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Title: Strange New Worlds, Vol. 6 (Star Trek) by Dean Wesley Smith, John J. Ordover, Paula M. Block ISBN: 0743467531 Publisher: Star Trek Pub. Date: 01 June, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4
Rating: 3
Summary: Needs to make a few changes for SNW:VII
Comment: First of all, nearly all of the stories presented in this volume were great - but there needs to be a few changes for SNW:VII. The first problem to over come is the fact that (in nearly every volume of STN) there are stories concerning Star Trek:TOS episodes"A Piece Of The Action" and "City On The Edge Of Forever". While these episodes are very good, enough about them. Let's move on to others. (With "City...." we get it - Kirk was very upset about Edith Keeler's death.)
The second problem is that there needs to be more Star Trek: DS9 and Enterprise stories. While the "Enterprise" series is still relatively new, there never seems to be more than three (some very short) stories in any given volume about DS9.
Third, no more stories centering 'exclusively' around Data. This is one Star Trek character that the fans need to let go of. Enough of Data, already!
Rating: 4
Summary: Good stories this year!
Comment: Strange New Worlds VI outdoes some of its past editions in the overall quality of the stories. All were well done, with perhaps one or two exceptions (the Voyager and Enterprise stories were not that impressive). The good stories were really good. My favorites were THE SOFT ROOM, PROTECTING DATA'S FRIENDS, and BEST TOOLS AVAILABLE. The grand prize winner, OUR MILLION-YEAR MISSION, was well done but lacked the powerful punch I was expecting from the editor's introduction. If you pick this book up, you'll get a number of fun and entertaining stories that aren't "too far out" as some of the stories in the previous 2 volumes are.
Rating: 4
Summary: Trek-Light makes for good quicky reads
Comment: Star Trek Strange New Worlds is excellent escapism, a majority the stories are well written and you can polish off 1 or 2 in any "before bedtime reading secession"
One of the things that I really enjoyed about this book is that you will find that fan written fiction will generally delve in to areas that "professional authors" won't go, or the fact that these are short stories, wouldn't be substantial enough to create a novel from and therefore not worth the effort. The most outstanding stories in this book fall in to that category.
You get quite a few stories of "Let's mix Kirk, Picard and any other character we can think of from different Trek shows", but they are done entertainingly and not nearly as geeky as it could be, if authors of lesser ability attempted it.
With any Star Trek book, you get the arguments of "that's not cannon" and of course Paramount has steadfastly stood by the claim that anything that happens in Star Trek books has nothing to do or add to official Trek lore. With that in mind some of the authors stories tackle subjects such as "solving the Kobiashi Maru scenario" or "Q with Kirk and Janeway"
All in all a good read, I would recommend it if you have read any other Star Trek books, but might not if you are new to reading Trek material.
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Title: Star Trek Voyager Homecoming (Book 1) by Christie Golden ISBN: 074346754X Publisher: Star Trek Pub. Date: 01 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Farther Shore : Book Two of Two by Christie Golden ISBN: 0743467558 Publisher: Star Trek Pub. Date: 01 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Do Comets Dream? (Star Trek: The Next Generation) by S.P. Somtow, S. P. Somtow, Gene Roddenberry ISBN: 0743411307 Publisher: Star Trek Pub. Date: July, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Left Hand of Destiny, Book 2 (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) by J. G. Hertzler, Jeffrey Lang, Rick Berman ISBN: 0671784943 Publisher: Star Trek Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Sundered : The Lost Era 2298 by Michael A. Martin, Andy Mangels ISBN: 074346401X Publisher: Star Trek Pub. Date: 01 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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