Sunday, 30 November 2025

Alrightreads: TV XXII

Mark A. Altman, Captains' Logs: Supplemental – The Next Generation 6th Season Guidebook

1994 / Ebook / 128 pages

***

There isn't much need to read these old books when the best interview quotes are compiled in more comprehensive and up-to-date online equivalents, but sometimes it's nice to pretend I'm 12 again and treating Oracle Books as a library. There's only one season to cover this time, but they make up the page count with unabashed repetition.


Mark A. Altman and Edward Gross, Captains' Logs: Supplemental II – The Next Generation 7th Season Guidebook

1995 / Ebook / 128 pages

***

Amusingly inaccurate cover aside, this is another fine supplement to the other volumes, if weirdly separate.


Paul Leonard, Doctor Who: Genocide

1997 / Audiobook / 281 pages

****

Are we the baddies? If only Doctor Who was all about these convoluted time and moral paradoxes, but I appreciate them when they come around. It strikes a tasteful balance of hopeless morbidity and inappropriate levity and it's a good outing for Sam too, though I could have done without the past companion's extended cameo.


John Peel, Doctor Who: War of the Daleks

1997 / Audiobook / 277 pages

**

Almost a decade after their last redemptive TV appearance, the terrifying salt cellars return for a tedious continuity fest that re-establishes the status quo in the hope that other writers will think of something interesting to do with them.


Chris McDonnell and artists, Steven Universe: End of an Era

2020 / Ebook / 240 pages

****

The essential second half of the documentary artbook.