Edited by Dean Wesley Smith with John J. Ordover and Paula M. Block
Copyright 1998 by Paramount Pictures. All Rights Reserved.
In Star Trek - Strange New Worlds, a competition of new Star Trek short stories that were written by Star Trek fans is collected in this anthology of eighteen stories. These fan stories are set during the series Star Trek, Star Trek - The Next Generation, Star Trek - Deep Space Nine, and Star Trek - Voyager.
This is the first of the annual Strange New Worlds anthologies composed of the best of the Star Trek contest fan written short stories that was conducted every year for ten years by Pocket Books, of which the anthology included the prize winners. Included in this anthology is a Because We Can section, where editors John J. Ordover and Paula M. Block added their own stories - which broke the contest rules, hence the title of the section: Because We Can. The anthology at the end of the book has the contest rules for the Trek fan written short stories that were to be submitted for the next volume of the Strange New Worlds anthologies. The anthology also at the end of the book has a biographical list of the fan fiction contributors.
I happened to have enjoyed these fan written stories created for this anthology, and I am looking forward to reading the rest of the anthologies. Although, Paula Block's story definitely does not follow the contest rules. Block's story "The Girl Who Controlled Gene Kelly's Feet" actually could just have been set in any other space adventure - especially since it does not have any of the regular Star Trek characters in the story, but the story was rather cute.
Pancho
All people smile in the same language.
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