art hidden by concepts useful links at end to ever present websites and museums world wide
the projection of britain a history of the GPO film unit a dry academic work a series of articles that given the small subject matter often tell the same story twice but does its best to make films about phones and mail boxes interesting as did the original film makers on what is best understood by watching the films on you tube check out len lye and night mail two examples of the best
a brief history of the grail giles morgan a compact detailed book with less emphasis on new age glastonbury and arthurian victoriana as usual in this subject covering without comment all the pre celtic legends to grail myths of dan brown and the quest films of george lucas and peter jackson
now the jubilee is over all we have is the twiiter comments of a n even more regal person Fearne cotton veteran kiddie TV and trending pop show presenter taking offence at every criticism of peoples opinion her poor TV presenting at the jubilee Events
you could tell all the tweets replying to complaints were from Fearne Cotton as each was probably prefaced with "Do You Know Who I am! "
or I just judging
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