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The Star Trek Fan Website

Webmaster of WarpFactorTrek, Dan is an avid Star Trek fan who lives in Aberdeen, Scotland. Dan has loved Star Trek ever since discovering it in his childhood. He worked as an administrator, for six years, on the encyclopedic Star Trek website Memory Alpha, which involved studying the making of the various series and films. He has been mentioned in the official Star Trek Magazine, has qualified from a Star Trek course taught at Glasgow Clyde College, and coordinated the SubSpace Chatter (formerly The Scotch Trekker) YouTube channel, which regularly featured live interviews with the cast and crew of Star Trek.

The Animated Series’ “The Ambergris Element” in Review

This episode’s writer, Margaret Armen, also wrote the TOS episodes “The Gamesters of Triskelion”, “The Paradise Syndrome” and “The Cloud Minders” as well as the TAS episode “The Lorelei Signal”.

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The Animated Series’ “The Time Trap” in Review

Take time for this episode. It’s no trap! Log Entry The USS Enterprise explores the Delta Triangle, where many ships have mysteriously disappeared. Sensor disruption occurs and a Klingon warship,

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An Interview with Derek Tyler Attico, Part 1: Writing The Autobiography of Benjamin Sisko

Fans learned so much about Benjamin Sisko in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine but The Autobiography of Benjamin Sisko — the first novel by author Derek Tyler Attico — takes

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The Animated Series’ “The Terratin Incident” in Review

The fact this episode was written by Paul Schneider, who previously wrote such key TOS episodes as “Balance of Terror” and “The Squire of Gothos”, raises expectations for this installment.

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Star Trek: Picard’s Academy, Issue 2 in Review

Here’s a review of the story “Commit No Mistakes, Part 2”, which has the French subtitle “Hurler Avec Les Loupe” (bizarrely translated as “Howling With Magnifying Glasses”; presumably what was

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The Autobiography of Benjamin Sisko in Review

The Autobiography of Benjamin Sisko tells the remarkable life of Deep Space 9’s commander. It’s the upcoming next installment in a series of books entitled “The Autobiography of [insert captain’s

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The Animated Series’ “Mudd’s Passion” in Review

How passionate can viewers of the original animated Star Trek show be when it comes to this particular episode? Let’s delve into the details, aiming for clarity, not muddiness… Log

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Star Trek: Picard’s Academy, Issue 1 in Review

Despite its potentially confusing title, this is the debut issue of a comic about Jean-Luc Picard’s days at Starfleet Academy, not a direct spin-off of Star Trek: Picard. This first

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The Animated Series’ “Once Upon a Planet” in Review

As The Animated Series reaches the mid point in its first season, the Enterprise crew needs some shore leave. Cue a visit to the planet from “Shore Leave”, where trouble

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Star Trek: The Last Generation in Review

Not to be confused with Star Trek: Picard’s series finale, this five-issue comics mini-series is part of the anthology series Star Trek: Myriad Universes (all other installments of which were

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