Inside Star Trek: The Real Story. Herbert F. Solow & RobertH. Justman (1st Edn)

 INSIDE STAR TREK: THE REAL STORY by Herbert F. Solow & Robert H. Justman

Before the actors were cat, before the U.S.S. Enterprisewas designed, before the phenomenon exploded, there were three men who set about creating the STAR TREK legend. Gene Roddenberry died in 1991, Herb Solow and Bob Justmannow remain the only two people on the planet Earth who really know what happened in those early, heady days.

In the beginning of 1964, Herbert F. Solow was hired to run television production for lucille Ball's struggling Desilu Studios. In April of that year, a rumpled, soft-spoken ex-cop named Gene Roddenberry walked into Solow's office with an idea for a new science fiction television series called STAR TREK. Immediately seeing the show's potential, Solow struck a script development deal with Roddenberry on the spot.

Soon, Solow and Roddenberry brought Robert H. Justman on board as assistant director to work on what was to be the first of two STAR TREK pilots and, later, to act as associate producer on the series. Together the three men embarked on an incredible odyssey that would make television history.

INSIDE STAR TREK is a comprehensive look at the development and life of a television and cultural phenomenon. It is also a story no one else could tell. Between them, Solow and Justman had a hand in virtually every aspect of the development and production of STAR TREK - from the battles with NBC and the internal conflicts with studio exxecutives to the behind-the-scenes decisions about actors and their characters, writers, scripts, directors, budgets, and the endless details of weekly televisioin production.

Together, in this book, the two men debunk many of the myths that have developed around STAR TREK in the last thirty years as they create new ones based on facts. At last, here is the simple, fascinating and accurate account of a unique television series launched against astronomical odds - a television series that transported millions of viewers into another world and into an unprecedented, thirty-year, multimedia, multibillion-dllar cultural phenomenon.

a FIRST EDITION American hardback published in 1996 by Pocket Books (£19.99 r.r.p.)