Star Trek anecdotes & curiosities E-Book

Matsuteia

• Herausgeber: Voiles Deployees
• Kategorie: Sachliteratur, Reportagen, Biografien
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2022

Beschreibung

We all know the Star Trek saga, and all about this universe and about this science fiction, but maybe not everyone knows that…
Why in the original Star Trek’s serie are there two pilot episodes instead of just one?
Or how teleportation was born?
And as are the plots of the 10 episodes ever made?
Well! in this collection of anectodes and curiosities you can find answers and much more.

Leseprobe

This is a work is not to be considered a work of essays but simply

a popular collection of information in the public domain.

Without advertising intent, and without intent to infringe any rights.

Famous names or brands, although existing, mentioned for informational purposes only.

The translation from Italian of this volume is by the author (Matsuteia)

who already apologizes for any inaccuracies if the translation has failed

to take into account the idioms typical of the English language.

If readers want to help the author to improve the text

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Star Trek,

anecdotes & curiosities

byMatsuteia 

Contents:

Foreword by E.T.A. Egeskov 

Genesis... how it all began 

The pilote episode, indeed not.... were two 

Call me by my name, indeed not, don't call me 

Make a virtue of necessity, the art of recycling 

When the teleportation was inventend 

We recycle for a better world, ah no! it's because there is no money 

Characters, a first lady, aliens, humans and a unbearable pedant 

The Star Trek's First Lady 

Snooty captains 

1975-1995: I Am not Spock, I Am Spock 

The Jar Jar Binks of Star Trek or "Shut up, Wesley!" 

Curiosities, miscellaneous, various and any... 

Star Trek did 10 

10 episodes Star Trek's serie never made 

Star Trek vs Star Wars 

10 reasons because Into Darkness isn't really Star Trek in Trekkers' idea 

When Science Fiction is funny too... parodies & co. 

Space Last Frontier... 

quotes, refereces, tributes and a little culture... 

Addendum 

Films 

Books 

Games & Co. 

Foreword

by E.T.A. Egeskov

Star Trek is one of those mass phenomena that manage to resist the passage of time, to involve different audiences, to unite generations, to resist even their own failures.

And the first television series of the 60s seemed to be destined for failure, the one that gave rise to everything.

Luck, stubbornness, intelligence have allowed its creator and producer, Gene Roddenberry, to make Star Trek much more than an already complex television and film universe but even a possible future experiment, or if you prefer a possible future for humanity.

The coexistence with the other alien races, many of which in fact integrate perfectly with the human one, recalls the cultural and ethnic melting pot that generated the United States of America where Star Trek was born.

And the Federation of Planets looks so much like the Federation of the United States, although probably most Star Trek fans don't even think about it.

The undersigned has a special relationship with Star Trek, because it can boast the privilege, not by merit is understood but only by age, alas, to have seen all the episodes of the original series premiered in Italy, when really that TV series it was futuristic and revolutionary, even for those like me who had seen and appreciated the whole series of Spazio 1999, the British science fiction series aired a few years before Star Trek, at least in Italy.

The advantage of the trekker series was in making the space less distant, perhaps even less fascinating (those who have seen Spazio 1999 know what I'm talking about) but at the same time more accessible, closer, legitimizing science fiction even to those who for science fiction did not try anypassion or even abhorred it.

Among the many merits of these television series (films at least for me come in the background) was perhaps having opened the doors of the cosmos to those who perhaps still had their minds too closed on the small kitchen garden.

And if you manage to accept a Vulcans as a hero and a Klingon as a colleague then it becomes difficult to think of words such as racism, discrimination, apartheid.

I remember, incidentally, that when the TV series aired Nelson Mandela was still imprisoned on Robben Island, and racial segregation of apartheid still existed in South Africa!

I like to remember this revolutionary aspect of a television product which, revised today, cannot fail to make people smile (I speak of the original series of the 1960s) for its undoubted flaws.

And even the following series, including films, have not always proved to live up to expectations, but despite this, or perhaps for this reason, they have been able to catch the eye of people and enter the hearts of many people.

Because Star Trek is now a cultural heritage common to all the peoples of this Earth and if it has taught us at least to feel less distant and to be ordinary citizens of this fragile planet then it has far exceeded all expectations of its producer Roddenberry.

Thanks to the authors of this agile booklet that with anecdotes, curiosities and revelations reveal small secrets about the Star Trek saga or remind us of details that perhaps, for those who, like myself, have seen a lot of water pass under the bridges, were lost betweentrip at warp speed and a jump in hyperspace ... always looking for new forms of life and new civilizations to boldly go where no one has gone before!

That of Star Trek, enriched over time, has become one of the most detailed and complex imaginary universes of all science fiction.

It is an optimistic future (albeit after a devastating third world war) with utopian traits in which humanity has reached the stars, joining with other species to form a Federation of united planets and solving all the major problems that beset the planet Earth (hunger, overpopulation, ethnic discrimination, political divisions and wars, sources of energy and environmental balance).

It is supposed that this could have happened thanks to the social and cultural stimuli deriving from contact with extraterrestrial civilizations, more advanced not only from the technological point of view but, not infrequently, also ethically and socially.

(excerpt from the page dedicated toStar Trek on Wikipedia)

Genesis ... when it all began

Space, the final frontier ... here are the travels of the spaceship Enterprise, during its five-year mission, directed to the exploration of new worlds, to the discovery of other forms of life and new civilizations, up to reaching there, where no man isnever come before.

With this sentence began every episode of the famous and unforgettable American science fiction television series conceived by Gene Roddenberry in 1964 and produced since 1966 for the NBC channel and which arrived in Italy only in 1979, the first work from which the whole Star Trek universe was born.then generated other television series, films and literary works.