1993 / Ebook / 144 pages / UK
**
Assuming that anyone reading this will already be familiar enough with the composer's obstinate epilogue to not require a general overview (snort!), the writer sticks to the boring details, quoting other people's gushing reactions so he can remain stoically intimidated.
1994 / Ecomic / 84 pages / France
***
I don't know (i.e. care) if the saga continued after these numbered volumes that I only stuck with for completion's sake. The content hasn't always been great, but it's been interesting to see his progression and phases over the decades. This one's even coherent with the earlier parts of the story!
1993-2004 (collected 2004) / Ebook / 36 pages / UK
***
This nine-song E.P. digs up a few oldies that weren't interesting enough to go on the albums and throws in a couple of contemporary shorts for relevance and contrast, offering a condensed time lapse from uncharacteristically awful puns to singular logical absurdities. If you'd picked this up at a reading, it would have occupied you on the bus home.
Fave: 'The Innumerable Chambers of the Heart'
Worstie: 'Primate Suspect'
2011 / Ebook / 179 pages / USA
**
A bunch of random Nine Inch Nails fans talk about what Trent Reznor means to them before we close on an extended plug for Hot Topic apparel. This has no value.
Michael Piller, Fade In: The Making of Star Trek Insurrection – A Textbook on Screenwriting from Within the Star Trek Universe
1999 (published 2016) / Ebook / 271 pages / USA
****
I don't know whether this is the most comprehensively documented 'Trek film, but between this introspective writer's journey, the general making-of book, covering the directing in Star Trek: Action!, the souvenir magazine and following the production in real time, it's the one I'm the most disproportionately familiar with behind the scenes. Piller intended this more as a guide for fellow writers than a 'Trek reference book, but it ended up being among the most interesting of the latter, from its insider insights (too honest for publication in his lifetime) to how much llama rental would cost you in 1998.
