Good Behind the Scenes Books

[Steve Roby]

I've read Gerrold's script, though I don't know if he's still selling copies through his website. It was definitely not anywhere near as bad as "Code of Honor," though I don't remember it being a lost masterpiece. I haven't seen the adaptation one of the fan productions did of it, but considering how many years later that happened, it was probably rewritten. Again.

 

[David cgc]

Marc Cushman is not my idea of a bright guy. When the following appeared in the first edition of the first book, people pointed out that this was a not a real book cover but a fan creation. He refused to believe that and asked how anyone could prove it wasn't real. I posted in the discussion that not only have I been collecting Star Trek books since the early 1970s, not only did I have the first exhaustive Star Trek books website, I am also a professional librarian who's familiar with resources like Bowker's Books in Print. If Bantam had published this book, it would be in BiP, it would be in OCLC WorldCat, it would almost certainly be in ABEbooks, etc. His response was basically, well, that's just your opinion, I think it's real. It was still in the Expanded and Revised Edition.

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I wonder how he could’ve found it outside the context of it being fan art imagining Star Trek as a book rather than TV series, as when it was originally posted on this very board.

The U.E.S.P.A. Series of books...

This is a project that celebrates it's tenth anniversary this year. It started as an entry into a 2004 TrekBBS Art Challenge, which was to create a book cover based on a Star Trek episode. My entry was done in the style (or as close as I could manage it at the time) of the old Bantam editions...

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[Maurice]

We know it's fan art because @The Lensman on this very board said he made it back in 2004, as mentioned at the top of this 2014 thread in which he posts a lot of faux novel covers.

This is the original cover that started it all from 2004:

And then he revised it.

Here's the "remastered" cover for "Arena", despite the fact that the original has been nagging at me for so long, I finally got around to doing it.

"As I said," Cashy Cashy is a crap historian.