Download or read book Star Trek Open a Channel A Woman s Trek written by Nana Visitor and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-10-01 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nana Visitor, Star Trek’s Kira Nerys, explores how the series has portrayed and influenced women. Interviews with the stars, writers, producers, and celebrity fans reveal the struggles and triumphs of women both behind and in front of the camera throughout the sixty-year history of Star Trek, and how they have mirrored the experiences of women everywhere. Nana Visitor, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’s Kira Nerys, explores how the series has portrayed and influenced women. Interviews—with the stars, writers, producers, and audience members from all walks of life, including a politician and an astronaut—highlight the struggles and triumphs of women both behind and in front of the camera throughout the sixty-year history of Star Trek, and how they have mirrored the experiences of women everywhere. The groundbreaking casting of Nichelle Nichols as Lt. Uhura in 1966 was a paradigm shift for women and people of color. Pioneering is no picnic, and she planned to leave the show until none other than the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. contextualized her appearance in people’s living rooms across America as a way for people of color to know they were indeed an important part of the future. Since then, each Star Trek show has both reflected the values of its time and imagined a future of equality. In her first book, Open a Channel: A Woman’s Trek, Nana Visitor sets out to discover both how Star Trek led the way for women, and how each show was trapped in its own era. For Visitor, this is more than a book about Star Trek. It’s also about how society and the stories we tell have evolved in the last sixty years, and how the role of women has changed in that time. STAR AUTHOR: Written by Star Trek: Deep Space Nine actor Nana Visitor, famous for playing Major Kira Nerys. This is both her story and her journey through the stories of other women involved with Star Trek from the 1960s to the 21st century. EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS: Features interviews with more than a dozen women who starred in Star Trek, including Kate Mulgrew, Sonequa Martin-Green, Terry Farrell, Gates McFadden, Denise Crosby, Tawny Newsome, and Jess Bush. INSPIRING STORIES: Explore how Star Trek has influenced women in the real world, including soldiers, scientists, and even astronauts. For the book, author Nana Visitor visited ESA HQ and interviewed astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti while she was in orbit around Earth on the International Space Station. PIONEERING SERIES: Following the humanistic tenets of creator Gene Roddenberry, Star Trek, throughout the decades, led the way in promoting diversity. Youths who grew up with Captain Janeway on Star Trek: Voyager, for example, not only learned to accept a woman as a leader but were also able to expand what they could imagine for themselves. The book makes clear how important storytelling is, and how the storytelling of Star Trek has had a profound effect on its audience.
Download or read book Star Trek Open a Channel A Woman s Trek written by Nana Visitor and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-10 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nana Visitor, Star Trek’s Kira Nerys, explores how the series has portrayed and influenced women. Interviews with the stars, writers, producers, and celebrity fans reveal the struggles and triumphs of women both behind and in front of the camera throughout the sixty-year history of Star Trek, and how they have mirrored the experiences of women everywhere. Nana Visitor, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’s Kira Nerys, explores how the series has portrayed and influenced women. Interviews—with the stars, writers, producers, and audience members from all walks of life, including a politician and an astronaut—highlight the struggles and triumphs of women both behind and in front of the camera throughout the sixty-year history of Star Trek, and how they have mirrored the experiences of women everywhere. The groundbreaking casting of Nichelle Nichols as Lt. Uhura in 1966 was a paradigm shift for women and people of color. Pioneering is no picnic, and she planned to leave the show until none other than the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. contextualized her appearance in people’s living rooms across America as a way for people of color to know they were indeed an important part of the future. Since then, each Star Trek show has both reflected the values of its time and imagined a future of equality. In her first book, Open a Channel: A Woman’s Trek, Nana Visitor sets out to discover both how Star Trek led the way for women, and how each show was trapped in its own era. For Visitor, this is more than a book about Star Trek. It’s also about how society and the stories we tell have evolved in the last sixty years, and how the role of women has changed in that time. STAR AUTHOR: Written by Star Trek: Deep Space Nine actor Nana Visitor, famous for playing Major Kira Nerys. This is both her story and her journey through the stories of other women involved with Star Trek from the 1960s to the 21st century. EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS: Features interviews with more than a dozen women who starred in Star Trek, including Kate Mulgrew, Sonequa Martin-Green, Terry Farrell, Gates McFadden, Denise Crosby, Tawny Newsome, and Jess Bush. INSPIRING STORIES: Explore how Star Trek has influenced women in the real world, including soldiers, scientists, and even astronauts. For the book, author Nana Visitor visited ESA HQ and interviewed astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti while she was in orbit around Earth on the International Space Station. PIONEERING SERIES: Following the humanistic tenets of creator Gene Roddenberry, Star Trek, throughout the decades, led the way in promoting diversity. Youths who grew up with Captain Janeway on Star Trek: Voyager, for example, not only learned to accept a woman as a leader but were also able to expand what they could imagine for themselves. The book makes clear how important storytelling is, and how the storytelling of Star Trek has had a profound effect on its audience.
