Can anybody recommend the best unofficial guides to Star Trek, with a focus on Deep Space Nine and The Next Generation, in print and not?
What are the best unofficial Star Trek guides?
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The annual episode recaps in "Cinefantastique" magazine were quite good. Concise descriptions of plot with some quirky trivia.
The "Nitpicker's Guides" (two volumes of TNG, one each for TOS and DS9) were pretty cool, too.
I liked Mark Altman's Trek Navigator a lot.
For DS9 you don't need an unofficial guide, go for the official companion. You'll never see a better warts and all breakdown of how a TV show is made, plus detailed episode summaries and cast breakdowns.
Seconded!
Which is expanded from his annual episode recaps in "Cinefantastique" magazine, IIRC.
I liked it. Too bad it only goes up to 1997.
Well, it covers the Trek I'm interested in. The rest is just filler 
Although I suspect the OP is after proper bound books, Memory Alpha has been an incredible resource for me editing STM over the past 4 years
Somebody let me know if anyone wants an unofficial guide to the original series, one episode at a time....
Somebody let me know if anyone wants an unofficial guide to the original series, one episode at a time....
With a really big font.
Absolutely true. The DS9 Companion is a GREAT book. The TNG one is pretty good too, but doesn't have nearly the wealth of behind-the-scenes material featured in the DS9 volume. That's the advantage you get from having the book's writer actually BE behind the scenes for pretty much the whole show.
Somebody let me know if anyone wants an unofficial guide to the original series, one episode at a time....
Oh I'll have it.
Er... did you want paying for writing it?
^ If somebody wanted to pay me for that goofiness, I wouldn't complain.
Though something tells me CBS would take issue with some of my language choices....
Though something tells me CBS would take issue with some of my language choices....
The DS9 Companion is one of the best guides to a television series out there, Star Trek or not. The TNG Companion wasn't bad, but I seem to remember a lot of it being trivia related to past episodes.
Another good guide is Beyond the Final Frontier which was everything up to Enterprise's second season.
Another good guide is Beyond the Final Frontier which was everything up to Enterprise's second season.
Never heard of it. Will have to check it out.
I've said before, I wish someone would write a work about Trek comparable to the About Time series which examines Doctor Who, with behind the scenes stuff, cultural context, and reviews...
Beyond the Final Frontier might only have been released in the UK.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Beyond-Fina...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1268345967&sr=8-1
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Beyond-Fina...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1268345967&sr=8-1
I don't remember if I saw it in stores, but I don't think I had to get it through Amazon.co.uk; I think I got it through either Amazon.ca or Amazon.com.
Thanks for all the posts here. I went with Trek Navigator and was really pleased to see DS9 get recognition as the best Star Trek spinoff and the reasons for it as well.
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