{5\/5} “When the bad memories rear up, I check to see if they have any relevance to my present circumstances. If they do, I learn whatever lesson they have to teach me. If they don’t, I summon happy thoughts and overwhelm the sadness, drowning my sorrows in joy.” (from “Dorian’s Diary”)<\/p>\n
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds III<\/strong> edited by Dean Wesley Smith, published in 2000<\/p>\n In “If I Lose Thee…” Uhura goes through the Guardian of Forever to rescue a historian and while in Elizabethan England she meets William Shakespeare. In “Family Matters” Spock’s cousin Elizabeth is in a coma, and only he might be able to save her — with a dangerous mind meld. In “Out of the Box, Thinking” Reg Barclay asks the holo-Moriarty for his help when virtually the whole crew has been knocked out.<\/p>\n The stories are often sequels to episodes or events that fit within episodes or movies. Many of them are absolutely stunning.<\/p>\n How does TOS<\/strong> fit in with the life of William Shakespeare? In a way that will astonish you.<\/p>\n We find out how Guinan felt after leaving the Nexus, how Richard Castillo of the Enterprise-C felt after the battle with the Romulans, how Riker’s ancestor Thaddius met Quinn of the Q Continuum in 1864, how Ezri’s first days joined with the Dax symbiont went, and how Nog fared on the Kobayashi Maru test as a Starfleet cadet.<\/p>\n Dayton Ward, after writing stories in the 1st 3 volumes of this anthology series, went on to be one of the regular Star Trek<\/strong> authors of the last 20 years.<\/p>\n I’ve read 7 novels by Smith plus 4 anthologies he edited. I previously reviewed the novel he wrote with his wife Star Trek: Voyager \u2014 The Escape<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n