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Review – Bloopers Of Borg, The Mistakes Must Go, Make It So!

For a race that loves perfect, they sure do make a lot of mistakes. Treksperts Search & Find’s “BLOOPERS OF THE BORG” introduces us to a creative and stylish nerd search puzzle book.  

What I love about this book is that is it in fact fully dedicated to the nerds and nit-pickers like myself, the people who pull at the threads of continuity and prod at the inconsistencies with cannon. This book is for us! It’s all tongue in cheek fun. 

Written by Glenn Dakin (whose work we last saw in “Spock’s Little Book Of Calm”), with art by John Ross, colours by Alan Craddock, this trio provides for 16 wonderfully illustrated pages of continuity bending artwork. From “The Big Goodbye” to “All Good Things”, each page comes with its own intentional continuity goofs, gaffs and little mistakes, all for you to search out and discover! There are also specific goofs to find, making each search a little bit more interesting. 

Wait…Was Ensign Redrum in this episode?
CATCH THE CUBE

Spot the Borg Chaos Cube before it does too much damage!

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.

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.

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!

Getting into the book proper, we are treated to some wonderfully stylish art, by Glenn, perfectly capturing the likeness of the TNG cast (and some other Trek faces!) with his own unique style. It’s got a great comedic tone that perfectly fits the light nature of the book itself. It’s a fun love letter to TNG, which I’m always here for, packs with a lot of continuity, from all of Star Trek, Lower Decks, and Discovery very much included!

Honestly, I’d be quite happy to have a couple of these as full prints to hang on my wall. A cluster of continuity all Trek-related is fun to look at. It’s got a fun Lower Decks vibe to it, if you’re someone who likes to hunt for Easter Eggs in that show, you’ll have fun here. 

One thing I do like about each spread is how well-composed there are for scenes, they have a big bombastic vibe that instantly puts me in mind of the campy fight scene in “The Trouble With Tribbles”. Like I mentioned earlier Glenn is a great artist and I would love to see him do some official TNG comics 

I would say though, that some of these errors are glaringly obvious, and while some are a little harder to find, such as the “Catch the Cube”, it doesn’t take long to quickly find all of the errors throughout each spread. Some are more sneakily hidden, and some are larger than life taking up full-page spreads.

It’s a little bit of a shame because something that could have sunk its teeth into a bit of a “Where’s Wally” hidden object kind of game would have been great fun and perhaps lasted a little longer. But as it goes, the book is a bit of a light breeze and doesn’t last long. Especially if you’re an eagle-eyed Star Trek nerd, which is who this book is marketed to. 

I will say that the real joy of the book is actually seeing how many obscure nods to Trek can be fit into one image. One section has the plants that Wesley crushes from “The Masterpiece Society”, that’s a bit of a deep cut. It’s not especially well hidden, in fact, next to one of the most out of character characters in the book it was the second thing I noticed. But it’s a nod if I ever saw one.  

I feel there might have been a memo dropped in at some point that said “Make them more obvious because I’m 100 per cent certain that there wasn’t a horse in “The Big Goodbye”, now it could be that I am reading the review PDF on my very large monitor made for digital editing and I’m a designer, I’ve made a living out of scanning things for edits, so it could be my brain. But I can’t help but think that this could have been even more fun with deeper cuts and playing with errors.

Trek fans know their stuff, we love to point out errors and mistakes, so hit us with something that’ll really test our memory of events. Heck, it might even encourage us to watch some of these classic episodes again. (Not that I need much prompting). 

But that aside, is it a good read? Yes! I know I sound negative, but it is fun. And it’s a good read to boot. Would I buy it for myself? Perhaps not. For £11.99/$14.95 it won’t break the bank and would make for a good festive gift for those in your life who loves Star Trek. It’s nice to have an idle thumb through to read and enjoy the artwork. 

Bloopers of the Borg is available to purchase online from Eaglemoss Or Amazon

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I’d like to say a very big thank you to Hero Collector, for providing us with an advanced preview of the book. It was a real treat to have a sneak peek and try to find all those hidden gems.

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