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Search for Spock: A Star Trek Book of Exploration: A Highly Illogical Parody
"The pages are colorful, vibrant, and joyful… Search for Spock was a lot of fun. If you have kids, you'll enjoy working together to try and find Mr. Spock, and if you're an adult, it's fun to find all of the references to various Star Trek episodes."
—Trek Core
Explore the settings of the ever-popular Star Trek show and movie franchises in hopes of finding the evasive Mr. Spock in this hugely entertaining version of Where's Waldo? for Trekkies!
Travel through space and time to find Dr. Spock among over 100 other characters, aliens, villains, and crew members in this hidden intergalactic adventure! Search all floors, planetary settings, and plots explored by the brave Enterprise fleet members for a certain evasive-yet-adored Vulcan in the entertaining and endearing Search for Spock. The colorful artwork mirrors the famously popular Where's Waldo? activity book series' charm and simplicity—a challenging and fun time for all fans of all ages!
—Trek Core
Explore the settings of the ever-popular Star Trek show and movie franchises in hopes of finding the evasive Mr. Spock in this hugely entertaining version of Where's Waldo? for Trekkies!
Travel through space and time to find Dr. Spock among over 100 other characters, aliens, villains, and crew members in this hidden intergalactic adventure! Search all floors, planetary settings, and plots explored by the brave Enterprise fleet members for a certain evasive-yet-adored Vulcan in the entertaining and endearing Search for Spock. The colorful artwork mirrors the famously popular Where's Waldo? activity book series' charm and simplicity—a challenging and fun time for all fans of all ages!
40 pages, Hardcover
First published November 1, 2017
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June 19, 2024
Search for Spock: A Star Trek Book of Exploration: A Highly Illogical Search and Find Parody is a fun book to examine and explore. Not only did I love it, but my whole family enjoyed playing with it also. We are all huge Trekies, so that explains a lot.
January 9, 2024
I love Star Trek. A lot. So it's with a heavy heart that I have to score this so low, but I can't in good conscience say it's a good search-and-find book when it just isn't.
For one, there's a lot of copy-paste characters, even within the same spread. I get that it's a lot of work to draw all those people, and it can get annoying filling in those extra characters to distract readers with, but several on the same page isn't okay.
It's also weirdly blurry. I'm not sure if this was intentional to try to create depth, or if it was lazy, but judging by the copy-paste stuff, I'm guessing the latter.
No answer key. This is especially annoying because the 'extra finds' at the end of the book are highly specific; it's inaccessible to people unfamiliar with the show - hell, it's inaccessible to me as a fan, sometimes! I had to sit next to a computer to google who a lot of the characters were and what they looked like. And there's the final thing: Spock (and other main characters) weren't consistent in their 'look': one minutes they're wearing a uniform, the next they're wearing a special outfit. Sometimes they had defining features, sometimes they didn't. It was all very wishy-washy.
For one, there's a lot of copy-paste characters, even within the same spread. I get that it's a lot of work to draw all those people, and it can get annoying filling in those extra characters to distract readers with, but several on the same page isn't okay.
It's also weirdly blurry. I'm not sure if this was intentional to try to create depth, or if it was lazy, but judging by the copy-paste stuff, I'm guessing the latter.
No answer key. This is especially annoying because the 'extra finds' at the end of the book are highly specific; it's inaccessible to people unfamiliar with the show - hell, it's inaccessible to me as a fan, sometimes! I had to sit next to a computer to google who a lot of the characters were and what they looked like. And there's the final thing: Spock (and other main characters) weren't consistent in their 'look': one minutes they're wearing a uniform, the next they're wearing a special outfit. Sometimes they had defining features, sometimes they didn't. It was all very wishy-washy.
January 14, 2018
Sooo...back in November when I was Christmas shopping for others, I found this Spocktacular parody of the Where's Waldo books. And decided that I needed it in my life. I discovered Waldo when my son was small and we had hours of enjoyment looking for Waldo in all of his different adventures.
