The Making of Star Trek

> **The Biography of the Leading Science Fiction TV Program**

>

> STAR TREK! The long, hard battle of television's first tentative step

> toward adult science fiction, with the complete story of how the *U.S.S.

> Enterprise* was designed, her weaponry, equipment and power

> resources, the original concept behind the show, how the continuity is

> maintained, backgrounds of the characters, biographies of the stars,

> and pictures, diagrams, illustrations -- the whole authentic history.

Although Gene Roddenberry is listed as a co-author, the book was written by Whitfield. Roddenberry's only contribution seems to be the lyrics to the Star Trek Theme on page 7.