* Genius Loci

* Love and War - Happy Endings

* The Return of the Living Dad (Jason, Chris, Roz)

See 7th Doctor Section

* Eternity Weeps (Jason, Chris)

See 7th Doctor Section

* The Dying Days

See 8th Doctor Section

* Oh No It Isn't!

Bernice Surprise Summerfield is settling into her new job as Professor of Archaeology at St Oscar's University on the planet Dellah — one of the most prestigious centres of learning in the Milky Way. She wants to put the past, especially her failed marriage, behind her.  So she's glad when she gets the chance to take her tutorial group to investigate the lost civilisation of Perfecton. Three whole weeks of archaeological research in the field. The perfect way to forget your worries.  She doesn't bank on three things.  That Menlove Stokes, Professor of Applied Art, and various other academics would be along for the ride. That vicious alien marauders would decide to explore the planet at the same time. And that a reactivated Perfecton device would plunge her into a situation that can only be described as — panto.

My Review: Weird, bizarre, really weird & bizarre. The novel seems to pay homage to several different panto. From Dick Wittington to Cindarella to Aladdin to Sleeping Beauty it falls dangerously close to Disney at times and somehow Benny's self-awareness doesn't help things along, it could have been more interesting to really open things up and really dive right into things and even write sections of the book in script form. The Grel seem suitably interesting but for some reason I kept thinking of them as a bizarre cross between the Ood and Dr. Zoidberg from Futurama.

* Dragons' Wrath

* Beyond the Sun (Jason)

Bernice Summerfield has drawn the short straw. Not for her the pleasures of intergalactic conferences and highbrow lecture tours. Oh no. She's forced to take two overlooked freshers on their very first dig. And just when it seems things can't get any worse, her no-good ex-husband Jason turns up, claiming that he is in deadly danger. Benny finally begins to believe his wild claims, but unfortunately only after he has been kidnapped from his hotel room.  Feeling guilty, she sets out to rescue him. Well, let's face it, no one else is going to. Her only clue is a dusty artefact that Jason claimed was part of an ancient and powerful weapon. But Professor Bernice Summerfield PhD knows that's just silly nonsense. She's been an archaeologist long enough to know that lost alien civilisations do not leave their most powerful weapons lying around for any nutter to find. Do they?  Once again Benny is all that stands between Jason and his own mistakes, as she tries to prevent the wrong people acquiring this terrible and somewhat unlikely weapon — a weapon rumoured to have powers beyond the sun.

My Review: Razor blades in the eyes is more fun than the first half of this book, but once it (eventually) settles itself down we get a half decent story and the predictable twist in the tale is actually welcome relief.

* Ship of Fools

When Krytell Industries offered Benny a small, slightly dubious and, um, unofficial job aboard the majestic space cruise-liner, the Titanian Queen, she jumped at the chance. After all, with an unlimited expense account, an entire new wardrobe and more strings of pearls and other jewels than you could shake an Art Deco stick at, what more could a poor girl want?  That was then.  Now, the luckless if remarkably deserving passengers of the Titanian Queen are dropping like flies. Are the deaths the work of the mysterious criminal known as the Cat's Paw? Or is the super-rich businessman Krytell himself somehow involved? And will the great detective, Emil Dupont, finally stop getting things completely and utterly wrong and solve it all in time for tea and muffins?  Whatever's happening, Benny had better discover the truth for herself, and discover it soon. Before she suddenly finds herself another highly deplorable crime statistic.

My Review: A great twist on the traditional whodunnit, at one point i was totally convinced I'd worked it all out and I was delighted to find I was totally wrong.

* Down

Tyler's Folly: a colony world on the unattractive side of Earthspace, a planet wracked by earthquakes and crawling with off-world bodysnatchers. When the local authorities pull a bedraggled Professor Bernice Summerfield out of the ocean in an off-limits 'quake zone', they naturally want to know what she is doing there... but the professor can only mumble something about woolly mammoths and sabre-toothed tigers.  According to Bernice, the planet is hollow, its interior inhabited by warring tribes of cavemen and strangely unconvincing prehistoric monsters. Some dark and ancient god rules this underground kingdom albeit a dark and ancient god with a penchant for thirties pulp adventures and Saturday morning action serials Can Bernice's claims be true?  Is Tyler's Folly really under threat from an ageless subterranean horror? And why does so much of her story revolve around the utterly amoral alien known as !X...?