Download or read book Star Trek The Artistry of Dan Curry written by Dan Curry and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hardback volume showcasing the diverse work of one of Star Trek's most talented alumni, Dan Curry, whose contributions to the TV shows and movies include visual effects, practical effects, title design and weaponry. With more than 50 years of history to its name, Star Trek is one of the world's most treasured popular culture institutions, and seven-time Emmy award winner Dan Curry is one of its most enduring talents. His amazing contributions have ranged from directing, title design and concept art to practical on-set effects and weapon design. From The Next Generation to Enterprise, Dan's incredibly diverse Star Trek work has resulted in some of the series' most memorable moments. Star Trek: The Artistry of Dan Curry reveals the many and varied techniques used to produce some of the most spectacular visual effects used in the various series, while Dan also goes in-depth to divulge the secrets of some of his own personal favorite creations. This is a book for all Star Trek fans to treasure!
Download or read book Star Trek Designing the Final Frontier written by Dan Chavkin and published by Weldon Owen International. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Star Trek: The Original Series (1966-1969) was the first installment of one of the most successful and longest-running television franchises of all time. Today, Trek fans champion its writing, progressive social consciousness, and aesthetic. Designing the Final Frontier is a unique, expert look at the mid-century modern design that created and inspired that aesthetic. From Burke chairs to amorphous sculptures, from bright colors to futuristic frames, Star Trek TOS is bursting with mid-century modern furniture, art, and design elements—many of them bought directly from famous design showrooms. Together, midcentury modern design experts Dan Chavkin and Brian McGuire have created an insider’s guide to the interior of original starship Enterprise and beyond, that is sure to attract Star Trek’s thriving global fan base.
Download or read book Enigma Tales written by Una McCormack and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-06-27 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of The Fall: The Crimson Shadow comes a compelling and suspenseful tale of politics and power set in the universe of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Elim Garak has ascended to Castellan of the Cardassian Union...but despite his soaring popularity, the imminent publication of a report exposing his people's war crimes during the occupation on Bajor looks likely to set the military against him. Into this tense situation come Dr. Katherine Pulaski—visiting Cardassia Prime to accept an award on behalf of the team that solved the Andorian genetic crisis—and Dr. Peter Alden, formerly of Starfleet Intelligence. The two soon find themselves at odds with Garak and embroiled in the politics of the prestigious University of the Union, where a new head is about to be appointed. Among the front-runners is one of Cardassia’s most respected public figures: Professor Natima Lang. But the discovery of a hidden archive from the last years before the Dominion War could destroy Lang’s reputation. As Pulaski and Alden become drawn into a deadly game to exonerate Lang, their confrontation escalates with Castellan Garak—a conflicted leader treading a fine line between the bright hopes for Cardassia’s future and the dark secrets still buried in its past... ™, ®, & © 2016 CBS Studios, Inc. Star Trek and related marks are trademarks of CBS Studios, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Download or read book Star Trek A Woman s Trek written by Nana Visitor and published by Hero Collector. This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Star Trek, from the beginning, has empowered women, creating feminist icons. Deep Space Nine's Nana Visitor looks at how – and the enduring, ongoing impact. Nana Visitor played Major Kira Nerys on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, evolving her into one of the franchise’s – and pop-culture history’s – most formidable female characters. But Visitor wasn’t first; other Star Trek actresses paved the way. In the new book, A Woman’s Trek, Visitor speaks with and pays tribute to those who came before her. “Fifty-five years ago, Nichelle Nichols as Lt. Uhura took women and people of color into a newly imagined future,” Visitor says. “But she did it in a mini-skirt. It was still 1966 after all. Each Star Trek show both reflected the culture of its time and imagined a more equitable future. How much did we lead the culture into imagining new roles for women? How much did the culture shape us? I’m going to ask these questions to every woman I can. Women on camera, behind the camera, behind the scenes, behind the men, even, and the women we inspired to imagine more for themselves. I want to talk to them all and see what it says about us and about them.” In Star Trek: A Woman's Trek, Nana interviews a diverse collection of Star Trek actors, Star Trek Writers, and other notable people such as Stacey Abrams, Seth McFarlane, and astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti. This book is packed with hundreds of photos, including behind the scenes images rarely seen. This is a book by women, for women – and a must for all fans of Star Trek's long history! Included actors: Kate Mulgrew, Sonequa Martin Green, Jeri Ryan, Roxann Dawson, Terry Farrell, Mary Wiseman, Denise Crosby, Gates McFadden, Penny Johnson Jerald, Nicole de Boer, Hannah Cheesman, France Nuyen, BarBara Luna, Sandy Gimple, Tanya Lemani, Linda Park, Isa Briones, Alison Pill, Tawny Newsome, Noel Wells Included writers: Hannah Louise Shearer, Melinda Snodgrass, Diane Duane, Lisa Klink, Jeri Taylor, Phyllis Strong, Jane Espenson Included noteable people: Stacey Abrams, Seth McFarlane, Jess Zimmerman, Samantha Cristoforetti … and more to come!
