Bjo Trimble
Auteur de The Star Trek Concordance
A propos de l'auteur
Crédit image: Bjo Trimble at home, November 1981, photo by Alan Light
Œuvres de Bjo Trimble
A feast from the far reaches 2 exemplaires
Natural Dye Basics 2 exemplaires
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Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Trimble, Bjo
- Nom légal
- Trimble, Betty Jo
- Date de naissance
- 1933-08
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Prix et distinctions
- Hugo Nominee (Fanzine, 1961)
Membres
Critiques
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 7
- Aussi par
- 1
- Membres
- 408
- Popularité
- #59,622
- Évaluation
- 4.2
- Critiques
- 5
- ISBN
- 4
The first section of the book consists of short, fairly unremarkable episode recaps. It's followed by an encyclopedia-like "lexicon" section, which is... a little odd. In addition to all the things you'd expect -- people, places, weird alien diseases Dr. McCoy had to find cures for -- it includes entries like the one for "basement," which helpfully explains what a basement is and then mentions a couple of times in which characters went into basements, or the one for "quaint" which cites a couple of lines of dialog in which the word "quaint" was used. I'm pretty sure that even in the most rabidly Trekkie period of my youth, I wouldn't have had much use for that information. But... OK. Other entries are considerably more entertaining, such as the one for "beverage," which lists everything anyone ever drank on the show. (Which turns out to be kind of a lot.)
The book also includes fan-art illustrations, some of which are better than others, but the best of which are fairly impressive.
You really do have to admire the fannish labor-of-love dedication behind it all, and, back in the day, it was surely a useful reference to have, if, like me, you're the sort of person who finds ridiculously detailed information about Star Trek useful. These days, of course, if you want episode recaps, or the name of that redshirt who got killed by that cloud creature, it's a trivial matter to find it on the internet. And if you're just looking for something that's fun to browse through, books like The Star Trek Encyclopedia are probably a better bet.
Rating: 3/5, although a couple of decades ago it would probably have been higher.… (plus d'informations)