Reviews by the Celebrities of Star Trek
Leonard Nimoy
August 21, 2013 "The level of research is astounding ... an incredible job; a tremendous amount of good information.... The reviews are wonderful and well deserved." - Leonard Nimoy
Grace Lee Whitney
Grace Lee Whitney as Yeoman Janice Rand
September 2013
"This book started me down a road of memories. It is so well researched and written that, as I read, all those memories started flooding back for me. I had to call Leonard Nimoy to ask him if I was really that emotionally bad off when the end came for me on Star Trek. He said that I was..... I told him, you have got to read this book!... For anyone reading [These are the Voyages - TOS: Season One], it will put you exactly right where we were and help you understand what the original cast went through and what Gene Roddenberry went through. We fought for Star Trek. We tried so hard to make the character real and the relationships between them real. And this book catches that. It took me back. And it will take you there."
Grace Lee Whitney (Yeoman Janice Rand)
"This book started me down a road of memories. It is so well researched and written that, as I read, all those memories started flooding back for me. I had to call Leonard Nimoy to ask him if I was really that emotionally bad off when the end came for me on Star Trek. He said that I was..... I told him, you have got to read this book!... For anyone reading [These are the Voyages - TOS: Season One], it will put you exactly right where we were and help you understand what the original cast went through and what Gene Roddenberry went through. We fought for Star Trek. We tried so hard to make the character real and the relationships between them real. And this book catches that. It took me back. And it will take you there."
Grace Lee Whitney (Yeoman Janice Rand)
John D. F. Black
John D.F. Black with executive assistant, Mary Black 1966.
September 2013
"Incredible! Marc Cushman's These are the Voyages reads as if he had been there with us, with Roddenberry and Justman, et al, at the very geneses of Star Trek." - John D.F. Black
"Incredible! Marc Cushman's These are the Voyages reads as if he had been there with us, with Roddenberry and Justman, et al, at the very geneses of Star Trek." - John D.F. Black
Leslie Parrish
Leslie Parrish in Star Trek episode "Who Mourns for Adonais?"
July 27, 2013 - A BOOK EVEN THOSE OF US WHO WERE IN IT LOVE!!!
"As one of the guest stars on the original Star Trek series, (I was the Goddess in “Who Mourns for Adonais”) I have been thrilled and amazed reading this brilliant, detailed reconstruction of the creation of this ground-breaking series! I feel I am there all over again ― on the Desilu lot with the visionary Gene Roddenberry and his associates ― and the great stars of TOS, who became dear friends. Marc Cushman’s research, which I know took six years of intensive work, is impeccable. This is the book that everyone who loves Star Trek, with its awesome insights into the future ― inventions which are present in our lives today! ― will love!!! It sweeps you up in the massive effort it took to create a series so filled with vision, hope, brilliance ― and longevity! Marc Cushman deserves credit and thanks from all who read this spectacular work!!!"
"As one of the guest stars on the original Star Trek series, (I was the Goddess in “Who Mourns for Adonais”) I have been thrilled and amazed reading this brilliant, detailed reconstruction of the creation of this ground-breaking series! I feel I am there all over again ― on the Desilu lot with the visionary Gene Roddenberry and his associates ― and the great stars of TOS, who became dear friends. Marc Cushman’s research, which I know took six years of intensive work, is impeccable. This is the book that everyone who loves Star Trek, with its awesome insights into the future ― inventions which are present in our lives today! ― will love!!! It sweeps you up in the massive effort it took to create a series so filled with vision, hope, brilliance ― and longevity! Marc Cushman deserves credit and thanks from all who read this spectacular work!!!"
Bruce Mars
Bruce Mars - Flannegan in Star Trek episode "Shore Leave"
[These are the Voyages - TOS: Season One] took me instantly back in time, and I relived much of the shooting. It's amazing how writing can transport you to another time and place. I've always had a good memory of things past, but while reading [the] detailed descriptions of events, memories kept jumping into my mind, and I was "on the set" once again! If that happened to me, just think what it will do for the thousands of Trekkies that [the author] lovingly and interestingly walks through the shooting of each show! [Marc Cushman has] allowed them to experience what we did as participants. Wonderful! There is no question that these three volumes will forever be the definitive version of how the original Star Trek phenomena was created.... Hats off and three cheers to you Marc. You've made an awesome statement in the Star Trek world by just being who you are. - Bruce Mars (Finnegan in Season One episode "Shore Leave")
Stewart Moss
Stewart Moss in Star Trek
These are the Voyages-TOS-Season One is a tremendous piece of work. Scholarly, Entertaining, Revealing. You will feel like Gene Roddenberry, John D.F. Black, the rest of the producers and writers and the actors, regulars and guests, are whispering secrets in your ear.
