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These Are the Voyages: TOS: Season One

These Are the Voyages: TOS: Season One

Marc Cushman

Language: English

Pages: 658

ISBN: 0989238105

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


These are the Voyages: TOS, Season One contains hundreds of previously unpublished insights and recollections from actors, directors, producers, and production crew, capturing what went on from every perspective, including memos dictated by Roddenberry while reading drafts to the series scripts. The book offers a unique look behind-the-scenes in the form of original staff memos, contracts, schedules, budgets, network correspondence, and the censor reports from NBC.  
These are the Voyages creates the opportunity for readers to transport themselves back in space and time to witness the true history of Season One of Star Trek®: TOS.  
Go behind the closed doors of NBC, Desilu/Paramount, the producers' offices, the writers' room, the sound stages and shooting locations, and learn the actual facts behind all the blood, sweat, tears, politics, and spellbinding creativity that brought Star Trek® into being...and changed the Sci Fi world.

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another correspondence from Christian TV producer John Gunn, writing: I’m still involved in winding up the show I produced in San Francisco last week, and it looks like another ten days or two weeks before we get it into the can. Which means it would be at least that long before I could prepare any sort of story line for your approval. Roddenberry didn’t really want the job. In another letter to Gunn, from March, he continued to procrastinate, writing: Unfortunately, despite the continuing

money and, at the same time, capture the feel of The Enemy Below, Roddenberry and Schneider decided to give the Romulan ship the advantage of being elusive, as a submarine can be, and hatched the idea of the cloaking device. Matt Jefferies was thinking “submarine” as well when he submitted his set design -- the bridge of the enemy ship would be cramped and even have something resembling a periscope at its center. To further capture the feel of a destroyer vs. submarine tale, Roddenberry and

were used in the original pilot? Are we going to be able to use the original pilot as a two-parter in this series? Does Jeff Hunter’s original contract allow for this sort of contingency? Perhaps you ought to check it out with his agent. I don’t want to have Gene write an envelope to make this pilot into a two-parter, have us shoot the envelope section and then discover that we can’t use the [original] film at all because of various contractual difficulties. (RJ15) Remarkably, no one had thought

human. The story was adapted into a successful movie, remade twice, and imitated often. In a memo to Coon, Robert Justman wrote: Paul Schneider was right. This story is science-fantasy. I leave it up to you whether you think this is the kind of story we want to do on Star Trek. Personally speaking, I rather like the idea. (RJ18-1) For Justman, liking a concept and being able to afford to realize it were two very different and highly contrasting matters. He worried: If we intend to go ahead

Variety, November 8, 1954, Telepix Reviews: Inside Out” – DeForest Kelley. Dailey Variety, December 2, 1954, “Telpix Reviews: Storm Signal” – DeForest Kelley. Daily Variety, May 19, 1955, “Telepix Reviews: Science Fiction Theatre: ‘Y.O.R.D.,’” with DeForest Kelley. Dailey Variety, February 2, 1956, “Fox at Bay” -- Robert Justman. Daily Variety, March 6, 1956, “Kelley to Recreate OK Role for Hal Wallis.” Daily Variety, March 9, 1956, “Telepix Reviews: Chevron Hall of Stars: ‘Secret Weapon of

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