the worlds of star trek deep space nine vol 2
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Having liked star trek from its humble beginings i thought this book was well worth the wait, the story of trill and bajor are very well put together
becouse it tells the reader all about the other planets in the federation that were affected after the story of Star Trek Deep Space Nine UNITY.
Having watched star trek from the beginning i had no idea about the trill society and the fact that the symbionts live very long lives. The tv series went into it a little bit, and the complex relationship between Ezri dax beging so old and wise and Julian Bashir was great (referance DS9 Equilibrium and TNG Conspiracy).
Then we come to Bajor and the story after the Emissary(AKA Benjamin Sisko) returns and the birth of his child and the contarvercy surrounding Bajors entry in to the federation and the relationships that get better after Star Trek Deep Space Nine UNITY. Over all i found the story and the set of books great and really worth the time to read. Loved it as a Star Trek Fan.
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A fun cookbook for Star Trek fans.  Star Trek NG, DS9, & VOG are all more family friendly than say, Star Wars... or other newer films.  Enjoy some delicious deep space dinners while you await the newest Star Trek TV show.
Voyager  made a big deal of meals on the show...
Cruising through  deep space in an almost fully automated starship,
endless boredom  only interrupted  by sudden dangers: delicious  food & dining with friends would become the best part of the day.
Meals only slightly altered to use Earthbound ingredients.  Yummy....Enjoy !
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Although the premise behind Deep Space Nine was that of a run-down space station at the edge of nowhere, by the middle of the second season, life seemed to be getting a little too easy for the crew of the station.  Not to say that they didn't have problems, but the adversaries and adversities they faced weren't a thousand miles away from the type of troubles that beset the crew of the USS Enterprise.  But the end of the second season of Deep Space Nine changed all that.
For almost two years, the wormhole had been attracting all sorts of relatively positive attention towards the station.  Scientists, explorers, and Ferengi business were all attracted to this spatial oddity in hopes of furthering their own interests.  But in the season finale to the second year, the series was completely turned around when the wormhole suddenly becomes a threat -- beyond it lies the mighty Dominion, who appear to be taking a very proactive, almost Rumsfeldian role in their "defense".  Suddenly, the people on the station are frightened and scared.  A Dominion attack could come at any moment.  In the third season we see Starfleet sending, not a scientific research starship, but an experimental warship, so powerful and unstable that it is almost a menace to itself.
This was the shot in the arm that Deep Space Nine needed.  Not only is this a cantankerous old space station in the middle of nowhere, but now it's a cantankerous old space station in the middle of nowhere that could come under overwhelming attack at any time.  The change in premise seemed to energize the writing and production staff.  Even the stories that do not directly involve themselves with the running story seem like a step up from the past two years.  Although Deep Space Nine hadn't been a bad series in the past by any means, we can see it developing further in this season.
As with the last two DVD box sets, the extras here are geared mostly towards the third season.  Documentaries focus on revealing the makeup "secrets" or unearthing the original design sketches of the various buildings and spaceships seen during this year.  There's also a special on Odo, featuring Rene Auberjonois who these days appears to be basing his look on that of Santa Claus.  Again with this set, the documentaries are on the short size, mostly five to ten minutes long (I doubt there is one over a quarter of an hour).
Season three slowly ratchets up the tension, mixing standalone episodes with stories that enhance the overall arc.  The big story and the characters are moving along nicely now, and the changes in the series fundamentals gave the producers and writers some great new potential for stories in the future.
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Track Listing:

1. The Portal

2. Approaching DSS-723

3. Comsat

4. Dimea Battlestation

5. Science Officer Porter To Team Recon

6. Silo Master Control

7. Access Seraphim Flight Log
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Dedicated to Star Trek fans, but especially those who lived the classic years on television in first run and syndication, writer (and now photo archivist) John Byrne presents, STAR TREK STRANGE NEW WORLDS. Published by IDW Comics, Strange New Worlds is a unique experience for Trek fans, (and comic fans as well) especially those raised on the Next Generation and subsequent shows and universes.

