Happy 2025 Birthday to Greg Brodeur!
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Happy birthday to Greg Brodeur!
Gregory “Greg” Brodeur has several Star Trek novels with his writing partner Dave Galanter, including the two books in the Maximum Warp series. Brodeur also collaborates with his wife, Diane Carey, and under her name has published many Star Trek novels and novelizations.
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“Strange Novel Worlds” Review by Joshuaedelglass.com
Joshuaedelglass.com has added a new review for Agnieszka Urbańczyk and Anne Collins Smith and Brian de Ruiter and Carey Millsap-Spears and Caroline-Isabelle Caron and David Mack and Geoffrey Reiter and Judith Clemens-Smucker and Kristin Noone and Leah Faye Norris and Mareike Spychala and Owen M. Smith and Sherry Ginn and Una McCormack and Val Nolan and Valerie Estelle Frankel‘s “Strange Novel Worlds”:
But then here comes the fascinating, scholarly work that is Strange Novel Worlds: Essays on Star Trek Tie-In Fiction, edited by Caroline-Isabelle Caron with Kristin Noone. This dense book takes a serious, academic approach to looking at the fifty-year history of Star Trek novels, exploring specific noteworthy novels and series. It’s exciting to see writers taking Star Trek novels seriously, as opposed to dismissing them. And as a long-time reader and fan of these books, it was a thrill to dive so deeply into so many of the Star Trek books that I have read and loved over the years!
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DTI Comic Book Investigation for the week of April 24, 2025
Here are all the comics printed this week in years past.
Out Today: “Star Trek #31”
Out today: “Star Trek #31“, by Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing.
“Lore War,” Part 3. Friends and foes clash when Worf and his mind-twisted crew on the USS Enterprise come into contact with Sisko, Kahless II, and Beverly aboard the USS Phoenix in Alpha Quadrant space. Nothing in Lore’s universe is clear-but when Sisko sees his old friend on the viewscreen, he knows what he must do: wake Worf the hell up!
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StarTrekBookClub.com + Trek Book Club Collaboration
I’m happy to announce that I’m going to be advocating and advertising PeterTrek’s Trek Book club discussions on Blue Sky, and I’ll definitely be taking part in the next one that’s scheduled for June 6-7, where they’ll be discussing Greg Cox‘s Star Trek: Lost To Eternity.
Interested in checking out past discussions? Check out these two books, there’s a drop down under the synopsis of the book now that lists all the discussion topics:
- The Autobiography of Jean-Luc Picard: The Story of One of Starfleet’s Most Inspirational Captains
- Star Trek: Enterprise: Kobayashi Maru
“Star Trek #31” Review by Aiptcomics.com
Aiptcomics.com has added a new review for Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing‘s “Star Trek #31”:
All I can say is ‘bring on the next issue’.
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DTI Treklit Investigation for the week of April 22, 2025
Here’s a look at the books printed this week in the past.
DTI Treklit Investigation for the week of April 22, 2025
Here’s a look at the books printed this week in the past.
Preview of “Star Trek #31”
Here’s a preview of Star Trek #31 by Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing which is due to be released this Wednesday on April 23, 2025 at your local comic shop and digital retailers:
Happy 2025 Birthday to George Takei!
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Happy birthday to George Takei!
George Takei is an actor who is most famous for portraying Hikaru Sulu in Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek: The Animated Series and its spin-off movies. He reprised the role in a guest appearance for the Star Trek: Voyager episode “Flashback”.
In the 1990s, he performed the narration for two audiobooks based on the adventures of the USS Excelsior, Cacophony and Transformations. Additionally, he co-wrote the DC Comics title So Near the Touch with Peter David.
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Happy 2025 Birthday to Keith R.A. DeCandido!
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Happy birthday to Keith R.A. DeCandido!
Keith R.A. Decandido is a top genre author whose tie-in novels for Pocket include several Star Trek titles across all series as well as Buffy the Vampire Slayer novelizations. He is also known for his Star Trek: The Next Generation comic book miniseries Perchance to Dream, and is the editor of several science-fiction and fantasy anthologies.
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“Late Star Trek: The Final Frontier in the Franchise Era” Review by Richhandley.com
Richhandley.com has added a new review for Adam Kotsko‘s “Late Star Trek: The Final Frontier in the Franchise Era”:
I recently had the pleasure of reading Late Star Trek: The Final Frontier in the Franchise Era, by Adam Kotsko, a review copy of which University of Minnesota Press graciously sent me. There was a time …
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DTI Comic Book Investigation for the week of April 17, 2025
Here are all the comics printed this week in years past.
“Star Trek: Lower Decks #6” Review by Aiptcomics.com
Aiptcomics.com has added a new review for Ryan North‘s “Star Trek: Lower Decks #6”:
Ryan North sticks the landing with a finale full of temporal chaos, Trek heart, and just the right amount of dinosaurs.
