Introduction
1Shatner and Kreski, Movie Memories, p394
2“In Step With … William Shatner”, Parade, June 2008
3Hilmes (ed.), NBC: America’s Network, p219
4The pilot episode was made under the title “The Menagerie.” Halfway through the first season of Star Trek, much of the footage of the pilot was used in a two-part flashback episode, also called “The Menagerie.” The pilot’s title was retroactively changed to “The Cage” to avoid confusion with these episodes.
1 Earning his Stripes
1Alexander, Creator, p55
2Alexander, Creator, p60
3Alexander, Creator, pp77–8
4http://www.check-six.com/Crash_Sites/ClipperEclipse-NC88845.htm
5Alexander, Creator, p92
6https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Patrol_(1950_TV_series)
7Fern, Conversation, p33: “At one time it was considered that my natural future was to become chief of police.”
8Alexander, Creator, p136
9Alexander, Creator, pp186–7
10Engel, Myth, p24
11Engel, Myth, p22
12Van Hise, Roddenberry, p33
13Cushman, Voyages 1, p20
14Quoted in Cushman, Voyages 1, p19
15Shatner, Captain’s Log, pp27–8
16Roddenberry and Whitfield, Making, pp21–2
17Engel, Myth, p28. Felton: “it was this story that lost us the cooperation of the Pentagon.”
18Van Hise, Roddenberry, p33
19Van Hise, Roddenberry, p33
20Alexander, Creator, p187
21Koenig, Warped, p147
2 Show Me Some More of this Earth Thing Called Kissing
1Roddenberry and Whitfield, Making, p360
2Roddenberry and Whitfield, Making, p360
3Trimble, Enterprise, p16
4“Vadim’s Pretty Maids,” Playboy, April 1971, p214
5Whitney, Longest, p77
6Whitney, Longest, p133
7Inside Star Trek (LP)
8Sackett, Letters, pp160–1
9Shatner, Leonard, p66
10http://www.startrek.com/article/grace-lee-whitney-on-trek-life-part-i
11Cushman, Voyages 1, p308
12Shatner, Memories, p209
13Whitney, Longest Trek, p102
14Whitney, Longest Trek, p14
15Whitney, Longest Trek, p15
16Whitney, Longest Trek, p73
17Whitney, Longest Trek, p1
18Whitney, Longest Trek, p9
19Cushman, Voyages 1, p308
20Shatner, Memories, p210
21www.startrek.com/article/grace-lee-whitney-on-trek-life-2
22There’s been a degree of skepticism from some fans about this anecdote, which seems far too good to be true. http://spinoff.comicbookresources.com/2013/03/20/tv-legends-revealed-mlk-kept-nichols-from-quitting-star-trek/ allays those suspicions by pinning down exactly which event Nichols would have attended.
23Solow and Justman, Inside Star Trek, p75
24Whitney, Longest Trek, p73
25Sackett, Inside Trek, p84
26Roddenberry and Whitfield, Making, p360
27Cushman, Voyages 2, p171
28Alexander, Creator, p114
29Solow and Justman, Inside Star Trek, p75
30Shatner, Memories, p14
31Nichols, Beyond Uhura, p132
32Nichols, Beyond Uhura, p129
33Nichols, Beyond Uhura, p126
34Fern, Last Conversation, p91
35Fern, Last Conversation, p101
36Sackett, Inside Trek, p18
37Sackett, Inside Trek, p143
38Sackett, Inside Trek, p67
39Sackett, Inside Trek, p68
40Roddenberry, Motion Picture, p32
41Cinefantastique, vol. 23, #2/3, pp60–1
42The story was reworked into The Way to Eden, which had the same plot but without any reference to McCoy’s daughter.
43Fern, Last Conversation, pp100–1
44Roddenberry, Motion Picture, p22
45Roddenberry, Motion Picture, p32
46Roddenberry, Motion Picture, p5
47Sackett, Inside Trek, p216
48Fern, Last Conversation, p99
3 Created By . . .
1Roddenberry, Motion Picture, first US edition (1979)
2Fern, Last Conversation, dustjacket copy
3http://peteranthonyholder.com/cjad26.htm. Star Trek can be a small world—Solow would marry Yvonne Fern, author of The Last Conversation, in the early nineties, and they were interviewed together here.
