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Star Trek Voyager: A Celebration Hardcover – November 24, 2020
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Just wonderful and so well written - stuff I never knew which surprised me - and I was on the show! You will enjoy this I guarantee.
- Ethan Phillips, Neelix from Star Trek: Voyager
Go behind the scenes of the making of a television classic, with the cast and crew who brought the adventures of the intrepid U.S.S. Voyager to life. Packed with in-depth features on each creative department, from visual effects and art to costume and makeup, this volume celebrates STAR TREK's epic adventure in the Delta Quadrant. Alongside production and concept art, the cast - including Kate Mulgrew and Jeri Ryan - share their personal highlights from seven seasons and 172 episodes of STAR TREK: VOYAGER.
STAR TREK: VOYAGER was groundbreaking. It was the first STAR TREK show with a female captain and had the franchise's most diverse cast. It pushed the boundaries of visual effects and makeup further than ever before, and literally took the show into new territory when Voyager was stranded in the Delta Quadrant, home of the Borg Collective.
STAR TREK: VOYAGER - A CELEBRATION tells the behind-the-scenes story of Voyager's epic journey, from its earliest origins and pivotal episodes to in- depth features on writing, directing, visual effects, production art and more.
The ultimate guide to the making of a television classic, based on more than 30 new interviews, featuring the nine principal cast members, including Kate Mulgrew, Jeri Ryan, and Robert Picardo, and key behind-the-scenes personnel who reveal the stories and secrets behind the show. STAR TREK: VOYAGER first appeared on TV on 16 January 1995, running for 172 episodes over seven seasons.
- Print length248 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherHero Collector
- Publication dateNovember 24, 2020
- Reading age15 years and up
- Dimensions8.94 x 0.99 x 11.48 inches
- ISBN-101858756146
- ISBN-13978-1858756141
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VOYAGER went further than ever before and gave the franchise many of its most memorable moments and characters.
Seven of Nine
The former Borg drone was one of STAR TREK: VOYAGER’s greatest creations: a reluctant escapee from the Collective who could see the flaws in humanity.
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Visual effects underwent a digital revolution during VOYAGER’s lifetime, but there was still room for tried-and-tested methods.
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Page after page of concept art and sketches.
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- Bob Picardo, the Doctor from Star Trek: Voyager
Star Trek Voyager: A Celebration captures the spirit of the diverse personalities and talents that came together to create a series that touched audiences around the world. It's a reminder to all of us of a magic time in our lives and revealed things that I never knew.
- Dan Curry, Star Trek Visual Effects Producer
This is the book Voyager fans have been waiting for! A terrific romp down memory lane with Captain Janeway and her crew.
- Michael Sussman, writer/producer, Star Trek: Voyager & Enterprise
Star Trek Voyager: A Celebration is a delightful trip down memory lane. Those extraordinary years on Voyager, working along side all those talented people, both in front and behind the camera, were special, indeed. We are so proud to have been part of that amazing family, and for the opportunity - through your book - to take a trip down memory lane aboard the good ship Voyager.
- Star Trek production veterans Michael Okuda (graphic designer) and Denise Okuda (scenic artist and computer/video supervisor)
Time travel is possible, and it does not necessitate a slingshot around the sun, nor does it call for an Atavachron. Here in this book, captured as if in amber, slices of Star Trek Voyager, held in suspended animation, and when ingested through photonic dispersion, can cause your temporal lobe to vibrate at exactly the same frequency as high-energy alpha-driven chronotons, and off you go...
- Doug Drexler, Star Trek makeup artist, concept artist, and visual effects artist. Doug won an Oscar for his work on Dick Tracy, founded the Federation Trading Post and designed the Enterprise NX-01
Finally, the definitive reference guide and companion for one of the most successful and beloved Star Trek series ever, "Star Trek Voyager." Ben Robinson and Mark Wright have done an incredible job looking back at this incredible series, while also conducting present day interviews with almost everyone involved with the show, both in front of and behind the camera. A must read for any Star Trek fan.
- David Zappone, producer of For the Love of Spock and What We Left Behind: Looking Back as Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
This is the book that Voyager fans have been waiting for and deserved since the show ended in 2001 - we just had to wait 19 years for it to be released.
