A Brief Guide to Star Trek
Brian J. Robb
Language: English
Pages: 420
ISBN: 0762444398
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
For over 40 years Star Trek has made a phenomenal cultural impact. Now more popular than ever - J.J. Abrams' reinvented Star Trek movie was one of the box office hits of 2009, grossing $385 million worldwide - the 'franchise' continues to have cultural, social and political resonance around the world. Star Trek has changed not just the way we look at space but also our own world. It gave the culture a lexicon of catchphrases, from "Beam me up, Scotty" to Dr McCoy's many complaints beginning "I'm a doctor, not a [...]!" Much of the 'future' technology depicted on Star Trek has come to feature in everyday life, from the communicator-like mobile phone to computer touch screens now taken for granted. Many of the world's most prominent scientists were inspired to pursue their careers (as were many writers and artists) due to an early exposure to Star Trek. In A Brief Guide to Star Trek, expert Brian J Robb charts the rise and rise of the show and explores its impact our culture.
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Enterprise. While the original layout was retained, the whole space had a brighter, whiter feel, drawing inspiration from the 1968 Stanley Kubrick film 2001: A Space Odyssey and modern high-tech retail environments, like the Apple stores. This new Enterprise bridge was built on gimbals, meaning that when the ship was attacked the actors would not have to try so hard to fake being thrown from side to side, as had often been the case on the Star Trek TV shows. The ship’s engine room had a very
Star Trek episodes into short story form). Foster was hired to adapt an old story idea from Roddenberry into a Star Trek outline. Entitled ‘Robot’s Return’, the story was originally planned for the aborted Genesis II series. Alan Dean Foster adapted it into a script entitled ‘In Thy Image’. Originally intended as the first of the regular one-hour episodes of Phase II, ‘In Thy Image’ brought the action back home to twenty-third-century Earth, a place never visited by the original Star Trek
drama of the previous two movies. While the stakes would be high and there’d be plenty of incident, it was felt that the Star Trek characters had been put through the emotional wringer in The Wrath of Khan and The Search for Spock, so the fourth movie would go lighter on them. All the pair had to do was settle on what the story would actually entail – they only knew that some element from their past (the audiences’ present) would need to be retrieved by the Enterprise crew to save their future.
depicted an attempted reconciliation between the Romulans and the Vulcans. The episodes featured a guest appearance by Leonard Nimoy as Spock in a promotional tie-in with the sixth Star Trek movie, The Undiscovered Country. Nimoy’s Spock was the last of four original series characters to appear on The Next Generation. ‘Encounter at Farpoint’ had seen DeForest Kelley reprise the role of an elderly Dr McCoy, giving a seal of approval to the new 1980s show. Mark Lenard later appeared as Spock’s
Green Mile) were considered, but the leading role went to acclaimed stage actor Avery Brooks (known to US TV audiences for the sidekick role of Hawk on Spenser: For Hire and its short-lived spin-off A Man Called Hawk in the 1980s). ‘Today, many of our children, especially black males, do not project that they will live past the age of 19 or 20’, Brooks told Michael Logan of TV Guide in 1993. ‘Star Trek allows our children the chance to see something they might never otherwise imagine.’ Brooks was