Includes index

Foreword -- What a long strange trek it's been -- Reflections on the trek of a lifetime -- Dramatis personae -- Birth of a (trek) nation -- Uncaged -- These were the voyages -- Family feud -- Boldly going -- The end of the beginning -- Life after death -- Reanimated -- Lost in space -- The next phase -- Slow motion -- Khan game -- In search of -- A whale of a tale -- God complex -- Up the academy -- The final roundup

An incisive, no-holds-barred oral history, told exclusively by the people who were there during the first 25 years of Star Trek, in their own words, sharing the inside scoop they've never revealed before, unveiling the oftentimes shocking true story of the history of Star Trek, and chronicling the trials, tribulations--and tribbles--that have remained deeply buried secrets--until now

Volume one: the first 25 years