- Star Trek Club Stoke on Kent
About the Author
He has been involved with Star Trek for 20 years. Ben was the launch editor of the huge Star Trek Fact Files reference work, which sold over 50 million units. Then he went on to edit the US Star Trek: The Magazine, which ran between 1999 and 2003. He has co-written two Haynes Manuals, the first featuring all seven Enterprises, and the second focusing on the Klingon Bird-of-Prey. Ben is particularly passionate about the writing, design, and visual effects behind the series. In the last two decades he has conducted extensive interviews with many of the most significant figures in the history of Star Trek from Dorothy Fontana and Matt Jefferies to Michael Piller, Ira Steven Behr, Ron D. Moore, and Bryan Fuller.
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When we set out to write this book, our mission statement was to give you “the best convention ever, in a book.” We wanted to share the funny stories and to explain how things were done. But more importantly, we wanted to give you a sense of what the cast and crew are like and what it meant to them to spend seven years of their lives filming VOYAGER.
As we worked on the book, we realized what an incredible bunch of people VOYAGER’s cast and crew are. Without exception, we found them to be intelligent, insightful, generous, funny people. We can’t tell you how much we laughed when we were doing the interviews, and how much we looked forward to the next one. Our hope is that we’ve managed to communicate at least some of that, and give you a sense of who these people are.
We also hope that by talking to so many people, all of whom had the advantage of being able to look back on the show, we’ve been able to give you some real insight into how the characters evolved. We firmly believe that if you want to understand Captain Janeway, or Seven of Nine, you don’t just want to hear from the actors, but from the writers and designers who shaped their characters. Television is a collaborative medium. Everybody contributed, and you can only just begin to understand what they did by talking to all of them.
On the pages that follow, you’ll find profiles of all the main characters, with contributions from actors, writers, and directors. Each of these is based on a new interview with the actor (the only exception being Jennifer Lien, who we wish the very best). Then there is a series of chapters that deal with each of the main departments, which we hope will give some idea of what went into making VOYAGER. We have pulled out some of the series’ most important episodes to discuss how they contributed to VOYAGER’s success. They’re not meant to be our selection of the very best episodes, although many of them are. They are there because, in some ways, they changed things, or they exemplify a particular kind of STAR TREK. Finally, we have a few stories and tackle a few tricky questions about the show. We hope that when you’ve read all of the above, you’ll want to go back and watch all of VOYAGER. You should. As Bryan Fuller said when we talked, “It’s a really good show!”
FAR FROM HOME
THE SEVEN-YEAR JOURNEY
STAR TREK: VOYAGER went further than ever before and gave the franchise many of its most memorable moments and characters.
If STAR TREK was to survive, it would have to grow and change. The question was: how to change it without losing sight of what made it special. The franchise had never been more popular and STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION was a ratings powerhouse that only got stronger in its final season. It was inevitable that when it ended its run, Paramount would want to replace it. As VOYAGER’s cocreator, Rick Berman remembers, there was broad agreement that any new show should follow closely in the Enterprise’s footsteps. “With DEEP SPACE NINE being a station-based show, we wanted to get back out into space,” he says, “so we knew we wanted to put the show on a starship. We knew it couldn’t be the Enterprise because the Enterprise was continuing on into the movies. We created VOYAGER in order to make the series different and fresh.”
Berman brought in writers Michael Piller and Jeri Taylor to cocreate the new show, and together they set about thinking exactly how they could make it different. From the beginning, the idea was that their new ship should have a female captain. “The decision to make the captain a woman was the premise that got it going,” Taylor says. “All three of us felt it was time, but there was a great anxiety about whether the vast array of STAR TREK fans would accept a woman as a captain, there never having been one. The prized audience was men between 18 and 49, and if they didn’t accept her, it would have been a disaster, so the studio asked us to keep our minds open about the casting of Janeway. For a long, long, long time we were reading and reading, and it didn’t look like we were going to get the right woman, so we began to read some men.”