My Review: A brilliant pastiche of the 70's fantasy film genre wrapped up in psychological horror and trauma. It's like being decapitated by a chainsaw loony while a naked adonnis tickles you to death, only better (sadly the book actually lacks naked adonnai, but makes up for it with plenty of references to Doug McLure and also there's a healthy tribute/damning attack to/on a former novel publisher. I'm just not sure which it is.

* Deadfall (Jason, Chris)

Jason Kane is out to impress his ex-wife, Bernice, and he has found the perfect way of doing it. He's convinced she knows the location of the legendary planet of Ardethe — a site of untold riches and forbidden knowledge. So, after rifling through her bag for information, he sets off with his trusty crewman Emile to a barren and isolated rock.  As usual, Jason's plans go awry. Very soon people begin to die — and die quite horribly. They have awakened something beneath the planet's surface that's feasting on human brains. And when a ship full of hard-bitten female convicts arrives in the skies about the desolate world, the situation becomes even more complicated.  Someone is pulling the strings and watching the carnage. It could be any of the desperate prisoners, the reclusive crew, or the suspicious governor. Not knowing who the true foe is, Jason calls for help.  Assistance arrives in the form of his old companion Christopher Cwej — just the man you'd want by your side in a tricky situation. But something terrible has happened to Chris, and now he can't even remember his own name.

My review: This book has a plot, the only problem is that it's only one chapter long and it's spread out over the entire novel!  The return of Chris is handled with as much subtlety and grace as Adric in a lingerie shop and pushing Benny to the back in her own series of books in favour of Jason ******* Kane is just an unforgivable crime.  The few jokes in the story are reasonably funny but are lost in the endless pages of mind numbingly bad prose.  It just doesn't stop.  If i could change one thing about this book it would be it's publication.  The events of the book deserve a much better book to happen in.  Avoid.

* Ghost Devices

The Spire is an inhuman artefact, a construction almost three hundred miles high. But it is more than just a big dumb object. Those close to it can look into the future — a future which is going to be arriving sooner than they think, and which is as bad as can be.  In the here and now, Professor Bernice Summerfield, doyenne of twenty-sixth century archaeology and seedy space-port bars, is used to seeing strange thing in her rooms. So it takes the unexpected arrival of an angel to get her away from increasingly desperate professional deadlines and off to investigate one of the seven hundred and seventy-six wonders of the galaxy.  However, Benny is not the only one interested in the Spire. A mysterious race of weaponsmiths, a mutogenic assassin and a sect of fanatically anti-religious reptiles all have their reason for learning — or concealing — the structure's secrets. And, as she struggles to unlock this ancient mystery, it soon become clear that the life of an eccentric professor is of very little consequence indeed.

My Review: The book that wouldn't end. It's all jolly good fun for the most part but there seems to be far too much of it and then suddenly there isn't anywhere near enough of an ending, it stops, I suppose that'll have to be enough. The bits with the sentient airduct was funny and the RoboCop 3 meets Terminator unstoppable droid of death was ok but the rushed finale was not. I shouls start the Campaign for Real Endings.

* Mean Streets (Chris)

The Project: a criminal scheme so grand in scale that it casts a shadow across a hundred worlds. So secret that none but an elusive inner circle know its nature or its purpose. It could involve drugs, computer crime or a brilliant new con. Everyone has a theory; no one really knows.  On a trip to the sprawling den of iniquity that is Megacity, an ex-Adjudicator called Roz Forrester heard of this elaborate scheme. Her interest piqued, she asked her squire to return one day with her. After all, a crime against humanity is everyone's business.  Chris Cwej is not a man to forget such a promise. His old partner may be dead, but the Project case will be one for her memory — a way to say goodbye. All he needs is a new confederate: someone ready to risk all for the old time's sake. Fortunately, it's the end of term and Professor Bernice Summerfield is looking for excitement. So, a new crime-fighting duo is forged in the bars of Dellah — one prepared to take on a faceless foe and expose the ultimate crime.