4Fern, Last Conversation, p50
5Meyer, Bridge, p215
6Solow and Justman, Inside Star Trek, p136
7Solow and Justman, Inside Star Trek, p136
8Gerrold, World, p165 quotes Bjo Trimble as saying, “We made up a mailing list from the fan mail and the letter writing campaign and that was the list we used when we sent out the first catalogs.”
9Solow and Justman, Inside Star Trek, p401
10Court, pp7–8
11Thomas Vinciguerra, “There Are No Small Parts, Only Long Memories,”New York Times, October 8, 2006. As the article notes, Winston had recently begun to attend events, and did make an appearance in a fan film.
12Shatner, Leonard, pp140–1
13Shatner, Get a Life, p9. Bjo Trimble sounds a note of caution, saying (Enterprise, p18) this went to some guests’ heads: “Fan clubs sprang up like dandelions around each of the actors, glorifying them to such a degree that a few of them got rather overblown ideas of their own importance, thereby perpetuating the Star Trek hero worship that was starting to grow.”
14http://peteranthonyholder.com/cjad26.htm
15Shatner, Memories, p156
16Gerrold, World, p208
17For various reasons the episodes weren’t always shown in the order they were shot. This was often simply because it took longer to complete episodes with a lot of special effects. The first to be filmed, “The Corbomite Maneuver,” was the eighth to be shown, because the script called for a number of complex model shots.
18Some reports have slight variations on these numbers (it’s often cited that Norway has 30 percent and Shatner 15 percent, for example) and some deals were renegotiated over the years.
19http://peteranthonyholder.com/cjad26.htm
20You may remember it as the episode that establishes that Vulcans only mate every seven years, but you’d be wrong. “Amok Time” doesn’t specify “seven years.” That detail of Mr. Spock’s sex life was first revealed in Roddenberry and Whitfield’s The Making of Star Trek (p227), published a year later, but being written while the second season was in production. It took the information from a line in the draft script for “Amok Time” that was edited out. Droxine knows Vulcans only mate every seven years in the third-season episode “The Cloud Minders,” but only because writer Margaret Armen gleaned the information from The Making of Star Trek.
21Inside Star Trek LP
22The day of the handover, the Star Trek production team were recording the episode “Mirror, Mirror,” the one with the parallel universe of evil twins and Mr. Spock with a beard.
23Solow and Justman, Inside Star Trek, p349
24“How Much Money Has Star Trek Franchise Made?”, All Things Considered, NPR, May 15, 2009. In Hilmes, (p218), Solow asks “Who knew the property would gross near $3bn?”
25Trimble, Enterprise, p25. One oddity is that Trimble says “When we got home, I wrote up a preliminary contact letter” and the book reprints “an exact copy of that letter.” The letter is dated December 1, 1967. “The Deadly Years” was recorded at the beginning of August, and was broadcast December 8. Get A Life! (pp42–3) restates that it was “The Deadly Years.”
26http://peteranthonyholder.com/cjad26.htm
27Gerrold, World, p167. Gerrold might, of course, be referring to a different issue of TV Guide.
28“Star Trekkers Are Restored,” Hartford Courant, March 17, 1968
29Hilmes, NBC, p218
30Trimble, Enterprise, p36
31http://www.startrek.com/article/bjo-trimble-the-woman-who-saved-star-trek-part-1: “So we called Gene Roddenberry to see if he was OK with this idea.”
32http://www.startrek.com/article/bjo-trimble-the-woman-who-saved-star-trek-part-1#sthash.mNE7PZ56.dpuf
33Trimble, Enterprise, p35
34Trimble, Enterprise, p28
35Gerrold, World, p263
36Trimble, Enterprise, p36
37http://www.gmsr.com/writing/Roddenberry%20v%20Roddenberry%20AOB.pdf. $1,000 in 1969 would be worth about $6,700 today, $1,000 in 1972 about $5,700.
