They ran out of crayons to color the photos.
New rare photos book....
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could someone please explain why the authors are apparently a red flag??
Thanks in advance!
I'd love to see the book --but the back cover is atrocious.! The two pics with clapboards covering the actors? The author and his dog? That bio? Woah.
Thanks in advance!
I'd love to see the book --but the back cover is atrocious.! The two pics with clapboards covering the actors? The author and his dog? That bio? Woah.
^ You're already beginning to see the problem for yourself.
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I suggest checking out Star Trek Fact Check, written by "Harvey" who posts on this board (and in this thread). Posts specifically about the Cushman books are:
Review: These Are The Voyages, TOS, Season One
A Few Thoughts on These Are The Voyages, TOS, Season One (Revised and Expanded Edition)
The Truth About Star Trek and the Ratings
On Pickups and Lifts in 'The Man Trap'
And On The Seventh Day: Conflicting Production Accounts of Star Trek's Second Season
Credit Where Credit is Due: Producing Star Trek's Second Season
Gurian was art director on the "These Are The Voyages" books and visually they share a resemblance with this new book. Cushman also wrote the intro for this new book. As such, it's a good bet Gurian repeats Cushman's errors, such as budgets and filming dates.
Neil
Not speaking to the general discussion of the provenance and ubiquity of these photos, one of the samples offered by Amazon is quite interesting. The picture of Susan Oliver (with Nimoy) seems odd only from the standpoint that it doesn't really look like her, certainly from the episode itself or from her rather varied appearances in film or tv, of which I'm familiar with a great many. In some ways she resembles more a blonde iteration of Suzanne Pleshette. If it's of interest, I wonder if anyone else concurs with this impression.
That's because it is not Oliver. There are several photos of Nimoy and this model out there. Her blonde hair and light skin tone were meant to highlight his Vulcan skin-tone makeup, iirc.
Sir Rhosis
Sir Rhosis
Cushman is also credited as one of the book's three editors (the other two, Sondra and Andrew Johnson, were thanked for their "support and encouragement" in at least one of the These Are The Voyages books).
In addition, Cushman shares credit with Gurian for the book's "interior design," and Cushman's wife and co-author of These Are The Voyages, Susan Osborn, shares credit with Gurian for the design of the cover.
The These Are The Voyages Facebook page is even advertising the book, and offering a special discount code if you order now. In other words, Cushman's fingerprints are all over this one.
Didn't Alec Peters (who ran the second Kickstarter for These Are The Voyages, and is one of the recipients of "special thanks" in Gurian's book) let this slip in one of his Axanar podcasts?
If I'm misremembering this, my apologies.
Browsing very quickly through the Amazon "Look Inside" this morning, I caught several errors in the first few pages -- both grammatical and factual. The most glaring for me was in the WNMHGB chapter where the 1st pilot version of the 11-foot Enterprise is identified as the 2nd pilot version (the date shown on the slate was misread as 7/65 instead although it was clearly 1/65). The miniature clearly lacked the telltale grilles of the 2nd pilot ship.
Strangely I cannot go back and view those chapters again for some reason; the preview now stops at "The Cage". Anyone else encounter this?
I don't want to see this become a nitpick thread on the book -- I enjoyed seeing a few photos I had not seen before -- but it looks as if the research and proofreading (or lack thereof) may be on the level of TATV.
*Edit - I logged in again and now the preview goes through "The Return of the Archons". Another odd gaffe is a stage shot of the 1st or 2nd pilot Enterprise attributed to "Tomorrow is Yesterday". Oh my...
Strangely I cannot go back and view those chapters again for some reason; the preview now stops at "The Cage". Anyone else encounter this?
I don't want to see this become a nitpick thread on the book -- I enjoyed seeing a few photos I had not seen before -- but it looks as if the research and proofreading (or lack thereof) may be on the level of TATV.
*Edit - I logged in again and now the preview goes through "The Return of the Archons". Another odd gaffe is a stage shot of the 1st or 2nd pilot Enterprise attributed to "Tomorrow is Yesterday". Oh my...
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With a lot of books on Amazon, you can preview more pages if you log in to your customer account.
Kor
Thanks; yeah it's weird because I'm signed into my account on Firefox and I can only go as far as "The Cage", but when I signed in through IE I can see through "Devil in the Dark". Tried signing out, clearing cookies, etc.; same thing.
I am personally more astonished at the errors in this book than I was at those in TATV. At least in TATV the editorial content was the meat of the books; here the photos are the main draw and the editorial content (with Cushman's style -- such as it is -- all over it) is only an opportunity for the sloppiness to shine through. As with TATV, anyone who might pay $40 for this book is going to instantly zero in on errors like the two I pointed out in my previous post. In a book like this, who cares who wrote the episodes and what they cost anyway? The book's primary value is as an aggregation of photos -- most I've seen before but some I've not -- that one would have to search all over the Web to find. Not sure about any copyright/licensing issues about the previously published photos; I accept that Gurian personally restored his Lincoln Enterprises film clips, but I spotted quite a few that I know were previously published -- in Allan Asherman's Star Trek Compendium for example.
Still, I enjoyed learning (if true) that the round playing cards in "Mudd's Women" were off-the-shelf items.
That right there is the issue with a Cushman book. How are you to know what's accurate and what isn't? He has proven time and again he is an unreliable source.
Neil
Apparently round playing cards been around for quite awhile: http://www.wopc.co.uk/waddingtons/cir-q-lar/index
All kinds of great behind the scenes photos here (for free 
https://www.flickr.com/photos/birdofthegalaxy/albums
Spockboy
https://www.flickr.com/photos/birdofthegalaxy/albums
Spockboy
Nice!All kinds of great behind the scenes photos here (for free
https://www.flickr.com/photos/birdofthegalaxy/albums
There are a few images there that really show off how nice "The Cage" aesthetic was, particularly for the bridge and the transporter room.