My Review: An enjoyable 'novel noir' with Benny and Chris and a return to the Megacity previously visited by Chris and Roz in Shakedown. The Roz cameo at the beginning whets the appetite and the rest of the book doesn't fail to devilver either. It'd make an interesting film, far better than most of the ones Holy Wood makes at the very least. Being an Uncle Terry book there's very little continuity to tie the book down but just enough in all the right places to maintain interest in things back home on Dellah, although the inability to mention any DW copyrights does make it difficult in recounting who and what Karne is with any level of accuracy, didn't Uncle T invent the Rutans anyway? The stories are interesting, both the initial false lead and then the final resolution of the real one, the complexity of the plot is handled in a way so as to keep it relatively simple and straight forward and yet keep the reader wanting more.

* Tempest

Tempest: a wild and untamed world perpetually wreathed in cloud and storms. The only means of long-distance travel across its surface are the great transcontinental monorails that traverse its lonely and dangerous wastelands. Returning home from a lucrative lecture, Professor Bernice Summerfield finds herself on the most celebrated of these mighty trains.  The Drell Imnulate: a fabulous and unique religious idol. Precious enough to kill for. So important to those rival factions who follow the way of its maker that they will dare anything to ensure its return. Isolated in the wilderness and far from civilisation, death strikes the luxurious Polar Express, and a routine journey turns into a nightmare. But can Bernice save a train on the brink of disaster?

My Review: An ok story. The initial chapters tend to drag somewhat and the middle of the book slowly picks up a little bit of pace but nothign really happens until 2/3 into the book when the train is pinned down and the loony Smith tries to steal the already stolen religious figure, except it was already stolen before the train journey even began and it was only a forgery that people thought was stolen that mith intended to steal. I'm not a big for of Murder She Wrote and this is more like that than anything else, excapt maybe Murder on the Orient Express which was boring anyway. Still Benny as detective was ok, pity she never learned anything from the previous book when she played detective and did a whole lot better.

* Walking to Babylon

When Bernice Summerfield visits the People an incredibly advanced civilisation living in a Dyson sphere she discovers that ever in utopia they still have their problems.  An illegal time-travel experiment threatens a war that could destroy them all. Rather than risk it, the People and their ultra-powerful computer, God, are prepared to eradicate the source of the problem - the ancient city of Babylon.  But such action would involve the death of a quarter of a million human beings, and do incalculable damage to Earth's history.  Babylon - and the human race - have one hope. Benny returns to the cradle of civilisation to try and stop the interference. She has just one week to prevent a catastrophe that could mean she will never be born. Her only assistance comes from a Victorian linguist who has stumbled across the experiment himself. But he's no help at all — even though he has a power neither of them suspects.

My Review: It seems like it's taken me forever to finish this book, but I enjoyed it all the way.  A great mix of DW NA and Benny NA continuities referencing right back to Timewyrm: Genesys. I like The People, they're rather sweet and God is a real charmer. I guess Kate wasn't allowed to mention the Time Lords by name, but it hardly matters in the long run. Clarence is fast becoming my fave semi-recurring character, although the lack of Brax does take away from the book imho. The replication of ancient Babylon is nice, as is Benny's thoughts on culture shock and food poisoning as the main cause of death in time travellers.

* Oblivion (Jason, Chris, Roz)

Something has burst through the worn and patchwork fabric of the universe, like a high-velocity round through a rotten apple. The timelines are cut loose and whipsawing — alternative pasts, presents and futures slicing through the world we think of as real.  At the centre of the disruption three adventurers, Nathan li Shao, Leetha and Kiru, are trapped on a parallel Earth — flung from one twisted alternative to another by a man called Deed, who has usurped the power of the Godhead. If their friend Sgloomi Po cannot reach them in time they will be obliterated. Deed is attempting to forge his own reality and consign all others to oblivion.  To help end the chaos, Sgloomi has assembled a number of old friends: Bernice Summerfield, the feckless Jason Kane and Christopher Rodonante Cwej... but there has been one small mistake. A miscalculation has placed someone among them who should not be there. Someone who should be dead.

My Review: A delight to read and a book that defines the word unputdownable perfectly.  I loved the return of Roz (even though it's only for a short time) and the return of Chris and Jason bloody Kane are highlights too. I'm surprised that one of Jason's nightmares wasn't about his dad though, as it seemed that he was a right psychotic monster of the highest banana. Benny seemed to be in a right stroppy mood too (much more than usual), still it added to the general atmos.