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“Star Trek: The Next Generation: Dominion War: Book 1: Behind Enemy Lines” Review by Deepspacespines.com
Deepspacespines.com has added a new review for John Vornholt‘s “Star Trek: The Next Generation: Dominion War: Book 1: Behind Enemy Lines”:
In today’s episode, the universe won’t even allow Ro Laren to keep a Canadian boyfriend. But she possesses some important intel that will be crucial in stopping the Dominion from carrying out Wormhole II: Artificial Boog-a-loo. Will Data give in to the temptation to run horrors_of_war.exe?Will today’s canned fish populate tomorrow’s aquariums? And is there anything Picard won’t tug on? All this and more in Behind Enemy Lines, the book with the ACTION FLAP.
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“Star Trek: Lower Decks #6” Review by Getyourcomicon.co.uk
Getyourcomicon.co.uk has added a new review for Ryan North‘s “Star Trek: Lower Decks #6”:
Our favourite Starfleet lower deckers are back in comic book stores today and seemingly stranded aboard the Titan following last month’s cliffhanger. The second half of our time-hopping adventure promises more classic Lower Decks hilarity whilst injecting a little more character development in to one of our four leads…
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Out Today: “Star Trek, Volume Four: Pleroma”
Out today: “Star Trek, Volume Four: Pleroma“, by Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing.
Arc four of the acclaimed Star Trek ongoing comic series continues here in the collected paperback! Benjamin Sisko faces the gods themselves on their home turf: the Pleroma.
Acclaimed writers Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly along with Star Trek: Strange New Worlds comics artist Megan Levens (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Starsigns) welcome you to the thrilling brand-new chapter of the Eisner-nominated Star Trek flagship series!
Benjamin Sisko has begun imagining an end to his journey and is looking forward to establishing a normal, human life. But unfortunately for Captain Sisko, his next test has been a member of his crew this whole time…
T’Lir, the crew’s former science officer, has returned to the U.S.S. Theseus bridge with a shocking revelation and a plea. Kahless’ attempted war with the gods has altered the very fabric of spacetime, threatening the destruction of several godlike species. Already, anomalies are beginning to form across the galaxy. Their only hope: the Emissary of the Prophets, Benjamin Sisko, and his valiant crew of Starfleet’s finest.
In the follow up to Star Trek, Vol. 3: Glass and Bone, Volume 4 collects Star Trek issues #19-24 and the 2024 Annual by writers Collin Kelly & Jackson Lanzing with artists Megen Levens and Rachael Stott.
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Out Today: “Star Trek: Defiant #26”
Out today: “Star Trek: Defiant #26“, by Christopher Cantwell.
“Lore War,” Part 2. On one side of the war, Worf, Shaxs, Alexander, and others who once valued honor above all have now been designed by the malevolent android Lore to uphold his dictatorial rule; on the other side, a rebel Maquis fleet, Kahless II, Beverly, Sisko, and all those who know the truth behind their current reality endeavor to tear it down with what little resources they have. But not everything is as hopeless as it seems: There are allies hidden in the unlikeliest of places and assets-like the famous USS Phoenix-that escape even the all-seeing positronic eye of Lore.
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“Star Trek: Lore War #1” Review by Positivelytrek.com
Positivelytrek.com has added a new review for Christopher Cantwell and Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing‘s “Star Trek: Lore War #1”:
In this episode of Positively Trek, Dan Gunther is joined by comic co-host Brandi Jackola to discuss Star Trek: Lore War #1, the first issue in the five-part Lore War crossover series! We talk about what leads up to this series, the story in the issue itself, and finish up with our thoughts on the story and our predictions for the future!
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“Star Trek: The Next Generation: Gateways: 3 Doors into Chaos” Review by Trek.fm
Trek.fm has added a new review for Robert Greenberger‘s “Star Trek: The Next Generation: Gateways: 3 Doors into Chaos”:
In this episode of Literary Treks hosts Casey Pettitt and Jonathan Koan continue the Gateways series with Doors Into Chaos. We discuss this feeling like a beginning, getting lucky, crew movement, used well, Riker, connections, Picard, the conference, building excitement, our ratings and final thoughts.
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DTI Treklit Investigation for the week of April 15, 2025
Here’s a look at the books printed this week in the past.
“Star Trek: Lore War #1” Review by Getyourcomicon.co.uk
Getyourcomicon.co.uk has added a new review for Christopher Cantwell and Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing‘s “Star Trek: Lore War #1”:
Everything has been building to this moment. All of the plot threads woven throughout both IDW’s Star Trek and Star Trek: Defiant series are coming together. The crossovers, the character work, all of the adventures interwoven across this entire initiative have led to this moment. The moment that Lore, Data’s evil brother, has taken over and reshaped reality in his own image. As the end of the series looms, can Trek pull off its biggest and most ambitious story yet?
