The Unauthorized History of Trek

by James Van Hise

Collecting little-known facts surrounding the production and cast of the Star Trek series, a fan's multigenerational history provides a season-by-season checklist and coverage of the movies, spinoffs, and animated voyages. Original.

Genres: Star Trek, Nonfiction, Media Tie In

218 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1995

About the author

James Van Hise is an American popular culture historian and comic book author. He had a long connection with the popular fanzine Rocket's Blast Comicollector (RBCC), and was its editor/publisher from 1974 to 1983. He also had a lengthy association with Hal Schuster, owner of New Media Publishing and Pioneer Books. Van Hise is the author of more than ten books, many of them published by Pioneer Books.

Reviews

[Chuck · Rating 1 out of 5]

There is a good reason why my copy of this book doesn’t have a cover: because it didn’t sell at the bookstore that stripped the cover. An old friend gave me this book several years ago. He was working in the back room of a bookstore and gave me books that had had their covers ripped off because they didn’t sell. This book isn’t totally bad, but some of the writing is awful. If you are completely ignorant of the Star Trek series, this book might serve as a useful introduction, but for anybody who has seen the show, this book only contributes odd notes about the actors on the show, their personal backgrounds, and their thoughts on the series. This book would have been much better if the summaries of every episode had been put in the appendix or just left out.

[Charles · Rating 5 out of 5]

What can I say, I'm a sucker for most anything to do with Star Trek.