Star Trek: The Next Generation Nerd Search: Bloopers of the Borg: The Mistakes Must Go - Make it So!

by Glenn Dakin

Overview

Do you possess Data-like recall of everything Star Trek: The Next Generation? Put that knowledge to the test with Hero Collector’s TNG Nerd Search Book.

The next generation of Hero Collector’s Star Trek Nerd Search book is here, literally. Star Trek Nerd Search: The Next Generation follows the TOS-centric “Quibbles with Tribbles” and it challenges TNG fans to find the made-on-purpose mistakes across its 44 pages. Think of it as a next-level “Where’s Waldo” for all the diehard Star Trek fans throughout the galaxy.

Glenn Dakin, the madman behind Hero Collector’s previous Nerd Search search-and-find titles, Ghostbusters: Eerie Errors & Suspect Ghosts and Star Trek: Quibbles with Tribbles, returns to playfully torment fans who boldly think they know it all. His fully illustrated book beams up the villainous Borg, who’ve created time-traveling Chaos Cubes that break down reality as we know it. The reader’s task is to spot the Cubes and save Picard’s mission.

Making it so, however, will be tough. The reader must spot five continuity errors caused by the Chaos Cubes, such as TNG characters in the wrong costume, or scene or… even the wrong series! Complicating the crises, Dakin has hidden 10 random items for every season of TNG… in each scene. Can you find the rogue elements and name the episode? And, upping the ante even further, next-level Next Gen fans should be on the lookout for five Super Quibbles, behind-the-scenes bits of business that only hardcore fans will uncover. Sounds exciting and challenging, right? Say it with us: Resistance will be futile.

It’s all in here: Quirky “Q” madness, those hirsute, cranky Klingons, and the ever-avaricious Ferengi. And, among the TNG episodes revisited are ‘The Best of Both Worlds,’ ‘The Big Goodbye,’ and ‘Encounter at Farpoint.’

Oh, and the goal is to achieve the top score of, appropriately, 11001001.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781858759951
Publisher:	Eaglemoss
Publication date:	12/14/2021
Pages:	40
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 12.00(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	14 Years

About the Author

Glenn Dakin is a cartoonist and writer. He is the author of the Candle Man book series, and has contributed to a number of British comics including Escape and Deadline and was part of the British small press comics scene in the 1980s. His latest creations are the best selling Star Trek Cocktails and Mr Spock's Little Book of Mindfulness. Glenn and the Hero Collector creative team are based in London, England.

Read an Excerpt

What is a NERD SEARCH? It is a puzzle book but not as you know it. We are giving you the chance to enjoy STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION all over again—by ruining it with mistakes! We all love finding errors in our favorite shows, and we have added to the fun by inserting errors of a quirky kind.

This is not a simple 21st-century search-and-find book, it is more of a 24th-century, next-level challenge, with goofs in it that only a true TREK fan can spot! And along the way, we’ll be saving the universe too.

And before we go any further, it’s important to say that the whole book is one big continuity error, as none of the scenes, as we have depicted them, ever happened. Well, not quite like this. We have taken classic scenes and loaded them with extra action and hidden guest-stars for you to find ... and prove you are the greatest STAR TREK nerd ever.
 
TYPES OF PUZZLE
There are four types of puzzle in this book. They are contained in eight spreads based on classic episodes of STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION.

1. CATCH THE CUBE
Spot the Borg Chaos Cube before it does too much damage!

2. NERD ALERT
Each spread has five continuity errors. It could be something subtle like a character in the wrong scene or the wrong costume. Or it could be an obvious blunder like a crew member from the wrong series, or a big name from a movie appearing! It might just be something that didn’t happen, or something that would never happen in TREK.

3. THE ARTIFACT ANOMALY
Every scene contains 10 elements—characters, gadgets, weapons or some other item, from other episodes of the series. They are all themed to make them easier. In “The Big Goodbye” for example, all elements are from holodeck-related stories.

4. SUPER QUIBBLES
A special talking point that only true fans would know about. Maybe an item that was only mentioned in dialogue that never actually appeared on the screen. Or it could involve behind-the-scenes knowledge. Hard-core fans will know it when they see it!

THE SCORING SYSTEM
Use your scorecard to keep track of your progress
CATCH THE CUBE: 10 points each.
NERD ALERT: 4 points each.
ARTIFACT ANOMALY: 2 points for spotting the out-of-context element and 3 points for naming the episode it comes from, so a maximum of 5 for each.

At this stage you can score a possible 80 points per spread.

BUT WAIT! We have set our Super Quibbles at an incredible 215.5 points each. This brings your possible top score across the whole book to the magic number of 2364—the year that the adventures of Jean-Luc Picard and his crew started.

Editorial Reviews

From the back cover:

Are you annoyed when people think Data is a Vulcan? Or that Picard is Wesley’s dad? Can you tell a Ferengi from a Klingon? If so, then this book is for you.

What is a Nerd Search? It’s a puzzle book but not as we know it. Inside these pages are stunning scenes from some of the greatest episodes of STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION. And if you are a nerd, we have ruined them for you.

Every scene has deliberate errors that only a true fan could spot, bloopers, blunders and foul-ups that no STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION fan could forgive. Spot them and prove you are the biggest fan in the Alpha Quadrant.

This book also contains an epic adventure, with the Borg placing Chaos Cubes in key points in time, to disrupt the original mission of Captain Picard and his crew. Your mission is to find these objects and save the whole space-time continuum!

Prepare for Worst Contact with STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION ... Let’s see what’s out there!

From the Publisher