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The Making of the Trek Conventions: Or, How to Throw a Party for 12,000 of Your Most Intimate Friends
Joan Winston
4.25 AVERAGE
2 reviews for:
The Making of the Trek Conventions: Or, How to Throw a Party for 12,000 of Your Most Intimate Friends
Joan Winston
4.25 AVERAGE
I love the Ben Stiller cameo.
I enjoyed reading this. I do have to warn you this book contains references to filk. Usually, filk is the line I draw for how far I’m willing to read about fandom. But I enjoyed this book. Star Trek before the movies!
It kind of read like getting letters from a friend. It was very conversational, sometimes so much so that it felt like some of the pages were padded with fluff.
But I liked hanging out with Joan and zipping around these early Star Trek conventions. I found the logistics, such as learning why the programs were on yellow paper with red ink, fascinating.
This would make good material for a movie. I want to see a reenactment of crowds going nuts for Mark Lenard. “Will they remember me,” he says, “I was only in a couple episodes.”
I’d be interested in a journalist writing about the same material. Winston is clearly friends with everyone she writes about, except for the fire marshals and a few others, but there had to have been some rude moments with these tv stars. Or maybe not, there seems to be a lot of love here.
I enjoyed reading this. I do have to warn you this book contains references to filk. Usually, filk is the line I draw for how far I’m willing to read about fandom. But I enjoyed this book. Star Trek before the movies!
It kind of read like getting letters from a friend. It was very conversational, sometimes so much so that it felt like some of the pages were padded with fluff.
But I liked hanging out with Joan and zipping around these early Star Trek conventions. I found the logistics, such as learning why the programs were on yellow paper with red ink, fascinating.
This would make good material for a movie. I want to see a reenactment of crowds going nuts for Mark Lenard. “Will they remember me,” he says, “I was only in a couple episodes.”
I’d be interested in a journalist writing about the same material. Winston is clearly friends with everyone she writes about, except for the fire marshals and a few others, but there had to have been some rude moments with these tv stars. Or maybe not, there seems to be a lot of love here.
In The Making of the Trek Conventions original Star Trek Welcommittee (STW) member Joan Winston takes us through the day to day running and behind-the-scenes secrets of STW's Star Trek conventions, which ran in New York City each year from 1972 to 1976. The book is an eye-opening read for modern convention-goers who may never have experienced a fan-run convention, and is chock-full of amusing stories about the stars, creators, and fans of Star Trek in the 1970s.
Winston's style is very conversational and reads like she's writing a series of letters to a friend or family. Winston tends to avoid getting into too much detail about any conflict surrounding the conventions, so the book ends up being an essential, if incomplete picture. I particularly wished she had reflected more on was the split between the STW conventions and the commercialized conventions that built upon their success. Also fair warning for readers who care about size acceptance, there's a pretty unfortunate part near the end where Winston talks negatively about "fat" convention-goers being featured in a reporter's photographs. Of course this book came out in 1977 and the discourse around these issues was nowhere near what it is today, but it bothered me as a modern reader.
Again, this book is well worth your time if you're interested in Star Trek, media fandom, or SF convention organizing. As a bonus, it contains the trivia contest questions from all the conventions and amateur photos of some of the most memorable costume masquerade participants. It's as close as you can get to doing a slingshot around the sun and being back there yourself.
Winston's style is very conversational and reads like she's writing a series of letters to a friend or family. Winston tends to avoid getting into too much detail about any conflict surrounding the conventions, so the book ends up being an essential, if incomplete picture. I particularly wished she had reflected more on was the split between the STW conventions and the commercialized conventions that built upon their success. Also fair warning for readers who care about size acceptance, there's a pretty unfortunate part near the end where Winston talks negatively about "fat" convention-goers being featured in a reporter's photographs. Of course this book came out in 1977 and the discourse around these issues was nowhere near what it is today, but it bothered me as a modern reader.
Again, this book is well worth your time if you're interested in Star Trek, media fandom, or SF convention organizing. As a bonus, it contains the trivia contest questions from all the conventions and amateur photos of some of the most memorable costume masquerade participants. It's as close as you can get to doing a slingshot around the sun and being back there yourself.