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Preview of “Star Trek: Defiant #26”
Here’s a preview of Star Trek: Defiant #26 by Christopher Cantwell which is due to be released this Wednesday on April 16, 2025 at your local comic shop and digital retailers:
DTI Comic Book Investigation for the week of April 10, 2025
Here are all the comics printed this week in years past.
Happy 2025 Birthday to John Eaves!
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Happy birthday to John Eaves!
John Michael Eaves is a concept illustrator and designer who worked as production illustrator on the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine for its last four seasons and on Star Trek: Enterprise in its entirety, as well as on no less than eight Star Trek films.
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Out Today: “Star Trek: Lower Decks #6”
Out today: “Star Trek: Lower Decks #6“, by Ryan North.
When Mariner asked the Krulmuth-B portal to send her, Rutherford, Tendi, and Boimler to the moment when they could make the biggest impact on history, she meant, like, to the time period where they could help their crew the most. But they’ve ended up on board the Titanic! Yes, THE Titanic, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. The time traveler who’s responsible for a deadly wave of Federation rewrites is still at large, and the Lower Deckers are now further than ever from stopping them.
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Star Trek Books Coming In The Next 30 Days, as of April 8th, 2025
Fiction
By: James Swallow
April 29, 2025A thrilling new novel based on the Paramount+ TV series Star Trek: Strange New Worlds! While patrolling the borders of the Klingon Empire, Captain Christopher Pike and the crew of the USS Enterprise detect a series of subspace echoes from a planet orbiting a volatile flare star — and when Lieutenant Spock and Commander Una […]
Comics
By: Ryan North
April 9, 2025When Mariner asked the Krulmuth-B portal to send her, Rutherford, Tendi, and Boimler to the moment when they could make the biggest impact on history, she meant, like, to the time period where they could help their crew the most. But they’ve ended up on board the Titanic! Yes, THE Titanic, and that’s just the tip of the […]
By: Christopher Cantwell
April 16, 2025“Lore War,” Part 2. On one side of the war, Worf, Shaxs, Alexander, and others who once valued honor above all have now been designed by the malevolent android Lore to uphold his dictatorial rule; on the other side, a rebel Maquis fleet, Kahless II, Beverly, Sisko, and all those who know the truth behind […]
By: Collin Kelly, Jackson Lanzing
April 16, 2025Arc four of the acclaimed Star Trek ongoing comic series continues here in the collected paperback! Benjamin Sisko faces the gods themselves on their home turf: the Pleroma. Acclaimed writers Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly along with Star Trek: Strange New Worlds comics artist Megan Levens (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Starsigns) welcome you to the […]
By: Collin Kelly, Jackson Lanzing
April 23, 2025“Lore War,” Part 3. Friends and foes clash when Worf and his mind-twisted crew on the USS Enterprise come into contact with Sisko, Kahless II, and Beverly aboard the USS Phoenix in Alpha Quadrant space. Nothing in Lore’s universe is clear-but when Sisko sees his old friend on the viewscreen, he knows what he must do: wake Worf the […]
DTI Treklit Investigation for the week of April 8, 2025
Here’s a look at the books printed this week in the past.
2025 Hugo Award Finalists Has A Star Trek Book!
Ryan North and Chris Fenoglio’s “Star Trek: Lower Decks – Warp Your Own Way” has been nominated for a Huge Award, a fantastic honor!
Happy 2025 Birthday to Michael A. Martin!
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Happy birthday to Michael A. Martin!
Michael A. Martin’s solo short fiction has appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. He has also coauthored (with Andy Mangels) several Star Trek comics for Marvel and Wildstorm and numerous Star Trek novels and eBooks, including the USA Today bestseller Titan: Book One: Taking Wing; Titan: Book Two: The Red King; the Sy Fy Genre Award-winning Star Trek: Worlds of Deep Space 9 Book Two: Trill — Unjoined; Star Trek: The Lost Era 2298 — The Sundered; Star Trek: Deep Space 9 Mission: Gamma: Vol. Three: Cathedral; Star Trek: The Next Generation: Section 31 — Rogue; Star Trek: Starfleet Corps of Engineers #30 and #31 (“Ishtar Rising” Books 1 and 2); stories in the Prophecy and Change, Tales of the Dominion War, and Tales from the Captain’s Table anthologies; and three novels based on the Roswell television series. His work has also been published by Atlas Editions (in their Star Trek Universe subscription card series), Star Trek Monthly, Dreamwatch, Grolier Books, Visible Ink Press, The Oregonian, and Gareth Stevens, Inc., for whom he has penned several World Almanac Library of the States nonfiction books for young readers. He lives with his wife, Jenny, and their two sons in Portland, Oregon.
