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Product Description Set your taste-buds to stunned! These Cosmic recipes will take you where no one has gone before. They're cocktails, Jim, but not as you know them....The perfect holiday gift for the Star Trek fan in your life! Have you ever longed for a taste of Romulan Ale? Or pined for the mellowing effect of Dr McCoy's Mint Julep? Perhaps a Fuzzy Tribble would get you purring? Or a soothing sip of Captain Picard's Earl Grey Martini? This voyage into the future of stylish drinking is a must for all Star Trek - and cocktail - fans. With a galaxy of illustrations, and a witty garnish of quotations, this book will help you celebrate your favorite show. Mix the classic cocktails served on Starfleet starships throughout the Federation! Picard, Kirk, McCoy, Scotty, Quark, and more - try out each crew member's favorite! Review "We can't think of a better way to head into the holidays than with a plethora of Trek-inspired libations to sample through the New Year. Just remember, the book doesn't come with a Dr. Crusher to deal with that hangover the next morning. Drink responsibly!" - SyFy WireFrom the IntroductionCocktails themselves have featured in STAR TREK, and a couple of classics await you here, including the delightful Samarian Sunset from TNG, a drink that changes color at a light ‘ping’ on the side of the glass. We’ll do our best to conjure that, without 24th-century technology. Also, we present a drink destined to become a classic, the explosive Warp Core Breach, a cocktail said to be able to relax you for several days afterward, as made by Quark. Alongside classic cocktails with a STAR TREK twist, we also feature completely new TREK-inspired concoctions, that you will be among the first in the Galaxy to taste. So replicate your ingredients and engage your taste buds. Let’s see what’s out there… 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 main creations are Temptation and the semi-autobiographical strip Abe. Glenn and the Hero Collector creative team are based in London, England. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Introduction “Gi’e us your glass.” Scotty, ‘By Any Other Name,’ TOS Have you tasted a Samarian Sunset? Or blown your taste buds away with a Warp Core Breach? The chances are you have never left planet Earth... But we can dream. Alongside the thrill of discovering the universe, the allure and peril of the world of drink is a thread running through man’s attempt to explore the unknown. “Sometimes a man’ll tell his bartender things he’ll never tell his doctor.” This line, from Dr. Boyce to Captain Pike, is from ‘The Cage,’ STAR TREK’s first pilot episode. The martini Boyce makes was the first drink in that futuristic world, and made it very clear that alcohol was not going to be outmoded in the 23rd century. Gene Roddenberry, creator of the show, was full of visionary notions – a world without prejudice, inequality, poverty or materialism. But the Great Bird of the Galaxy was wise enough to know that a future with no recognizable human behavior would have viewers in the present switching off. At the time the first series was made, drinking was very much part of the social glue. Viewers might accept a future without smoking (Star Trek was prophetic in its removal of tobacco from society), but a world of friends, work pals, comrades in arms, without the odd glass together? Hard to imagine. STAR TREK has been called “Wagon Train to the stars,” after the popular NBC Western of the time, and drink is used in the first series very much as it is used in the Western genre ... to start fights, and then ... well, to make up after them. It is also there for comedy, with suitably goofy incidental music to let us know such folly was not to be taken too seriously. In the wo