Byrne is one of those aforementioned fans, writing and creating what he refers to as a lost episode of the Original Series. He does not oversell this distinct experience.

Strange New Worlds is more than just a new original story telling an untold tale of the original crew. Back in the late 1970s, before VCRs, VHS and home video, the only way fans could preserve the visual experiences of a favorite television episode or movie was through the FOTONOVEL published by Bantam Books.

Byrne revisits the Fotonovel in IDWs STAR TREK ANNUAL 2013, taking readers back to the pilot that was responsible for bringing the Star Trek phenomenon to fans, Where No Man Has Gone Before. While broadcast out of order, WNMHGB was to serve as the first outing of the crew of the Enterprise for television audiences, which displayed the camaraderie of serving on a deep-space vessel, none more than for Captain James Kirk and his oldest friend from Starfleet Academy, Lieutenant Gary Mitchell.

New fans to Star Trek should not be concerned if they have never seen WNMHGB as Byrne brilliantly brings readers up to pace with a retelling of the episodes events through a conversation between Spock and Doctor McCoy (it is so great seeing DeForest Kelley as Bones again, even if it is just in photo form). Thus, caught up, Byrne is able to weave a new tale for readers that carries on the theme of the original episode, friendship, and the sacrifices we are sometimes forced to make. Byrnes new story Pieces of the Action is a terrific valentine to fans of the pilot episode, as it allows Kirk to right his perceived regrets from his first year in command of the Enterprise.

Comics are a visual medium, usually consisting of both words and illustrations. However, this time instead of drawing the story, Byrne combed through hours of footage, recalling most scenes he said from his own memory, to bring fans this brand-new foto adventure. Besides once again watching our favorite actors in their iconic roles, Byrne also captures their voices perfectly, allowing fans like myself to truly revel in the narrative that Byrne set to accomplish with this project.

Byrne even provides a terrific wink and nod to the difficulty he encountered of looking for footage that worked and made sense (he considered the time period of the story, lighting, scale, etc.) as Kirk states to Scotty and Sulu when he finally realizes what is going on, Everything weve been experiencing, here and off the ship, is memories and fragments of memories. Bits and pieces all jumbled together. These fragments, bits and pieces serve as visual medium for this unique story.

