Review & Interview: Nana Visitor’s ‘Star Trek: Open A Channel: A Woman’s Trek’

https://trekmovie.com/2024/10/01/review-nana-visitors-star-trek-open-a-channel-a-womans-trek-is-the-book-ive-been-waiting-for/

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’s Nana Visitor’s expansive new book exploring the female characters and experiences of women who worked on Star Trek in front of and behind the camera is out today. This is going to sound odd, but it’s almost a disservice that this is a coffee table-style book. It’s large and heavy with glossy pages, and while the beauty treatment is deserved, it’s almost a contradiction to the type of book it actually is. This is a book to be read cover to cover, then referenced and quoted over and over again—and maybe even carried around with you.

https://trekmovie.com/2024/11/19/interview-nana-visitor-on-what-she-learned-watching-all-the-star-treks-for-open-a-channel-a-womans-trek/

When Deep Space Nine‘s Nana Visitor was approached about writing a book about the women in Star Trek, the original idea pitched to her was that she’d do short interviews to work into a picture-filled coffee table book. When she started doing interviews, the concept changed to something deeper: a look at female Trek characters, yes, but also a deep dive into the actresses who played them and they times they lived in. We reviewed the book when it came out, then spoke to her in depth about her experience writing it and how it affected her.