Walter Irwin (1) (1950–2004)
Autor(a) de The Best of Trek
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Séries
Obras por Walter Irwin
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome legal
- Irwin, Walter Godfrey
- Data de nascimento
- 1950-09-22
- Data de falecimento
- 2004-11-12
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
Membros
Críticas
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Associated Authors
Estatísticas
- Obras
- 22
- Membros
- 1,673
- Popularidade
- #15,361
- Avaliação
- 3.6
- Críticas
- 3
- ISBN
- 39
This book was published in 1987, and as the introduction explains, it was a year behind the times given the time needed to choose the articles, edit and publish. So by the time the book hit stores, the readers had "seen Star Trek: the Voyage Home and knew that "the rumors of a new Star Trek series are true." So this is old, old stuff, and it didn't in my opinion age well. Not in an era where we can find fan fiction and character essays and analysis on the internet. Fanfic much, much better than the parody "Star Trip III." You can certainly get much more up to date info than what's in the "Star Trek Book List" by Googling. The articles "After Kyle" on the minor recurring characters and "You Could Go Home Again" rating episodes according to and detailing the potential for sequels could provide good fic fodder for those inclined. And I did find Merritt's "My Life in the Twenty-Third Century" about the inspiration she drew from Trek while caring for her brain-damaged child moving. I thought it the best article there. But it's not really enough to make this volume a keeper. It'll finally be boldly going into the get-rid-of box.… (mais)