The implications of this change would have been significant. It wasn’t just that the writers would have been bitterly disappointed, they would have had to reconsider the casting of the new ensemble cast. In particular, Taylor says, they would have reinvented the first officer as a woman. However, they eventually agreed to a deal with an Oscar-nominated actress, Geneviève Bujold, and took a big – if misplaced – sigh of relief. Ultimately, Bujold realized that she wasn’t cut out for the rigors of episodic television and handed in her notice after two days of filming. This left the producers scrambling for a replacement, who they were delighted to find in the form of Kate Mulgrew.
For the rest of the cast, Taylor explains that they concentrated on inventing characters we had never seen before. “We were trying to come up with a combination, an element, a wrinkle, something that hadn’t been done before, anything that would keep it fresh. In the beginning that was our goal. We didn’t want to be repetitive, so we were looking for any little nuance that might provide the propulsion for a character.”
The team started by thinking about elements of TNG that had been interesting and they felt could have been explored further. ‘The Child’ contributed the idea of a character with an accelerated lifespan. ‘The First Duty’ gave them a disgraced Starfleet officer who had broken the rules, while ‘Elementary, Dear Data’ provided the idea of a sentient hologram. Since TNG and DS9 had avoided Vulcans, they decided it was time to bring one into the mix, though this time they wanted him to be a full Vulcan and black. At this point, he was also older and would have been the ship’s wise elder statesman. In a desire to push the show’s inclusiveness, they decided to include a Native American. Finally, they rounded the cast out with an alien guide, a newly graduated Starfleet officer, and a half- Klingon engineer.
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- Publisher : Hero Collector (November 24, 2020)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 248 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1858756146
- ISBN-13 : 978-1858756141
- Reading age : 15 years and up
- Item Weight : 3.31 pounds
- Dimensions : 8.94 x 0.99 x 11.48 inches
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Some of the pictures are of surprisingly low quality and a bit grainy, however, so that was a disappointment.
The real question is: where are my Deep Space Nine and Nex Gen books?!
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Ich war damals ein riesiger Fan der Serie und ein Buch wie dieses wäre ein Traum gewesen.
Die Autoren wollten so etwas wie eine "Convention in Buchform" schreiben, was meiner Meinung nach gelungen ist.
Das Buch ist voll mit Interviews mit allen Beteiligten (Schauspieler, Produzenten, Make-Up Artists, Designers....) und netten Anekdoten und vielen Bildern.
Es werden sogar mehrere Seiten den Streichen gewidmet, die die männlichen Schauspieler einander gespielt haben.
Viele der Anekdoten sind natürlich bekannt von den vielen Conventions, aber das Buch weiß dadurch, viele schöne Erinnerungen zu wecken.
Desweiteren scheut das Buch auch nicht vor den Schattenseiten zurück und geht z.B. auch auf die psychischen Probleme von Jennifer Lien am Set ein.
Das Buch ist für jeden Fan von Voyager uneingeschränkt zu empfehlen, und für einen Trekkie, der eventuell weniger mit Voyager anfangen kann, definitiv auch eine Überlegung wert.
Mich jedenfalls hat das Buch motiviert, die Serie nach 15 Jahren (!!) mal wieder anzusehen und es ist, als ob man alte, fast vergessene Freunde wiedersieht.
Simply wonderful.
With this book, they set out to provide a "convention in book form".
And in my eyes, they succeeded.
This book is full of great artworks and pictures, and consists of many interviews with everybody involved. They interviewed basically everyone they could get their hands on, actors, producers, designers, make-up artists...
There are even several pages just dedicated to the practical jokes the male cast members played on each other and the rest of the cast.
Yes, many stories are known from the conventions and I myself heard many of them before, but that just makes me more nostalgic when thinking back to the good times at the conventions (and of the chats I had with the actors!).
This might very well be the best book about the Voyager series ever published, and it is certainly the best Star Trek book I have currently in my collection. It is pure joy.
It also does not shy away from some more unpleasant facts like the mental health crisis of Jennifer Lien.
If you are a Voyager fan, this is a must have, and if you are a Trekkie, but maybe not the biggest fan of Voyager, you might still like this.
For me, this brought back my youth and I am right now re-watching the series (after 15 years)- it is like meeting old friends after a very long time.
Added nostalgia bonus which helps me getting through the current difficult time of global crisis.
Totally worth it.