Patrick Stewart is writing a Star Trek book???

[Ro_Laren]

I was looking on www.trekweb.com and there was an article titled "Rod Roddenberry on New Star Trek Movie, Patrick Stewart to Write Star Trek Book" I clicked on the article and read it. It said that Patrick Stewart is writing a book. Then I clicked on the link to the source article(the original article on a Croatian web-site), which again just said that Patrick Stewart is writing a book.

So my question is this... is Patrick Stewart writing a Star Trek book or some other type of book??

 

[Smiley]

Most likely, he is writing an autobiographical book that will include some of his memories of working on Trek.

 

[JD]

^That's impression I got from what Rod said in the interview.

 

[CaptainDonovin]

Should be interesting to read his feelings on the whole Trek expierence. I've seen some of themin interviews.

 

[Christopher]

Ro_Laren said:
So my question is this... is Patrick Stewart writing a Star Trek book or some other type of book??

All we know is: a) Stewart is writing some kind of book; b) websites have no journalistic standards. Whoever wrote that headline jumped to a totally unsubstantiated conclusion.

 

[Man of Steel]

Whatever the book turns out to be is sure to be interesting. Stewart has led a very interesting career.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Living Dead Guy said:
Whatever the book turns out to be is sure to be interesting. Stewart has led a very interesting career.

A friend of mine used to have an old hardcover book about the UK Shakespearean scene, which included a chapter by Patrick Stewart and a pic of him on the cover.

 

[Christopher]

Therin of Andor said:
A friend of mine used to have an old hardcover book about the UK Shakespearean scene, which included a chapter by Patrick Stewart and a pic of him on the cover.

I wonder if that's the same book I used as a reference for a paper in a Shakespeare class once. It was a book of essays on performing Shakespearean characters by several actors noted for their Shakespearean work. Stewart's chapter was about how he played Shylock, although that wasn't the chapter I based my paper on (the class was dealing with a different play).

 

[Therin of Andor]

That's the one. She used to be a librarian and bought it in a sell-off of old books for a matter of cents. She put it in a ST charity auction at the height of TNG's popularity and it sold rather well.

 

[seigezunt]

what, no Stewartverse novel?

 

[Man of Steel]

seigezunt said:
what, no Stewartverse novel?

No comment on statement. Just wanted to say that I love those quotes at the bottom. Hysterical stuff.

 

[David cgc]

seigezunt said:
what, no Stewartverse novel?

We don't need 'em. We had three Stewartverse movies.

 

[Michael_Kroh]

Stewartverse... ...rock on...

 

[LoneStranger]

I think those were Stewartspinerverse movies.

 

[donners22]

How many "behind the scenes" books have there been since TOS? I can only think of the Captain's Logs & Companions, but nothing by people actually involved in the series.

 

[Man of Steel]

William Shatner wrote two:

Star Trek: Memories about his time on the series and:

Star Trek: Movie Memories about his time on all 7 films.

 

[Christopher]

If Stewart is writing a book, I'd expect it to be about his career in general, not specifically about ST. Remember, he was already a celebrated 21-year veteran of the Royal Shakespeare Company when he got cast as Captain Picard.

 

[Therin of Andor]

donners22 said:
How many "behind the scenes" books have there been since TOS? I can only think of the Captain's Logs & Companions, but nothing by people actually involved in the series.

Lots!

How about: "Chekov's Enterprise", Walter Koenig's hilarious diary about the making of ST:TMP?

"Captain's Log: The Making of ST V" by Lisbeth Shatner and William Shatner.

The autobiographies of Shatner, Nimoy, Doohan, Takei, Nichols and Koenig.

"Star Trek: Action!" hardcover.

Among others.

Paramount quashed plans for the release of Michael Piller's tell-all guide for screenwriters re his experiences on "Insurrection".

 

[donners22]

Therin of Andor said:

donners22 said:
How many "behind the scenes" books have there been since TOS? I can only think of the Captain's Logs & Companions, but nothing by people actually involved in the series.

Lots!

How about: "Chekov's Enterprise", Walter Koenig's hilarious diary about the making of ST:TMP?

"Captain's Log: The Making of ST V" by Lisbeth Shatner and William Shatner.

The autobiographies of Shatner, Nimoy, Doohan, Takei, Nichols and Koenig.

"Star Trek: Action!" hardcover.

Among others.

Paramount quashed plans for the release of Michael Piller's tell-all guide for screenwriters re his experiences on "Insurrection".

I probably wasn't clear, yet you seem to have answered my question nonetheless. I was curious as to whether anyone outside the TOS cast/crew had written a "behind the scenes" style novel, and I note that every one you have listed is from that era.

I know Burton, Dorn and Eisenberg have written fiction novels unrelated to Trek, but haven't seen any of the TNG or later cast or crew writing about their experiences.

 

[Man of Steel]

donners22 said:

Therin of Andor said:

donners22 said:
How many "behind the scenes" books have there been since TOS? I can only think of the Captain's Logs & Companions, but nothing by people actually involved in the series.

Lots!

How about: "Chekov's Enterprise", Walter Koenig's hilarious diary about the making of ST:TMP?

"Captain's Log: The Making of ST V" by Lisbeth Shatner and William Shatner.

The autobiographies of Shatner, Nimoy, Doohan, Takei, Nichols and Koenig.

"Star Trek: Action!" hardcover.

Among others.

Paramount quashed plans for the release of Michael Piller's tell-all guide for screenwriters re his experiences on "Insurrection".

I probably wasn't clear, yet you seem to have answered my question nonetheless. I was curious as to whether anyone outside the TOS cast/crew had written a "behind the scenes" style novel, and I note that every one you have listed is from that era.

I know Burton, Dorn and Eisenberg have written fiction novels unrelated to Trek, but haven't seen any of the TNG or later cast or crew writing about their experiences.

William Shatner wrote two:

Star Trek: Memories about his time on the series and:

Star Trek: Movie Memories about his time on all 7 film