* The Medusa Effect

* Dry Pilgrimage

Bored with her job, bored with being perpetually skint, Bernice Summerfield leaps at the chance of a free holiday arranged by her new friend Maeve Ruthven, St Oscar's Professor of Comparative Religion. But all is not what it seems. Benny's holiday rapidly goes from bad to worse to downright dangerous. For a start, the 'luxury cruise' is a religious pilgrimage, and alcohol is forbidden to those on board. Then she is attacked, badly injured and confined to a wheelchair. And that's before the murder. Benny finds herself caught in a web of intrigue — not knowing who on board can be trusted or which way to turn. And with the future of more than one world depending on her actions, she must decide who to believe, expose the hidden killer and prevent a ruthless grab for power.

My Review: Weird, bizarre, confusing, deeply puzzling at at times outrageously brutal. This is one book that really needed some Jason Kane in it to spice things up. The concept of a detoxing Benny is interesting but it's played for comedy here and not straight up on the rocks (as it were). The biotronic cyber killinmg machine/suit is straight out of Warhammer 40K but that's not such a bad thing as at least it's done better than another weak Terminator 2 clone.

* The Sword of Forever

When Bernice Summerfield finds human skull fragments containing her own DNA in the stomach of a mummified dinosaur, she embarks on a trail of murder and betrayal. From the alien jungles of France to the primal continent of Pangaea, the trail leads ever further back in time. Together with Patience, the cloned smart-raptor, Benny must brave alien hybrids, agents of the Knights Templar guarding a secret older than time — and have breakfast with the man who would be Emperor of Earth. All to find the fabled Sword of Forever, a mythical device with the power to destroy and create civilisations — but at what price? Everything goes critical as Bernice and Patience travel across 120 million years and two universes — where ancient traps guard crumbling ruins, love is unrequited, time is running out, treasure is always buried and X never fails to mark the spot.

My Review: A real headf**k of a book! This book takes the concept of the novel and gives it a wedgie. The sudden ending however is a bit of a let down, such a strong build up really needed a good wind down too. I half expected the revelation of 'the final insight' at one point.  Still it's all good fun and the Indiana Jones-esque opening sequence was good to read. Benny really needs a hat and a bullwhip imho.

* Another Girl, Another Planet

Lizbeth Fugard is an archaeologist working on a backwater rock of a world. She's bankrolled by a government she despises, and has recently split up with her partner. And, just when she thinks life can't get any worse, someone starts following her — keeping to the shadows, but always there. Watching. Waiting. Eyes boring into her soul. The most beguiling eyes she has ever seen — and the most terrifying.  All she can think of is to call on the help of her old friend Professor Bernice Summerfield, and Bernice is only too happy to get away from her own work and see a bit more of the galaxy.  But on arrival she is soon immersed in sabotage, political secrets, gun-running, and an age-old love affair that ended indisaster and disgrace. To end a cycle of violence and hate, Bernice and Lizbeth must discover the truth — but doing so could have implications far beyond this obscure world.

My Review: A mixed bag of sweets and many of them are earwax flavour! There's some good stuff in there, but mostly it's bad, long and dull. The coda seems to be a clunky attempt to set up some sort of foreboding, it may as well have painted itself green and danced about singing 'foreboding is a wonderful thing' it was so unsubtle. The new cover design is nice though.

* Beige Planet Mars

It is the year 2595. Mars, once the distant target of humanity's ambitions in space, has been colonised for five hundred years. To mark the anniversary, the planet's university is holding an academic conference. Naturally, esteemed expert on Martian archaeology Bernice Summerfield is invited to present a paper based on her long career in this field.  But other matters distract Bernice from academia. Decades ago, hostile aliens invaded Mars. At their moment of greatest need, Mars' human population was betrayed by its leader. And although the occupation was swiftly ended, the anger of those who fought to save Mars still runs deep.  So when a veteran of the war is found dead, old wounds are reopened.  Bernice finds herself investigating a murder with the least reliable of allies — and soon discovers that the consequences of the Siege of Mars are far from being ancient history.

My Review: A nice holiday (well a convention with an expense account) turns into another nightmare for Benny. A lot of murky references to The Dalek Invasion of Earth and Frontier in Space and I'm not sure I like it, it all seems so irrelevent somehow especially as explicit references aren't allowed, so the vagueness of what is allowed tends to distract rather than enhance. The generic evil villain with a refreshing cool twist (tm) archetype gets another trot out of the stables of storytelling, any more trips out and it'll die of old age imho. At least Benny gets to do some shopping for once and she gets a stalker too, but sadly it turns out to be Jason Kane. Jason as a publish author with more success than Benny is a turn up for the books and his two chemical addicted side kicks are at least interesting versions of Rosencrantz & Guildenstern. It's a well written book with some very clever scenes but there's not really much we haven't seen before.

