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last few days, the Christmas is over. The whole reflection, that have a lot of time with the family and not least the many gifts motivated me to review to celebrate the day something else than only novels.
This book review is first and foremost my friend and engraver of the K'olbasa Star Trek Round Table Potsdam dedicated to the entertained my wife and me not only on Christmas Eve and employed, but has also given this book.
Thank you for everything, K'olbasa!
Secondly, it is a belated Christmas greeting to all the loyal readers out there who pop up even in more peaceful days again and again.
Thank you for all you faithful readers!

Book Review Kurts, Charles: These Are The Voyages .... Pocket Books, 1996.

Story: Well, an actual plot in this book one looks in vain.
course, tell the famous Starfleet Captains Kirk, Spock , Picard, Sisko and Janeway of their locations and their comrades but more than a few very brief look at various issues from readers will be granted.
But why - for once here is the reading of secondary importance, because "These Are the Voyages ..." is something more to watch than to read ...

praiseworthy aspects : Although some people deny, hide or have forgotten:
inside all of us somewhere a child. Au
this reason we look furtively ever thought about the fence across the bulldozer related to the construction site around the corner, seemingly as busy as obviously be free of soil mass from one corner to another pushes. Or open in an apparently unguarded moment secretly every little door of the Christmas calendar for the content of much polish off completely before the celebration. But it can also manifest in this weather situation simply is that one uses the ubiquitous snow to shape into balls and throws them with joy beaming in the direction girlfriend.
Whoever has not yet completely finished with his infantile ego, will this book have been thrilled.
It's even easier: Instead of only awaken the child in yourself, it is enough simply to be a child!
Let's be honest: Thanks Clone Wars and Star Wars Lego is a whole generation of potential Star Trek fans about to embark on a completely wrong direction, just because there is nothing that Star Trek can offer the young audience.
' wait a minute! ', since that might call hard-core Trekkie, who holds the Star Trek spin-off cartoon "The Animated Series " (TAS) from the seventies in all seriousness, child-friendly fare.
' Humbug! 'I answer such people,' Humbug! '. Far too many of the episodes are not suitable to be expected of young children at all. Also prevented the now stately age of the series, its quality and the fact that a color-blind director oversaw most of the episodes that give us children of this millennium the series a whole lot of attention.
What do not mean that the children of today are spoiled, respectively youth of tomorrow. On the contrary. Even in simple terms is it possible to inspire them to return for the much more scientific and clearly a better piece of Science Fiction.
"These Are the Voyages ..." is one such means, because it is not a book in the classic sense, but a so-called "pop-up " or " stand-up picture book ". Leafing through it, Sun unfold with each new page objects made of cardboard, produced by unfolding a certain amount of space.
Whether young or old - hitting every single page is already preparing joy that is exacerbated by the fact that other gimmicks, such as rotating fields, to move tabs or offer lenticular image on the book cover the possibility of interaction. There, you move the tail fin of a humpback whale , here turns to Picard Locutus and then rushes towards the Enterprise the viewer at warp!
Apart from a small exception ( Odos representation is compared to the rest might be a little crummy) The individual stand-up pictures of pretty high quality, which is, by itself so remarkable, because most of drawings, or painted figures were used. Who knows some sloppy rate images from the many Star Trek comics from Gold Key to IDW will appreciate the descriptions of this book.
really much fun you have but only if one looks at this work with children.
The daughters and sons, nieces and nephews, godchildren and Bekanntenbälger can play with this book to get an idea of who Captain Kirk, what a Klingon or which ship the Enterprise-D is. After that interests them by itself to learn more about Star Trek (the classic episode "The Trouble with Tribbles ? " is following the common reading in particular). And then after a fun afternoon for both parties back a child from the clutches of the dark side of power saved and passed into the open arms of the Federation been. A small victory for decency, morality, and the great bird of the galaxy ...

Fun for the whole family!

criticisms made aspects: the Federation heal this world Book can easily get cracks and scratches.
This is not even meant figuratively, because actually appear in those places where the pop-ups again and again to set up and fold down, after a short time wear. Greasy fingers, frequent pulling on the straps or careless folding do the rest.
especially in dealing with children, it is advisable to set up before the common browsing behavior rules. As soon as one that is conscious of the fragility of the individual picture elements are, kids deal with that too careful. However, I strongly advise against
would like to give to young girls and boys this book easy or self-employment leave. Precisely because of their relation between the individual series, characters and objects not open up and paper is a sensitive material so adults should always be with the children rummage in it.
thus increasing the life of the book and other books common hours, the acquired knowledge will be fostered and developed together.
that children mouth proclaims truth is a well-known cultural treasures. Therefore, we must mention the " -adult" who is aware of prices, material costs and efforts needed deliberately not fall from the clouds, when the "small pieces of " not completely wrong Expressed disappointment about the fact that this book is so soon over.
fact, it has namely not more than four pages. Which are undoubtedly gorgeous and entertaining, but you can already ask why Deep Space Nine Voyager and were crushed to a common page. Also missing
side some established characters like Tasha Yar , Ro Laren , Dr. Pulaski , Rome or Nog ; about others, completed the series that later, as Worf, Ezri , Vic Fontaine , Seven of Nine or Icheb should ignore it, however. Finally, this work was published for the thirty-year anniversary of Star Trek in 1996, when such developments is too fresh or not yet in sight were. Despite the lack
TAS TNG movies (though the original films have received a separate page). After all, in 2016 the fiftieth anniversary is coming up - maybe then appears so a similar book that these gaps weeds out and offers a few more pages on which there are not only the aforementioned branch intake but also series such as Enterprise or films like Star Trek XI .
Where should this happen, it would be advisable, the concept to improve. In particular, the flip side members with pictures you have to produce a strong overstretched can see it right or press. Even that does not necessarily contribute to it may extend the lifespan of the book are called every right to be the Achilles heel of the work.

Translation: Even the man
Or the woman.
"These Are the Voyages ..." has not yet appeared in German and the individual, sometimes quite intimate-looking reports from individual Captains are therefore available only in English original. But the straightforward texts are not very complicated, and any unknown words can easily be developed independently.
If even adults that should have no problems, so it bothers children even less. Instant translations of the lectures are not a big hurdle, and anyway, the pictures the star of the book. The text is so absolutely secondary, especially since one will notice anyway rapidly, it is suggested how much the imagination of young viewers with each new object. Often there are enough of the names of the persons depicted completely - get requests all by itself.

anachronisms : with so little text remains little room for doubtful statements. In fact, the personal descriptions so vague and content-free, that there is no Room for contradictions exist. The short program notes written by the individual commanders are correspondingly aligned and full of meaningless platitudes, that nothing would be contradictory to identify it.

Conclusion: In order to keep future generations of Star Trek fans at the bar, it is best to begin their early stage to counteract the harmful influence of Star Wars' counteract. This book can succeed, because the class book faszieniert large and small reader or viewer.
fact that something is very sensitive to short and, above all, may attract attention but not interfere. "These are the Voyages ..." is a true Perle in any collection of books is definitely worth the purchase.