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Most avid Star Trek fans are well-schooled in Trek trivia, either through many hours spent watching the series on television or by poring over the myriad reference guides devoted to the Star Trek universe both in print and online. But for the casual viewer -- one who enjoys the show but could hardly be called a Trekkie -- several hundred pages on The Next Generation or on Deep Space Nine can be offputting rather than enlightening. Now help is at hand with Star Trek 101 -- an ideal primer which manages to be both comprehensive and concise. And now that Star Trek episodes are available on iTunes this informative guide is more timely and useful than ever, expanding on the general television listing descriptions and quickly bringing the viewer up to speed on who's who and what's what in the world of Star Trek.
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Terry Erdmann has written a number of Star Trek books, amongst them Action! and The Tribble Handbook, and worked with J.M. Dillard on the pictorial history of Star Trek, Where No-one Has Gone Before. As a Hollywood publicist the many hit movies he has worked on include Aliens and Cocoon.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Perfect Gift for Trekkers and for their Supportive Loved Ones
22 Oct 2008
Format:Paperback
Erdmann has put together a brilliant guidebook of all things Trek that hard-core Trekkers will love to pour through, and their loved ones can use to help understand their passion a bit better. A synopsis of every episode of every series is included - as well as each movie - providing a quick reference guide when you get in an argument over what the name of that lioness communications officer was in the animated series, or what episode introduces us all to Species 8472. It also includes a list of the essential episodes for each series, info on key characters and alien species, and interesting trivia. My first browsing of the book brought back great memories of watching the shows, taught me some things I didn't know, and will surely come in handy when I try to explain the difference between a Vulcan and a Romulan to my husband.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Okay as an episode guide
7 Nov 2008
Format:Paperback
This book is little more than a basic episode guide for all Star Trek series and includes the movies as well. There's some trivia in the book but it's all fairly bland. If you're looking for an episode guide for every Trek series, this is for you. Other than that, there's little to recommend about this book.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Nice episode guide
11 Jan 2011
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
First of all, I am not a hardcore Star Trek fan, so if I say something wrong forgive me. I'm a supportive spouse of Star Trek fan.
I got this for my husband for Christmas. I don't know what he considers himself on the grand scheme of Star Trek Fandom. He like and enjoys Star Trek, and used to have quite a collection through his teen years which he gave the majority of it up. Now we have 2 little boys and out of nowhere (from my standpoint) Star Trek started appearing in our home and we have all of the episodes from the Original Series, Deep Space Nine and Voyager... Others are seeping in. Anyway... on to the review...
This is a good episode guide. I'm not sure what it was intended to be but it is much less comprhensive than the The Star Trek Encyclopedia which we also own. It is good for finding an episode or to remember what happened in a particular episode. It has some interesting commentary in the biographies that will give you a laugh. It doesn't contain information about every obscurity that is encountered in the Star Trek universe, but is pretty good to flip through and get an idea of what is going on. I found it useful as a supportive spouse to get an idea of what the heck is going on (especially if we are watching an episode and I fell asleep during the previous episode and don't quite know what happened).
I've come to appreciate Star Trek and enjoy many of their storylines over the last few years. This is a good book for someone who likes Star Trek, but might not want necessarily require having the encylopedia, technical manuals, and Star Charts in their collection. However, I'm sure it would also offer a good bit of information to a die-hard Trekkie if only because they want to have a handy episode guide (if they don't already have them all committed to heart). :-)
I got this for my husband for Christmas. I don't know what he considers himself on the grand scheme of Star Trek Fandom. He like and enjoys Star Trek, and used to have quite a collection through his teen years which he gave the majority of it up. Now we have 2 little boys and out of nowhere (from my standpoint) Star Trek started appearing in our home and we have all of the episodes from the Original Series, Deep Space Nine and Voyager... Others are seeping in. Anyway... on to the review...
This is a good episode guide. I'm not sure what it was intended to be but it is much less comprhensive than the The Star Trek Encyclopedia which we also own. It is good for finding an episode or to remember what happened in a particular episode. It has some interesting commentary in the biographies that will give you a laugh. It doesn't contain information about every obscurity that is encountered in the Star Trek universe, but is pretty good to flip through and get an idea of what is going on. I found it useful as a supportive spouse to get an idea of what the heck is going on (especially if we are watching an episode and I fell asleep during the previous episode and don't quite know what happened).
I've come to appreciate Star Trek and enjoy many of their storylines over the last few years. This is a good book for someone who likes Star Trek, but might not want necessarily require having the encylopedia, technical manuals, and Star Charts in their collection. However, I'm sure it would also offer a good bit of information to a die-hard Trekkie if only because they want to have a handy episode guide (if they don't already have them all committed to heart). :-)
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