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Best of Trek #18
The Best of Trek: From the Magazine for Star Trek Fans
The exploration continues! Under the expert guidance of Walter Irwin and G.B. Love, fans will discover strange new worlds of information and boldly go where no fan has gone before.
- GenresStar Trek
Mass Market Paperback
First published February 1, 1996
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December 31, 2025
This is the last of The Best of Trek books that were published from 1979 to 1996. If you collected them then you would noticed the last three volumes were published more infrequently and it seemed to lean more to towards the original show rather then thespin offs which were on the air that time. There is nothing on Deep Space Nine or Voyager despite the former being in its fourth season and the latter in its second at this point.
There are three Next Generation only focused and one that focuses on a Spock/Data comparison. The oddest things about the three articles is the fact that information was out of date by the time it was published. One article speculates on the return of Tasha Yar's daughter and is written before Reunion, where we learn her origin. Another speculates on the Dr Crusher and Captain Picard relationship but all of the material was from season one. Remember this 1996 and Next Generation had finished two years earlier. Last we got a review of the entire first season of Next Generation. From reading the article you can tell this must have been written before the second season. Why publish these articles from 8 years earlier and another 5 years out of date? I got the impression they wanted to do one last volume and did not have enough space to fill a book. So they got older articles to make it over 200 pages.
The rest are the typical articles you find in this series. Some technical scientific speculation about Trek technology,reviews of episodes, articles that study the characters and relationship and biographical piece or two about how the writer of the article became a fan of the show. They are decent but typical of what would except. The series did not go out on a high note.
This is my 4,750th book on Goodreads.
There are three Next Generation only focused and one that focuses on a Spock/Data comparison. The oddest things about the three articles is the fact that information was out of date by the time it was published. One article speculates on the return of Tasha Yar's daughter and is written before Reunion, where we learn her origin. Another speculates on the Dr Crusher and Captain Picard relationship but all of the material was from season one. Remember this 1996 and Next Generation had finished two years earlier. Last we got a review of the entire first season of Next Generation. From reading the article you can tell this must have been written before the second season. Why publish these articles from 8 years earlier and another 5 years out of date? I got the impression they wanted to do one last volume and did not have enough space to fill a book. So they got older articles to make it over 200 pages.
The rest are the typical articles you find in this series. Some technical scientific speculation about Trek technology,reviews of episodes, articles that study the characters and relationship and biographical piece or two about how the writer of the article became a fan of the show. They are decent but typical of what would except. The series did not go out on a high note.
This is my 4,750th book on Goodreads.
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