Star Trek Voyager Companion

by Paul Ruditis

The definitive guide to the entire Star Trek: Voyager series. This fully illustrated companion is absolutely packed with must-have information, including seven years of episode guides, original photographs and character profiles. All the main characters from the series have extended coverage, with actors giving personal insights and inside information on their roles. Every episode -- more than 170 in total -- is discussed in detail, each one accompanied by data points on the crew, the ship and its place in the Delta Quadrant. Plus there is a special index which features short summaries of all the episodes for quick and easy reference. Additional features include a particular focus on favourite themes which figure strongly in the Star Trek: Voyager universe, such as Captain Proton, Time Travel and Contact with the Alpha Quadrant. The book is packed with black and white pictures, including many on-set or behind-the-scenes photographs seen here for the first time. Starting with the Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion, which set the benchmark for Pocket Books' series companions, and continuing with the Deep Space Nine Companion (described by SFX as the reference work fans have be

Genres: Star Trek, Nonfiction, Reference, Star Trek Voyager, Tv

482 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2003

About the author

Paul Ruditis also writes under the name P.J. Ruditis.

I was born and raised in Philadelphia where I lived a typical childhood with a far more interesting fantasy life. I mean, how many other eight year olds were sticking their Star Wars action figures in Ziploc bags filled with water and putting them in the freezer to recreate the ice planet of Hoth? (Really? That many? Never mind.)

After college, I moved to Los Angeles and was very lucky to get a job as a page at Paramount Pictures only months after I got into town. I worked as a tour guide and usher, and I performed temp office work around the lot.
Eventually, I took a position working in the studio's licensing department where I quickly worked my way up to middle management.

After a while, one of my friends in the publishing industry offered me the opportunity to write a Buffy, The Vampire Slayer short story for a collection she was editing. Well, when I heard how little money I could make as a writer, I immediately quit my job to try it full time. (Stupid, I know, but it kind of worked for me.)

I started out by writing books based on such wonderful TV shows as Star Trek, Roswell, and Sabrina, The Teenage Witch. I have since written over 30 books based some of the best shows on TV, adding The West Wing, Alias, and Prison Break to that ever growing list.

While I continue to work on these media tie-ins, I have also been focused more on my own original fiction, including my teen series DRAMA! and the Simon Pulse Romantic Comedy Love, Hollywood Style.

- Abridged Bio - Official Website.

Reviews

[John Yelverton · Rating 5 out of 5]

A wonderful companion to a wonderful TV series. Not quit as good as it's predecessors, but it's still a wonderful book.

[J.W. Braun · Rating 1 out of 5]

Just watched every Voyager episode in air date order and had the book by my side every step of the way. What a useless piece of trash it is. A few sidebars are ok, but it's not even in the same league as the other Star Trek books of its kind.

[Jessie Radford · Rating 3 out of 5]

If you want and in depth description of each episode in the voyager series this is perfect. It was a little misleading when I first checked it out. Expecting to have a character guide, history or even a behind the scenes look. But instead had a step by step summary of each episode. It is helpful but I've seen the episodes so many times I don't need someone to tell me how they'll end haha.

[Peter Rydén · Rating 5 out of 5]

Mycket genomgående och värt varenda öre! Oslagbar om man vill veta bakgrundsfakta och mer ingående fakta om varje enskilt avsnitt.

[Kay Hudson · Rating 3 out of 5]

I already had this on my shelf when Heroes & Icons began running all the Star Trek series six nights a week last July, and I read through it episode by episode until the series ended this week (and started again from the beginning the next night). The book has good episode synopses, cast lists, lots of pictures, a crew manifest (including all those crew people we never actually saw!), and decent indices, but very little behind the scenes info. Handy when you can't remember an episode or when you fall asleep during act three.

[Lisa · Rating 3 out of 5]

i love voyager it is my favorite of the franchise this book was a disappointment the person who wrote it took too many liberties on the characters that i felt did not describe them at all. good episode summaries bad character mining

[Lisa · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'm not an especially Trekkie kind of person, but Voyager got me hooked! This is a guide to all the episodes. Now I just need to find one for Enterprise (love Scott Bakula!)

[George · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lots of good information.