![]() ![]() These behind-the-scenes sections are impressive. These sections usually feature interviews with the episode writers about how the idea for the episode came about, comments from the actors who were heavily featured (regular, recurring and guest stars alike) in the episode in question, and discussions with the director and production crew who had to turn each script into a reality. However, the meat of the book is the elaborate 'behind the scenes' section for each and every one of the 173 episodes that was made. There's an overview of the season as a whole and then a summary of each episode, as well as cast lists, transmission dates and all the usual gubbins you get in books like this. The book is divided into seven sections, one for each season of the show. The format of the book is fairly standard. This wasn't a cash-in hack job to ride on the show's popularity, but an eight-year project that is impressive in showing its creators' commitment to doing as good a job as possible. This - slightly mental - way of writing the book allowed him to interview the writers, actors and production staff at regular intervals when their memories of each episode were fresh, and in some cases be on-set for the filming of scenes. He literally started writing it in 1993 when the show launched and completed it in 1999 after it concluded, publishing it in 2000. Erdmann took the unusual step of developing it alongside the series. It's therefore appropriate that the best Star Trek series got the best companion book out of all of the series, and in fact probably the best non-fiction book ever written about Star Trek. Time has been kind to the series, however, and it is now widely regarded as the best - or at least the most consistently excellent - of the Star Trek television series. At the time it was originally on the air it was considered the 'awkward child' of the Star Trek franchise, being overshadowed at the start of its run by the end of Star Trek: The Next Generation and then for the rest of its run by the start of Star Trek: Voyager. Deep Space Nine, the second spin-off from the original Star Trek series, ran for seven seasons from 1993 to 1999. ![]()
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