The Making of Star Trek Author:Stephen Whitfield & Gene Roddenberry A very extensive treatment of the MAKING of the original series. Roddenberry was a co-author, so I doubt anything else would be more authoritative. Tons of scripts, Enterprise designs, set designs, character development, hows/whys of all sorts of decisions that were made for the show. Also has about 40 pages of B&W plates in the book of photo... more »s - separate from lots of illustrations« less