Charting the Undiscovered Country: The Making of Trek VI

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Das Buch Charting the Undiscovered Country: The Making of Trek VI beschäftigt sich mit der Entstehung und Produktion des Films Star Trek VI: Das unentdeckte Land.

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„This may very well be the best book ever written about Star Trek.“ - Mitch Rubinstein, Galactic Journal Magazine

„Highly recommended.“ - Advance Comics Magazine

The bestselling authors of New Voyages: The Next Generation Guidebook take you behind the scenes of the final Star Trek film, The Undiscovered Country. Together, Mark A. Altman, Ron Magid and Edward Gross trace the history of the project from preproduction to the premiere, with exclusive and candid interviews with those who created it, including:

William Shatner - Leonard Nimoy - DeForest Kelley - Michael Dorn - James Doohan - Walter Koenig - Nicholas Meyer - Ralph Winter - Next Generation's Rick Berman - Steven Charles Jaffe - Mark Rosenthal - Kim Cattrall - The ILM Special Effects Team - Greg Jein - Cliff Eidelman - Harve Bennett - Denny Martin Flinn - The Make-Up Team - Hiro Narita - George Takei - And more!

Discover how the best of the Star Trek films was brought to life in less than a year, as well as the Trek voyages that never made it to the screen, including the controversial prequel, Starfleet Academy, and the unfilmed Klingon adventure, „Kitumba“.

Re-live the making of The Undiscovered Country as told by those who brought the film to life, and examine the missing footage that would have re-introduced the cast and Carol Marcus, the astounding special effects which transformed Iman into William Shatner, Saavik's last stand, and learn what went wrong with Star Trek V as candidly recounted by its director, William Shatner.

Kapitel

• An Introduction

1. The Devil and Bill Shatner
2. Starfleet Academy
3. On the Beach
4. The Gang's All Here
5. Wanted: Master Thespians
6. Starfleet's Sexiest Vulcan
7. The Human Adventure is Just Concluding
8. Somebody's Got to Shoot the Future
9. ILM Gets 'A Piece of the Action'
10. Designing the Future
11. Of Molds and Monsters
12. Propping Up a Starship
13. Scoring the Undiscovered Country
14. Bridging the Generations
15. This is the End....Or Is It?

• Appendix A: „Kitumba“

Hintergrundinformationen

Das Buch beinhaltet viele bereits zuvor – jedoch in teils gekürzter Form – veröffentlichte Magazinartikel der Autoren. Diese erschienen in den Zeitschriften Cinefantastique (1991, Vol. 22 #3) / 1992, Vol. 22 #3) und American Cinematographer (Januar 1992).