Star Trek: Action!

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Summary: A detailed look at the making of star trek
Review: For any star trek fan, or just for those interested in the making of tv series and films, this book outlines, in high detail and many photographs, the process of producing an episode of DS9, Voyager, and a portion of Star Trek: First Contact. A must for any fan's collection.

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Summary: The ultimate behind-the-scenes experience
Review: From the first writers' meeting to the satellite upload, this book describes in detail every step taken by actors, producers, designers, directors and editors to create an episode of Star Trek. Terry J. Erdmann has had unprecedented access to production meetings, film sets and post-production facilities to unveil how various Star Trek incarnations get from idea to (small of big) screen. If you're interested in what's going on behind-the-scenes, I highly recommend this title.

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Summary: Two Minutes In The Final Frontier Times Three
Review: Over its long history, there have countless books written about Star Trek, but none of them have been quite like Star Trek Action. There are stacks of behind the scenes, on the set reports from various Trek publications but few are like this.

Author Terry J. Erdmann, who also wrote the Deep Space Nine Companion, decided to take 120 seconds of two concurrent television series, and a feature film, and dissect just those scant seconds, from script, on set, to final version. What seems like it would be a short book turns out to a well written detailed look at how all of the elements come together. Choosing scenes from Deep Space Nine's sixth season finale "Tears Of The Prophets", Voyager's fourth season ender "Hope And Fear" and the ninth feature film Insurrection, Erdmann keeps his text lively and interesting. A book like this came about at the right time. There's no way that you will find three different perspectives on trek again, given the state of the franchise today.

The book has dozens of color photographs, sketches, storyboards, Visual effects shots/tests, and comments from those invoved throughout. The hardcover has 288 pages and comes with a unique slipcover

The Star Trek saga may have begun to show signs of trouble at the time this was first published, but this is still a fine read and well worth your whille

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Summary: More pictures than you can point a phaser at!
Review: Provides an in-depth and fascinating account into how Star Trek productions are conceived, filmed and produced. The book showsthe transition from initial idea to final product in 3 Star Trek guises - DS9, Voyager and the film Insurrection. The book is jam-packed with pictures throughout and Erdmann's dialogue is very much narrative in style, as the story is told for much of the book in the quotes of various cast and crew. The book particularly highlights how stories are formed and the various inputs from script writers, producers, directors and cast, and it is fascinating to see how a story develops and changes throughout time. An extremely good read.

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Summary: Lavish "trek" into the making of a television series
Review: With print and pictures detailing EVERY inch of the making of three Trek productions, this is a book that is a treasure for any student of filmmaking. One does not have to be an aficionado of the offspring of the original series to appreciate the work that went into the publication of this book.

The book is a fascinating (to use Spock's word) how-to-make-a-television episode (or movie scene) primer.