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This biography was an absolute trial to get through. There was the odd section that was pleasant to read, when it was mostly an interviewee speaking, but whenever Marshak and Culbreath are musing on their theories or congratulating themselves, it gets so tiresome.
M&C had a pretty clear agenda with a lot of questioning, for example, they write:
That 'Romulan fleet commander' thing they mention? They're talking about the Romulan Commander from "The Enterprise Incident", no doubt. But the connection between her and Kirk is explored in fanfic, rather than in the series proper. Whose fanfic? Why, Marshak & Culbreath have a book or two that might be relevant.
And they make a point of bringing up their idea about alpha males over and over in interviews (oh, and they have another fic on the topic, too). One assumes that they kept asking questions in slightly different ways until they got the quotes they wanted. A couple of famous ones came out in this book:
How much of that was really Roddenberry's thinking in writing Trek, and how much was him just giving M&C what they so obviously wanted? He apparently wanted walk those back so badly that he inserted a footnote into the novelization of the film. Their much-vaunted study had some exceptionally leading questions, too.
From the book itself, it seems that Shatner was absolutely in love with everything they were doing, but I heard years ago (and Fanlore links to a source for this rumor) that Shatner hated the book enough that he tried to limit distribution.
Amazingly, for a (supposedly) nonfiction book, this thing reads like fanfic. M&C's style comes through strong as ever: they try a word or phrase, congratulate themselves for how clever they sound, and celebrate by repeating it about fifty times over the next chapter or two. If I never see the word 'shellmouth' again (and, honestly, I never expect to) it'll be too soon.
Not just the words but the ideas are repetitive--M&C are constantly admonishing the reader not to forget The Crucible Years that Shatner went through, or reminding us how they, specially, have been trusted with the most intimate details of Shatner's life, which he has never told anyone before. And they make sure to quote other people exclaiming about how they can't believe Shatner opened up so much to M&C, and how amazing M&C's ideas are and why didn't M&C write the script for the Trek movie?
It's exhausting.
Potential future readers are enjoined in the strongest possible terms: do not become regretful past readers. (