All I Really Need to Know I Learned from Watching Star Trek

by Dave Marinaccio

Book Overview

How to win at poker. The power of a business's mission statement. If you can dial a telephone, you can do anything. These are the lessons to be learned from Star Trek. First a hit television show, and then a pop culture phenomenon, Star Trek is now the basis for inspiration and guidance in our daily lives. ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED FROM WATCHING STAR TREK is an anthology of valuable lessons that can be found within the episodes of Star Trek...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0517883864
• ISBN13: 9780517883860
• Release Date: May 1995
• Publisher: Harmony/Rodale
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.2" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

It's true

This book was not only fun to read, but it made me think I've missed out on a lot by not being more of a Trekkie! I bought it for a Trekkie friend, then had to borrow it back.

Fantastic!

We tend to forget all the lessons we learned watching the original Star Trek series, and Dave Marinaccio brings it all back with a lot of humor. This book is a must for any original Star Trek fan. You can read it in one sitting, and then your friends will all be borrowing it. You may want to buy an extra just in case.

what hasn't already been said.

as the tittle says, i cant really say anything that the other reviewers haven't said themselves. all i can say is that at first i was expecting it to be kind of corny, like if you encounter an alien energy life form set your phaser to heat to destroy it or if you encounter a giant rock thing use cement to heal its wounds. but it wasn't anything like that, it was good, very entertaining thoughts and ideas about the lessons learned from star trek and how they are related to the authors real life. defiantly a must read for any star trek fan.

Fun and insightful, charming, uplifting, & good advice

This little gem presents only a modest chunk of all the words-to-the-wise possible to divine from Trekology. But it's warm, personal, & reminds us that, in an all-too-cynical world, it's still possible to be uplifting, be optimistic, and convey positive values, and STILL be a fabulous success. In fact, that's the real story underlying the enduring appeal of Star Trek -- people today are as hungry as ever for role models of heroism, friendship, loyalty, devotion, duty, and self-sacrifice. Star Trek is one of the few oases in popular culture and mass media where we're reminded that being good is what makes you great, and while every story may not have a happy ending, there is always hope, and there ARE rewards for fighting for truth and justice. God bless you, Dave Marinaccio -- you wrote the book I always wanted to write!

VERY GOOD,GETS THE POINT OUT

This is not a 'complete' work on the subject,but it is a very good way to get people to know that there was "meaning in Star Trek" (like a past book had said).There are things that were learned by watching Star Trek,and this book gives a taste of this.The way to read this book (or another of its kind) is to first understand that Star Trek put out messages in the neat form of a fiction TV show--real types of problems in a well done TV program. This book is a good read,and worth the buy.