This search for Spock is exactly like that (only not quite as difficult as some of the Waldo scenes). It was lots of fun hunting for Spock and recognizing all the in-jokes from various classic Trek episodes. The only reason I didn't give it a full five stars is because there weren't extra items to search for on a couple of the scenes. I don't know if that was a mistake and there were supposed to be an extra items list for those scenes (it seemed from the text that all pages were supposed to have extra items) or if that was intentional.
This search for Spock is exactly like that (only not quite as difficult as some of the Waldo scenes). It was lots of fun hunting for Spock and recognizing all the in-jokes from various classic Trek episodes. The only reason I didn't give it a full five stars is because there weren't extra items to search for on a couple of the scenes. I don't know if that was a mistake and there were supposed to be an extra items list for those scenes (it seemed from the text that all pages were supposed to have extra items) or if that was intentional.
December 19, 2018
This isn't just a Trek version of "Where's Waldo"...this is a gorgeous, loving, astonishing tribute to "Star Trek" on a majestic, bonkers scale. The pages are so full of artistic & canon goodness you'll simply lose track of actually finding Spock, and just absorb all the lovely details and amazing drawings. The star of the book is the surprisingly disturbing tribute to dead red shirts, in a spread best described a Trek's answer to Hieronymus Bosch.
December 2, 2024
A very funny parody of the "Where's Waldo?" series of kids search-and-find books, but it's classic Star Trek characters asking the reader for help locating Spock among the crowded scenes on board the Enterprise or on various planets. There are even some Next Generation and Deep Space Nine characters in here! There is an appendix with a list of a ton of fun characters and devices and things to find in each layout after you've found Spock. Entertaining even for grownup nerds. Haha!
December 11, 2025
Cute idea, and the large checklist of “bonus” searching on the last page adds to the replay value of the book. A lot of illustrations have weirdly blurry characters and objects though, so the execution leaves something to be desired. Any given Where’s Waldo? volume will have higher quality illustrations. So close to being an excellent issue.
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May 19, 2024This book is harder then you'd think! You need to know how the different characters were dressed in each episode referenced inorder to find Spock. It is fun for a die-hard Trekkie, but might be frustrating for someone with only a passing understanding of the franchise.
January 2, 2018
A great gift for Star Trek and Where's Waldo fans, this search-and-find is illogically fun. Familiarity with the Original Series episodes will help your search.
Live long and prosper!
Live long and prosper!
January 8, 2018
So much fun! Would love to see one for every series!
December 7, 2018
Loved it -- although trying to find Spock in a page of Romulans was really hard....
November 5, 2020
Family fun.
May 2, 2022
Perfecto para los fans de star trek. Es un buscando a Wally con el señor Spok
February 17, 2023
A short bit of fun. Would have been far superior if the artwork wasn't so lazy, several of the background people and items were obviously cut and paste
October 21, 2023
My dad loves it.
December 30, 2023
This is Where’s Waldo…..but with Star Trek. Totally worth it.
November 3, 2021
Just OK. I didn't spend as much time admiring the art as I thought I would. The original Where's Waldo? books are way better in terms of their art. In Waldo, there are all these humorous things happening with characters in the background that are really missing from Search for Spock. To create a bigger crowd, it's obvious that characters were copied and pasted to save time, even on different pages. Some of the characters are even blurry. I think there is something to be said for the detailed, hand-drawn art of Where's Waldo? and the quick, digital art seen here. As with Fun with Kirk and Spock, I don't think that just because it's labelled as a parody, one should expect lesser quality.
This book was a bit more welcoming to readers who aren't diehard Star Trek fans because, if nothing else, you can just check out the art and look for Spock. But there are way more characters you can find on each spread, and there was no way I was even going to remember what half of them look like, let alone which episode of which series they're from. All of these are listed with checkboxes in the back of the book, if you really want to spend some time in these pages. Thankfully, you can find the beloved characters from other series and not just the original.
This book was a bit more welcoming to readers who aren't diehard Star Trek fans because, if nothing else, you can just check out the art and look for Spock. But there are way more characters you can find on each spread, and there was no way I was even going to remember what half of them look like, let alone which episode of which series they're from. All of these are listed with checkboxes in the back of the book, if you really want to spend some time in these pages. Thankfully, you can find the beloved characters from other series and not just the original.
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