4 Syndication as Vindication
1Hilmes, NBC, p212
2Cushman, Voyages 1, p614
3Appellants’ Opening Brief, Roddenberry v Roddenberry (1996—Court of Appeal, State of California, 2nd Civil No. B074848), pp4–5
4http://www.tvobscurities.com/2008/12/star-trek-syndication-advertisements-circa-1969-1970/
5http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=9y9JAAAAIBAJ&sjid=KYQMAAA AIBAJ&dq=star-trek%20convention%20new-york&pg=861%2C5406685
6Gerrold, World, p187
7Shatner, Memories, p297
8Appellants’ Opening Brief, Roddenberry v Roddenberry (1996—Court of Appeal, State of California, 2nd Civil No. B074848), pp4–5
9http://startrekfactcheck.blogspot.com/2014/07/the-truth-about-star-trek-and-ratings.html
10Shatner, Captain’s Log, p28
11Shatner, Captain’s Log, pp41–2. Calculating exactly how many people watched Star Trek the first time around, and hence how the show was performing, involves not only a command of the byzantine systems used by various agencies and networks, but also careful interpretation and understanding of context. It was a job for specialists at the time, and anyone using the partial data we can work from now runs a serious risk of failing to take into account a crucial factor, or generalizing from one data point. Harve Bennett’s “fifteen, fourteen, ten” cuts the long story short, and indicates the problem Star Trek faced: the first season got about fifteen million viewers, the second saw a slight drop to fourteen million, the change in scheduling saw (as everyone knew it would) a dramatic fall, to ten million.
12Gerrold, World, p178
13Gerrold, World, p167, Trimble, Enterprise, p32
14http://www.erbzine.com/mag0/0038.html
15Appellants’ Opening Brief, Roddenberry v Roddenberry (1996—Court of Appeal, State of California, 2nd Civil No. B074848), p1
16People, March 16, 1987
17Alexander, Creator, p372
18Pollini, Maids, p113
19Alexander, Creator, p386
20“Vadim’s Pretty Maids,” Playboy, April 1971, p214
21The complete list (in alphabetical order): Apocalypse Now, The Bad News Bears, Carrie, Dazed and Confused, The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, The Great Escape, His Girl Friday, Jaws, Pretty Maids All in a Row, Rolling Thunder, Sorcerer, Taxi Driver.
22Vadim, Memoirs, p182
23Vadim, Memoirs, p184
24Alexander, Creator, p381
25David Bret, Rock Hudson: The Gentle Giant
26Alexander, Creator, p389
27Vadim, Memoirs, p185
28“Vadim’s Pretty Maids,” Playboy, p214
29Alexander, Creator, p389
30Alexander, Creator, pp388–90
5 Gene Roddenberry’s Lost Universes
1Solow and Justman, Inside Star Trek, pp416–17
2Richard K. Skull, “Creator of Star Trek comes back to TV,” Des Moines Register, November 26, 1972
3Skull, “Creator”
4Solow and Justman, Inside Star Trek, p421
5Engel, Myth, pp150–1
6“Drawn to the Final Frontier: The Making of Star Trek: The Animated Series”, documentary feature on the DVD boxset
7Shatner, Up Till Now, p171
8Koenig, Warped Factors, p216
9Sackett, Inside Trek, pp11–12
10Gerrold, World, p270
11Alexander, Creator, p394
12Gerrold, World, p271
13Fern, Conversation, p34
14Gerrold, World, p271
15Interview with Allen Asherman in the Star Trek Interview Book (1986)
16Inside Star Trek LP
17Inside Star Trek LP
18Address at Florida State University, January 23, 1975
19Starlog, Jan 1980, p24
20Nimoy, I Am Spock, pp136–8
21Nimoy, I Am Spock, p157
22Alexander, Creator, pp397–8
23Starlog, Jan 1980, p24
24Sackett, Inside Trek, p43
6 Fan-Topia
1Hilmes, NBC, p218
2Gerrold, World, p188
3http://culttvman.com/main/a-history-of-the-amt-enteprise-model-by-jay-chladek-part-1/
4Lichtenberg, Lives!, p3
5Gerrold, World, p195
6Trimble, Enterprise, p63
7Gerrold, World, p160
8Gerrold, World, p174
9Nimoy, I Am Not Spock, p17
10Nimoy, I Am Not Spock, p63
11Fern, Conversation, p63
12Late Night America, September 24, 1985
13Fern Conversation, p69
14Engel, Myth
15Shatner, Leonard, pp120–1
16Fern, Conversation, p106
17Fern, Conversation, p156
18Fern, Conversation, p76
19Gerrold, World, p177
20Lichtenberg, Lives!, p222
21New Voyages, p ix
22Lichtenberg, Lives!, p225
23Gerrold, World, p200
24Engel, Myth, p249
