Star Trek: Alternative Futures has received an amazing response around the Internet. If you missed it or would like to check out new comments, click here.

This week: Connections between HG Wells and Star Trek. Coming: more on Wells' science fiction novels (and their film versions), and on the various versions of The War of the Worlds, before a consideration of Steven Spielberg and his version which opens late this month.

The expanded version of my essay on Wells and The War of the Worlds that appeared in the SF Chroncile can be found here.