ALSO CHECK OUT SOME OF BYRNES OTHER ORIGINAL STAR TREK ADVENTURES FOR IDW - Star Trek: Crew and Star Trek: Leonard McCoy Frontier Doctor.
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"Voyager" was a great show in that fans got to go "trekking" back into space after having been stationed on "Deep Space 9" for a while and saying goodbye to the"The Next Generation."  These  new "Star Trek" adventures would take place in a whole new quadrant of the universe - the delta quadrant - and would lead to a fresh new set of stories that didn't have to necessarily rely on what had gone before. A lone Federation ship and her crew having to deal with a whole new way of life, and many years before it could get home definitely appealed to me.  Also the fact that a female captain was finally cast in a leading role was certainly an excellent move.
My rating is for 4 out of 5 stars because I find the packaging annoying.  I don't like this split, clear slip-case, or whatever you want to call it, deal.  As these DVD's are $100 or more, better care should be taken in the way the package functions and in its appearance. The DVD's are just plain old silver with no fancy pictures on them, which is weird because DS9 had illustrated discs.  I guess I just expect a little bit more when it comes to packaging and the fact that this set only has 5 discs (only 15 episodes) I  feel a little bit skunked, considering the price.  Alas, the collector in me will eventually fork over money I don't have because I am an inveterate nerd.
Overall I enjoyed the first season of "Voyager."  The extras were great and I finally got to see who was originally cast for the role of Captain Janeway and why she was wrong for the role.
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I have been a Trekkie since the beginning and have really liked the various ships.  This book gives an interesting look at the "history" of space flight in the Star Trek universe.  I will also be using some of the pictures to scratch or convert model ships.  I enjoyed the narrations that were with the pictures.
  The book arrived well packaged and quite fast, a good seller.
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This Anthology is set in Star Trek's original Mirror Universe and continues some of the stories that were published in Mirror Universe: Glass Empires & Obsidian Alliances. These stories take you through the darker side of the already dark Mirror Universe and let you see that there are truly good people on both sides of the major conflicts. From the early years in the twenty-second century right after the USS Defiant (Constitution-Class) was brought through to giving hope to both the Terran Revolution and Memory Omega operatives. This is an anthology that I highly recommend for anyone who is interested in Star Trek's original Mirror Universe.
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Great collection of good and bad guys wow I love the work done on this and the information it contains.  If you love Star Trek, you will love this magazine.
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STV's second season sees some deepening of story lines and more complexity of characterizations and relationships.  The last few episodes are the best in this series.  One great episode explores the attraction between Captain Janeway and Chacotay, while Tuvok takes command of the ship and deals with a near-mutiny.
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This past Winter CBS Home Entertainment finally released complete boxed DVD seasons of both Deep Space 9 and Voyager, though the packaging is kind of lame, but at least we get an economical crack at owning these excellent old Trekkie series, even if the discs aren't refurbished, which makes a quick buck for Paramount allowing them to repackage preexisting merchandise, such cheap skates, so I start watching DS9, because it came before Voyager by two seasons though technically 5 seasons of each actually overlapped, and about halfway through season two Im thinking; wait a second, I think I still have those Dominion War books in the attic that would be so cool to reread, and then what happens, season 3 begins, and low & behold, the USS Defiant arrives, wait, is it USS or U.S.S., and why does that even matter and who really cares, right, so now the Federation finally has a nasty mean war machine to seek out new life and new civilizations, that always gives me goosebumps, so what was I saying, right, and Im watching DS9 and, wait for it, the inevitable urge hits, and I started looking at making the NX74205 model, and A.M.T/Ertl has such a nifty 1:400 scale release, but OMG is it ever expensive, that is, unless you get one already opened on eBay, just make sure all of the parts are there because if its already opened then its usually missing something, so I found one, actually I found two, the listing also included an unopened, isn't that cool, Maquis ship by Monogram, and who do you think makes better models, A.M.T or Monogram, OMG, is this ever getting complicated, why do you keep me talking for so long, so this past Spring I assembled each of these models, and thats where this perfect plastic puddy came in handy, cause so often the pieces don't fit flush, and OMG, my face is getting flush from talking so much, and, (*phone ringing*) oh, sorry, its Janice from work, shes in accounting, gotta run

And that, my friend, is how this review would sound if my beloved bRiDe of over three decades described it!

Whew, Im winded!
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In this 2nd Crimson Worlds novel, the author gives us greater insights into the motivations of all the nations involved in the muscled space race for natural resources, and also introduces us to the enemy within, who might prove the most dangerous foe of all to the valiant forces of the Alliance. We're treated to a couple of large-scale Navy battles in space, and one hell of a battle on a small world whose significance in the war only becomes apparent at the very end. Knife-drawn politics, desperate tactics in space, and gritty firefights on hostile planets, all as a backdrop to the rising star of Marine hero Eric Cain. A thoroughly enjoyable read, and an improvement over the first novel, despite a handful of repetitions and a dozen typos/mistaken name switches in the Kindle edition.
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This is the combined publication of Five Twelves of Heaven, Silence in Solitude, and Empress of the Earth. This is a great series, based on an unusual method of star travel, and I highly recommend it.
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If you want one volume to show the greatness of Star Trek, get book #3. Other good collections are #s 2, 4, and 9. If you want the other end of the spectrum, you might consider this one.

Of course, on the tenth volume, one would expect this to be lesser episodes -- you won't be disappointed if this is what you expect. This set does represent all three seasons equally (as do #s 4 and 8, though both collections were superior to this).

My favorite episode in this is "The Empath". However, this contains some of my least favorite episodes, such as "Is There In Truth No Beauty," "Galileo 7," and "A Private Little War."