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Preview of “Star Trek: Lower Decks #6”
Here’s a preview of Star Trek: Lower Decks #6 by Ryan North which is due to be released this Wednesday on April 9, 2025 at your local comic shop and digital retailers:
New Star Trek Comic Books Announced To Preorder! April 2025 Edition
IDW April 2025 Catalog
In a moment of mother-daughter bonding, Captain Freeman continues the story of how she was once a nobody screw-up just like Mariner! Where she last left off, Dr. Katherine Pulaski had taken the helm of the U.S.S. Illinois in its clash with a Romulan warbird-but, as feared, Pulaski’s brilliant track record of crashing spacecraft isn’t doing her any favors in the encounter. Freeman and Durango are called upon to save the day. If the crew is to survive, the two ensigns need to rise to the challenge of command… and fast!
Two and a half years of comics spanning 60 years of Star Trek history, a fair few awards, and more than a few universe detonations, and it’s all been coming to this! Star Trek: Omega is the denouement of the critically acclaimed Star Trek and Star Trek: Defiant storylines, and the first glimpse at what comes after. The crews of the Theseus, Defiant, and Enterprise set to work restoring the universe to what it should be after the evil android Lore’s intervention. Each hero finds their peace in preordained or unexpected ways, with individual scenes depicted by one of Star Trek’s or Defiant’s mainline artists! This finale pays tribute to all those involved in the series Screen Rant calls “the gold standard for ambitious comic book storytelling.”
Tim Sheridan on Comicsbeat.com discussing “Star Trek: Lower Decks”
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Tim Sheridan was recently featured on Comicsbeat.com to discuss Star Trek: Lower Decks:
In advance of the issue’s arrival, Comics Beat got the chance to chat with Sheridan over email. We asked about his history with Star Trek, about balancing sci-fi and comedy in Lower Decks and (of course) about what he’d order from the food replicator. In addition, The Beat is proud to present two exclusive preview pages from the issue alongside the interview!
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Happy 2025 Birthday to William Leisner!
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Happy birthday to William Leisner!
William “Bill” Leisner currently lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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DTI Comic Book Investigation for the week of April 3, 2025
Here are all the comics printed this week in years past.
Out Today: “Star Trek: Lore War #1”
Out today: “Star Trek: Lore War #1“, by Christopher Cantwell and Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing.
The all-new crossover event between Star Trek and Defiant is here! From the Eisner-nominated writers of Star Trek, Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly; the critically acclaimed writer of Star Trek: Defiant, Christopher Cantwell; and artist Davide Tinto, Lore War #1 shows us a universe rebuilt in Lore’s image. The crews of the Theseus and the Defiant scattered across the universe with no memory of who they once were-some even worship Lore as their God. Lore has won; his rule is absolute. But The Sisko remains, and there are forces who wish to remind him of his power.
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Happy 2025 Birthday to Garfield Reeves-Stevens!
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Happy birthday to Garfield Reeves-Stevens!
Garfield Reeves-Stevens, together with his wife Judith Reeves-Stevens, is one of Star Trek’s best-selling original book writers. Together, the Reeves-Stevens couple wrote or co-wrote five episodes of Star Trek: Enterprise’s fourth season. Being Star Trek: The Original Series fans, the couple had already written several fully licensed reference books on the subject of Star Trek previously, prior to becoming officially involved with the live-action franchise.
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DTI Treklit Investigation for the week of April 1, 2025
Here’s a look at the books printed this week in the past.
Star Trek Book Deals For May 2025
This month’s ebook deals have landed with 20 books on sale for $0.99 – $1.99 each, books that have never been on sale are in bold:
Star Trek: 12 Mutiny On The Enterprise
Star Trek: 18 Rihannsu 1 – My Enemy, My Ally
Star Trek: 33 Deep Domain
Star Trek: 4 The Covenant Of The Crown
Star Trek: 42 Memory Prime
Star Trek: 5 The Prometheus Design
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: 14 The Long Night
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Lust’s Latinum Lost
Star Trek: Gateways: 1 One Small Step
Star Trek: Legacies: Book 3: Purgatory’s Key
Star Trek: Prime Directive
Star Trek: Sarek
Star Trek: Starfleet: Year One
Star Trek: The Children of Kings
Star Trek: The Next Generation: 10 A Rock And A Hard Place
Star Trek: The Next Generation: 43 A Fury Scorned
Star Trek: The Next Generation: 61 Diplomatic Implausibility
Star Trek: The Next Generation: Companion
Star Trek: The Original Series: Foul Deeds Will Rise
Worlds Of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Volume 2: Trill and Bajor
New Star Trek Book: “Take the Fall”
Take the Fall by Tess Fowler has been added to the Star Trek Book Club!