* Where Angels Fear

Something very odd is happening on the cosmopolitan planet of Dellah, home to Bernice Summerfield, famed archaeologist, adventurer, raconteur and barfly. A long-ignored religion is rapidly gaining recruits. The faithful rejoice and talk of their God walking the land once more. And in secret rooms on campus, arcane arts are practiced with dangerously successful results.  Behind these seeming absurdities, something far darker is going on, something that has consequences for everyone. The most powerful races of the universe are running scared, withdrawing to their own strongholds, and leaving the lesser races to their fate. But what can have warped reality in this way? And why? Or has the time of the gods finally come? As Bernice and her friends begin to investigate, they soon realise that in the terrible conflict to come each of them will have to choose sides.

My Review: A deceptivley subtle plot left me wondering why nothing was happening for the first half of the book and then everything just clicked into place like reaching the top of a rollercoaster and then plunging down faster and faster into the action and mania of the plot. I've never been a fan of preachy books but this one isn't too bad, in fact it tries very hard to do a Babylon 5 but never quite manages it. For a book about gods the God of the People seems to be the only one worth believing in and it suggests that the Doctor a somewhat familiar alien being with two hearts and a passion for stopping evil deeds is killed when his own conviction fails.

* The Mary-Sue Extrusion

The planet Dellah was once one of the cultural centres of the galaxy.  Now, it lies in ruins and things walk through the barren landscape, twisting the unfortunates who remain there to their unholy will.  The tragic effects of this cataclysm have been felt throughout local space, from cruel and draconian Thanaxos to the multiplexal chaos of the Proximan Chain Rafts. All know the ultimate result: a war is coming — is inevitable — and is set to blow the fragile stability of the galactic sector apart.  Only one person has the pieces of the puzzle that might prevent the coming collapse — Bernice Summerfield. The problem is, she's missing, and what's more she's not feeling precisely herself. And if Benny doesn't find out exactly who she is, and how she can fit into her newly shattered world, there isn't going to be a world for her to come back to at all.

My Review: Fundamentally baffeling, totally weird, completley bizarre and 90% padding. I liked it, but it did feel like it didn't quite achieve what it set out to. As enjoyable a romp as it was it often felt like it was flailing blindly at times with no real sense of direction or purpose, like it had forgotten what it was supposed to be doing.

* Dead Romance

I don't know why I'm writing this. It's not like anybody's going to read it. At least, nobody who cares about the fact that I'm a desperate, dying, 23-year-old human being who's just had the whole of history taken away from her.  To whoever's out there, to whatever's left, this is the way things were, just before the end. This is the story about the last days of London, about murder and love and waking up in the ruins, about all the people buried in the wreckage...  I'm lying, obviously. This is my story. This is what I was doing, when October the twelfth came. Because, let's face it, I'm the only one who really matters.  I'm the only one who got out alive.

My Review: A real mind frell of a book. It takes the ideas of the Gods of Dellah and the Time Lords Time Travellers and puts them through a blender and rebuilds everything from the ground up. Christine is pretty much Benny but slightly different, she's less capable and less independant than BSS but possibly more interesting too. The idea of the bottle universe and bottle earth is brilliant, I haven't read anything this cool since The Ancestor Cell. There's also references to Down and Christmas on a Rational Planet, as well as the other Gods of Dellah novels.

* Tears of the Oracle

On Dellah, the shattered former home of Bernice Summerfield, only the Advanced Research centre still survives — the last remnant of the once famous university. But it's under siege from from fanatical groups of religious inquisitors, searching for new converts or dangerous heretics.  Benny would have to be mad to go back.  Jason Kane, Bernice's one-time husband and all-time opportunist, has found the ancient remains of the Oracle of the Lost on an obscure planetoid known only as KS-159. Or so he says.  Benny would have to be mad to believe him.  The mysterious Irving Braxiatel is looking for somewhere quiet to house his huge collection of... everything.  Benny would have to be mad to suggest KS-159.  The Oracle of the Lost, legend says, can answer any question. but the cryptic answers she gives are never helpful, and often dangerous.  Benny would have to be mad to reawaken her.  Or ask a question.  Or believe the answer.

