The Nitpicker's Guide for Classic Trekkers (Nitpicker's Guides) - Softcover

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Farrand, Phil

 
9780440506836: The Nitpicker's Guide for Classic Trekkers (Nitpicker's Guides)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0440506832 ISBN 13: 9780440506836
Verlag: Random House Publishing Group, 1994

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Six feature films, the wildly successful  television spin-off Star Trek: The Next  Generation, endless reruns, videotapes,  conventions, a line of best-selling novels, and William  Shatner's New York Times  best-seller Star Trek Memories have  kept the Star Trek spirit alive  and well, even 25 years after its cancellation. Now  this must-have book for all Trekkers -- which  covers every episode of the original series, the  pilot, and all six movies -- reveals all the bloopers,  continuity errors, plot oversights, equipment  malfunctions, and goof-ups that discerning, die-hard  fans love to spot, but may have missed. Written  especially for all those who find themselves  thinking, "Hey, if the transporter is broken, why  don't they just use a shuttlecraft?", this  nitpicky volume includes Kirk's toupee watch; an  examination of the logic of the miniskirted female crew  members; number of times Kirk violated the Prime  Detective and lots of trivia questions, fun facts,  quizzes, and more. Live long and nitpick.

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Phil Farrand is an award-winning computer programmer best known for the creation of Finale. He is also the author of The Nitpicker's Guide for Next Generation Trekkers, The Nitpicker's Guide for Classic Trekkers, The Nitpicker's Guide for Next Generation Trekkers, Vol. II, The Nitpicker's Guide for Deep Space Nine Trekkers, and The Nitpicker's Guide for X-Philes.

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films, the wildly successful  television spin-off Star Trek: The Next  Generation, endless reruns, videotapes,  conventions, a line of best-selling novels, and William  Shatner's New York Times  best-seller Star Trek Memories have  kept the Star Trek spirit alive  and well, even 25 years after its cancellation. Now  this must-have book for all Trekkers -- which  covers every episode of the original series, the  pilot, and all six movies -- reveals all the bloopers,  continuity errors, plot oversights, equipment  malfunctions, and goof-ups that discerning, die-hard  fans love to spot, but may have missed. Written  especially for all those who find themselves  thinking, "Hey, if the transporter is broken, why  don't they just use a shuttlecraft?", this  nitpicky volume includ

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films, the wildly successful television spin-off Star Trek: The Next Generation, endless reruns, videotapes, conventions, a line of best-selling novels, and William Shatner's New York Times best-seller Star Trek Memories have kept the Star Trek spirit alive and well, even 25 years after its cancellation. Now this must-have book for all Trekkers -- which covers every episode of the original series, the pilot, and all six movies -- reveals all the bloopers, continuity errors, plot oversights, equipment malfunctions, and goof-ups that discerning, die-hard fans love to spot, but may have missed. Written especially for all those who find themselves thinking, "Hey, if the transporter is broken, why don't they just use a shuttlecraft?", this nitpicky volume includ

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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 to identify the episode from which the stills are taken. Interestingly enough, when the creators originally broadcast the episodes over network television, some of the stills in the closing credits came from episodes not yet aired. For instance, the first episode to air on network television, “The Man Trap,” has the garden scene from “Where No Man Has Gone Before” as a closing still. When this happened, the closing stills functioned as a sneak preview for later episodes. You will notice that there are a few stills I couldn’t identify. If you can identify them, write me at the address at the back of this Guide and become a member of the Nitpicker’s Guild (if you aren’t already).
 
A word about the resources I used while constructing this guide. I purchased a complete set of video rental tapes from Paramount through my local Blockbusters. These tapes included the network versions of the seventy-nine episodes and “The Cage.” I also purchased the six-pack of Star Trek movies from a local wholesale club. Some of these tapes contain additional footage not seen in the theaters. The copies of the syndicated episodes were taped here in Springfield, Missouri from regular television over the past several years. (It airs only once a week.) It is possible that the episodes are syndicated differently around the world. However, I have it on good authority that the masters used by my local television station came from Paramount. In addition, Jeanne Cavelos, my editor, loaned me a few of her tapes—recorded ten years ago in Syracuse, New York—and a spot check revealed that they had edits identical to the ones recorded locally.
 
Diehard fans of classic Trek will immediately realize that I do not discuss the television episodes in production order. Instead, I have listed them in their original air date order. (Believe me, I can hear the howls ascending even as I write this! Wink, wink.) I realize that all the other reference materials list the episodes in production order. (Then again, I’ve never been one to follow the crowd quietly.) Certainly, Jeanne and I had more than one discussion on this topic. As a purist, I felt it was important to view the episodes as the creators originally offered them to the fans. I understand that for the past twenty years television stations have played them in production order. Television stations also play Star Trek: The Next Generation in production order. This method results in “Skin of Evil” playing before “Symbiosis” because it was produced before “Symbiosis.” So Yar gets killed in “Skin of Evil” and then magically resurrects in “Symbiosis.” (In addition, “Unification II” was actually produced before “Unification I,” but the television stations play that particular combination in air date order, not production order.) Because of these types of problems, I listed the episodes in air date order in the NextGen Guide. For consistency, I did the same in the classic Guide. Having said all that, let me add that someone at Paramount seems to agree with my air date approach. After the twelfth episode in the original television series—“The Conscience of the King”—all the teasers on the prerecorded tapes for the “next voyage” of the Enterprise are in air date order (except when they’re just plain wrong). Of course, this raises an interesting point for dyed-in-the-wool nitpickers. For instance, the tape I purchased from Paramount unequivocally states that “Who Mourns for Adonais?” follows “Amok Time.” Yet the reference materials from Pocket Books say that “The Doomsday Machine” follows “Amok Time.” What are we to believe? The printed word? Or that which we see with our own eyes on a copy of the original version of the episode that aired on network television? (Oh, the grand tribulations of being a nitpicker.)
 
In any order, if you happen to have the episodes on videotape, pull them out and...

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Verlag
Random House Publishing Group
Erscheinungsdatum
1994
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0440506832
ISBN 13 
9780440506836
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Anzahl der Seiten
408
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