Download or read book Inside Star Trek written by Herbert F. Solow and published by Pocket Books/Star Trek. This book was released on 1996 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the classic television series describes the 1964 collaboration of the authors and Gene Roddenberry and chronicles the personalities, production methods, and special effects that resulted in the show's phenomenal legacy
Download or read book Star Trek Discovery Dead Endless written by Dave Galanter and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-12-17 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel based upon the explosive Star Trek TV series! The U.S.S. Discovery’s specialty is using its spore-based hub drive to jump great distances faster than any warp-faring vessel in Starfleet. To do this, Lieutenant Paul Stamets navigates the ship through the recently revealed mycelial network, a subspace domain Discovery can briefly transit but in which it cannot remain. After responding to a startling distress call originating from within the network, the Discovery crew find themselves trapped in an inescapable realm where they will surely perish unless their missing mycelial fuel is found or restored. Is the seemingly human man found alone and alive inside the network the Starfleet officer he claims to be, or an impostor created by alien intruders who hope to extract themselves from the mycelial plane at the expense of all lives aboard Discovery?
Download or read book Star Trek Destiny 1 Gods of Night written by David Mack and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-09-30 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first novel in an epic crossover trilogy uniting characters from every corner of the Star Trek universe, revealing the shocking origin and final fate of the Federation's most dangerous enemy—the Borg. Half a decade after the Dominion War and more than a year after the rise and fall of Praetor Shinzon, the galaxy's greatest scourge returns to wreak havoc upon the Federation—and this time its goal is nothing less than total annihilation. Elsewhere, deep in the Gamma Quadrant, an ancient mystery is solved. One of Earth's first generation of starships, lost for centuries, has been found dead and empty on a desolate planet. But its discovery so far from home has raised disturbing questions, and the answers harken back to a struggle for survival that once tested a captain and her crew to the limits of their humanity. From that terrifying flashpoint begins an apocalyptic odyssey that will reach across time and space to reveal the past, define the future, and show three captains—Jean-Luc Picard of the U.S.S. Enterprise, TM William Riker of the U.S.S. Titan, and Ezri Dax of the U.S.S Aventine—that some destinies are inescapable.
Download or read book Star Trek Waypoint 3 written by Cecil Castellucci and published by IDW Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-18 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Star Trek: Deep Space 9 and Star Trek: Voyager return to comics! In Castellucci’s, “Mother’s Walk,” major Kira confronts how she can perform a mandatory, ancient Bajoran pilgrimage when so many family members, needed for the rite, are dead. Who can she turn to? And in Scott’s “The Wildman Maneuver,” an unlikely member of the Voyager crew “saves” the ship!
Download or read book Star Trek Green Lantern Vol 2 2 written by Mike Johnson and published by IDW Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-25 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: STRANGER WORLDS PART TWO! With their power rings running low and no power batteries left to recharge them, the surviving heroes of the Lantern Corps join with Starfleet in the ultimate battle with Sinestro and the resurgent Klingons... until the arrival of an unexpected visitor from the Lanterns' past changes the game entirely!
Download or read book Star Trek Picard Firewall written by David Mack and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-02-27 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thrilling prequel adventure based on the acclaimed TV series Star Trek: Picard! Two years after the USS Voyager’s return from the Delta Quadrant, Seven of Nine finds herself rejected for a position in Starfleet and instead finds a new home with the interstellar rogue law enforcement corps known as the Fenris Rangers. The Rangers seem like an ideal fit for Seven—but to embrace this new destiny, she must leave behind all she’s ever known, and risk losing the most important thing in her life: her friendship with Admiral Kathryn Janeway.
Download or read book Star Trek Discovery Succession 2 written by Mike Johnson and published by IDW Publishing. This book was released on 2018-05-23 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this, the second DISCOVERY miniseries from IDW Publishing, your favorite characters from the hit CBS All Access series dive into an adventure tied directly into the second half of the first season--out now!
Download or read book Star Trek The Next Generation Through The Mirror 2 written by Scott Tipton and published by IDW Publishing. This book was released on 2018-05-09 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Enterprise-D discovers a burned-out, pillaged Andorian vessel, the search for the culprits behind it leads to some startlingly familiar faces!
Download or read book Star Trek The Next Generation Through The Mirror 3 written by Scott Tipton and published by IDW Publishing. This book was released on 2018-05-16 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's interstellar espionage aboard the Enterprise-D when the Mirror Universe crew infiltrates Captain Picard's ship! What are they up to? The answers are here!
Download or read book Star Trek The Next Generation Through The Mirror 1 written by Scott Tipton and published by IDW Publishing. This book was released on 2018-05-02 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because you demanded it! Following up the smash-hit miniseries MIRROR BROKEN, the Mirror Universe Next Generation crew is looking for new worlds to conquer, and they're crossing over to the Prime Star Trek Universe to find them! Also in each issue: Just how did the Mirror Universe crew find their way to ours, and what does Emperor Spock have to do with it? Backup stories every issue illustrated by MIRROR BROKEN co-creator J.K. Woodward!
Download or read book Star Trek Destiny written by David Mack and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-03-13 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Borg launch a surprise campaign to exterminate the Federation, three Starfleet captains must work desperately to avoid annihilation.
