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The View From the Bridge: Memories of Star Trek and a Life in Hollywood

ISBN: 9780670021307

Title: The View From the Bridge: Memories of Star Trek and a Life in Hollywood

Author: Nicholas Meyer

KDL Description:

The director and writer of the second, fourth, and sixth Star Trek movies shares his memories of their creation and his reminiscences of Gene Roddenberry and other notables with whom he has worked.

Amazon Description:

The critically acclaimed director and writer shares his account of the making of the three classic Star Trek films.

The View from the Bridge is Nicholas Meyer’s enormously entertaining account of his involvement with the Star Trek films: STII: The Wrath of Khan, STIV: The Voyage Home, and STVI: The Undiscovered Country, as well as his illustrious career in the movie business. The man best known for bringing together Sherlock Holmes and Sigmund Freud in The Seven Per-Cent Solution had ironically never been interested in Star Trek until he was brought on board to save the film series.

Meyer shares how he created the script for The Wrath of Khan, the most revered Star Trek film of all, in twelve days—only to have William Shatner proclaim he hated it. He reveals the death threats he received when word got out that Spock would be killed, and finally answers the long-pondered question of whether Khan’s chiseled chest is truly that of Ricardo Montalban. Meyer’s reminiscences on everyone from Gene Roddenberry to Laurence Olivier will appeal not only to the countless legions of Trekkies, but to anyone fascinated by the inner workings of Hollywood.