STAR TREK CORPS OF ENGINEERS - WOUNDS

POCKET BOOKS

Written by Ilsa J. Bick, Keith R.A. DeCandido, John J. Ordover, Terri Osborne, Cory Rushton

Based upon STAR TREK and STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION created by Gene Roddenberry and STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE created by Rick Berman & Michael Piller

Copyright Star Trek S.C.E.: Malefictorum copyright 2005 by CBS Studios, Inc. All rights reserved.
Star Trek S.C.E.: Lost Time copyright 2005 by CBS Studios, Inc. All rights reserved.
Star Trek S.C.E.: Identity Crisis copyright 2005 by CBS Studios, Inc. All rights reserved.
Star Trek S.C.E.: Fables of the Prime Directive copyright 2005 by CBS Studios, Inc. All rights reserved.
Star Trek S.C.E.: Securitycopyright 2005 by CBS Studios, Inc. All rights reserved.
Star Trek S.C.E.: Wounds copyright 2005 by CBS Studios, Inc. All rights reserved.

2008 by CBS Studios. Inc. All Rights Reserved.
STAR TREK and related marks are trademarks of CBS Studios Inc.



In Wounds, an anthology of the Star Trek Corp of Engineers with five stories by Ilsa J. Bick, Keith R.A. DeCandido, John J. Ordover, Terri Osborne, and Cory Rushton,

I like the fact that, while each story in this anthology can be read separately, the stories interconnect and build on each other. The SCE deal with the aftermath of the Dominion War. Starting with the murder of two crewmen, to dealing with a threat from the Mirror Universe, to eventually having Doctor's Lense and Bashir crashing on a war-torn planet.

After being stranded on the war-torn planet, Doctor Lense's life changes forever.

Pancho 
All people smile in the same language.
 

STAR TREK - STRANGE NEW WORLDS

POCKET BOOKS

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.

STAR TREK - ENTERPRISE LOGS

POCKET BOOKS

Edited by Carol Greenburg
Introduction and Concept by Robert Greenberger

Copyright 2000 by Paramount Pictures. All Rights Reserved.

Enterprise Logs is a Star Trek anthology of ten stories about all of the Captains of the Enterprise throughout a legacy of six centuries of history for as far back as the Revolutionary War.

It is great to get a sense of history through the genealogy of all the ships named Enterprise. While the stories on the American Sloop-of-War Enterprise during the Revolutionary War and the Aircraft Carrier Enterprise during World War II with a Japanese captive were good, you almost expected more of a science fiction/supernatural element connecting the stories to the rest of the Enterprise history as their Captains had their stories told - although there is more of a supernatural element on the Revolutionary War story.

Once the stories got into the stories of Starfleet as we know it, you could relate much better to the stories. The Enterprise goes out into space defending the Federation, starting with Captain Robert April - all the way up to Captain Jean-Luc Picard. The captains also include little-known woman Captain Rachel Garrett, as well as Captain Will Decker - who spent most of his captaincy of the Enterprise in dry dock. It is a shame the book was published before the TV series Enterprise aired, as I am sure a Jonathan Archer story would have been included as well.

Pancho
All people smile in the same language.

BOLO!

A Baen Books Original

Copyright 2005 by David Weber. "Miles to Go" and "A Brief Technical History of the Bolo by "Felix Hermes'" copyright 1995 by David Weber; first published in Bolos, Book 3: The Triumphant; "The Traitor" and A Time to Kill" copyright 1997 by David Weber, first published in Bolos, Book 4: Last Stand, edited by Bill Fawcett; "With Your Shield"copyright 2005 David Weber. Keith Laumer's "Bolo" universe used by permission.

Bolo! The anthology of Keith Laumer's creation of the BOLOs is a good anthology. I really felt for these dependable Bolos, which are tanks with artificial intelligence built in and the loyalty of a dog. With the Bolos analytical ability of extensive battle tactics and interacting with their human commanders, the Bolos make very formidable weapons. The Bolos have human-like characteristics that make them very loyal and dedicated to defend their human commanders commanding them from inside the Bolos. Even when one Bolo appeared to be a traitor - the Bolo was in reality battle damaged and was defending some children from a perceived enemy, even if that enemy was another Bolo who was on the same side as he was. That is how dedicated the Bolos are.

The one non-fiction article in the anthology is about the technical specifications of the weight, speed, armament and the upgrades of the Artificial Intelligences installed into the various models of the Bolos, from the first Bolo to the last Bolo.

Pancho
All people smile in the same language.

Grantville Gazette III

Baen Publishing Enterprises

Edited by Eric Flint

Copyright 2007

Grantville Gazette III, a magazine anthology set during the 1632 cross-time alternate universe, edited by Eric Flnt, is the third in the series of the Grantville Gazette magazine anthologies that contains both short fiction and non-fiction articles.

For the fiction in the book, the stories dealing with the ordinary 1632 characters were much more interesting than the stories dealing with the "uptime" characters, mostly because these ordinary characters have to deal with the ramifications of the uptime technology and ideas. The non-fiction articles are very informative as to how to integrate modern industrious technology with the 1632 technology.

Pancho
All people smile in the same language.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - The Lives of Dax

Pocket Books, A Division of Simon & Shuster, Inc.

Edited by Marco Palmieri

Copyright 1999 by Paramount Pictures

In The Lives of Dax, this anthology of the Deep Space Nine character Dax tells the stories of all the hosts that the Trill symbiont Dax has lived in. With each host's story told by a different author, you get a sense of how different each host in Dax's life was - whether he was a man or a woman. Also, you get timeline of how Dax got involved with Starfleet. It is also curious to see how Dax, through his various hosts, was involved in some way with the other characters in the Star Trek universe and that the host was the dominant character in each incarnation instead of the symbiot Dax. With the framing story of Ezri Dax, you can see how insecure Ezri feels with being herself as compared to the achievement oriented previous hosts of Dax and how she deals with the memory of these hosts.

Pancho
All people smile in the same language.

Future Weapons of War

Baen Publishing Enterprises

Edited by Joe Haldeman & Martin H. Greenberg

Copyright 2007

Future Weapons of War is an anthology of twelve stories by various authors about various future weapons. Some of these weapons have been anthropormorphosized, and have become characters of their own with the ability to think and react to the situation. Some of the stories are so futuristic that it was hard for me to totally get involved in the story before the story is over. Those stories that you can get involved with can be disturbing in the concepts behind the story and the ethics of how the weapon was used. This anthology reminds me of the anthology series There Will Be War by Jerry Pournelle which dealt with similar themes. Of course if there is war, there will be weapons. God help us all.

Pancho
All people smile in the same language.