Star Trek FAQ 2.0 (Unofficial and Unauthorized): Everything Left to Know About the Next Generation, the Movies, and Beyond (Faq Series)
As the title indicatesStar Trek FAQ 2.0is the companion volume toStar Trek FAQ: Everything Left to Know about the First Voyages of Starship Enterprise, released in 2012 by Applause Books.Star Trek FAQrecounted the creation of the originalStar Trek, its untimely cancellation and its unprecedented, near-miraculous resurrection in the 1970s.Star Trek FAQ 2.0picks up the story from there, beginning with the near-death experience that wasStar Trek: The Motion Picture(1979) and continuing through the franchise's second amazing revival, fueled by a blockbuster trilogy of feature films and the wildly successfulStar Trek: The Next Generationseries.I addressStar Trekas a unified franchise, with a shared history and a single (albeit, at times fragmented) fan base. That's how Paramount Pictures executives thought ofStar Trek. And, for more than twenty years, the movies and various television series interacted with one another in sometimes surprising ways, creating synergies that helpedStar Treksoar to the pinnacle of its popularity and mainstream acceptance in the early 1990s, but later exacerbated the decline of the franchise when ratings and box office receipts slumped in the early 2000s. Looking at the franchise holistically, I believe, reveals fresh insights into the backstage dynamics of both the movies and the television programs and provides new perspectives on why audiences embraced some products and rejected others. This approach also setsStar Trek FAQ 2.0apart from mostStar Trekhistories, which typicallytreat the original program and original cast feature films,The Next Generationand its movies, and the various spin-off series, all as distinct entities. If you liked the first book, I believe you will enjoy this one too.