The Nitpicker's Guide for Classic Trekkers

New York, NY: Dell Distributing, 1994. Heres an unauthorized compendium for Trekkers who are unafraid of pointing the finger at oversights, and who know it's great fun to find the sloppy mistakes (or cost-cutting cheating) in a show that takes itself very seriously. Covers all 79 original Star Trek episodes, all six movies, plus the series pilot, "The Cage". Bloopers, scientific snafus, inconsistencies, impossibilities, and just plain screw-up plots. and picayune plot discrepancies for discriminating fans. Trivia questions. Plot oversights. Equipment oddities. Fun facts and more! 393 pages. Farrand's companion to his Nitpicker's Guide for Next Generation Trekkers (1993) lists each episode of the original, Kirk-Spock-McCoy TV series, each of the trio's movies, and the pre-Kirk pilot TV show, "The Cage," too. For each, Farrand first gives its "star date" (remember how the shows began: "Captain's log, star date . . ."), a plot summary, some of his own "Ruminations" on it, his choices of "Great Moments" in it, and two trivia questions. Then Farrand gets to the good stuff--the mistakes made in each program: production goofs, plot loopholes, continuity failures, and bits cut from a show when it was put in syndication. Concluding each entry are answers to the trivia questions; also concluding each TV episode entry is a tally of the stills shown underneath the show's closing list of production credits. As you can tell from the page count, this is no thrown-together exploitation opus. It's a thoroughgoing labor of love that ought to please Trekkers everywhere. . Trade Paperback. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.