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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (anthologies) #3
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds III
Back by popular demand -- again! Our third anthology featuring original Star Trek®, Star Trek: The Next Generation®, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine®, and Star Trek: Voyager® stories written by Star Trek fans, for Star Trek fans!
Each Strange New Worlds competition draws a greater response than the last. The final selections gathered here were chosen from an overwhelming number of entries by virtue of their originality and style. With wit, compassion, and an affection for all things Star Trek, these brand-new authors take us where Star Trek has never gone before.
Their tales rocket across the length and breadth of Federation time and space, from when Captain Kirk explored the galaxy on the first Starship Enterprise™, through Captain Picard's U.S.S. Enterprise™ 1701-D and Captain Sisko's Deep Space Nine™, to Captain Janeway's Starship Voyager™, with many more fascinating stops along the way.
Find out what happens in the Star Trek universe when fans -- like you -- take the helm!
Each Strange New Worlds competition draws a greater response than the last. The final selections gathered here were chosen from an overwhelming number of entries by virtue of their originality and style. With wit, compassion, and an affection for all things Star Trek, these brand-new authors take us where Star Trek has never gone before.
Their tales rocket across the length and breadth of Federation time and space, from when Captain Kirk explored the galaxy on the first Starship Enterprise™, through Captain Picard's U.S.S. Enterprise™ 1701-D and Captain Sisko's Deep Space Nine™, to Captain Janeway's Starship Voyager™, with many more fascinating stops along the way.
Find out what happens in the Star Trek universe when fans -- like you -- take the helm!
320 pages, Paperback
First published May 1, 2000
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About the author
Dean Wesley Smith
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Edward Taft
Dee W. Schofield
Sandy Schofield
Kathryn Wesley
Dean Wesley Smith is the bestselling author of over ninety novels under many names and well over 100 published short stories. He has over eight million copies of his books in print and has books published in nine different countries. He has written many original novels in science fiction, fantasy, mystery, thriller, and romance as well as books for television, movies, games, and comics. He is also known for writing quality work very quickly and has written a large number of novels as a ghost writer or under house names.
With Kristine Kathryn Rusch, he is the coauthor of The Tenth Planet trilogy and The 10th Kingdom. The following is a list of novels under the Dean Wesley Smith name, plus a number of pen names that are open knowledge. Many ghost and pen name books are not on this list because he is under contractual obligations not to disclose that he wrote them. Many of Dean’s original novels are also under hidden pen names for marketing reasons.
Dean has also written books and comics for all three major comic book companies, Marvel, DC, and Dark Horse, and has done scripts for Hollywood. One movie was actually made.
Over his career he has also been an editor and publisher, first at Pulphouse Publishing, then for VB Tech Journal, then for Pocket Books.
Currently, he is writing thrillers and mystery novels under another name.
Edward Taft
Dee W. Schofield
Sandy Schofield
Kathryn Wesley
Dean Wesley Smith is the bestselling author of over ninety novels under many names and well over 100 published short stories. He has over eight million copies of his books in print and has books published in nine different countries. He has written many original novels in science fiction, fantasy, mystery, thriller, and romance as well as books for television, movies, games, and comics. He is also known for writing quality work very quickly and has written a large number of novels as a ghost writer or under house names.
With Kristine Kathryn Rusch, he is the coauthor of The Tenth Planet trilogy and The 10th Kingdom. The following is a list of novels under the Dean Wesley Smith name, plus a number of pen names that are open knowledge. Many ghost and pen name books are not on this list because he is under contractual obligations not to disclose that he wrote them. Many of Dean’s original novels are also under hidden pen names for marketing reasons.
Dean has also written books and comics for all three major comic book companies, Marvel, DC, and Dark Horse, and has done scripts for Hollywood. One movie was actually made.
Over his career he has also been an editor and publisher, first at Pulphouse Publishing, then for VB Tech Journal, then for Pocket Books.
Currently, he is writing thrillers and mystery novels under another name.
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April 5, 2022
The series has matured and becomes a Star Trek addition to look forward to. As before, in book III the writers' contest for volume IV is already announced.
As before Dean Wesley Smith applied his own tast (following some fairly strict rules for valid entries) on thousands of short Star Trek related stories sent in by the readers i.e. non-professional writers.
Although our taste does not completely match, the variety and diversity is such that every ST lover will find at leaest severel stories to his/her liking and the rest is thrown in for free and certainly worth reading also.
The usual divison in Star Trek, Next Generation, Deep Space Nine and Voyager can be found, the newer versions hadn't been made in the year 2000 yet.
A very special story is in Klingon and looks like a one-off that will not be repeated. Of course, with a Klingon dictionary the translation is not so hard.
As before Dean Wesley Smith applied his own tast (following some fairly strict rules for valid entries) on thousands of short Star Trek related stories sent in by the readers i.e. non-professional writers.
Although our taste does not completely match, the variety and diversity is such that every ST lover will find at leaest severel stories to his/her liking and the rest is thrown in for free and certainly worth reading also.
The usual divison in Star Trek, Next Generation, Deep Space Nine and Voyager can be found, the newer versions hadn't been made in the year 2000 yet.
A very special story is in Klingon and looks like a one-off that will not be repeated. Of course, with a Klingon dictionary the translation is not so hard.
