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Informationen zum Autor Phil Farrand Klappentext A companion to the bestselling Nitpicker's Guide for Next Generation Trekkers! this fun and fascinating unauthorized book of bloopers and goof-ups covers all 79 episodes of the original Star Trek series as well as the first six movies. Greetings, fellow nitpickers! So now we turn our attention to classic Trek. In case you do not know, this guide is a follow-up to the earlier book, The Nitpicker’s Guide for Next Generation Trekkers. In my travels, I’ve come across an interesting attitude toward the original Star Trek series. I’ve found that many fans of Star Trek: The Next Generation view the original series like the crazy old uncle that no one wants to talk about at the family reunion. That’s unfortunate, because you can’t really understand NextGen unless you go back to its beginnings. And go back to the beginnings I have. It has been my delight to spend four months revisiting the seventy-nine episodes of the most popular science fiction television series of all time, along with the first six Star Trek movies. There really is good work here. There really is a reason this series has survived for almost three decades. Once you get past the less polished sets and cheap-looking effects, you find great stories performed by talented actors. Stories worth discussing. Stories worth nitpicking. Stories that have spawned everything that we call Star Trek today—the movies, NextGen, Deep Space Nine, and Voyager. So much has already been written about classic Trek, I feel very honored to add my little rock-throwing to the fray. As always, I’ve tried to be fair. After all, the series was produced almost three decades ago. If you are unfamiliar with a Nitpicker’s Guide, let me offer a quick tour. In this book you’ll find reviews for all seventy-nine episodes of Star Trek; the first pilot, titled “The Cage”; and the first six movies. For each I will list the title, star date, and a brief summary. I’ll add a few ruminations along the way and offer my picks for great moments. Knowing how much Trekkers love trivia, I’ll even toss two questions your way. As readers of the NextGen Guide know, I like real trivia. Then it’s on to the good stuff! I’ve taken the nits for each review and placed them in one of four major categories: Plot Oversights, Changed Premises, Equipment Oddities, and Continuity and Production Problems. Plot Oversights is a catchall. Anything that concerns the plot, or won’t fit anywhere else, goes here. Under Changed Premises you’ll discover that sometimes information given in one show directly contradicts information in another. In Equipment Oddities I’ll point out any technical problems I can find with the machinery of the Trek universe. Lastly, the section Continuity and Production Problems will expose errors in the actual creation of any of the installments of Star Trek that feature the classic cast. The episodes of the television series contain two additional categories: Syndication Cuts and Closing Stills. As you probably already know, Star Trek originally aired on network television. The program content of each episode ran fifty-one minutes, including opening credits, the teaser for the next week, and the closing credits. For syndication, the creators cut the program content to forty-six minutes, thirty seconds—deleting the teaser and approximately four minutes of each episode. Often these cuts are simply establishing and reaction shots. However, some edits actually change the meaning of the dialogue and even remove nits. Most surprising, there are twenty episodes that contain no edits. They are the same as the ones aired on network television (see “The Unsyndicated” for more information). I will list each episode’s cuts under Syndication Cuts. Under Closing Stills, I will identify the shots that serve as background for the closing credits. Since these change every week, I thought it would be fun ...
