Herb Solow was a television programming executive at the time
that Gene Roddenberry was trying to get Star Trek launched, and in fact
was one of the first two people that Roddenberry made his first, limited
“pitch” of the show to. Over the course of the creation of Star Trek’s
two (!) different pilots and then the production of the first two (of
three) seasons of the show, Solow and co-author (and fellow Star Trek
Producer) Robert Justman were intimately involved in the series’
day-to-day fights with the networks over what kinds of stories could be
told. Solow is an irascible and outspoken guy, and this comes through in
his somewhat edgy recollections of what it took to produced Star Trek
in the early years — Gene Roddenberry tended to take all the credit for
the creation of overseeing of Star Trek, and that simply wasn’t the
case. This isn’t the first book I’d point people towards for an account
of the origins and tribulations of early Trek, but it is a different
version, from a different perspective, than most of the other “making
of” books that are out there on the subject. And it’s interesting to
read this in conjunction with some of the other Trek history volumes, to
see different sides of some of the arguments.
[
Inside Star Trek: The Real Story at Memory Alpha ]
Recommended by
Scott C. Bennett Martin Public Library
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