The 50-Year Mission reveals the egomania and   
   idealism that built Star Trek:   
      
   "So the two volumes provide an interesting contrast: Star Trek rising up from   
   1960s obscurity to 1980s movie popularity; and Star Trek falling from late   
   1980s domination to early 2000s obsolescence.   
      
   Along the way, there are two constants: ego and idealism. A lot of the most   
   painful parts of The 50 Year Mission involve finding out that your creative   
   heroes could be total assholes, capable of everything from sexual harassment to   
   willful sabotage. Every era of Star Trek saw battles for creative control that   
   were motivated, in large part, by egomania and the kind of self-importance that   
   would make the godlike Q blush. And yet at the same time, almost everybody   
   working on Star Trek believed, to some extent, in its vision of a better future   
   where people overcome selfishness and hatred, and some of the most fascinating   
   parts involve people twisting themselves into knots coming up with stories   
   about more evolved humans."   
      
   See:   
      
   http://arstechnica.com/the-multiverse/2016/09/the-50-year-missio   
   -reveals-the-egomania-and-idealism-that-built-star-trek/   
      
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