25Fern, Conversation
26Roddenberry, Motion Picture, p22
27New Voyages, Introduction
28Shatner, Where No Man, p12
29Brin, “Star Wars despots vs. Star Trek populists,” Salon, June 15, 1999
30Lichtenberg, Lives!, pp144–5
31Entertainment Weekly, April 8, 1994
32Gerrold, World
33Quoted on the NASA website—http://er.jsc.nasa.gov/seh/quotes.html
7 Bigger than Star Wars
1Shatner, Movie Memories, p87
2Roddenberry was so keen on this numbering system that when he pitched a second Star Trek movie to Paramount in 1980, he called it Star Trek IV—I being the original series, II the revival, III Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
3Nimoy, I Am Spock, p157
4Shatner, Leonard, p123
5Jones, Return to Tomorrow, p55
6Jones, Return to Tomorrow, p55
7Nimoy, I Am Spock, p162
8Shatner, Movie Memories, p92
9Sackett, Inside Trek, p71
10Shatner, Movie Memories, p100
11Jones, Return to Tomorrow, p143
12Jones, Return to Tomorrow, p317
13Doohan, Beam Me Up, p189
14Shatner, Movie Memories, p 112
15Jones, Return to Tomorrow, p169
16Nichols, Beyond Uhura, p240
17Starlog 32, p58
18Jones, Return to Tomorrow
19Sackett, Inside Trek, p64
20Sackett, Inside Trek, p75
21Roddenberry, Motion Picture, p8
22Sackett, Inside Trek, p76
23http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=startrek.htm
24Playboy, January 1980, p310. The presentation was given in spring 1979.
8 The Best of Times, the Worst of Times
1Engel, Myth, p206
2Engel, Myth, p206
3Meyer, View from the Bridge, p82
4Meyer, View from the Bridge, pp90–1
5Shatner, Movie Memories, p150
6Meyer, View from the Bridge, p213
7Shatner, Movie Memories, p140
8Meyer, View from the Bridge, p81
9Greenberger, p118
10Aljean Harmetz, “New Star Trek Plan Reflects Symbiosis of TV and Movies,” New York Times, November 2, 1986
11Shatner, Leonard, p216
12Alexander, Creator, p461
13Appellants’ Opening Brief, Roddenberry v Roddenberry (1996—Court of Appeal, State of California, 2nd Civil No. B074848), p45
14Alexander, Creator, p466
15Starlog, Nov 1985, “Inside Gene Roddenberry’s Head”
16Starlog, Nov 85, p18
17Starlog, Nov 85, p20
18Starlog, Nov 85, p20
19Sackett, Inside Trek, p95
20http://monsterkidclassichorrorforum.yuku.com/topic/20784/Majel-Barrett-wife-of-Gene-Roddenberry
9 Second Chances
1Aljean Harmetz, “New Star Trek Plan Reflects Symbiosis of TV and Movies,” New York Times, November 2, 1986
2Harmetz, “New Star Trek Plan”
3“Leonard Nimoy—Preparing Star Trek IV,” Starlog 100, Nov 1985, p55
4Sackett, Inside Trek, p129
5Chaos on the Bridge documentary, 2014
6Sackett, Inside Trek, p139
7Sackett, Inside Trek, p128. La Costa is named in, e.g., Chaos on the Bridge
8TNG Guidelines, p3
9TNG Guidelines, p15
10Gerrold, World, p242
11http://io9.gizmodo.com/a-new-documentary-shows-how-gene-roddenberry-almost-kil-1721153875
12“Star Trek: TNG: An Oral History,” Adam By Vary, Entertainment Weekly, September 25, 2007
13Sackett, Inside Trek, p133
14Chaos on the Bridge
15Chaos on the Bridge
16Hilmes, NBC, p222
17Sackett, Inside Trek, p138
18Art of Star Trek, p94
19Chaos on the Bridge
20Engel, Myth
21Chaos on the Bridge
22http://www.startrek.com/article/trek-writer-david-gerrold-looks-back-part-2
23Chaos on the Bridge
24Sackett, Inside Trek, p141
25Sackett, Inside Trek, p155
26Starlog 152, p29
27Chaos on the Bridge
28Tulloch and Jenkins, Science Fiction Audiences, 1995
29Sackett, Inside Trek, p154
30Sackett, Inside Trek, pp157–9
10 Of All the Souls I Have Encountered in My Travels, His Was the Most . . .
1Appellants’ Opening Brief, Roddenberry v Roddenberry (1996—Court of Appeal, State of California, 2nd Civil No. B074848)
2Sackett, Inside Trek, p216
3“California’s appellate court has overturned a jury’s decision to order the estate of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry to pay his first wife, Eileen, more than $4 million in damages,” Broadcasting and Cable, April 22, 1996
4Engel, Myth, p262
5Sackett, Inside Trek, p219
6“Roddenberry Heir’s Losing Enterprise . . .,” Daily News, June 29, 1996
7http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/articles/dg3.cfmhow.
