Captain's Log, Vol. III

Star Trek is the gift that never stops giving, and as Discovery has wrapped and Season 3 of Strange New Worlds approaches, it is with pleasure that I offer up another round of essays and articles and puzzles. As with the previous volumes, there are excerpts from Star Trek and Humanism and To Summon the Future and Trek Thought Experiments; there are also bits from the Space: 1999 book To Everything That Might Have Been, and some content about AI from The Pod Bay Doors, Vol. II.

But the fresh content is hopefully the centerpiece, including an essay on The Next Generation's time travel foibles; a look at Geordi's simulation of Leah Brahms as the first digital girlfriend; a comparison of the Enterprise and Moonbase Alpha as socialist societies; a visit to the Trek Fleet Museum; a look at Trek in print; and a tribute to the contributions of Dorothy Fontana.