10 Essential Star Trek Books For Pre-Internet Trekkies

7. Making of Star Trek

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If one book could define the merchandising opportunity of Star Trek on paper then it was Steven Whitfield and Gene Roddenberry's The Making of Star Trek.

Written before the third season of The Original Series, this book deconstructed the very origins of Star Trek from the perspective of its creator. Highlighting angles on the show from not just Roddenberry but producers, writers and actors, there was nothing like it in 1968.

Featuring the first ever look at a Klingon D7, a series of behind the scenes photos and original sketches of the Enterprise, Whitfield's book was the first ever licenced Star Trek book to deep dive into the workings of a TV show. Whitfield (his stepfather's surname) would go on to write a book focusing on the making of Voyager in 1998.

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