These Are The Voyages Announces Kickstarter Campaign For Volume 3

[doubleohfive]

Frankly, aside from regular contributors here and over at TrekMovie, I don't believe a thing I see posted about Cushman, J/B, and TATV anymore. With all the identities this dude has assumed (Matthew W. Brown, Mark Raishe, Cash Markman, etc.), about the only thing I am sure of is that Cushman is not posting anything negative about himself.

Good call!

His Memory Alpha page says, "Aside from his contributions to mainstream Hollywood, Cushman, under the pseudonym 'Cash Markman', a play on his name, has from the mid-1980s onward, been concurrently engaged in a parallel career as writer, producer and director in the adult motion picture industry [3], and as such has over 500 adult movie credits to his name, including the nine Star Trek themed outings, the Sex Trek-series (1990-2007) in particular."

A listing of all 845 (!) of the porn films he's written can be found at the IMDB.

While there's certainly nothing wrong with that career path, you'll forgive the pun, but I certainly did not see that coming.

 

[Indysolo]

Frankly, aside from regular contributors here and over at TrekMovie, I don't believe a thing I see posted about Cushman, J/B, and TATV anymore. With all the identities this dude has assumed (Matthew W. Brown, Mark Raishe, Cash Markman, etc.), about the only thing I am sure of is that Cushman is not posting anything negative about himself.

Good call!

His Memory Alpha page says, "Aside from his contributions to mainstream Hollywood, Cushman, under the pseudonym 'Cash Markman', a play on his name, has from the mid-1980s onward, been concurrently engaged in a parallel career as writer, producer and director in the adult motion picture industry [3], and as such has over 500 adult movie credits to his name, including the nine Star Trek themed outings, the Sex Trek-series (1990-2007) in particular."

A listing of all 845 (!) of the porn films he's written can be found at the IMDB.

While there's certainly nothing wrong with that career path, you'll forgive the pun, but I certainly did not see that coming.

Wait, seriously? The shady guy I questioned on facebook makes porno? 845 pornos? From the 80's until now? When did he find time to research and write these books? He wrote and directed a lot of porno in the last 6 years! This is startling!

Neil

 

[Christopher]

Koenig's memoir is probably my favorite, and his diary written during the production of TMP probably has more insight into the production than Susan Sackett's whitewashed making of book.

Somehow I've never managed to get hold of Chekov's Enterprise. I really should remedy that sometime.

The Making of Star Trek is iconic and a good read, but you have to remember it was an authorized book guided (if not actually written) by Roddenberry while the series was still being made.

I seem to recall reading somewhere that, despite being listed as co-author, Roddenberry probably didn't write anything more than his ALL-CAPS quotes peppered through the book. Which seems plausible given Roddenberry's credit-hogging tendencies.

I just read The World of Star Trek. Frankly, Gerrold comes across as naive, and his version of the series has obviously had the rougher edges sanded down.

Naive how?

The thread at Trek Movie about this Kickstarter has been fascinating. So much so that Trek Movie has even updated their article to say, "***UPDATE***

Since this story’s publication last Friday, it has come to our attention that Marc Cushman has a monetary interest in the Jacob Brown Media Group. Subsequently, the project’s Kickstarter pitch was changed to reflect this new information."

There was talk about that in the thread and some pretty damning evidence that linked Mr. Cushman to Jacob Brown Media Group, the publishing company that doesn't want the book out this year while he does. It seems they are one and the same!

So, what, he's pretending there's resistance from his publisher in order to convince people to give him more money? Sort of holding his own book for ransom?

 

[doubleohfive]

Frankly, aside from regular contributors here and over at TrekMovie, I don't believe a thing I see posted about Cushman, J/B, and TATV anymore. With all the identities this dude has assumed (Matthew W. Brown, Mark Raishe, Cash Markman, etc.), about the only thing I am sure of is that Cushman is not posting anything negative about himself.

Good call!

His Memory Alpha page says, "Aside from his contributions to mainstream Hollywood, Cushman, under the pseudonym 'Cash Markman', a play on his name, has from the mid-1980s onward, been concurrently engaged in a parallel career as writer, producer and director in the adult motion picture industry [3], and as such has over 500 adult movie credits to his name, including the nine Star Trek themed outings, the Sex Trek-series (1990-2007) in particular."

A listing of all 845 (!) of the porn films he's written can be found at the IMDB.

While there's certainly nothing wrong with that career path, you'll forgive the pun, but I certainly did not see that coming.

Wait, seriously? The shady guy I questioned on facebook makes porno? 845 pornos? From the 80's until now? When did he find time to research and write these books? He wrote and directed a lot of porno in the last 6 years! This is startling!

Neil

I love that the Memory Alpha page has to spell out that "Cash Markman" is a play on Cushman's name. Thanks for the intel!

 

[Indysolo]

The thread at Trek Movie about this Kickstarter has been fascinating. So much so that Trek Movie has even updated their article to say, "***UPDATE***

Since this story’s publication last Friday, it has come to our attention that Marc Cushman has a monetary interest in the Jacob Brown Media Group. Subsequently, the project’s Kickstarter pitch was changed to reflect this new information."

There was talk about that in the thread and some pretty damning evidence that linked Mr. Cushman to Jacob Brown Media Group, the publishing company that doesn't want the book out this year while he does. It seems they are one and the same!

So, what, he's pretending there's resistance from his publisher in order to convince people to give him more money? Sort of holding his own book for ransom?

That's the theory. Trek Movie and the Kickstarter page updating their info supports it.

Neil

 

[Harvey]

I just read The World of Star Trek. Frankly, Gerrold comes across as naive, and his version of the series has obviously had the rougher edges sanded down.

Naive how?

He underplays a lot of the on-set tensions, exaggerates the importance of the letter writing campaign in the show's renewal, and reiterates a few other Roddenberry-created myths. Some of this, of course, is a result of when the book was written, but it's obvious that Gerrold was somebody who had completely bought into the cult of Roddenberry at that point in his life (later, of course, his experience on The Next Generation led him down a much different path).

YMMV.

 

[Khan 2.0]

Frankly, aside from regular contributors here and over at TrekMovie, I don't believe a thing I see posted about Cushman, J/B, and TATV anymore. With all the identities this dude has assumed (Matthew W. Brown, Mark Raishe, Cash Markman, etc.), about the only thing I am sure of is that Cushman is not posting anything negative about himself.

Good call!

His Memory Alpha page says, "Aside from his contributions to mainstream Hollywood, Cushman, under the pseudonym 'Cash Markman', a play on his name, has from the mid-1980s onward, been concurrently engaged in a parallel career as writer, producer and director in the adult motion picture industry [3], and as such has over 500 adult movie credits to his name, including the nine Star Trek themed outings, the Sex Trek-series (1990-2007) in particular."

A listing of all 845 (!) of the porn films he's written can be found at the IMDB.

While there's certainly nothing wrong with that career path, you'll forgive the pun, but I certainly did not see that coming.

Wait, seriously? The shady guy I questioned on facebook makes porno? 845 pornos? From the 80's until now? When did he find time to research and write these books? He wrote and directed a lot of porno in the last 6 years! This is startling!

Neil

wha..?

That's abit weird

 

[Daddy Todd]

The Kickstarter has vastly exceeded its goal, so we can expect to see Volume Three next month.

 

[Indysolo]

They should delay publishing and pay an editor with the surplus.

Neil

 

[Steve Roby]

They should delay publishing and pay an editor with the surplus.

This. But that's true of pretty much every small press, indy publisher, and self publisher.