James Hise - The Unauthorized Trekkers’ Guide to the Next Generation and Deep Space Nine

Voyager

THE UNAUTHORIZED

TREKKERS’GUIDE TO

THE NEXT

GENERATION

AND

DEEP SPACE

NINE

BY JAMES VAN HISE

COPYRIGHT

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HOW ENTERTAINMENT BECOMES LEGEND

The phenomenal success of Star Trek inspired two spectacular spin-offs, both of which have gone on to join the ranks of the most-watched television shows of all time.

This unauthorized guidebook, two complete volumes in one, examines both of these shows in fascinating detail – the characters and the creators, the episodes behind the episodes, the actors, the make-up artists, the special-effect geniuses and the voyages that landed on the cutting room floor.

This complete guidebook to The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine is more than just a reference book. It is a behind-the-scenes look at how a success story continues.

Author James Van Hise, considered by many to be the world’s leading Star Trek expert, is also known for his work as editor of Midnight Graffiti magazine, where he brought to public attention such authors as Stephen King and Harlan Ellison.

DEDICATION

Dedicated to

Gene Roddenberry,

who started it all

CONTENTS

COVER

TITLE PAGE

COPYRIGHT

DEDICATION

PART I: INTRODUCTION

THE ENDURANCE OF STAR TREK

PART II: THE NEXT GENERATION

CHAPTER 1: ENTER THE NEXT GENERATION

Aboard the New Enterprise

Special Effects

CHAPTER 2: CHARACTERS AND CAST

Captain Jean-Luc Picard

Commander William Riker

Lt. Commander Data

Lieutenant Worf

Doctor Beverly Crusher

Lt. Commander Deanna Troi

Lieutenant Geordi La Forge

Security Chief Tasha Yar

Guinan

CHAPTER 3: THE NEXT GENERATION OVERVIEW

Season One

Season Two

Season Three

Season Four

Season Five

Season Six

Season Seven

PART III: DEEP SPACE NINE

INTRODUCTION: THE THIRD GENERATION

CHAPTER 1: THE BACKGROUND

Behind the Scenes: The Creation

Laying the Groundwork—From The Next Generation to Deep Space Nine

Special Corner of the Galaxy: The Realm of Deep Space Nine

Comparing Treks

CHAPTER 2: CHARACTERS AND CAST

Commander Benjamin Sisko

Jake Sisko

Chief of Operations Miles O’Brien

Keiko O’Brien

Major Kira Nerys

Lieutenant Jadzia Dax

Security Chief Odo

Doctor Julian Bashir

Quark

PART IV: APPENDICES

The Next Generation: Episode Guide Seasons 1-7

Season One

Season Two

Season Three

Season Four

Season Five

Season Six

Season Seven

Deep Space Nine: Episode Guide Seasons 1-2

Season One

Second Season

Brent Spiner—In Person

Honors for Gene Roddenberry

KEEP READING

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

ALSO BY

ABOUT THE PUBLISHER

PART

1

INTRODUCTION

THE ENDURANCE OF STAR TREK

“Like Spain’s Francisco Franco, Star Trek has been fatally dead for a long time. Now and then the mortuary shoots an electric current through the corpse, and the resultant spasm releases yet another manual or quiz or convention or novel or book of fan fiction or whathaveyou, but after nearly a decade there’s little life left in the old cadaver.”

—Gil Lamont & James K. Burk DeLap’s F & SF Review (March/April 1978)

This quote reflects the reception science fiction fandom gave Star Trek fans in the mid to late seventies. They looked down on Star Trek , and chose to dismiss it. These intemperate remarks ignored growing popular interests as fan interest attained a life greater than the TV image that inspired it.

This touched common chords in many individuals. Some went through life quietly enamored with the series, unaware they shared a common bond with countless strangers until they found a Star Trek fanzine or walked into a convention.

Before Star Trek’ s fitful return to the screen in the 1979 Star Trek: The Motion Picture , a backlash of anti- Star Trek sentiment raged. It began with the attitude that “those people” were “invading” otherwise sedate science fiction and comic book conventions.

I wonder how many times those critics have watched the new incarnations of Star Trek in The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine . How quickly passion doth ebb and flow.

EMBRACED BY THE MASSES

Critics to any new series were reacting to a TV show that had perished in 1969. They thought it should be buried. Many of these detractors read novels by dead authors or comic strips by dead artists. They pursued interests without practical purpose and with no hope of continuation by their talented creators. But Star Trek , they felt, was just a TV show in reruns.

Reruns (or reprints) can still be appreciated. H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, E. E. “Doc” Smith, Edgar Allan Poe, Clark Ashton Smith, Rod Serling, Edgar Rice Burroughs, and many others, including H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, left books behind for fans to enjoy. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle died in 1930, yet Sherlock Holmes is appreciated by more people today than ever before. Every year, it seems, someone is inspired to take pen in hand and create an “untold” tale of London’s famous sleuth.

“New” is not an easy word. Harlan Ellison is fond of pointing out that, “Any book you have not read is a new book.”

I raised these points in a reply when the remarks that opened this article first appeared. I had hoped for a reply befitting the stature of the magazine. Instead I witnessed the death of the publication. It ended in 1978 while the “corpse” of Star Trek looks amazingly healthy these days.