When it comes to simply presenting the information from the Roddenberry Archive, it's useful. However, Cushman tends to editorialize or grossly misinterpret the facts.
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My impression was that he gets some dates wrong, and when he doesn't really know some behind-the-scenes situation, he might spin a plausible anecdote figuring no one will ever know the difference. But sometimes the lifelong fan will happen to know when Cushman pulls this and he's way off.
OTOH, I recall director Ralph Senensky blogged that he loved the write-up on his episodes.
Cash Markman is little more than an armchair historian. His writing demonstrates a lack of understanding of the documentary evidence and treats long after-the-fact statements as having the same historical weight as primary sources. In his write-up about "Spectre of the Gun", we caught him making up events that didn't actually happen because they were in scenes omitted from the script before shooting, as proved by the daily production reports.
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Is there another way to browse this information in print or online? I went to the Roddenberry Archive's website, but it seems to be all videos and VR recreations.
Unfortunately, the RA hasn't been putting any of the documents online... yet. I think that's the intent in the future. The only places to browse the scripts/memos in person is either at the private Roddenberry Archive somewhere in Los Angeles, or UCLA's special collections library which has Roddenberry's TOS papers only, as well as Bob Justman's.
The other place I thought to look was the website for Larry Nemecek's The Trek Files but it looks like the actual "files" themselves are all stored on Facebook (which I don't use).
The walled gardens of the modern Internet continue to vex me.
The walled gardens of the modern Internet continue to vex me.
They've uploaded all the shared documents to The Trek Files' Memory Alpha page:
The Trek Files
The Trek Files: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast is a podcast that airs on Roddenberry Podcasts as well as most other podcast platforms, beginning on 23 January 2018. It is hosted by Larry Nemecek. Each episode looks into a document from the Roddenberry Archive, with extra context and analysis...
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