Strange New Worlds and Red-Headed Stepchildren

Well, I just finished the Strange New Worlds anthology. (Man, I really did used to get through books a lot faster before the Internet was around to distract me.) And the rest of it was pretty much the same as the TOS stories. A few very good pieces, a few "four thousand entries and this is the best they could come up with?!" pieces, and a lot of stories that fell somewhere in between. Quite a few time-travel stories, which was interesting, although, now that I think about it, probably not all that surprising. Time travel and alternate universes do, after all, allow you a sneaky way to change things in the Trek universe without actually changing them.

Together with the previous anthology, though, this collection does confirm one fact that I've been sadly aware of for years: Deep Space 9 truly is the red-headed stepchild of Star Trek. There were 5 TOS stories in here. 5 TNG ones. 5 Voyager ones. But only two DS9 stories, and one of those could probably have just as easily appeared in any of the other categories instead. Sigh. Come on, tell me I'm not the only Deep Space 9 fan in the universe, huh?

Not sure what I'm going to read now. Maybe the current issue of Fantasy & Science Fiction... I do think I've probably read enough Trek stuff to last me for a while, at any rate.