What Are Your Top Five Books About TOS Production?

[mb22]

Zap - where's Star Trek: the Real Story?

 

[Thanos007]

Zap, how's that "Music of Star Trek"?

 

[JonnyQuest037]

I downloaded a text-only version of this about 5 years ago from TrekCore and found it quite absorbing; its title was somewhat different: FADE IN: From Idea to Final Draft / The Writing of Star Trek: Insurrection. (Before that, I'd seen a fancier version of the same text, nicely typeset and laid out with movie stills. Not sure whether either version can be easily found online today.)

Yeah. I saw that title variance, too. That's the one book on my list that I don't own. I just remembered it being good when I read it however many years ago it was. I couldn't remember the subtitle, so I just googled the main title and copied the first full title I found on Amazon. So maybe that was an earlier version or something.

 

[Thanos007]

How are the two 50 Year Mission books?

 

[ZapBrannigan]

Zap, how's that "Music of Star Trek"?

It's pretty good. I'm at work now, and haven't re-read it since it came out in 1999, but as I recall it's mostly interviews with the TOS and film composers, illustrated with their photos and some samples of sheet music.

Of course, we've had the massive "Star Trek Renaissance" in CD releases since then, starting with TWOK expansion in 2009, and now every note of music from TOS and the original cast movies is on disc from Intrada, FSM, and La-La Land Records. The book's author, Jeff Bond, wrote the liner notes for many of those CD releases. He says the book was not a financial success for him, but it helped him get those jobs writing liner notes.

 

[Mysterion]

How are the two 50 Year Mission books?

I enjoyed them. There's some stuff therein that is pretty familiar, but also ran across some bits I'd not heard before, or had only seen mentioned in passing in other sources.