1986 (updated 1998) / Ebook / 400 pages / USA
****
More obsessively comprehensive than I strictly needed for casual viewing, but it's good to set standards.
1996 / Audiobook / 274 pages / UK
****
Supposedly conceived as a Borg story, publisher pusillanimity meant we had to settle for a more interesting, well-realised alien society instead. Suspend your disbelief that nothing of consequence is allowed to happen in print and there's a nice sense of doom that captures mid-period DS9 very well, as well as good sci-fi generally.
1995-96 (collected 1996) / Ecomics / 208 pages / USA
***
Three unsubtle creature features, some of which would almost make credible episodes.
1993 / Ebook / 176 pages / UK
****
Why didn't they publish all the scripts? It's better than nothing, and some of the changes from the page are interesting, even if you've seen the deleted scenes.
1994 / Ebook / 80 pages / UK
***
Repetitive variety of codes, riddles, wordsearches, mazes and other diversions to keep precocious '90s kids busy on Christmas morning, though sorely lacking in colour and roleplay.
