Star Trek: The Next Generation Nerd Search: Bloopers of the Borg

by Glenn Dakin

Do you possess Data-like recall of everything Star Trek: The Next Generation? Put that knowledge to the test with Hero Collector's TNG Nerd Search Book.

The next generation of Hero Collector's Star Trek Nerd Search book is here, literally. Star Trek Nerd Search: The Next Generation follows the TOS-centric "Quibbles with Tribbles" and it challenges TNG fans to find the made-on-purpose mistakes across its 44 pages. Think of it as a next-level "Where's Waldo" for all the diehard Star Trek fans throughout the galaxy.

Glenn Dakin, the madman behind Hero Collector's previous Nerd Search search-and-find titles, Ghostbusters: Eerie Errors & Suspect Ghosts and Star Trek: Quibbles with Tribbles, returns to playfully torment fans who boldly think they know it all. His fully illustrated book beams up the villainous Borg, who've created time-traveling Chaos Cubes that break down reality as we know it. The reader's task is to spot the Cubes and save Picard's mission.

Making it so, however, will be tough. The reader must spot five continuity errors caused by the Chaos Cubes, such as TNG characters in the wrong costume, or scene or… even the wrong series! Complicating the crises, Dakin has hidden 10 random items for every season of TNG… in each scene. Can you find the rogue elements and name the episode? And, upping the ante even further, next-level Next Gen fans should be on the lookout for five Super Quibbles, behind-the-scenes bits of business that only hardcore fans will uncover. Sounds exciting and challenging, right? Say it with us: Resistance will be futile.

It's all in here: Quirky "Q" madness, those hirsute, cranky Klingons, and the ever-avaricious Ferengi. And, among the TNG episodes revisited are 'The Best of Both Worlds,' 'The Big Goodbye,' and 'Encounter at Farpoint.'

Oh, and the goal is to achieve the top score of, appropriately, 11001001.

Genres: Star Trek

40 pages, Hardcover

First published November 9, 2021

Reviews

[Lori · Rating 4 out of 5]

The premise of this "Where's Waldo" type of book is that the Borg have sent a "Chaos Cube" back in time to disrupt several popular Next Generation episodes (including "The Best of Both Worlds") with things and people who shouldn't be there. You also have to find the Chaos Cube in each illustration, which was harder than expected. Cute, but this isn't really something you would do more than once, so this is really more of a collectible, like the ship models parent company Eaglemoss produces.

My only quibble is apparently Hugh is supposed to be one of the characters out of place in "The Best of Both Worlds" panel, but it's really not clear given the art style.