You're Gonna Need a Bigger Ship: From Jaws to Star Trek: A Memoir of Stunts, Songs, and Starfleet

If you love Star Trek — this one's for you.In first grade, Stephen Rosario Pisani stood up in front of his class and announced that his father beat up Batman, Robin, and Chief O'Hara for a living, and that one day he himself was going to be on Star Trek. His teacher sent a letter home. The class laughed him out of the room.Decades later, he stood on the bridge of the U.S.S. Voyager in a Starfleet uniform. He slow-danced with Captain Janeway. He walked onto that lot wearing Captain Picard's actual boots. He sat in Michael Westmore's makeup chair — the same hands that worked on Rocky and Raging Bull, and won an Academy Award for Mask — and was told he was Michael's third favorite Italian.The kids who laughed him out of the first-grade classroom were unavailable for comment.But the story goes back further than Starfleet.His mother and aunts sang with Sinatra. His father fought Batman and fished with the Frankenstein Monster. One of his uncles was the Mayor in Jaws, and another uncle helped build the CBS television network.You're Gonna Need a Bigger Ship is the extraordinary true story of a family that helped build Hollywood — and a son who never stopped believing. With 325 photographs, 54 chapters, and one of the most joyful voices in American memoir writing, this is the book you will press into the hands of everyone you love. Read more