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Maelstrom by Michael Jan Friedman, David Stern, Mike O'Brien

dorinlazar's review

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2.0

The stories are naive, but at least they are complete. Some of them, especially the last one, are excessively naive, sometimes the solutions can be really dumb. But I guess they work well with the Star Trek universe.

So if you don't expect too much from them, you can actually enjoy the stories collected here. But it requires a bit of knowing the ST characters before diving into it.

roxanamalinachirila's review

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2.0

This is both the second Star Trek graphic novel I've read, and the second book called "Maelstrom" (the first "Maelstrom" was better).

This collects comics published in the early '90s (or even in 1990 itself, I'm not sure), and two interviews, one with Levar Burton (Geordi La Forge), and one with Michael Dorn (Word), both from back in the day when you couldn't just Wiki them. The interviews aren't that exciting, but hey, it's nice to have them.

This is actually a collection of short stories:
- two queens fighting over who will be the one true queen of a planet of telepaths
- Geordi and Riker on shore leave on a vacation planet, running into shady activity
- energy beings from a parallel universe coming to this universe and taking over people
- Wesley inventing a device he really shouldn't have

The stories are a bit naive and the solutions tend to be the same, but hey, at least they're not about someone abducting Spock's brain.
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