Edward Gross

Edward Gross (born 12 May 1960; age 64) is an author and journalist. Gross is the (co-)author of several unauthorized Star Trek reference books. His first Trek work was as a contributing free-lance writer for Starlog Press, the former O'Quinn Studios, for whom he started working from 1986 onward, submitting numerous articles. His articles were published in their Starlog magazine as well as the 1986-1988 publications Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home - The Official Movie Magazine and several issues of The Official Star Trek: The Next Generation Magazine.

Along with colleague Patrick Jankiewicz, Gross specialized for Starlog in tracking down and interviewing the more peripheral contributors to the Star Trek franchise, such as guest actors, directors, and writers, as well as lesser known production staffers, that were rarely, if at all referred to in other, later publications covering the franchise. Building upon the knowledge and experience garnered there he started writing his unlicensed reference books, most of them in cooperation with Mark A. Altman. In them he expanded upon the interviews he had done with said contributors, resulting in point of view works that were somewhat outside the more "political correct" ones utilized in the officially licensed works of, for example, Pocket Books. Interviewees, long outside the purview of official studio policies, often felt free to proffer a more critical view on the production of Star Trek and the studio policies surrounding them.

Star Trek credits[]

• Books
  • The Search for Spock: the Star Trek Movie Files (1987)
  • Star Trek: The Movies (1987)
  • Interviews Aboard the Enterprise (1988)
  • Trek: The Lost Years (1989)
  • The Making of the Next Generation (1989)
  • Untold Tales of the Next Generation (1989)
  • The Making of the Trek Films (1991, edited and co-wrote, with numerous other writers)
  • Trek Classic: 25 Years Later (1991)
  • New Voyages: The Next Generation Guidebook (1991, with Mark Altman)
  • New Voyages II: The Next Generation 5th Season Guidebook (1991, with Mark Altman)
  • Charting the Undiscovered Country: The Making of Trek VI (1992, with Mark Altman and Ron Magid)
  • Captain's Logs: The Complete Trek Voyages (1993)
  • Lost Voyages of Trek and The Next Generation (1994, with Mark Altman)
  • Great Birds of the Galaxy: Gene Roddenberry and the Creators of Trek (1994, with Mark Altman)
  • The Deep Space Log Book: A First Season Companion (1994, with Mark Altman)
  • Captain's Log Supplemental: Season 7 (1995, with Mark Altman)
  • The Deep Space Log Book: A Second Season Companion (1995, with Mark Altman)
  • Creating the Next Generation (1995, with Mark Altman)
  • Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages (1995, with Mark Altman)
  • Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages (1996, with Mark Altman)
  • Trek Navigator: The Ultimate Guide to the Entire Trek Saga (1998, with Mark Altman)
  • The Fifty-Year Mission: The First 25 Years (2016, with Mark Altman)
  • The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years (2016, with Mark Altman)
• Articles
  • "John de Lancie – Q", The Official Star Trek: The Next Generation Magazine issue 2, pp. 4-7
  • "For the Love of Star Trek"– D.C. Fontana, The Official Star Trek: The Next Generation Magazine issue 2, p. 8
  • "Writer Tracy Tormé – "Haven" & Beyond", The Official Star Trek: The Next Generation Magazine issue 2, pp. 22-25
  • "Writers Katharyn Powers & Michael Baron – Inside "Code of Honor"", The Official Star Trek: The Next Generation Magazine issue 2, pp. 59-62
  • "Jonathan Frakes – Commander William Riker", The Official Star Trek: The Next Generation Magazine issue 3, pp. 4-9
  • "Writer Richard Krzemien – Beyond "The Last Outpost"", The Official Star Trek: The Next Generation Magazine issue 3, pp. 18-20
  • "The Encore of Q", The Official Star Trek: The Next Generation Magazine issue 3, p. 48
  • "Marina Sirtis – Counselor Deanna Troi", The Official Star Trek: The Next Generation Magazine issue 3, pp. 50-54
  • "Michael Dorn – Lt. Worf", The Official Star Trek: The Next Generation Magazine issue 7, pp. 15-20
  • "Rob Bowman – Director of a Dozen", The Official Star Trek: The Next Generation Magazine issue 10, pp. 13-21
  • "Corey Allen – Directing Farpoint Encounters", The Official Star Trek: The Next Generation Magazine issue 10, pp. 62-66
  • "Cliff Bole – Of Redemption & Unification", The Official Star Trek: The Next Generation Magazine issue 17, pp. 27-35
  • "Robert Iscove – Inventor of "The Icarus Factor", The Official Star Trek: The Next Generation Magazine issue 19, p. 25

Non Trek work[]

• Books
  • Buffy X-Posed : The Unauthorized Biography of Sarah Michelle Gellar and Her On-Screen Character
  • Spider-Man Confidential: From Comic Icon to Hollywood Hero
  • Alien Nation: The Unofficial Companion
  • Planet of the Apes Revisited: The Role of the Chicago Underworld in the Shaping of Modern America
  • Planet of the Apes Revisited: the Behind-the-Scenes Story of the Classic Science Fiction Saga
  • Creating Babylon 5
  • Rocky: The Ultimate Guide
  • Dark Shadows Tribute Book (with James Van Hise)
  • Films of Eddie Murphy
  • The L.A. Law Handbook
  • Top Gun: The Films of Tom Cruise
  • Unofficial Tale of Beauty and the Beast
  • Cheers: Where Everybody Knows Your Name
  • The Unofficial Story of the Making of a Wiseguy
  • The Wonder Years: Growing Up in the 1960s
  • Secret of Michael J. Fox's Success
  • The 25th Anniversary Odd Couple Companion: Still Odd After All These Years
  • Rocky and the Films of Sylvester Stallone
  • Dark Shadows: A 20th Anniversary Tribute: The Dark Shadows Files
  • Dark Shadows: The Terror Begins: The Dark Shadows Files
  • So Say We All: The Complete, Uncensored, Unauthorized Oral History of Battlestar Galactica (with Mark A. Altman)