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A Brief Guide to Star Trek

A Brief Guide to Star Trek

Titel: A Brief Guide to Star Trek
Autoren: Brian J Robb
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other things, slash fiction). The fans themselves became
Star Trek
storytellers, bringing their short stories to each other through communities spawned on the internet and in the making of officially tolerated not-for-profit fan video films, such as the
New Voyages
/
Phase II
fan-made movie series.
    All of this began with the vision of one man: Gene Roddenberry. His basic ideas were taken by others, shaped and reshaped, stories told and retold. Actively involved audiences took it upon themselves to create their own versions of
Star Trek
, keeping the concept alive during the ten-year gap between the end of
The Original Series
and the arrival of the much-compromised
The Motion Picture
.
Star Trek
endured for the simple reason that Gene Roddenberry’s creation allowed all those involved to tell great, relatable stories.
Note on Titles Usage
    In this volume I’ve adopted the official Paramount/CBS designations for each of the
Star Trek
TV series and movies. Each TV show or film is usually prefaced with the label ‘
Star Trek
:’, but I’ve sometimes dropped that in the interests of providing a smoother read. Below, ‘TV’ indicates a television series, while ‘F’ indicates a cinema release. The series and films will be referred to using the following notation (in strict chronological order):

    The Original Series
(TV, 1966–9)
    The Animated Series
(TV, 1973–4)
    The Motion Picture
(F, 1979)
    The Wrath of Khan
(F, 1982)
    The Search for Spock
(F, 1984)
    The Voyage Home
(F, 1986)
    The Final Frontier
(F, 1989)
    The Undiscovered Country
(F, 1991)
    The Next Generation
(TV, 1987–94)
    Deep Space Nine
(TV, 1993–9)
    Generations
(F, 1994)
    Voyager
(TV, 1995–2001)
    First Contact
(F, 1996)
    Insurrection
(F, 1999)
    Enterprise
(TV, 2001–5)
    Nemesis
(F, 2002)
    Star Trek
(F, 2009)
    Star Trek sequel
(F, 2012)

Chapter 1

Evolution:
Star Trek
Creator
Gene Roddenberry


If you are cursed with a somewhat logical mind, you ask questions. I have many thoughts which, if I were to voice them, would turn many people against me
.’ Gene Roddenberry

    Science fiction has a long and proud history across all media, but it has perhaps had the most impact and success with mainstream audiences through the visual media of film and television.
    Ancient literature is rife with tales of the fantastic, often used by developing cultures as ways of exploring and explaining the wider world they were beginning to discover beyond their immediate environment. Modern science fiction can generally be dated to the early-nineteenth-century works of Mary Shelley with
Frankenstein
and
The Last Man
, followed by the speculative novels of Jules Verne, such as
From the Earth to the Moon
. A series of turn-of-the-century novels by H. G. Wells developed many of the basic tropes of modern science fiction, primarily in
The Time Machine
,
The Invisible Man
and
The War of the Worlds
. Wells’ work can even be seen directly in a
Star Trek
episode, with his 1901 short story
The New Accelerator
a clear inspiration for
The Original Series
episode ‘Wink of an Eye’, in which Kirk is physically speeded up so much he vanishes relative to those around him.
    The ‘scientific romances’ of the late nineteenth century led to the science fiction magazine boom of the early twentieth century,with the genre becoming codified and popularised. Printed on cheap wood-pulp paper (leading to the usually derogative ‘pulps’ tag), these popular magazines featured fast-paced, adventure-driven tales and prospered from the mid-1890s (with Frank Munsey’s
Argosy Magazine
) through to the mid-1950s, when cheap paperback novels largely replaced them. Titles such as editor Hugo Gernsback’s
Amazing Stories
(from 1926 onwards) and John W. Campbell’s
Astounding Science Fiction
(from 1929, later
Analog Magazine
) gave an outlet to the first wave of professional science fiction authors in the 1930s and 1940s. Emerging in this period were writers such as Isaac Asimov, Damon Knight, Fred Pohl, James Blish, E. E. ‘Doc’ Smith, Robert Heinlein, Arthur C. Clarke and A. E. van Vogt (and several of these ‘first wave’ science fiction storytellers would later have
Star Trek
connections).
    The science fiction novel developed in the 1950s and 1960s and brought new, longer-form writers to the genre, including epic and influential works by Frank Herbert (
Dune
), Harlan Ellison (known for his short stories and essays) and Philip K. Dick (a major influence on film and television
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