Star Links - Surfing the Internet for more Star Trek material.

Anyone with an Internet connection has access to a whole host of web sites dedicated to the joys of Trekkerdom. Best of the bunch are those sites maintained by the companies Viacom - Star Trek Generations: Behind The Scenes (http://generations.viacom.com/TrekMultimedia.html), and Caltech, who maintain Star Trek: The Next Generation (http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu:80/~werdna/sttng/). Both sites are good for a browse, with excellent graphics, loads of info and trivia on the series and films, and lots of user-friendly graphic links to help you plough through the pages. The Viacom site even has an interactive multimedia kit, containing animations and soundbites which you can download onto your computer for free (providing you have the right hardware).

For the dedicated Trekker though, browsing round a bunch of pages on the web does not compare with getting down to some hard-core discussion. The real work gets done at the various 'newsgroups' on the net devoted to the Star Trek cause, where Trekkers from all corners of the globe hold hands across cyberspace and discuss the finer points of Treksville, such as verb-noun compounds in the Klingon language, whether or not 'Worf's mood swings indicate a move towards "federation" ideals' and what to do if someone infiltrates your newsgroup with slanderous postings against the good name of the Star Trek empire. Star Trek newsgroups can be found at rec.arts.startrek or alt.startrek. (Ellie Carr)

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