8Entertainment Weekly, March 6, 1992
9Sackett, Inside Trek, p212
10Michael Logan, “Keeping the Flame,” Radio Times Official Collector’s Edition Star Trek 30 Years
11Logan, “Keeping the Flame”
12Fern, Conversation, p165
13Interview by Carol Davis in Imzadi, The Official Marina Sirtis Newsletter, Jan/Feb 1991
14Interview with John C. Snider at Sci-Fi Dimensions, June 3, 2000
15Fern, Conversation, p215
16Jo Davidsmeyer, “Lincoln Enterprises: A Little Piece of Star Trek. An interview with the ~First Lady of Star Trek,~ Majel Barrett-Roddenberry,” Strange New Worlds 10, Oct/Nov 1993
17Michelle Erica Green, First Lady of Star Trek: Majel Barrett Roddenberry’s Life Among the Aliens
18Michael Logan, “The Great Bird of the Galaxy,” Radio Times Official Collector’s Edition Star Trek 30 Years
19Reprinted in Solow and Justman, Inside, p145. Justman claims (p149) that William Shatner’s delivery of the final version sounds breathless because the wording was finalized so late in the day that in order to get it onto the titles of the first episode, he had to run from the soundstage where he was filming the episode “Dagger of the Mind” over to the dubbing studio.
20“Part of the Legacy: An Interview with Majel Barrett Roddenberry,” Ali Kayn, http://www.festivale.info/ffeatures/majel.htm
21“Part of the Legacy”
22“Part of the Legacy”
23Sackett, Inside Trek, p13
24http://www.littlereview.com/getcritical/trektalk/majel3.htm
25Christian, “Stan Lee Media Developing ‘Gene Roddenberry’s Starship’,” http://www.trektoday.com/news/180900_04.shtml, September 18, 2000
26http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_1998_Oct_20/ai_53099756/
27http://www.boldergiving.org/stories.php?story=Rod-Roddenberry
28Engel, Myth, p262
29http://www.tmz.com/2009/04/22/star-trek-widows-trust-for-the-dogs/#ixzz431DfSrD3
30https://shop.roddenberry.com/collections/bundle-items/products/days-missing-volume-1?variant=12725804806
31James Hibberd, “Gene Roddenberry pilot gets a Deal,” Hollywood Reporter, January 21, 2010
32http://www.geek.com/news/data-from-200-floppy-discs-containing-unpublished-gene-roddenberry-works-recovered-1643990/
33http://www.boldergiving.org/stories.php?story=Rod-Roddenberry
35“Brainscan”, Lost Universe #1
EPISODES QUOTED
The Lieutenant
“To Set It Right” (Writer: Lee Erwin, Director: Vince McEveety)
“Pretty Maids All in a Row” (Screenplay: Gene Roddenberry)
Star Trek
“The Cage” (Written by: Gene Roddenberry, Director: Robert Butler)
“Balance of Terror” (Written by: Paul Schneider, Director: Vincent McEveety)
“Is There In Truth No Beauty?” (Written by: Jean Lisette Arbeste, Director: Ralph Senensky)
“The Savage Curtain” (Teleplay by: Arthur Heinemann and Gene Roddenberry, Story by: Gene Roddenberry, Director: Herschel Daugherty)
“The Way to Eden” (Teleplay by: Arthur Heinemann, Story by: Michael Richards and Arthur Heinemann, Director: David Alexander)
Star Trek: The Next Generation
“Encounter at Farpoint” (Written by: DC Fontana and Gene Roddenberry, Director: Corey Allen)
“Manhunt” (Written by ‘Terry Devereaux’—pseudonym for Tracy Torme, Director: Rob Bowman)
“Star Trek: First Contact” (Screenplay by: Brannon Braga & Ronald D Moore, Story by: Rick Berman & Brannon Braga & Ronald D Moore, Director: Jonathan Frakes)