The First Star Trek Movie

Bringing the Franchise to the Big Screen, 1969-1980

Sherilyn Connelly (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

242 Seiten

2019
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-7251-9 (ISBN)

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The history of Star Trek's resurrection, between its 1969 cancellation and the 1979 release of Star Trek - The Motion Picture, has become legend. Like many legends, it tends to get printed instead of the facts. Drawing on contemporary news articles and primary sources, this book tells the true story of the first Star Trek reboot.

The story of Star Trek's resurrection between the 1969 cancellation of the original series and the 1979 release of Robert Wise's Star Trek--The Motion Picture, has become legend and like so many other legends, it tends to get printed instead of the facts. Drawing on hundreds of contemporary news articles and primary sources not seen in decades, this book tells the true story of the first successful Star Trek revival.

After several attempts to relaunch the franchise, ST--TMP was released on a wave of prestige promotion, hype, and public frenzy unheard of for a film based on a television show. Controversy surrounded its troubled production and $44M budget, earning it a reputation at the time as the most expensive movie ever made. After a black-tie premiere in Washington, D.C., its opening in 856 North American theaters broke multiple box-office records--a harbinger of the modern blockbuster era. Despite immediate financial success, the film was panned by both critics and the public, leaving this enterprise nowhere to boldly go but down.

Sherilyn Connelly is a San Francisco-based writer and librarian.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Redefinition of Unwarranted

Prologue: Star Trek—The MacArthur Premiere

1969: The Network’s Knife Cares Not for the Show’s Cry

Star Trek Dies 25

1970–1972: What’s in Reruns Is Prologue

Star Trek Has Risen from the Grave 30 delete• deleteThe Long Con

Begins 31

1973–1974: Choose Your Televised Pain

Genesis II v. Planet of the Apes 37 delete• deleteThe Animated Series

Is Pre-Rejected by the Fans 38 delete• deleteThe Animated Series

Barely Accepted by the Fans 41 delete• deleteRoddenberry on Tour 44

1975: Magicam to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad

Star Trek II Is Announced; Expectations Are Managed 49 delete• deleteRumored Redford 53 delete• deleteStar Trek II Is Denounced; Expectations Are Mangled 55

1976: The War Within the Script, the War Without

Harlan Ellison v. Star Trek 58 delete• deleteThe 743 Speak 59 delete• delete

The Isenberg Cometh; The Trektennial Begins 61 delete• delete

Look Now! It’s Bryant and Scott 66 delete• deleteKaufman

Commissioned 67 delete• deleteA Log … of the Stars! 70 delete• delete

Enter Eisner 73

1977: The Battle of the Binary Star Treks

Captain Kirk Almost Meets John Galt 75 delete• deleteOf Cygnans

and Spiders; Kaufman Keelhauled 79 delete• deleteThe Fourth Network

Awakens 84 delete• deleteHere We Are Now, Entertain Us the Way

Tell You To 87 delete• deleteShatner Says “See Ya Never!” 90 delete• delete

“Robot’s Return” Returns 93 delete• deleteRoddenberry Ruminates 97 delete• deleteThe New Kids on the Bridge; Whither Leonard? 99 delete• deleteCollins Conferred; The Fourth Network Sees Its Shadow 103

1978: Into the Luminescent Powerfield I Go

Roddenberry Recaps 108 delete• deleteThe Starship of the 1970s

Future 110 delete• deleteCollins Cleaved; Wise Wrangled 113 delete• delete

Star Trek—The Massive Presser 114 delete• deleteMagicam Can’t,

but Abel’s Able 119 delete• deleteTo Boldly Pump the Brakes 120

1979: Will You Take My $44M Hand?

Star Trek—The Marketing Problem, Part I: The Nerve

Steel 127 delete• deleteStar Trek—The Marketing Problem,

Part II: The Purview of John Askew 130 delete• deleteStar Trek—

The Marketing Problem, Part III: Set Printers to “Tilt” 134 delete• deleteStar Trek—The Marketing Problem, Part IV: Brrap Brrap

Pew Pew! 140 delete• deleteStar Trek—The Marketing Problem,

Part V: Ready-to-Spacewear, Everywhere 144 delete• deleteStar Trek—

The Marketing Problem, Part VI: A Wagon of Trailers Full

of Stars 148 delete• deleteStar Trek—The Manifest Procession, Part I: New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Florida 154 delete• deleteStar Trek—The Manifest Procession, Part II: Kentucky, Mississippi and Arkansas 160 delete• deleteStar Trek—The Manifest Procession,

Part III: Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Minnesota 162 delete• delete

Star Trek—The Manifest Procession, Part IV: South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Utah and Arizona 164 delete• deleteStar Trek—

The Manifest Procession, Part V: Washington, Oregon, Nevada

and California 167 delete• deleteThe Shakedown, Part I: Acceleration 170

1980: The Vulcan Goodbye

The Shakedown, Part II: Deceleration 177 delete• deleteOne Brief, Shining Sequel Set in … Camelot! 179 delete• deleteA Moving Analog Image

Transferred from a Magnetic Medium 182 delete• deleteV’ger’s Gait 183

Epilogue: Star Trek—The Mathematical Phantom

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	25.10.2019
Zusatzinfo	13 photos, notes, bibliography, index
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	331 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
ISBN-10	1-4766-7251-2 / 1476672512
ISBN-13	978-1-4766-7251-9 / 9781476672519
Zustand	Neuware