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Pick your favorite second season episode and win a STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION Season Two DVD Gift Set at the official site.
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DS9 actor Andrew J. Robinson ('Garak') will chat live at the official site Thursday, May 30th.
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Captain Kirk's command chair -- from which he maintained "conn" -- created at Desilu Culver Studios 38 years ago will be sold at auction in mid-June by Beverly Hills, CA, dealer Profiles in History according to Wired News.
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Jul 3, 2002: STAR TREK: NEMESIS trailer hits U.S. screens with MEN IN BLACK II
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Posted:
07:59:09 on April 29 2002
By: Steve Krutzler
Dept: Reviews - Books | Books BBS Forum
Star Trek: The Next Generation
STARGAZER: BOOK TWO
PROGENITOR
by Michael Jan Friedman
Pocket Books Paperback, 2002
263 pages
Reviewed by Alexander Chase
Young Captain Jean-Luc Picard faces danger and deception... as the lives of all aboard the Stargazer hang in the balance in Star Trek: The Next Generation's STARGAZER: BOOK TWO: PROGENITOR. Captain Picard and the crew of the Starship Stargazer journey to the planet Gnalish, home world of the ship's engineer Phigus Simenon and his lizard-like race. There Phigus is entered into a fertility competition for the honor of contributing to his planet's gene pool. Soon upon arrival, it seems that someone not only wants Phigus disqualified, but also wants him dead. And when a rescue mission goes awry, the Stargazer find herself locked in a battle for survival, as the ship is slowly dragged into a phenomenon that threatens to rip her asunder!
Michael Jan Friedman takes significant strides forward in STARGAZER PROGENITOR, fleshing out the Stargazer crew using a standard A-plot, B-plot structure, so common on Star Trek television series. As is prone to happen, the B-plot involving second officer Commander Victoria Wu taking command of the Stargazer to mount a dangerous rescue mission of a research vessel trapped in a spatial phenomenon - while struggling with her own decision to leave the Stargazer for a promotion - outshines by a long distance the A-plot. The A-plot involves nearly the whole command staff (including Picard) in Chief Engineer Phigus Simenon's fertility rituals on his home world and is very reminiscent of a cross-fertilization of the classic TOS episode "Amok Time" with any number of Ronald D. Moore-created Klingon rituals involving pain, sacrifice and combat.
But where STARGAZER PROGENITOR really takes off is in its characters, particularly with Commander Wu's perspective in her dealings with the rescue mission, her own career decisions, the very alien Ensign Jiterica and very green - but talented - Ensign Cole Paris (yes, of that Paris family fame). On the Gnalish home world side of the story the Stargazer's Doctor, Carter Greyhorse, shines and Friedman ties this in nicely with events back on the Stargazer involving the Klingon-raised human Asmund twins and an eager Ensign Nikolas, who discovers, like Greyhorse, just what kind of painful difficulties are involved in courting females who follow the Klingon way. Friedman deploys his easy-to-read writing and very fast-paced plotting to fill the story with lots of energy and deft character touches, making STARGAZER PROGENITOR easily recommendable.
The only major flaws in this volume come not from Friedman, but his editors. There are at least six occasions where leads to confusion when sections told from one character's perspective seem to run directly into new sections from a different character's perspective. A similar ambiguity can be found in the last two sentences of the above book description, where two unconnected events in this book are not differentiated from one another, making it seem that the 'rescue mission' pertains to Phigus' fate on the planet Gnalish and the phenomenon has something to do with Gnalish fertility rituals (kind of a funny mistake... think about it).
This is minor, however, and the book reveals that piece-by-piece Friedman is slowly but surely laying a groundwork in this series that begs for an epic and heart-wrenching conclusion. I hope he looks to Deep Space Nine's grandiose story arcs, The Next Generation's "Best of Both Worlds" or "Sins of the Father," or even Voyager episodes like "Timeless" to model the Stargazer series payoff after. This reviewer would say Friedman has raised the stakes in this series to the point where he is either going to knock the reader off his feet (or seat as the case may be), or severely disappoint us. Here's hoping for the former.
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How would you rate the ENT first season finale, SHOCKWAVE, on a scale from 1 (bad) to 10 (excellent) in comparison to the best and the worst episodes of the previous Star Trek television series?
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