Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: The Redefinition of Unwarranted Prologue: Star Trek--The MacArthur Premiere 1969: The Network's Knife Cares Not for the Show's Cry Star Trek Dies 25 1970-1972: What's in Reruns Is Prologue Star Trek Has Risen from the Grave 30 delete* deleteThe Long Con Begins 31 1973-1974: Choose Your Televised Pain Genesis II v. Planet of the Apes 37 delete* deleteThe Animated Series Is ­Pre-Rejected by the Fans 38 delete* deleteThe Animated Series Barely Accepted by the Fans 41 delete* deleteRoddenberry on Tour 44 1975: Magicam to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad Star Trek II Is Announced; Expectations Are Managed 49 delete* deleteRumored Redford 53 delete* deleteStar Trek II Is Denounced; Expectations Are Mangled 55 1976: The War Within the Script, the War Without Harlan Ellison v. Star Trek 58 delete* deleteThe 743 Speak 59 delete* delete The Isenberg Cometh; The Trektennial Begins 61 delete* delete Look Now! It's Bryant and Scott 66 delete* deleteKaufman Commissioned 67 delete* deleteA Log . of the Stars! 70 delete* delete Enter Eisner 73 1977: The Battle of the Binary Star Treks Captain Kirk Almost Meets John Galt 75 delete* deleteOf Cygnans and Spiders; Kaufman Keelhauled 79 delete* deleteThe Fourth Network Awakens 84 delete* deleteHere We Are Now, Entertain Us the Way Tell You To 87 delete* deleteShatner Says "See Ya Never!" 90 delete* delete "Robot's Return" Returns 93 delete* deleteRoddenberry Ruminates 97 delete* deleteThe New Kids on the Bridge; Whither Leonard? 99 delete* deleteCollins Conferred; The Fourth Network Sees Its Shadow 103 1978: Into the Luminescent Powerfield I Go Roddenberry Recaps 108 delete* deleteThe Starship of the 1970s Future 110 delete* deleteCollins Cleaved; Wise Wrangled 113 delete* delete Star Trek--The Massive Presser 114 delete* deleteMagicam Can't, but Abel's Able 119 delete* deleteTo Boldly Pump the Brakes 120 1979: Will You Take My $44M Hand? Star Trek--The Marketing Problem, Part I: The Nerve Steel 127 delete* deleteStar Trek--The Marketing Problem, Part II: The Purview of John Askew 130 delete* deleteStar Trek-- The Marketing Problem, Part III: Set Printers to "Tilt" 134 delete* deleteStar Trek--The Marketing Problem, Part IV: Brrap Brrap Pew Pew! 140 delete* deleteStar Trek--The Marketing Problem, Part V: ­Ready-to-Spacewear, Everywhere 144 delete* deleteStar Trek-- The Marketing Problem, Part VI: A Wagon of Trailers Full of Stars 148 delete* deleteStar Trek--The Manifest Procession, Part I: New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Florida 154 delete* deleteStar Trek--The Manifest Procession, Part II: Kentucky, Mississippi and Arkansas 160 delete* deleteStar Trek--The Manifest Procession, Part III: Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Minnesota 162 delete* delete Star Trek--The Manifest Procession, Part IV: South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Utah and Arizona 164 delete* deleteStar Trek-- The Manifest Procession, Part V: Washington, Oregon, Nevada and California 167 delete* deleteThe Shakedown, Part I: Acceleration 170 1980: The Vulcan Goodbye The Shakedown, Part II: Deceleration 177 delete* deleteOne Brief, Shining Sequel Set in . Camelot! 179 delete* deleteA Moving Analog Image Transferred from a Magnetic Medium 182 delete* deleteV'ger's Gait 183 Epilogue: Star Trek--The Mathematical Phantom Chapter Notes Bibliography Index.