Deepspacespines.com has added a new review for Jeri Taylor and Michael Piller and Rick Berman‘s “Star Trek: The Next Generation: Unification”: This week, when Spock is caught gallavanting on Romulus, Picard and Data need some high-end cosplay and a Klingon Uber to drag the ambassador back to Federation space and his senses. But Spock may […]
Deepspacespines.com has added a new review for Michael Jan Friedman‘s “Star Trek: The Next Generation: Reunion”: This week, a coronation ceremony brings Picard back into the orbit of his former coworkers. But when one among them starts putting the others out of commission, Picard’s crew will have to put on their Dixon Hill hats to […]
Deep Space Spines has a review up for Peter David‘s “Star Trek: 57 The Rift“: This week, a jaunt to the Gamma Quadrant leads to love for Pike!Enterprise’s goofiest-looking crewman, but the premature closure of the gate that brought them there forces them to leave before she can engage his hyperdrive. Several years later, when […]
Deep Space Spines has a review up for Peter David‘s “Star Trek: The Next Generation: 18 Q-In-Law“: This week, it’s much ado about nothing aboard the Enterprise when our regularly scheduled Star Trek: The Next Generation gets preempted by an episode of My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding. But when Q arrives to observe the phenomenon of human love, […]
Deep Space Spines has a review up for Michael Jan Friedman‘s “Star Trek: 56 Legacy“: This week, Kirk and a motley assortment of lower-deckers get swallowed by an Alaskan bull worm and Spock comes down with an overactive thyroid. Before Scotty can mount a proper search-and-rescue, however, the Enterprise gets reassigned to a pirate takeover […]
Deep Space Spines has a review up for Mel Gilden‘s “Star Trek: The Next Generation: 17 Boogeymen“: This week, Wesley takes inspiration from his childhood nightmares to conjure opponents for command scenario practice. But when a scientist friend of Picard’s is desperate to go off the grid, his plan coincides with Wesley’s holodeck creations in […]
Deep Space Spines has a review up forGene Deweese‘s “Star Trek: 55 Renegade“: This week, some aliens want to see the manager, and unfortunately for Kirk, he’s the manager. But when Spock and McCoy go missing the second they beam down for negotiations, he has to figure out what’s causing his shields and sensors to […]
Deep Space Spines has a review up for Peter David‘s “Star Trek: The Next Generation: Vendetta“: This week, an old gun destroyed by Kirk’s Enterprise turns out to have been meant for the Borg. But a new model is rolling off the lot, and its pilot will let Starfleet have it when they can pry […]
Deep Space Spines has a review up for Brad Ferguson‘s “Star Trek: 54 A Flag Full Of Stars“: This week, Nogura promotes Kirk from construction foreman to media liaison, but it’s his marriage that could really use a little bit of good P.R. Meanwhile, a Klingon schoolteacher in New York has invented a super ball […]
Deep Space Spines has a review up for John Vornholt‘s “Star Trek: The Next Generation: 16 Contamination”: This week, Picard brings Worf and Troi together to solve the mystery of a suspicious death, but it’s not quite the match made in heaven it will be a few years from now. As the investigation drags on, […]
Deep Space Spines has a review up for Barbara Hambly‘s “Star Trek: 53 Ghost-Walker“: This week, Kirk gets a raw deal on a Freaky Friday and doesn’t even get a Handbook for the Recently Deceased to help him cope. While he struggles to keep it together (literally), his body thief does a U-turn and heads back […]
Deep Space Spines has a review up for Michael Jan Friedman‘s “Star Trek: The Next Generation: 15 Fortune’s Light“: This week, while Riker plays undercover spy, Data plays third base. With the Priority One message not going to him and having to put the Enterprise in park in case Riker gets deep in it, Picard […]
Deep Space Spines has a review up for Dana Kramer-Rolls‘s “Star Trek: 52 Home Is The Hunter“: This week, Kirk squares off with Totally-Not-Q, who banishes three of his officers to tumultuous moments in Earth’s past. While he learns how to play nice with the Klingons and work out the god-alien’s inscrutable morality, his missing […]
Deep Space Spines has a review up for Howard Weinstein‘s “Star Trek: The Next Generation: 14 Exiles“: This week brings enough environmental disaster to make Captain Planet’s head spin. Two planets, each in possession of something the other needs, must make nice before explosions both literal and figurative wipe them out. But the clock really […]
Deep Space Spines has a review up for V.E. Mitchell‘s “Star Trek: 51 Enemy Unseen“: This week, we return to one of the least revisited eras of Trek for a whodunit with the second-string team. An overbearing seductress causes problems for her daughter and her ex; the ship’s guests have a Gordian knot of ideas about harmony […]
Deep Space Spines has a review up for A.C. Crispin‘s “Star Trek: The Next Generation: 13 The Eyes Of The Beholders“: This week, while Picard allows a mysterious beam to pull the Enterprise to its source to get to the bottom of some recent disappearances, the rest of the crew experiences a different kind of […]
Deep Space Spines has a review up for Garfield Reeves-Stevens and Judith Reeves-Stevens‘s “Star Trek: Prime Directive“: This week, Kirk breaks Starfleet’s most well-known and revered regulation, and this time he can’t simply chalk it up to bad writing. But his senior officers insist that Starfleet doesn’t know the whole story, and they’re willing to punch […]
Deep Space Spines has a review up for a novel by Carmen Carter, Michael Jan Friedman, Peter David, and Robert Greenberger “Star Trek: The Next Generation: 12 Doomsday World“: This week, four authors of varying notoriety in Trekdom join forces to deliver a book that any given one of them honestly probably could have written just fine on their own. […]
Deep Space Spines has a review up for Diane Duane‘s “Star Trek: 50 Doctor’s Orders“: This week, the Enterprise is making first contact with a world where three distinct species evolved from a common ancestor and peaceably coexist, and Starfleet is keen to get all of them on board for Federation admission. Kirk gives McCoy […]
Deep Space Spines has a review up for Keith Sharee‘s “Star Trek: The Next Generation: 11 Gulliver’s Fugitives“: This week, the Enterprise finds a recording marker from a long-lost ship, but when they seek information from the authorities of a nearby planet where works of fiction and acts of imagination are capital offenses, they get […]
