Star Trek: Discovering the TV Series - The Original Series, The Animated Series and The Next Generation

How well do you know Star Trek?Lifelong science fiction fan, podcaster and author Tom Salinsky decided that the answer was -not well enough-, and so at the beginning of 2022, he embarked on a two-year mission to watch everything from the start of The Original Series to the end of Enterprise, at the rate of one episode per day. This book is the first part of that odyssey, covering the 79 television episodes which started it all, the animated series which briefly brought it back in the 1970s, the first six original movies and the full run of The Next Generation.As well as having fun saluting the show-s triumphs, cringing at its lapses in taste, and admiring its willingness to swing for the fences, there-s lots of fascinating behind-the-scenes information here. Why were salt-cellars unchanged in the 23rd century? Was Gene Roddenberry really not allowed to show a woman-s belly button? How many characters get killed during the run of The Animated Series? Who actually wrote the script for Wr