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All Other Things I Really Need to Know I Learned Watching Star Trek: Next Gener. (Star Trek: The Next Generation)

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Even better than the first one. I laughed myself silly. My wife thought I was having a fit.

If you read the first book this one is more of the same. If you didn't read the first one, buy them both. They look at Star Trek through a funny prism. Not too serious but seriously funny stories. I hope there is a third book coming out.

Who woulda thunk there could ever be humor in Star Trek? Not me. As someone who has based his entire existence on characters from the Star Trek series, I am greatly relieved that I can now add some humor to my life. Mr. Dave, I thank you. So do all my pet Tribbles.

I love Sci-Fi, and I love Star Trek: The Next Generation in particular. Despite this, or rather because of this, I like Star Trek humor - writing that makes fun of the recycled plot lines, inconsistencies, character idiosyncracies, the bad science, the technobable.. and that's what I expected from this book. Maybe that's my own fault, for thinking that that cover line ("Dave demonstrates how the universal appeal and wisdom of Star Trek: The Next Generation can help to shape a positive and humorous outlook on life.") was understood to be tongue-in-cheek.

This book is too good-natured, too inoffensive, too well-meaning and too politically correct to be funny. To bring out a belly laugh in some of your readers, you have to risk offense. And you have to touch the three taboo subjects: sex, religion and politics. This book, being an official work endorsed by Paramount, can't do that. It has to be lame and inoffensive. It made me smile every now and then, but it never made me laugh.

When we turn to television to answer our questions, it is obvious that the "BOOB TUBE" has taken over too much of our daily lives...