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Future Perfect"Future Perfect: How Star Trek conquered Planet Earth"
by Jeff Greenwald
Viking, 1998
     We all know about the Trek subculture with their communicator badges and fake ears. We either hate them or grab a phaser and join the. Jeff Greenwald, maybe not a true Trekker but a man with a Trekker's soul, wanted to get to the root of why people are drawn to this television franchise. This book is part travelogue, part geek fanboy on a rampage. He travels from Hollywood to India and back gathering interviews with the stars of the show, the writers, sci-fi writers, NASA people, obsessed fans, and, of all people,  the Dalai Lama. He attended a Klingon wedding, talked to the guy who put togther the Klingon dictionary, and weasled his way on the set of "First Contact." The books gives great insight to the making of the show, the psyche of Trek's world-wide fan base, and the backbone of the whole Trek universe; Gene Roddenberry optimistic view of the future. Is it freaky in it's overindulgence? Hell ya. But it does give an interesting view of how we see ourselves through the metaphor of a tv series.
 


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