I guested on two shows 40 some years ago and this book brought it all back. If you've never heard of Star Trek (you'd have to be under 5 years of age) this book would still be fascinating on the level of the trials and tribulations of putting a classic TV show together. You are in for a great read. Whenever you see a rerun you'll go back to the book. - Stewart Moss
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I guested on two shows 40 some years ago and this book brought it all back. If you've never heard of Star Trek (you'd have to be under 5 years of age) this book would still be fascinating on the level of the trials and tribulations of putting a classic TV show together. You are in for a great read. Whenever you see a rerun you'll go back to the book. - Stewart Moss
http://www.stewartmoss.com/auto/framauto.htm
Winston de Lugo
Timothy in Star Trek episode "Court Martial"
"For me it was a miracle. Such an honor to be even a small part of the most phenomenal achievement in the universe of Star Trek writings. It may be light years before anyone approaches this level of thorough Trek lore research again. Perhaps Bruce Mars put it best: 'Marc, You've made an awesome statement in the Star Trek world by just being who you are.' And I say: Marc has set himself quite a challenge; he's got to try to 'top' THESE ARE THE VOYAGES - TOS - Volume One, with the next two volumes....... Good Luck!!!"
Winston de Lugo, http://winstondelugo.com/
Winston de Lugo, http://winstondelugo.com/
David Frankham
Dr. Larry Marvick in episode "Is There in Truth No Beauty?"
David Frankham, who played Dr. Larry Marvick in the TOS episode "Is There in Truth No Beauty?", offered the following praise for "These Are The Voyages - TOS: Season One":
"Marc Cushman has most certainly and boldly gone where no man has gone before -- through all the files and quotes from the talented folk who gave us the classic Star Trek. He leads us through a compelling obstacle course of crises, deadlines, and last-minute resolutions that is a treasure trove for Trekkers -- and which, for me, brings into focus again many old friends and faces from both sides of the camera. The first volume has sent me back to my Blu-rays, working through the first season again, and I can hardly wait for Volumes Two and Three."
"Marc Cushman has most certainly and boldly gone where no man has gone before -- through all the files and quotes from the talented folk who gave us the classic Star Trek. He leads us through a compelling obstacle course of crises, deadlines, and last-minute resolutions that is a treasure trove for Trekkers -- and which, for me, brings into focus again many old friends and faces from both sides of the camera. The first volume has sent me back to my Blu-rays, working through the first season again, and I can hardly wait for Volumes Two and Three."
Ralph Senensky
"Books have been written about STAR TREK before. Books have been written about almost every successful television series, but never has there been a chronicle like [THESE ARE THE VOYAGES - TOS: SEASON ONE].... I have been completely blown away by the enormity of the challenge Marc [Cushman] faced. The first 78 pages (and they are oversized pages) present in minute detail the development of the series from a seed of an idea in Gene Roddenberry's head through the filming of TWO pilots. When he gets to the actual voyages, Marc is just as meticulous. For each voyage he presents THE STORY BEHIND THE STORY “ the arduous struggle from the contributing writer's original pitch through the multiple Story Outlines... [and] the original author's Draft Teleplay. Marc presents in detail the voluminous notes to the writer for script changes that came from the network (NBC), from Robert Justman concerning production problems and from Gene Roddenberry, always concerned with keeping the script in line with his vision of STAR TREK.... Marc's microscopic eye then continues as the scripts move through PRE-PRODUCTION, a PRODUCTION DIARY and finally POST-PRODUCTION.... All of this would be commendable if it were merely presented Jack Webb-DRAGNET style “ just the facts. ma'am". But it's more. Marc has dramatized the events. He takes his readers into the offices where the pre-production activities occurred, onto the sound stages and locations for the filming and into the editing rooms and optical houses for the post-production. It's an exciting and hair-raising ride.... I will be looking forward to the arrival in November of Volume Two, the story of the second season." - Ralph Senensky, director of seven episodes of TOS.
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Michael Sussman
Star Trek writer and producer.
"Terrific, eye-opening new book about the making of TOS [Star Trek: The Original Series] - These are the Voyages." - Michael Sussman, Writer/Producer: Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: Enterprise, Threshold, Legend of the Seeker and Perception.
Robert J. Sawyer
Robert J. Sawyer, Science Fiction Writer
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"Best behind-the-scense book about any TREK productions, period."
By Robert J. Sawyer on December 11, 2013 "OMG, this is amazing. It's like Stephen E. Whitfield's classic THE MAKING OF STAR TREK on steroids. The level of detail is astonishing. The book covers the conceiving and making of the first two pilot and all the episodes of the first season, quoting hundreds of memos from Gene Roddenberry, Robert Justman, John D.F. Black, and others, and providing a wealth of information that I've never seen anywhere before." Read the entire review |
