Gerald Gurian is a near first generation Star Trek: The Original Series Trekkie who eventually became a publication editor and author of Star Trek reference works in his own rights.

His first known official franchise contribution was that of behind-the-scenes photo contributor to Star Trek: The Original Series 365, which he followed up in a similar function for Marc Cushman’s These Are The Voyages: TOS three-tome reference work. Due to his participation to that publication as an archivist and photo editor, Gurian decided to publish himself a companion, mostly full-color, pictorial series as the source publication was only able to publish his behind-the-scenes pictures in black and white. In order to achieve this, Gurian established his own publishing house , Minkatek Press – named after his pet dog – that, in March 2016, published his first book, To Boldly Go: Rare Photos from the TOS Soundstage – Season One.