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Devoted Trekkies and Trekkers will probably consider this tape indispensable. Otherwise, give it a pass, unless you're interested in the reminiscences of people you've never heard of or don't care about (or both) who worked behind the scenes on
Star Trek: on the show itself, at Desilu Productions, and at NBC. These are the kind of players who would be filler in a written biography; here, they're given center stage. And talk about revisionism: to hear Grant Tinker tell the story, NBC was the real hero for putting this forward-thinking show on the air in the first place. The attempts to cancel it? The time-slot shifts that threatened to kill it? You won't hear about them here. Neither will you hear from anyone major from the show: neither creator Gene Roddenberry nor William Shatner nor Leonard Nimoy, except in clips from the show. On the other hand, if you wanted to settle a bet about who came up with the opening intro to the show ("Space: the final frontier!"), this is the video to own.
--Marshall Fine
