The Unauthorized Trekkers’ Guide to the Next Generation and Deep Space Nine. James Hise van

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СКАЧАТЬ Season Two

       Season Three

       Season Four

       Season Five

       Season Six

       Season Seven

       PART III: DEEP SPACE NINE

       INTRODUCTION: THE THIRD GENERATION

       CHAPTER 1: THE BACKGROUND

       Behind the Scenes: The Creation

       Laying the Groundwork—From The Next Generation to Deep Space Nine

       Special Corner of the Galaxy: The Realm of Deep Space Nine

       Comparing Treks

       CHAPTER 2: CHARACTERS AND CAST

       Commander Benjamin Sisko

       Jake Sisko

       Chief of Operations Miles O’Brien

       Keiko O’Brien

       Major Kira Nerys

       Lieutenant Jadzia Dax

       Security Chief Odo

       Doctor Julian Bashir

       Quark

       PART IV: APPENDICES

       The Next Generation: Episode Guide Seasons 1-7

       Season One

       Season Two

       Season Three

       Season Four

       Season Five

       Season Six

       Season Seven

       Deep Space Nine: Episode Guide Seasons 1-2

       Season One

       Second Season

       Brent Spiner—In Person

       Honors for Gene Roddenberry

       KEEP READING

       ABOUT THE AUTHOR

       ALSO BY

       ABOUT THE PUBLISHER

PART

       1

       INTRODUCTION

THE ENDURANCE OF STAR TREK

      “Like Spain’s Francisco Franco, Star Trek has been fatally dead for a long time. Now and then the mortuary shoots an electric current through the corpse, and the resultant spasm releases yet another manual or quiz or convention or novel or book of fan fiction or whathaveyou, but after nearly a decade there’s little life left in the old cadaver.”

      —Gil Lamont & James K. Burk DeLap’s F & SF Review (March/April 1978)

      This quote reflects the reception science fiction fandom gave Star Trek fans in the mid to late seventies. They looked down on Star Trek, and chose to dismiss it. These intemperate remarks ignored growing popular interests as fan interest attained a life greater than the TV image that inspired it.

      This touched common chords in many individuals. Some went through life quietly enamored with the series, unaware they shared a common bond with countless strangers until they found a Star Trek fanzine or walked into a convention.

      Before Star Trek’s fitful return to the screen in the 1979 Star Trek: The Motion Picture, a backlash of anti-Star Trek sentiment raged. It began with the attitude that “those people” were “invading” otherwise sedate science fiction and comic book conventions.

      I wonder how many times those critics have watched the new incarnations of Star Trek in The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine. How quickly passion doth ebb and flow.

      EMBRACED BY THE MASSES

      Critics to any new series were reacting to a TV show that had perished in 1969. They thought it should be buried. Many of these detractors read novels by dead authors or comic strips by dead artists. They pursued interests without practical purpose and with no hope of continuation by their talented creators. But Star Trek, they felt, was just a TV show in reruns.

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