The Longest Trek: My Tour of the Galaxy
by Grace Lee Whitney, Jim Denney
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Author: Grace Lee Whitney, Jim DenneyForeword: Leonard Nimoy
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1998-07-01
ISBN: 1884956033
Number of pages: 208
Publisher: Linden Publishing
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Book Review: Fascinating and Inspiring
Summary: 5 Stars
I was very impressed by this memoir. Grace Lee Whitney went through some terrible ordeals in her life and her account of how she eventually recovered from them and found spiritual peace as a Jewish Christian, while somewhat unorthodox for me to fully comprehend at first, ranks as one of the most inspiring accounts I've read this past year. Probably what impressed me most however, was her willingness to challenge the late Gene Roddenberry's long-standing diatribes against religion and faith in general by using herself as an example of what happens to one who decides its better to reject God in the name of doing one's own thing and thinking it's somehow "liberating" when ultimately it leads to the worst consequences imaginable.
POSTSCRIPT (2005)
-It is time for me to update this review to specifically respond to the 2004 review of "Colonial Jedi", a militant atheist who lets his own views slam Grace for her spiritual rebirth. Grace's defense of religious faith from the secular silliness of Gene Roddenberry needs no further defense from me, but his sarcastic "figure that one out" regarding the fact that Grace is now a Jewish Christian, is a demeaning insult to thousands of Messianic Jews who would characterize themselves in the same way Grace does.
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She opened for jazz great Billie Holiday, shared the set with Marilyn Monroe, and flirted on-screen with Jack Lemmon. In her dream role, Gene Roddenberry beamed her aboard the Starship Enterprise as Yeoman Janice Rand in the original “Star Trek? series. But a terrifying sexual assault on the studio lot and her lifelong feelings of emptiness and isolation would soon combine to turn her starry dream into a nightmare.
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