September 12, 2024
If I Lose Thee... Uhura travels back to the time of Shakespeare
The Aliens Are Coming! The Enterprise's & Quark's time travels cause a man to become obsessed with the idea that aliens will invade..
Family Matters Spock is the only hope to heal his cousin
Whatever You Do, Don't Read This Story A story isn't dangerous - or is it?
A Private Victory A member of the Enterprise crew tries to win his own private victory against the Borg
The Fourth Toast After the rip in time, he tries to cope with his knowledge of what is to come.
One of Forty-seven Guinan's experience in the mysterious energy ribbon
A Q to Swear By A dying Confederate soldier is contacted by a Q
The Change of Seasons Picard's thoughts as he waits for a recover of a personal item.
Out of the Box, Thinking Moriarty is the Enterprise's only hope.
Ninety-three Hours The first Ninety-three hours of joining.
Dorian's Diary A Red Squad surviver deals with survivor's guilt.
The Bottom Line As the first Ferengi in Star Fleet, Nog faces the Kobayashi simulation
The Best Defense.. In the Holodeck Bashir and O'Brien try to turn the Alamo into a victory.
An Errant Breeze A young Carradision during the Domion occupation.
The Ones Left Behind The wife of a Voyage crewman deals with being left behind.
The Second Star A woman recalls her encounter with Chakota and Janeway.
The Monster Hunters Kim and Tom chase a monster created to help Naomi with her fears.
Gift of Mourners Voyager finds a Cyborg with a gift from the mourners.
My pick for the top 3:
1. Whatever You Do, Don't Read This Story
2. A Private Victory
3. Ninety-three Hours.
The Aliens Are Coming! The Enterprise's & Quark's time travels cause a man to become obsessed with the idea that aliens will invade..
Family Matters Spock is the only hope to heal his cousin
Whatever You Do, Don't Read This Story A story isn't dangerous - or is it?
A Private Victory A member of the Enterprise crew tries to win his own private victory against the Borg
The Fourth Toast After the rip in time, he tries to cope with his knowledge of what is to come.
One of Forty-seven Guinan's experience in the mysterious energy ribbon
A Q to Swear By A dying Confederate soldier is contacted by a Q
The Change of Seasons Picard's thoughts as he waits for a recover of a personal item.
Out of the Box, Thinking Moriarty is the Enterprise's only hope.
Ninety-three Hours The first Ninety-three hours of joining.
Dorian's Diary A Red Squad surviver deals with survivor's guilt.
The Bottom Line As the first Ferengi in Star Fleet, Nog faces the Kobayashi simulation
The Best Defense.. In the Holodeck Bashir and O'Brien try to turn the Alamo into a victory.
An Errant Breeze A young Carradision during the Domion occupation.
The Ones Left Behind The wife of a Voyage crewman deals with being left behind.
The Second Star A woman recalls her encounter with Chakota and Janeway.
The Monster Hunters Kim and Tom chase a monster created to help Naomi with her fears.
Gift of Mourners Voyager finds a Cyborg with a gift from the mourners.
My pick for the top 3:
1. Whatever You Do, Don't Read This Story
2. A Private Victory
3. Ninety-three Hours.
July 1, 2023
No book of short story anthologies is going to be perfect. Part of their appeal is the broadness of their scope, and this one is no exception.
The stories here cover pretty much all of Star Trek canon as existed at the time of its writing. So don't expect any Star Trek Picard or Discovery here.
I'm a TNG fan first and foremost, and found the stories from that series my favourite. That said, the stories that won first and second places were from TOS and DS9 respectively, and they were terrific.
I recommend this anthology to any Star Trek fan, no matter what your favourite series is. There will be something here for you to enjoy. Maybe plenty.
The stories here cover pretty much all of Star Trek canon as existed at the time of its writing. So don't expect any Star Trek Picard or Discovery here.
I'm a TNG fan first and foremost, and found the stories from that series my favourite. That said, the stories that won first and second places were from TOS and DS9 respectively, and they were terrific.
I recommend this anthology to any Star Trek fan, no matter what your favourite series is. There will be something here for you to enjoy. Maybe plenty.
March 13, 2018
4 Stars
Really good. Third time is still as good as the first time. There was no extraordinary stellar story in here, & like the two book before it, there was one or two I questioned how they got in, but over all very enjoyable.
Looking forward to book IV.
Really good. Third time is still as good as the first time. There was no extraordinary stellar story in here, & like the two book before it, there was one or two I questioned how they got in, but over all very enjoyable.
Looking forward to book IV.
October 14, 2022
"The Ones Left Behind" made me ugly cry.
January 25, 2024
Some gems, most stories just okay. Overall, meh.
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June 18, 2024tos-grejerna var sjuka. kan inte uttala mig om den på klingon. än
September 23, 2016
Another collection of short stories. This book covers original, next gen, DS9 and Voyager. There's some fun ones, and some serious ones. I particularly liked the Uhura story with the gateway, Nogs time at the academy, and how a relative is missing someone on Voyager. A good read.
June 4, 2010
This book includes my first professional fiction sale, "One of Forty-seven."
July 22, 2010
A good selection of stories from the Star Trek universe. It was fun to get a feel for each writer's style and ideas without having to commit to a novel-length story.
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