When I was a 13-year-old nerd, this was the best thing ever. Despite several bits in it being completely blown away by “official” continuity (Enterprise-A had no transwarp drives, for instance,) it still held a fond place in my heart just for the obsessiveness on display by having signage and typefaces in use by the set designers integrated into new user’s manual for the ship. My copy, sadly, shuffled off this mortal coil some time ago but a casual conversation with Bully (in which he kept insisting that I buy him some of that pancake-in-a-can stuff and not understanding why I kept guffawing over the product name) ended up with me getting a copy from his archives so I could relive the glory days, when there were only a few hints of Star Trek: The Next Generation dropped in Starlog and Strangers from the Sky was the most completely awesome novel ever. (And yes I had read To Kill A Mockingbird.)
Nostalgia is occasionally an OK thing, you know? Thanks, Bully, for enabling!
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