A comprehensive guide to the Star Trek phenomenon provides facts and trivia about the actors, directors, writers, characters, aliens, planets, ships, special effects, and other aspects of the popular TV series and its TV and film spinoffs. Reprint.

Trek: The Unauthorized A-Z

Schuster, Hal

Rathbone, Wendy

Reference

Harpercollins

This insider's guide to television's most popular time travel series is a must for the show's intense cult following, as well as fans of the highly successful, ongoing series of novels. In its five years on prime time. Quantum Leap won two Golden Globe Awards and set a standard for excellence in science fiction. This intriguing book takes the reader behind the scenes of the program, and includes answers to the 25 most common questions about the series and its stars.
Quantum Leap aired on prime time for five years and won two Golden Globe awards.

The Making of Quantum Leap (Pioneer, 5)

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

HarperEntertainment

In 1995, almost 30 years after the premier of the original Star Trek®, Paramount Pictures aired a new Star Trek series. Star Trek: Voyager® was the flagship of its new network, UPN, and the first Star Trek created without the input and guidance of the franchise’s creator, Gene Roddenbery. In The Trekker’s Guide to Voyager, you’ll learn what goes on both behind and in front of the camera in the words of the people closest to the events. Nowhere else will you find detailed biographies of the actors and production crew, complete character profiles, and in-depth specs on every alien in the Delta Quadrant. Learn exactly why Genevieve Bujold quit the role of Captain Janeway just 2 days after she began work on the show. Discover why Voyager is the fourth series (including Generations) in which Tim Russ appears. And just how far away is the Delta Quadrant, anyway? It’s all here—and nowhere else. Plus, The Trekker’s Guide to Voyager features a special guide to the first two seasons of the show, along with a discussion of the oversights, inaccuracies, and outright blunders that mysteriously appear from time to time. Everything from confused camera angles to disappearing shoes to plot holes through which you could pilot a starship is covered in this comprehensive guide. Totally uncensored, utterly fascinating, and intricately detailed, this book is the ultimate guide to Star Trek: Voyager®. About the Author Hal Schuster is the author of numerous unauthorized Star Trek books and the former editor and publisher of Enterprise Incidents and Comics Feature magazines. He lives in Berkeley, California, and Bangkok, Thailand. This book was not approved, prepared, licensed, or endorsed by any entity involved in creating or producing the Star Trek television series or films.

The Trekker's Guide to Voyager: Complete, Unauthorized, and Uncensored

Television

Prima Lifestyles

1966—The first Star Trek pilot, “The Cage,” is aired. 1977—Star Trek II, a new television show featuring the original cast, is proposed—and never made. 1979—Star Trek: The Motion Picture, the first in what would become a long line of feature films, is released. 1987—A totally new Star Trek television show premieres—a show that would become one of the most popular syndicated series of all time, spawn two more Trek-inspired shows, and start another series of successful feature films. Star Trek: The Next Generation is born—and science fiction television is changed forever. The Trekker’s Guide to the Next Generation reveals what went into—and was left out of—the seven television seasons and two feature films about the crew of the second Enterprise. Hal Schuster, a long-time, prominent chronicler of the Star Trek phenomenon, details just how the show was created, and how it changed following the death of Star Trek originator Gene Roddenberry. He traces the history of The Next Generation from the cancellation of a popular program to the beginnings of a box-office serial smash. Using information culled from interviews, the show’s own bible, and other sources, The Trekker’s Guide to The Next Generation takes you inside the popular phenomenon. Read character profiles and biographies of the actors who brought them to life. Get plot summaries for each of the 177 television episodes, plus guest stars, innovations, and bloopers. Learn what happened between James T. Kirk’s command and the debut of the new Enterprise with Captain Jean-Luc Picard at the helm. Review Star Trek science, comparing factual physics and the writers’ flights of fancy. Totally unauthorized and uncensored The Trekker’s Guide to The Next Generation tells you what the producers at Paramount Pictures don’t want you to know! About the Author Hal Schuster is the author of The Trekker’s Guide to Voyager (Prima) and Trek: The Unauthorized A to Z. He is the former editor and publisher of Enterprise Incidents and Comics Features magazines. This book was not approved, prepared, licensed, or endorsed by any entity involved in creating or producing the Star Trek television series or films.