Take the Fall is an autobiographical watercolor adventure deep into the psyche of anxious career comic book artist Tess Fowler Gutierrez after she discovers she has breast cancer and a high risk genetic mutation. What happens when you find yourself trapped in your body with blooming cancer tumors and ghosts from the past who want you dead? You make a comic about it.
“Late Star Trek: The Final Frontier in the Franchise Era” Review by Theunderline.substack.com
Theunderline.substack.com has added a new review for Adam Kotsko‘s “Late Star Trek: The Final Frontier in the Franchise Era”:
The story Adam Kotsko traces in Late Star Trek: The Final Frontier in the Franchise Era (out today from University of Minnesota Press) is a story of learning—on one side fans learning far too much, memorizing and systematizing every bit of in-universe detail doled out over decades until the entire edifice threatens to collapse under its own weight; and on the other side, the executives and producers who have learned far too little, who have never understood what Star Trek is, why people like it, and its natural limitations as mainstream fare, who have repeated the same mistakes over and over, mismanaging the franchise in ways as predictable as they are dispiriting.
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Preview of “Star Trek: Lore War #1”
Here’s a preview of Star Trek: Lore War #1 by Christopher Cantwell and Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing which is due to be released this Wednesday on April 2, 2025 at your local comic shop and digital retailers:
TrekLit Connection: Deep Space Spines
TrekLit Connections is a series of columns from authors, artists, fans, and publishers in which I give them space to tell you in their own words why they’re so deeply involved in TrekLit. My goal is be able to have at least one of these up a month and would love to hear from you if you’d like to talk about your own TrekLit Connections, find the FAQ page on how to contact!
This time we’re hearing from J.W. Eubanks, author of my personal favorite reading of the entire Star Trek chronology at Deep Space Spines. Every post is witty and has cutting insights into the best and the worst that Treklit has to offer. You can find him on Blue Sky!
Life has a functionally infinite number of branching paths. The culture(s) we’re surrounded by, the decisions we make, and our individual personality quirks can bring their formidable combined powers to bear on leading us down some very peculiar roads. Sometimes, you might even end up on one that makes you think it would be a good idea to critically assess every Pocket Books Star Trek novel ever written in the order in which they were published.
Deep Space Spines was the result of me winding up on that road, a swirling nebula borne of a few different qualities and happenstances. I’ve always enjoyed inexpensive collections with low barriers to entry, and mass market paperbacks fit that bill, especially if you know where to look. I also try to look for the obscurities in a given field, the parts that get ignored. I remember seeing a (possibly apocryphal) statistic that only 2 percent of Star Trek fans read the novels, and a lot of Memory Alpha and Beta articles contain only the barest skeletons of information, so I thought it’d be nice for there to be more than a stub available out there for as many of them as possible. Lastly, reconnecting with Star Trek when I did ended up providing a nice respite from the hopelessness the political figures in power at the time so sadistically reveled in making people feel.
The site’s most primordial origins trace back to 1993, when I was just nine years old. Trekkies tend to go back to near-infancy when ruminating on their fandom, which is probably slightly unnecessary in this case. I don’t think I have to breathlessly describe playing with the Playmates Next Generation action figures. But as far as connecting with the writing of Star Trek, the first relevant seed was planted when I got the Judgment Rites PC game for Christmas in 1993. The original series aired in syndication, but I was too put off by the Sixties aesthetic to give it a fair shake. Judgment Rites changed all that. Less than a year later, while browsing the shelves at Hastings (RIP to the GOAT), I bought my first Star Trek novel, Doctor’s Orders by Diane Duane. That one set a bar that few have since cleared. I read about nine or ten TOS novels throughout late elementary and middle school, then quietly dropped the habit. I didn’t revisit them again until 2015, when I wrote about Doctor’s Orders for a free WordPress blog that no longer exists. I planned the post to be part of a series, which I called The Spinal Frontier. I wish now that I had left the site up, or at the very least Waybacked it, because the post was very much an alpha version of the
ones that appear on Deep Space Spines today.
The idea of reviewing Star Trek novels started knocking around in my brain again a couple years later, when I worked overnights in the post-adjudication wing of a juvenile detention facility. The residents there had already been sentenced and were going through a program that would expunge their records upon successful completion. They went to bed an hour before my shift started and woke up an hour after it ended, and I only interacted with them if they had to pee. It was nice work if you could get it; I was basically a bathroom valet with CPR training. We had to peek into their rooms once every 15 minutes to make sure they weren’t covering their heads, but aside from that, we had the rest of the night to self-actualize however we wanted, as long as we were quiet.
I used the time to reread some beloved Trek books and try out some new ones, and realized I was really getting a kick out of it. At some point, I started reading in order from the beginning of my own volition. Then my birthday rolled around, and I decided to use the gift cash from that to buy a domain. My wife came up with the name Deep Space Spines, and since I had nothing better, I ran with it. (Rebranding would be disastrous at this point, but a few years ago, I came up with Attention Bajoran Readers, and I still kinda like it better.)
