Thursday, 28 November 2024

Alrightreads: TV XIX

Blaine Pardoe and artists, Star Trek: The Next Generation – First Year Sourcebook

1989 / Ebook / 64 pages

**

No productive excuses this time, just drawn by trashy nostalgia. A charming time capsule of retconned references and false assumptions in places, less so when singling out Geordi as "racially black" and thirsting over Tasha Yar.


Paul Simpson, Farscape: The Illustrated Season 4 Companion

2003 / Ebook / 160 pages

***

Not the funnest year to recap, even before the cancellation gloom.


Rockne S. O'Bannon, Farscape: Horizons

2003 / Ebook / 8 pages

**

Skips over any aborted/truncated fifth season plans and goes straight to the Babylon 5 ending, with a liberal dollop of spiritual schmaltz to make the bereaved fans feel better.


Todd Downing, Gavin Downing and Steve Hartley, Red Dwarf A.I. Screen Extra Bits Book

2003 / Ebook / 24 pages

**

These supplementary races, scenarios and items are fairly incompatible with our non-sci-fi-comedy RPG of choice, but I noted down the reminder that we could do a 'Bodyswap' story.


Marc Guggenheim and Oleg Chudakov, Star Trek: The Motion Picture – Echoes

2023 / Ecomics / 136 pages

**

It's nice to get some appreciation for an obscure era, just a shame it's more of the same old parallel universe stuff that was old even at that time.