Phasers on Stun!: How the Making (and Remaking) of Star Trek Changed the World

Written with inside access to writers, cast, and crew and the perfect perspective, PHASERS ON STUN! both charts a history of Star Trek and explains its enduring place in popular culture, celebrating the show's past as well as sharing new, exclusive insight on its very current and relevant journeys.As author Ryan Britt writes, Star Trek has captivated imaginations for more than 50 years, though twelve feature films, nine television series (three of which are currently running), with another movie and three additional television series planned for 2022, along with hundreds of novels, short story collections, and comic books. In his follow up to 2015's LUKE SKYWALKER CAN'T READ, Ryan Britt charts a course through Star Trek history, illuminating the bold choices that have allowed Star Trek to help shape the world that watched it, including stories about making history with LGBTQ representation, the sequence of decisions that turned Spock from a red devil to the personification of logical empathy, the significance of the Starfleet uniforms, Star Trek's surprising history with fan outrage, and more.Including extensive interviews with current Star Trek showrunner Michael Chabon, and actors William Shatner and Jonathan Frakes, Ryan Britt has all the right access and the right connections to publish a definitive yet totally modern book on what Star Trek means today.