The Making of the Trek Conventions: Or, How to Throw a Party for 12,000 of Your Most Intimate Friends

Believe it or not, this is exactly how it was. I was there. It really happened -- and it really was this zany. Never had the fans of a Television show flocked in such droves with so much excitement to demand the return of their favorite fare. Fans of television shows were always dismissed as ineffectual by Hollywood. After this book came out, which is based on an expansion of Joan Winston's contribution to the Bantam paperback STAR TREK LIVES!, Hollywood learned that a TV show's fans really do matter. While reading this book, remember all this happened before email, before the Web, before the internet was anything more than a klonky connection among university campuses. This is one of a handful of non-fiction books about Star Trek that tells the story of what really happened that has in fact changed the entertainment industry if not the whole world. Read it. Believe it. It really happened -- and could happen again.

Reading about how a friendly gathering turned into a large gathering and then spun out of control into a massive deluge of people...walking around with toilet paper badges stuck w/ little gold stars is very funny. Joan Winston has a great way of turning phrases and putting you into the scene...even though it happened so many years ago.