Inside Star Trek video

[22 Stars]

Hi guys, I finally got around to uploading a video, Inside Star Trek, on YouTube. My screen name there is rm10475 if you want to see the first few segments. I've got up the Prologue and Part 1 and Part 2.

http://www.youtube.com/user/rm10475?feature=mhum

It's a chance for all the people who helped make TOS, but often got overlooked (or slammed publicly like the NBC Network exec Grant Tinker) to say a few words about their participation in the origins of Trek.

Personally, I don't believe everything they have to say, as I don't believe all the annecdotal stories that GR shared, but as Kirk says in ST VI, the truth is.... somewhere in between.

 

[number6]

Bought it when it came out. Lots of great interviews..

 

[22 Stars]

Some great stuff that I don't think some who post here have seen or heard, at least not from the source Shame they never released it on DVD.

 

[Botany Bay]

Hey thanks so much for posting these!

So, was this a companion video released at the time of publication of Inside Star Trek?

My Bob Justman signed copy of that book is my most prized Trek possession. Really entertaining, detailed book, and seems the most credible account of how it all happened that I've seen.

 

[WRStone]

I'm a huge fan of Inside Star Trek: The Real Story. As you say, it's one of the few accounts that, in not deifying Gene Roddenberry, seems to present an unbiased account of the making of the show.

I wish it could've been published earlier, but the reality is that until Roddenberry died, there was no way the book could have been successful. Much of the book contradicts GR's press claiming that he was the primary (if not sole) driving force behind everything we saw in the show.

If GR'd been alive when the book was published, I'm sure there'd have been a PR campaign against it. Rather than reading it and making their own judgments, readers would have been encouraged to reject it as nonsense.

(Not to mention that the book makes it sordidly clear just how much of a womanizer GR was and how little his marriages mattered to him in terms of fidelity. I rather suspect that Majel must've hated Solow and Justman after the book came out -- for having aired all that "dirty laundry" in public.)

Dakota Smith

 

[22 Stars]

I'm glad to share it, I agree it's a real gem! I'll be adding the remaining segments this weekend. I finally have things in place to start uploading tons of 'Trek News' items from VHS from the last 20 years. Somewhere I a few minutes of the press conference announcing TNG, which is fun.

Botany Bay, yes, it does credit that book as the basis for the video.

Dakota, I agree 100%, but I try to keep the sordid personal stuff seperate from my appreciation for the detail of the Trek production

 

[Alienesse]

Thank you so much for uploading this, 22 Stars! It's always fascinating to hear the real people who created Star Trek. Can't wait for the rest!

 

[22 Stars]

Thank you so much for uploading this, 22 Stars! It's always fascinating to hear the real people who created Star Trek. Can't wait for the rest!

My pleasure! The entire documentary is now uploaded. I had to split it into 7 parts plus the Prologue. For some reason windows movie maker insists on uploading it in both SD and HD (using the YouTube shortcut), even though it's only SD. I'll have to look for that setting to change.

 

[Danny99]

It's good to see that there were different people involved. In some of the stories told, it seems like Roddenberry had some God like power to get the show on the air.

 

[22 Stars]

^ I agree, and it's important to remember that TV as an art form is a collaborative medium. I think the the TNG group, like Mike and Denise Okuda and Rick Sternbach have done a great job showing the contributions of their generation of colleagues in keeping Trek alive for last 25 years.

 

[gomtuu20]

Very nice. Thank you. I wish I could see the rest of it.

 

[22 Stars]

Very nice. Thank you. I wish I could see the rest of it.

Gomtuu, the entire video is posted on my YouTube channel, and I have re-uploaded Part 5 that was having issues.

 

[mb22]

I'm a huge fan of Inside Star Trek: The Real Story. As you say, it's one of the few accounts that, in not deifying Gene Roddenberry, seems to present an unbiased account of the making of the show.

I wish it could've been published earlier, but the reality is that until Roddenberry died, there was no way the book could have been successful. Much of the book contradicts GR's press claiming that he was the primary (if not sole) driving force behind everything we saw in the show.

If GR'd been alive when the book was published, I'm sure there'd have been a PR campaign against it. Rather than reading it and making their own judgments, readers would have been encouraged to reject it as nonsense.

(Not to mention that the book makes it sordidly clear just how much of a womanizer GR was and how little his marriages mattered to him in terms of fidelity. I rather suspect that Majel must've hated Solow and Justman after the book came out -- for having aired all that "dirty laundry" in public.)

Dakota Smith

Joel Engel's 1994 biography Gene Roddenberry: the Myth and the Man Behind Star Trek had already exposed much of that material. Justman and Solow actually had a more positive attitude towards Gene.

 

[Gary7]

I just got a copy of "Inside Star Trek: The Real Story". It sure is detailed! I've only delved into a few sections at this point and skimmed through the rest to get a sense of it. Looks to be very revealing. I picked it up off "that auction site" for $5 shipped... definitely worth it.

I already had an appreciation for all the obstacles TOS faced, but it's looking like there's far more to be amazed about. The most astonishing thing was how it wasn't making money and yet funding was secured for 74 episodes. No TV series today would last more than a dozen episodes in that case.