Eight years later, I’m still reviewing Star Trek novels, though not at the breakneck pace the graveyard shift once enabled. Teaching doesn’t quite afford the same amount of spare time. Still, I continue to find joy in discovering novel character pairings, watching authors find clever ways to link events across timelines that were never meant to be connected, and of course never ceasing to be surprised that there are other people who are also into this weird little niche of mine.
I’ve built a few disparate bodies of work on the internet over the decade. Deep Space Spines may be the least known and viewed among them, but it is the one I am the proudest of. Every new review shines that much more light on a little-known and -explored facet of the Trekverse. And although Star Trek is far from free of flaws and problematic elements, it nevertheless feels better to put one’s faith in it and be a part of its community than many other series. It could very well take me the rest of my life to get through all the Trek tales Pocket Books published from 1979 to the present, but I’ve yet to lose the thrill of exploring strange new literary worlds.
Happy 2025 Birthday to Doug Drexler!
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Happy birthday to Doug Drexler!
Artist Douglas “Doug” Drexler has been creating for, or contributing to, numerous Star Trek productions and publications, both official and unofficial, since the 1970s. Starting out in fandom, Drexler has proven to be one of the most versatile production staffers in the Star Trek franchise.
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“Star Trek Adventures – Second Edition – Technical Manual” Review by Thefandomentals.com
Thefandomentals.com has added a new review for ‘s “Star Trek Adventures – Second Edition – Technical Manual”:
This Technical Manual is essential reading for any casual Star Trek fan or tabletop roleplay gamer interested in learning more about the wondrous technologies, ships, and weapons available to Starfleet personnel as well as members of many other species inhabiting the Star Trek universe, including the Klingons, Romulans, and Orions. Players can use the contents of this book to learn more about the gear, weapons, and technologies of the Star Trek universe, and to enhance the Star Trek Adventures missions and campaigns they engage in with their friends—it’s time to gear up and go exploring!
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“Late Star Trek: The Final Frontier in the Franchise Era” Review by Kara.reviews
Kara.reviews has added a new review for Adam Kotsko‘s “Late Star Trek: The Final Frontier in the Franchise Era”:
Most of you probably know already: Star Trek is my first science-fiction love. Before Stargate, before Buffy, before even Supergirl, I grew up in the nineties watching the bright primary colours of TOS on a 13-inch CRT TV.
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“Star Trek: The Next Generation: 10 A Rock And A Hard Place” Review by Themindreels.com
Themindreels.com has added a new review for Peter David‘s “Star Trek: The Next Generation: 10 A Rock And A Hard Place”:
There’s a couple of minor things that stick in my craw about Peter David’s A Rock and a Hard Place, but none of them detract from my enjoyment of the book which actually reads, and feels a lot like n actual episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
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DTI Comic Book Investigation for the week of March 27, 2025
Here are all the comics printed this week in years past.
“Star Trek: Challenger: Gateways: 2 Chainmail” Review by Trek.fm
Trek.fm has added a new review for Diane Carey‘s “Star Trek: Challenger: Gateways: 2 Chainmail”:
In this episode of Literary Treks hosts Casey Pettitt and Jonathan Koan talk about the second book in the Gateways series, Chainmail. We discuss the Challenger, it being out there, character work, worldview differences, drawbacks, Riutta and her people, use of the gateway, timey-whimy, thematic link, by the end, a page from Kirk, our ratings and final thoughts.
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“Star Trek: Lower Decks #5” Review by Getyourcomicon.co.uk
Getyourcomicon.co.uk has added a new review for Ryan North‘s “Star Trek: Lower Decks #5”:
It’s time for a brand new arc to kick off in IDW’s brilliant Star Trek: Lower Decks ongoing series and boy is this one a doozy. Ryan North is cherrypicking from a lifetime of Trek knowledge to pull together what could be Lower Decks’ very own First Contact moment…
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Happy 2025 Birthday to K.W. Jeter!
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Happy birthday to K.W. Jeter!
Kevin Wayne Jeter is an American science fiction and horror author from California.
Jeter was born in Los Angeles. At California State University, he met science fiction author Philip K. Dick. The esteemed science fiction writer based a character on him – Kevin in Valis. In common with Dick, his style of writing is known for its dark themes, and paranoid and sometimes unsympathetic characters. He has also written several sequels to Bladerunner, which began life as Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?.
His book Dr. Adder is considered by some to be the first true Cyberpunk novel. He also coined the phrase “Steampunk”, which refers to retro-technology.
Jeter has also written tie-ins to the Star Wars franchise.
He has lived in Las Vegas, Nevada, but now lives in Ecuador with his wife.
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Out Today: “Star Trek: Defiant #25”
Out today: “Star Trek: Defiant #25“, by Christopher Cantwell.