The Trekker's Guide to The Next Generation: Complete, Unauthorized, and Uncensored

Science Fiction & Fantasy

If you're a Trekker, you've logged some serious time on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. But have you caught every episode? Can you recount every major story arc? Do you know the characters' backgrounds—and those of the actors? Can you recite Ferengi Rule of Acquisition 76? If not, then you need this book! Put your Trekker expertise to the test with this pop quiz. • Most episodes of DS9 cost around $1.5 million. For what landmark episode did the producers double the usual budget to $3 million? • According to the star date system of time, when did the Big Bang occur? • Without the wormhole, how long would a journey from the Alpha Quandrant to the Gamma Quadrant take? • Which actor can count among his uncles a former prime minister and famous actor Malcom McDowell (whose credits include the move Star Trek: Generations)? • Which actor was formerly a professor teaching theater at Rutgers University? • How often has Q, the meddlesome, mischievous, omnipotent being, darkened the portals of DS9? • How did the episode "Way of the Warrior" change the series— and who joined the crew of Deep Space Nine? Veteran Trekker Hal Schuster tells all here. Episode by episode, he recounts the stars, writers, directors, plots, and SNAFUs. He explains how the series was created, how it has changed, and where it's headed. With biographies of the actors and their characters, a Star Trek timeline, a Trekker's guide to the Internet, and much more, this is the ultimate guide to Deep Space Nine—totally uncensored, intricately detailed, and utterly fascinating. About the Author Hal Schuster is an expert on science fiction and television and the author of The Trekker's Guide to Voyager, The Trekker's Guide to The Next Generation, and The Unauthorized Guide to The X-Files. He is the former editor and publisher of Enterprise Incidents and Comics Features magazines.

The Trekker's Guide to Deep Space Nine: Complete, Unauthorized, and Uncensored

Television critics complain it's unrealistic—FBI agents Mulder and Scully tracking extraterrestrial intelligences loose upon the world. Followers of The X-Files TV series can't seem to get enough. Now, author Hal Schuster offers fans the key to unlocking The X-Files. His latest book, Unauthorized Guide to The X-Files reveals everything the television network FOX doesn't want viewers to know. It will help readers unravel the story line, episode by episode. They'll discover bloopers that were covered up and others that went forgotten. They can download inside jokes, Internet data, and scoops about comic-book and novel clones. This x-traordinarily detailed guide provides a probing look at the X-File series, which has received the Golden Globe Awards and recognition in the Emmys. From its conception to its fourth year on air, readers will discover: • What inspired Chris Carter, an ex-surfer, to create The X-Files • How critics, the industry, and viewers have reacted to the series • How similar Anderson and Duchovny are to the characters Mulder and Scully • How many mistakes appear in an average episode of The X-Files Even TV critics may want to investigate this one: Unauthorized Guide to the X-Files opens with an analytical look at the latest real-life evidence pointing toward outer-space intelligence. According to Schuster, TV's most terrifying series may be far closer to reality than fiction. It also includes an extensive appendix that lists real-life X-Files and the organizations that investigate them, as well as an overview of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Readers will find listed hundreds of magazines, agencies and on-line sites featuring the sort of topics found on The X-Files About the Author Hal Schuster is the author of The Trekker's Guide to Voyager and The Trekker's Guide to The Next Generation (both from Prima). He lives in Bangkok and Berkeley, California.

The Unauthorized Guide to the X-Files

Plot summaries, reviews, cast, credits, and movie stills are offered for all thirty-one Elvis Presley films

Hal Schuster's the Films of Elvis Presley

Arts & Photography

Performing Arts

Pioneer Books

Author: James Van Hise, Hal Schuster,Publisher: Pioneer BooksKeywords: trek, fans, star, magazine, incidents, enterprisePublished: 1990-07Language: EnglishCategory: Television, Humor &amp; Entertainment,ISBN-10: 1556982313 ISBN-13: 9781556982316Binding: Paperback

The Best of Enterprise Incidents: The Magazine for Star Trek Fans

Van Hise, James

Discusses how to put a computer to use in a home business, and covers starting up, promotion, word processing, accounting, sales, mail order, telecommunications, and graphics

How to Use a Computer in Your Home Office

Computers & Technology

SNL!.: The World of Saturday Night Live tells the tale of the show-how such a radical experiment made it to the air and the times it was almost cancelled; the on-again/off-again relationship of the producer/creator Lorne Michales; the conflict and friendships of the cast and the creative crew.

Snl!: The World of Saturday Night Live

Nance, Scott

Fherenbach, Kurt

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