My Review: This is a novel that I really like because it's bloody fantastic! It's like Lord of the Rings meets Star Wars meets Indiana Summerfield Jones with a bit of Mad Max 2 thrown in for good measure.  Also Ice Warriors (carefully disguised to avoid BBC lawsuits) abound in the opening chapters and also we learn fabulous new secrets about Brax, being a certain character's older brother... Tears is even better than Dead Romanace and also deals with a lot of the fall out from said novel, namely the revival of Cwej and a possible cameo by Morty the Meddling Monk? The plot itself had me guessing all the way through, at one point Ii was totally and utterly convinced the old gambler was really the old archaeologist in disguise! With only 3 books left to go now I find myself wishing that with books the quality of Oracle, that there were 103 more to come...

* Return to the Fractured Planet

Nothing is ever simple, and nothing ever ends. Feed some drugs to laboratory rats and, two hundred generations down the line, the monsters start being born.  The fragile stability of the Dellahan quarantine has been compromised, and something has escaped. Now, a man in the incipient stages of identity-collapse and a dying Bernice Summerfield have to search the byzantine cities of the Proximan Chain for an entity that killed his lover and her friend — an entity that will turn the Chain into its own version of hell.

My Review: This book is a case study in how to self harm via reading a book. To call this book bad is to insult the word bad and everythign that has ever been called bad. I could wax lyrical on that meme but instead I'm going to find something positive to say, it ended and I was all the more glad for it because I know it'll make me apprecaiate other books all the more in future.

* The Joy Device

Benny has had enough. Enough of the angst and the heartache. Enough of Jason and the others. She needs a holiday, and so she's heading to the Eastern Rim, a part of the galaxy where there is still a frontier, and adventure to be had. She's packed her trowel. She's off.  Her friends are concerned. Drug barons, war lords, criminal cartels and outlaws have fled to the Rim from authority and order. There's a distinct risk of getting into trouble, not to mention life-threatening peril. It's not so much that Benny might come to harm; she might find she likes it out there. But Benny finds the Eastern Rim almost suspiciously ordinary: no violence, no action, no excitement. So when she is asked by a shady curio dealer to help him find Dorpfeld's Prism, it seems just another cursed relic to recover before retiring to the bar. In a place this dull, nothing dangerous can possibly happen. Can it?

My Review: If books are like sweets, some delicious soft centres and others chewy toffees then this is the candyfloss of the range, a sweet insubstantial treat that's over all too soon. I'm all for having a pause before the storm, but this goes just a little too far and plays it just a little too safe to avoid being twee and sickly. The idea of layering the stories is pretty cool, and is a reflection of the much more satisfying Dead Romance and it's nice to see Jason Kane back to his Death and Diplomacy ways, but everything else just feels like it's there to pad the book out a bit more. That said coming after the horrifically bad RTTFP it's like mana from heaven.

* Twilight of the Gods

The once peaceful planet of Dellah lies in ruins. The god-like beings who infest the place have lured the inhabitants into holy wars, suicide cults and genocidal pogroms. As they run out of victims, the deities plan to invade more planets — and other races are preparing pre-emptive strikes to stop them. Humankind's small sector of the galaxy is about to become the battleground of leviathans.  There is just one hope. Professor Bernice Summerfield is, surprisingly, alive and well. And she's coming home. Bernice and her friends are determined to dispose of the gods once and for all — at any cost.

My Review: I read this in one sitting, it was just unputdownable.  Most of the book is a simple mission gone completley fubar (in the best traditions of the series) and it's up to Benny to sort things out to save life, the universe and everything. There's the final revelation that links the series back with the Doctor Who novels, most specifially Cold Fusion with just a sprinkling of Dead Romance and The Also People. The book and the series ends with Benny trying to put her life back together and move on and enjoy some well deserved peace and quiet before she's forced to save Jason Bloody Kane one more time. Chris gets his life retconned back into some sort of order, although he's been de-aged to about 13 years old and he's a moody sulky teenager, probably some sort of nod to the next generation of fans that will one day write their own stories and create their own myths and legends. To quote James T. Kirk: "It's been fun."