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 […]
Deep Space Spines has a review up for Carolyn Clowes‘s “Star Trek: 49 The Pandora Principle“: This week, our favorite Romuvulcan (Vulcomulan?) gets a turn in the spotlight, which, unfortunately, she has to share with an extremely irritating CGI mascot. Spock rescues her from a literal kid-eat-kid existence on the aptly named Hellguard, but when […]
Deep Space Spines has a review up for Jean Lorrah‘s “Star Trek: The Next Generation: Metamorphosis“: An away team’s survey becomes a one-man test of will when the planet’s “gods” decide to fire up the PS3 and stick Data in a game of Journey. Data completes the Quest and is granted his fondest dream: to become […]
Deep Space Spines has a review up for Peter Morwood‘s “Star Trek: 48 Rules Of Engagement“: This week, we’re checking out Rules of Engagement, the little sitcom that could. Starring Patrick Warburton, Megyn Price, and David Spade, the show followed a group of friends in various stages of relationships: two of them newlyweds, two a veteran […]
Deep Space Spines has a review up for Peter David‘s “Star Trek: The Next Generation: 10 A Rock And A Hard Place“: This week, Riker takes a temporary transfer to troubled terraforming territory. His seemingly unhinged replacement wants you to know how he got these scars, but he’s not much of a joker. While Troi tries […]
Deep Space Spines has a review up for Julia Ecklar‘s “Star Trek: 47 The Kobayashi Maru“: This week, when most of the senior officers wait in a busted shuttlecraft for the sweet embrace of death, they decide to pass the time by telling tales out of school. Kirk can’t accept failure, Chekov goes lone wolf, Sulu […]
Deep Space Spines has a review up for Michael Jan Friedman‘s “Star Trek: The Next Generation: 9 A Call To Darkness“: This week, Picard yet again vetoes Riker’s call on not joining the away team, and gets his brain wiped for his trouble. While he and a few other senior officers make uncredited cameos in […]
Deep Space Spines has added a review for J.M. Dillard‘s “Star Trek: The Lost Years“: This week, the Enterprise returns home from its successful five-year tour of the galaxy. They’ve played a lot of legendary shows and sold a ton of merch, and now they’re ready to live off the royalties. But there’s another rock […]
Deep Space Spines has a review up for Judy Klass‘s “Star Trek: 46 The Cry Of The Onlies“: This week, three children from a previous episode contend with the most dangerous alien force of all: puberty. But their joyride in a stolen starship takes an alarming turn when the Federation realizes there’s also an experimental […]
