Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Redefinition of Unwarranted
Prologue: Star TrekThe MacArthur Premiere
1969: The Networks Knife Cares Not for the Shows Cry
Star Trek Dies25
19701972: Whats in Reruns Is Prologue
Star Trek Has Risen from the Grave30 delete deleteThe Long Con
Begins31
19731974: Choose Your Televised Pain
Genesis II v. Planet of the Apes37 delete deleteThe Animated Series
Is Pre-Rejected by the Fans38 delete deleteThe Animated Series
Barely Accepted by the Fans41 delete deleteRoddenberry on Tour44
1975: Magicam to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad
Star Trek II Is Announced; Expectations Are Managed49 delete deleteRumored Redford53 delete deleteStar Trek II Is Denounced; Expectations Are Mangled55
1976: The War Within the Script, the War Without
Harlan Ellison v. Star Trek58 delete deleteThe 743 Speak59 delete delete
The Isenberg Cometh; The Trektennial Begins61 delete delete
Look Now! Its Bryant and Scott66 delete deleteKaufman
Commissioned67 delete deleteA Log of the Stars!70 delete delete
Enter Eisner73
1977: The Battle of the Binary Star Treks
Captain Kirk Almost Meets John Galt75 delete deleteOf Cygnans
and Spiders; Kaufman Keelhauled79 delete deleteThe Fourth Network
Awakens84 delete deleteHere We Are Now, Entertain Us the Way
Tell You To87 delete deleteShatner Says See Ya Never!90 delete delete
Robots Return Returns93 delete deleteRoddenberry Ruminates97 delete deleteThe New Kids on the Bridge; Whither Leonard?99 delete deleteCollins Conferred; The Fourth Network Sees Its Shadow103
1978: Into the Luminescent Powerfield I Go
Roddenberry Recaps108 delete deleteThe Starship of the 1970s
Future110 delete deleteCollins Cleaved; Wise Wrangled113 delete delete
Star TrekThe Massive Presser114 delete deleteMagicam Cant,
but Abels Able119 delete deleteTo Boldly Pump the Brakes120
1979: Will You Take My $44M Hand?
Star TrekThe Marketing Problem, Part I: The Nerve
Steel127 delete deleteStar TrekThe Marketing Problem,
Part II: The Purview of John Askew130 delete deleteStar Trek
The Marketing Problem, Part III: Set Printers to Tilt134 delete deleteStar TrekThe Marketing Problem, Part IV: Brrap Brrap
Pew Pew!140 delete deleteStar TrekThe Marketing Problem,
Part V: Ready-to-Spacewear, Everywhere144 delete deleteStar Trek
The Marketing Problem, Part VI: A Wagon of Trailers Full
of Stars148 delete deleteStar TrekThe Manifest Procession, Part I: New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Florida154 delete deleteStar TrekThe Manifest Procession, Part II: Kentucky, Mississippi and Arkansas160 delete deleteStar TrekThe Manifest Procession,
Part III: Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Minnesota162 delete delete
Star TrekThe Manifest Procession, Part IV: South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Utah and Arizona164 delete deleteStar Trek
The Manifest Procession, Part V: Washington, Oregon, Nevada
and California167 delete deleteThe Shakedown, Part I: Acceleration170
1980: The Vulcan Goodbye
The Shakedown, Part II: Deceleration177 delete deleteOne Brief, Shining Sequel Set in Camelot!179 delete deleteA Moving Analog Image
Transferred from a Magnetic Medium182 delete deleteVgers Gait183
Epilogue: Star TrekThe Mathematical Phantom
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index