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On May 24, the first episode of the Star Trek series went into production; [65] Desilu was contracted to deliver 13 episodes. [66] Five days before the first broadcast, Roddenberry appeared at the 24th World Science Fiction Convention and previewed "Where No Man Has Gone Before". After the episode was shown, he received a standing ovation.
He was a popular author from the 1950s to the 1970s, especially with readers of science fiction and fantasy magazines. [2] [3] Reynolds was the first author to write an original novel based upon the 1966–1969 NBC television series Star Trek. The book, Mission to Horatius (1968), was aimed at young readers.
In 1996, Gunn wrote a Star Trek novel that was a novelization of "The Joy Machine", an unproduced episode of the first Star Trek series that was scripted by Theodore Sturgeon. [16] [citation needed] [clarification needed]
Peeples wrote a number of episodes for Filmation's live action Space Academy and Jason of Star Command series and wrote the script for their animated TV movie and seven first-season episodes of the Flash Gordon series that resulted from it. [3] Peeples died of cancer on August 27, 1997, at age 79, just one month short of his eightieth birthday.
Harold Livingston, an American novelist who wrote the screenplay for “Star Trek: The Motion Picture” in 1979, died early Thursday morning, Bobby Livingston confirmed to Variety. He was 97.
The first publisher of Star Trek fiction aimed at adult readers was Bantam Books. James Blish wrote adaptations of episodes of the original series in twelve volumes from 1967 to 1977; in 1970, he wrote the first original Star Trek novel published by Bantam, Spock Must Die!. [72]: xi Pocket Books published subsequent Star Trek novels.
Theodore Sturgeon (/ ˈ s t ɜːr dʒ ən /; born Edward Hamilton Waldo, February 26, 1918 – May 8, 1985) was an American fiction author of primarily fantasy, science fiction, and horror, as well as a critic. He wrote approximately 400 reviews and more than 120 short stories, 11 novels, and several scripts for Star Trek: The Original Series. [1]
James Benjamin Blish (May 23, 1921 – July 30, 1975) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer.He is best known for his Cities in Flight novels and his series of Star Trek novelizations written with his wife, J. A. Lawrence.