Star Trek: The Starfleet Survival Guide
Pocket Books, September, 2002.
Trade paperback, 177 pages.
ISBN: 0743418425
Millions of people have bought the Worst
Cast Scenario Survival handbooks which provide
advice about how to handle all kinds of Earth-bound
emergencies. Now
David Mack has had an absolutely inspired
idea: he presents us with the recently
de-classified Starfleet Survival Guide,
which is the guide for Starfleet officers in
sticky situations. This handy book is divided
into sections: Standard Issue Equipment -
Nonstandard Uses; Unconventional Medicine;
Dangerous Life-Forms; and Extreme Scenarios.
Every contingency has been provided for:
how to evade the pheromonal, psychotropic
effects of Elaasian women's tears, how to survive
an attack by a Crystalline entity, how to navigate
inside a Borg cube,
how to recognize and treat the symptoms of
temporal narcosis (temporal problems
seem to crop up quite often and its crucial that
one be prepared), how to erase humanoid short-term
and long-term memories, how to
seal quantum fissures and many, many more.
Written in a straight-forward and easy to read style,
this is the manual to own for anyone aspiring to
join Starfleet or who is getting ready to venture into
the uncharted realms of space.
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This review was published in the October - November, 2002 of The Internet Writing Journal.
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