EDWARD GROSS has an extensive history covering film and television as a member of the editorial staff of a wide variety of magazines, including Cinescape, Starlog, Cinefantastique, SFX, Movie Magic, Sci-Fi Now and Geek. He has written or co-written over three dozen non-fiction books.

MARK A. ALTMAN is a television showrunner and motion picture writer/producer who is executive producer of the hit sci-fi series, Pandora. Previously he served as Co- Executive Producer of The Librarians, Agent X, Castle and Necessary Roughness among others. His first motion picture was the award winning, Free Enterprise, starring William Shatner and Eric McCormack, which he wrote and produced and for which he won the WGA Award for Best New Writer.

In 2019, Altman launched the Electric Surge video podcast network with producer Dean Devlin (Independence Day, Stargate) which produces numerous podcasts spotlighting pop culture topics with notable experts in their field. The video podcasts which include The 4:30 Movie and Inglorious Treksperts, which he co-hosts, along with Best Movies Never Made as well as several others is also available on the streaming OTT platform, Electric Now, as well as through traditional podcast providers.

His bestselling two-volume book series with Edward Gross, The Fifty-Year Mission: The Complete Uncensored, Oral History of Star Trek, was released by St. Martin's Press in 2016 in hardcover to unanimous critical acclaim including raves in The Wall Street Journal, Booklist and Publishers Weekly. Their oral history of the James Bond films, Nobody Does It Better, was released in 2020.

DATALOG

1. A NEW HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL by Mark A. Altman
"You don't need to see his identification."

2. A GREAT DISTURBANCE IN THE FORCE by Edward Gross
"Rebellions are built on hope."

Part One
A STAR (WARS) IS BORN

3. LAUNCH BAY '77
"You came in that thing? You're braver than I thought"

4. BY GEORGE: I AM YOUR FATHER
"I find your lack of faith disturbing."

Part Two
THE ORIGINAL TRILOGY
1977 - 1983

5. HOPE & GLORY: STAR WARS
"Never tell me the odds"

6. LIGHT & MAGIC: THE VISUAL EFFECTS
"That's no moon, it's a space station"

7. EARLY BIRD SPECIAL: SELLING STAR WARS
"It's the story of boy, a girl and a universe..."

8. TO BEA OR NOT TO BEA: THE STAR WARS HOLIDAY SPECIAL
"We have to get Chewie home for Life Day"

9. ICE, ICE, BABY: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK
"Do. Or do not. There is no try."

10. CELEBRATE THE LOVE: RETURN OF THE JEDI
"I'll never turn to the dark side. You've failed, your highness. I am a Jedi, like my father before me."

11. ISN'T THAT SPECIAL? WARS AFTER JEDI
"Prince Xizor. Who knew?"

Part Three
THE PREQUELS
1999 - 2005

12. DUEL OF THE FATES: THE PHANTOM MENACE
"And you, Young Skywalker, we will watch your career with great interest"

13. SEND IN THE CLONES: ATTACK OF THE CLONES
"Begun, The Clone Wars have..."

14: SITH HAPPENS: REVENGE OF THE SITH
"I have waited a long time for this moment, my little green friend. At last, the Jedi are no more."\

Part Four
THE SEQUELS
(A.G. - AFTER GEORGE)
2012 -
15. FORCE FED: THE FORCE AWAKENS
"There has been an awakening. Have you felt it?"

16. REY OF HOPE: THE LAST JEDI
"This is not going to go the way you think."

17. THE SKYWALKER'S THE LIMIT: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER
"I have died before. The dark side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be... unnatural."

18. THIS IS THE WAY: STAR WARS ON TELEVISION
"I will help you. I have spoken."

ACKNOWLGEMENTS

ABOUT THE AUTHORS