The Fifty-Year Mission: The Complete, Uncensored, Unauthorized Oral History of Star Trek: The First 25 Years

The Fifty-Year Mission: The Complete, Uncensored, Unauthorized Oral History of Star Trek: The First 25 Years - Mark A. Altman, Edward Gross The authors use an oddly captivating way to tell a story. They use snippets from each of the players who had something to do with making of the the show or the first six movies and let them tell their story in less than one minute or less vignettes. It means that as with everyone when they tell their own story they will always be a hero within their own narrative and sometimes the truth of what really happens gets obscured because the authors aren't editing the story, but, are rather, presenting the story in each player's own version of what reality was to them.

As for me, I grew up loving the original Star Trek, and the book acted as a form of psycho-analytical sessions and helped me learn a lot about myself and why Star Trek meant as much to me as it did. One of the vignettes by a writer mentioned how he was taking a course on Joseph Campbell and it made him realize how important the creation of myths are for the proper functioning of individuals in civilization, and, for some, Star Trek helped us understand the world through the mythical world that it was creating.

Clearly, for fans of the original series, this book will not only giver insights about the making of the show, but also insights into oneself.