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Delta Quadrant: The Unofficial Guide to Voyager (Star Trek Voyager)

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Delta Quadrant:The unofficial guide to Voayger is a great book for any fan of the show!From the plot summary to "Ye canna change the Law O' Physics" I also really loved the bloopers. It makes me want watch the shows again to see if I can find them myself.

I've always the various books of this type written by the folks across the Atlantic (Doctor Who, Babylon 5, X-Files). And I've always enjoyed McIntee's writings. However, this one isn't as entertaining as many. Most of the others are co-authored - maybe that's why. McIntee's "Deja Vu" section seems rather limited to whatever he watched on Babylon 5 and Red Dwarf and the book he read most recently, a far cry from the Doctor Who Discontinuity Guide's detailed analyses. The Behind the Scenes section is interesting. Main problem is since the series hasn't ended of course this book isn't complete (only first five of seven seasons), and therefore just begs out for a sequel...and customers having to shell out another $7.95. Just once I'd wish on the more recent series they'd wait until the series has run its course rather than leap on the money-making bandwagon.

Finally - an episode guide for Voyager, and an entertaining one at that. The author has a great sense of humor, though I don't always agree with his point of view. The book could have really used a few features BEYOND the episode guide, as more backgound would have helped those of us who came to love Voyager late in the game. Also, the episode summaries don't reveal all of the episodes' events - which can be seen as a plus or minus. I personally see it as a minus. Still, well worth the money.

I did enjoy this because I love the show, and it's a pretty good TV supplement not that UPN's cut Voyager to once a week. I had to skip over a lot of it, though - the Deja-Vous sections and ESPECIALLY the highly technical sections were both really dull. Devoted trekkies, (think Galaxy Quest) probably really appreciate those parts, but for someone who enjoys the show, not the science, those sections are cryptic and much too long. I loved the "Bloopers" section and the "Voyager Database", and I really liked the way that the author described every show individually. I agreed with most of the comments and reccomendations - they seemed pretty intelligent, and I liked the plot summaries. I wish the book had covered more episodes, though-it's annoying that it fails to describe the more recent ones. Overall, I would recommend it to any Voyager fan, but it is definately a mixed bag.

I did like that this book had behind the scenes info and bloopers and trivia. I wish the OFFICIAL guide had all that

But the author has gotten many facts about the episodes wrong, as if he never watched them but just read a summary. He also is quite negative about the show as if he doesn't even like it.