The 2003 Star Trek: Voyager Companion arrived as a rather notable disappointment, after the popular Next Generation and Deep Space Nine companion books offered so many behind-the-scenes details on the formation of those two series. Luckily, two oversized books released during the Voyager series run serve well as supplemental works to that lackluster publication. A Vision of the Future – Star Trek: Voyager by Stephen E. Poe begins the Voyager story from a series of secret meetings between Rick Berman, Michael Piller, and Jeri Taylor, and follows the show’s development through the two years of planning and pre-production that went into the formation of the show with eyewitness accounts of Genvieve Bujold disatrous performance as Captain Janeway, and the budget-blowing reshoots required for “Caretaker” after the studio couldn’t decide which hairstyle best suited Kate Mulgrew. The well-researched book contains dozens of interviews with everyone from the art department to the cast and production staff, and even the Paramount security guards tasked with keeping uninvited guests off of the sets – along with several full-color, exclusive photos from the construction of the Voyager sets in the early days of production. Highly recommended. . . .