Set Phasers to Stun: 50 Years of Star Trek

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Forty-seven years after NBC killed it off, Star Trek celebrates its half-century in a state of rude health.

Boldly going where several other people have been before, Marcus Berkmann tells the story of this sturdy science fiction vehicle from its first five-year mission (rudely curtailed to three), through the dark years of the 1970s, the triumphant film series and The Next Generation, to the current ‘reboot’ films, with a younger cast taking on the characters of Kirk, Spock, McCoy and co.

With wit, insight and a huge pile of DVDs, he seeks to answer all the important questions –
Why did Kirk’s shirt always get torn when he had a fist fight?
What’s the most number of times Uhura said ‘Hailing frequencies open, sir’ in a single episode? 
And what’s the worst imaginable insult in Klingon?

First published in 2016.