Nymira Vondect is back from the dead, having survived the cataclysmic explosion on Starbase 99 with help from the universe’s seediest rogue, Berlinghoff Rasmussen. Now she and Berlinghoff are running elaborate scams together to take advantage of unsuspecting Berbians and make a quick buck. But something niggles at Nymira… Should she tell her old crew she’s still alive or keep living the life she thinks she deserves? Meanwhile, Captain B’Elanna Torres, Ro, and O’Brien combine forces with Section 31’s Captain Frears to take out the minefield in the Gamma Quadrant once and for all.
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“Star Trek #53” Review by Scottmpearson.wordpress.com
Scottmpearson.wordpress.com has added a new review for George Kashdan‘s “Star Trek #53”:
First, some housekeeping. Some of you may be thinking, “Hey, I’ve been following this blog for a while and have never heard of ‘My Epic Trek Comic Book Read,’ so how can it be on the 49th post?”
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“Star Trek #30” Review by Comicon.com
Comicon.com has added a new review for Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing‘s “Star Trek #30”:
Ahead of the upcoming ‘Lore War’ event, a final, very important piece, tackles a journey with ramifications for the entire future of the universe. A splendidly crafted tale that dances between previous continuity revelations in order to bring things almost full circle for the whole entire run.
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“Star Trek Adventures – Second Edition – Technical Manual” Review by Geekgirlauthority.com
Geekgirlauthority.com has added a new review for ‘s “Star Trek Adventures – Second Edition – Technical Manual”:
Are you looking to expand your Star Trek Adventures game to all-new heights? Then, you’ll want to consider the Star Trek Adventures 2E Technical Manual. This supplement is currently available for preorder, with immediate access to the PDF when you do so. Here’s what you can expect from the title when yours beams in.
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Out Today: “Late Star Trek: The Final Frontier in the Franchise Era”
Out today: “Late Star Trek: The Final Frontier in the Franchise Era“, by Adam Kotsko.
How Star Trek’s twenty-first-century reinventions illuminate the unique challenges and opportunities of franchise-style corporate storytelling
Late Star Trek explores the beloved science fiction franchise’s repeated attempts to reinvent itself after the end of its 1990s golden age. Beginning with the prequel series Enterprise, Adam Kotsko analyzes the wealth of content set within Star Trek’s sprawling continuity—including authorized books, the three J. J. Abrams “Kelvin Timeline” films, and the streaming series Discovery, Picard, Lower Decks, Prodigy, and Strange New Worlds—as well as fan discourse, to reflect on the perils and promise of the franchise as a unique form of storytelling.
Significantly including the licensed novels and comic books that fill out the Star Trek universe for its fans, Kotsko brings the multiple productions of the early twenty-first century together as a unified whole rather than analyzing them in their current stratified view. He argues that the variety of styles and approaches in this tumultuous era of Star Trek history provides the perfect opportunity to reflect on the nature of the franchise storyworlds that now dominate popular culture. By taking the spin-offs and tie-ins seriously as creative attempts to tell a new story within an established universe, Late Star Trek highlights creative triumphs as well as the tendency for franchise faithfulness to get in the way of creating engaging characters and ideas.
Arguing forcefully against the prevailing consensus that franchises are a sign of cultural decay, Kotsko contends that the Star Trek universe exemplifies an approach to storytelling that has been perennial across cultures. Instead, he finds that what limits creativity within franchises is not their reliance on the familiar but their status as modern myths held not as common cultural heritage but rather owned as corporate intellectual property.
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DTI Treklit Investigation for the week of March 25, 2025
Here’s a look at the books printed this week in the past.
“Star Trek: Insurrection” Review by Deepspacespines.com
Deepspacespines.com has added a new review for J.M. Dillard‘s “Star Trek: Insurrection”:
In today’s episode, a misguided admiral teams up with a mysterious partner to bring one planet’s Fountain of Youth to the rest of the Federation. But the scowling man with unnaturally stretch skin draped in robes and jewels seemed so trustworthy! Will there ever be another Search for Spock–level novelization? Does Picard have a crush on his dead mom? And shouldn’t Worf know more Earth references? All this and more in Star Trek: Insurrection, the film that un-grows the beard.
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“Star Trek #30” Review by Getyourcomicon.co.uk
Getyourcomicon.co.uk has added a new review for Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing‘s “Star Trek #30”:
This is fellow Starfleet Cadets. The final issue of Star Trek before the huge Lore War event kicks off in earnest. After two months tracking Benjamin Sisko across the history of Bajor we’re shifting focus this month. It’s now Kahless who surprisingly takes the spotlight setting up a confrontation which may just save the entire universe from certain doom.
