This took one of my favourite episodes of DS9, Far Beyond the Stars, and revisits the life of Benny Russell. The 1950’s writer has spent the past six years in the Queens Borough Mental Institution.
He’s been incarcerated there since being fired from his job at Incredible Tales magazine. He has fallen into his creations, that of a black captain of a space station, choosing to live in his mind's imagination.
But now, 1959, he is on the cusp of being released. However the power of the worlds he created are influencing his reality.
Like I said - wow!
This was so much fun to read. I tore right through it loving every flashback to 1959. I was completely taken in by the meta nature of the story and how the author tied the world of DS9 to Benny Russell and further tied his reality to how Star Trek influenced our own society.
Well done indeed.
I continue to be impressed by the quality of storytelling in this collection.
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