That said, there are some good science fiction premises. There are three episodes each (one from each season) dealing with alternative universes and the edge of the galaxy, and one of each is in this volume ("The Alternative Factor" and "Is There In Truth No Beauty?" respectively). This volume also contains one of the three "Prime Directive" trio, where a friend of Kirk's violates the directive not to interfere with a culture, and siding with the bad guys: In this case, it's "The Omega Glory". By the way, I find it interesting that two episodes alluding to the Cold War but from different perspectives are back to back: The anti-Vietnam "A Private Little War" preceding "The Omega Glory" where the Yangs (Yanks) defeat the Goms (Coms, or Communists).

If you're a Star Trek fanatic, or if you happen to enjoy one of these episodes, you'll enjoy this book. Blish does a great job adapting. But by this point he doesn't have much to work with.
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Season Two of ST:DS9 was a vast improvement over the first season.  Characters were more fleshed out, relationships became stronger and more developed, and above all the introduction of Star Trek's best villain since the Borg:  the Jem'Hadar.  I also enjoyed the political and religious sub-plots that wove their way through most of this season.  Of those episodes, The Collaborator was by far the best.  Louise Fletcher as Vedek/Kai Winn and Philip Anglim as Vedek Bareil were excellent in their roles.  I know some did not like this aspect of the show, but I always thought the writers' excellent development of the Bajorans over the life of the show was one of the things that made DS9 so good.

This season also introduced the Maquis, again one of the better creations in the Star Trek universe.  The two episodes featuring the Maquis during this season were not that great, but over time the writers developed them into an interesting group for which you sometimes felt empathy.  And of course we have to mention the Dark Universe episode, Crossover.  The Dark Universe comes from the Classic Star Trek series, but you have to give credit to the DS9 writers and producers.  They took a near 30-year-old idea and developed a much more interesting Universe.  In addition to Crossover, season two featured homage to Classic Trek with the Klingon-centered episode, Blood Oath.  This was a great Jadzia Dax episode and gave viewers the return of three Classic Trek characters and actors:  Michael Ansara as Kang, William Campbell as Koloth, and John Colicos (the original Battlestar Galactica Baltar) as Kor.

For anyone who is a fan of Star Trek, and in particular DS9, this set is a must-have for the collection.
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`Infinite Possibilities: Chronicles Volume One: 2853-2857' is a great book that will appeal to readers of science fiction and fantasy. The book immediately conjures up images of Star Trek and comparisons between `Infinite Possibilities and `Star Trek' are inevitable. However, fans of Star Trek will be sure to appreciate the world that Joe Pranaitis creates.

Author Joe Pranaitis weaves a collection of short stories together to create an ongoing saga in the universe he has created. A universe where humans, aliens and multiple earths and planets exist but don't come together peacefully.

The book could easily be made into a exciting and eventful TV series with its complex time travel plots and main characters Bontrk and Kellyson, taking over the roles of Kirk and Spock. Pranaitis has a way with words that has us believing that these universes exist and as the characters bounce back and forth between different years, we are also caught up in that maze and anxious to see how all these characters will interact and end up.
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Two reviews for the price of one.  I really enjoyed half of this book but I was not enthralled by the other half.

'The Lotus Flower'

This story returns the O'briens back to the world of Deep Space 9.  I jumped for joy when I read Unity and saw their return.  I almost burst into tears when I struggled through this first half of the book.  The story was great.  The writing was everything I expected.  I just felt that this story robbed the O'brien family of who they were.

'Paradigm'

The second story of this book delves into the relationship of two characters introduces in the novels.  I enjoyed watching Prynn and Thane struggle to survive the culture they view as foreign.  This adventure lets us explore the world of Andor and learn more about the people of this founding Federation world.

As a fan of DS9 I have to recommend this book.  I love to follow the adventures of these characters I fell in love with over seven seasons.  I want to see the world and places grow over time in the novels and worlds of Deep Space 9.