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== Trek Book Favorites ==

''Book reviews and a chance to air your opinions on various books about Star Trek''

'''Star Trek The Starfleet Survival Guide''' by David Mack, illustrations by Timothy M. M. Earls
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177 pages, Cover price $15.00 US, ISBN 0-7434-1842-5, Published by Simon and Schuster

Helpful and with a tongue in cheek introduction, this little gem will help you fill in some gaps with technical bits for working with the anatomy of nanites, helping you to modify a Type 1 or Type 2 phaser into a scalpel, surviving in and escaping from damaged turbolifts and much more. Yes, you too can successfully seal a quantum fissure with an inverted warp field like any professional Starfleet engineer out there!

General areas include Standard-Issue Equipment with Non-Standard Uses, Unconventional Medicine, Dangerous Life Forms and Extreme Scenarios. Topics are covered in detail on how to cause localized seismic disturbances with tricorder and combadge signals, sterilizing food and water with a phaser, proven herbal remedies for Mugato venom, dealing with omnipotent beings, protecting a starship from an Alpha Omicron creature and introducing solar eruptions for tactical purposes. 

Call me crazy, but with an epic upcoming battle, some of these things could come in handy. Either way, they can enrich your missions significantly if you are able to utilize them with your character's skills.

Purchase it at [http://store.startrek.com/product/show/3537 Star Trek.com], click on the ISBN number above, or check out your local bookstore.

- A really good suggestion!! I own this book and it's fun to read and could be very useful, though I suspect more on away missions than in a battle since most of the techniques suggested are fiddly or time-consuming. My favourite would be hacking into a command console using only your commbadge or tricorder. And for someone like me it's invaluable <grins>. Amazon would probably be the cheapest way to buy it, and they frequently have second hand copies available from marketplace sellers :) - [[user:Rivers|Rivers]]