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Preview of “Star Trek: Defiant #25”
Here’s a preview of Star Trek: Defiant #25 by Christopher Cantwell which is due to be released this Wednesday on March 26, 2025 at your local comic shop and digital retailers:
Last Chance: Star Trek Book Deals For March 2025
Here’s your last chance to grab this month’s ebook deals: 19 books on sale for $1.99 each:
Star Trek: 26 Pawns And Symbols
Star Trek: 27 Mindshadow
Star Trek: 8 Black Fire
Star Trek: A Singular Destiny
Star Trek: Captain’s Blood
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Millennium: 2 The War Of The Prophets
Star Trek: Discovery: The Way To The Stars
Star Trek: Enterprise: Last Full Measure
Star Trek: Imzadi Forever
Star Trek: New Frontier: 6 Fire on High
Star Trek: New Frontier: Missing In Action
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 9
Star Trek: Tales From The Captain’s Table
Star Trek: The Lost Era: 2311 Serpents Among The Ruins
Star Trek: The Next Generation: Armageddon’s Arrow
Star Trek: The Next Generation: Losing The Peace
Star Trek: Voyager: Gateways: 5 No Man’s Land
Star Trek: Voyager: Homecoming Book 1
Star Trek: Voyager: Mosaic
Happy 2025 Birthday to William Shatner!
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Happy birthday to William Shatner!
William Shatner, a Canadian-born American Emmy Award-winning actor, became most famous for portraying Captain James Tiberius Kirk of the starship Enterprise in all 79 aired episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series, 21 of the 22 episodes of Star Trek: The Animated Series, and the first seven Star Trek movies. He also directed and co-wrote the story for Star Trek V: The Final Frontier.
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Happy 2025 Birthday to Michael Westmore!
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Happy birthday to Michael Westmore!
Michael “Mike” George Westmore was the makeup designer, makeup artist, and makeup supervisor on all of the Star Trek spin-offs set in the prime universe, and created the majority of species that first appeared in Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Enterprise. He was also the makeup artist for the four Next Generation movies, Star Trek Generations, Star Trek: First Contact, Star Trek: Insurrection, and Star Trek Nemesis, as well as three Star Trek video games, Star Trek: Klingon, Star Trek: Borg and Star Trek: Starfleet Academy.
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Upcoming Server Move
I’m about to pull the trigger on consolidating various servers I have and the first up is this STBC site. In theory you won’t notice a thing, but there’s an opportunity for shenanigans, so here’s your heads up.
Happy 2025 Birthday to Pamela Sargent!
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Happy birthday to Pamela Sargent!
Pamela Sargent is an author who wrote a number of Star Trek novels with her writing partner, George Zebrowski.
Born in Ithaca, New York, Sargent attended Binghamton University. She has done some editorial work, particularly of anthologies of women’s SF. She has won a number of awards for her non-Trek work including Nebula, Locus, the Sidewise Award and Theodore Sturgeon award, as well as being a finalist for the Hugo, and being given a lifetime achievement Pilgrim Award. She also writes historical fiction, and her novel about Genghis Khan was particularly successful in Europe.
Her trilogy about the terraforming of Venus predates Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars trilogy, and has been cited as an influence on it.
She currently lives in Albany, New York, and sees herself as an atheist and a feminist.
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Happy 2025 Birthday to John De Lancie!
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Happy birthday to John De Lancie!
Jonathan “John” de Lancie, Jr. is an actor, director, producer, writer, voice artist, and comedian, best known for his portrayal of Q on Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and Star Trek: Voyager. He also portrayed the character in Star Trek: The Game Show and Star Trek: Borg. In addition, de Lancie co-wrote the novel I, Q with Peter David and has narrated audio adaptations of several novels, including Q-in-Law (with Majel Barrett Roddenberry) and Dark Mirror. His Borg costume from his latter video game appearance was sold off on the It’s A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay and was also worn by Michael Reilly Burke, Gary Hunter, and Tom Morga.
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DTI Comic Book Investigation for the week of March 20, 2025
Here are all the comics printed this week in years past.
Happy 2025 Birthday to Kevin G. Summers!
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Happy birthday to Kevin G. Summers!
Kevin G. Summers started as a Star Trek author by entering into the Strange New Worlds writing contests. He was published twice and then went on to write a short story for a Star Trek: Deep Space Nine anthology.
Summers grew up in northern Virginia, where his mother took him to lectures on literature at George Mason University, given by the likes of John Irving. He still lives in Virginia, with his wife and children.
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Happy 2025 Birthday to J.G. Hertzler!
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Happy birthday to J.G. Hertzler!
J.G. Hertzler is the actor who played the Klingon General Martok on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Jeffrey Lang’s Star Trek books include the top sellers Section 31: Abyss and Star Trek The Next Generation: Immortal Coil.
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DTI Treklit Investigation for the week of March 18, 2025
Here’s a look at the books printed this week in the past.
