There are 116 pieces of officially sanctioned moving image entertainment featuring the main characters of the original 1966 Star Trek TV series. I know that thanks to ATB Publishing’s latest entry in its Outside In series: Outside In Bold Goes.
The general idea of the books, previously limited to the Doctor Who universe, is to gather a wide range of writers to each “review” (more on that in a moment) one TV episode or film from a given property. The viewpoints come from diehard fans to near newcomers and everything in between. Boldly Goes, as the name would suggest, applies that formula to “Kirk-era” Trek, covering all 79 TOS episodes, the 22-episode run of Star Trek: The Animated Series, the four TNG episodes featuring TOS characters, one episode each from DS9 and Voyager and all nine films starring the Kirk-era characters. (It’s not limited to stories involving the original cast; the Abramsverse Trek movies make the list as well.) There's even a bonus chapter devoted to the ultimate Trek homage film, Galaxy Quest.
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The general idea of the books, previously limited to the Doctor Who universe, is to gather a wide range of writers to each “review” (more on that in a moment) one TV episode or film from a given property. The viewpoints come from diehard fans to near newcomers and everything in between. Boldly Goes, as the name would suggest, applies that formula to “Kirk-era” Trek, covering all 79 TOS episodes, the 22-episode run of Star Trek: The Animated Series, the four TNG episodes featuring TOS characters, one episode each from DS9 and Voyager and all nine films starring the Kirk-era characters. (It’s not limited to stories involving the original cast; the Abramsverse Trek movies make the list as well.) There's even a bonus chapter devoted to the ultimate Trek homage film, Galaxy Quest.
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