DTI Comic Book Investigation for the week of May 29, 2025
Here are all the comics printed this week in years past.
“Star Trek: Red Shirts #1” Review by Aiptcomics.com
Aiptcomics.com has added a new review for Christopher Cantwell‘s “Star Trek: Red Shirts #1”:
Turns Starfleet’s most expendable crew members into complex, compelling protagonists in a dark and surprisingly emotional series.
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“Star Trek: Defiant #27” Review by Comicsonline.com
Comicsonline.com has added a new review for Christopher Cantwell‘s “Star Trek: Defiant #27”:
The Lore War continues! After the shocking reveal in Part 3, it’s hard to believe that things can get much worse for our favorite cosmic explorers…but leave it to this creative team to push our heroes to new limits. Star Trek: Defiant #27 (Lore War – Part 4) has arrived thanks to IDW Publishing, and you might want to get your hands on it as fast as possible.
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Out Today: “Star Trek: Lore War–Shaxs’ Worst Day #1”
Out today: “Star Trek: Lore War–Shaxs’ Worst Day #1“, by Derek Charm and Ryan North.
From the team who brought you the Ringo- and Eisner-nominated Shaxs’ Best Day comes a rip-roaring ride full of clever ship high jinks, nonstop badassery, and bombastic punches… because at the end of the day, let’s face it. It’s not Shaxs’ worst day. It’s fascism’s. Shaxs had his best day, but now that the universe has been rewritten by the mad android Lore, he’s about to have his worst. Starfleet has been distorted into a machinery of oppression antithetical to everything it once stood for, and Shaxs has been made into the one thing he despises most in the universe: a fascist. Now free of Lore’s hold over his mind, it’s up to Shaxs to revert everyone in Starfleet back to their old selves and save the cosmos!
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“Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Toward The Night” Review by Shastrix.com
Shastrix.com has added a new review for James Swallow‘s “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Toward The Night”:
It’s a classic planet-of-the-week story with plenty of character stuff, adventure, and the occasional British cultural reference which will go totally over the head of most American readers and therefore I find incredibly delightful.
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“Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Toward The Night” Review by Creators.spotify.com
Creators.spotify.com has added a new review for James Swallow‘s “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Toward The Night”:
Join Jodi on this week’s episode of The Clonestar Podcast for an exclusive interview with bestselling author James Swallow, as he discusses his brand-new Star Trek: Strange New Worlds novel, Toward the Night.Set during Pike’s tenure on the Enterprise, the story follows a haunting mystery that begins with subspace echoes from a lifeless world near the Klingon border. When Spock and Una discover signs of alien life—and a long-lost Federation ship—Pike, Ortegas, and the crew are drawn into a decades-old enigma that forces them to confront questions about who they are, and who they might become.James shares insights into crafting this suspenseful tale, writing for legacy characters like Spock and Pike, and the thrill of bringing Strange New Worlds to the page.
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Happy 2025 Birthday to Lawrence M. Krauss!
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Happy birthday to Lawrence M. Krauss!
Lawrence Maxwell Krauss is a professor of physics and astronomy, and Foundation Professor of the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University. He is also director of its Origins Project.
He’s the author of ten popular books, explaining scientific principles and physics for a general public, using, in the cases of the international bestseller The Physics of Star Trek, and Beyond Star Trek, examples from the live-action Star Trek franchise as illustrative back-drops for his treatises. Other popular works, Krauss has written include the award winning Atom, and Hiding in the Mirror: The Mysterious Allure of Extra Dimensions from Plato to String Theory and Beyond.
Krauss also appeared in a segment of How William Shatner Changed the World.
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Out Today: “Star Trek: Defiant, Volume 4: The Stars of Home”
Out today: “Star Trek: Defiant, Volume 4: The Stars of Home“, by Christopher Cantwell.
Connecting with the voyages of the ongoing Star Trek comic series, Defiant ventures into the dark side of the cosmos!
Original Star Trek: Defiant writer-artist duo Christopher Cantwell and Ángel Unzueta delve into the sci-fi horror genre in arc four of the fan-favorite series!
It’s the beginning of a new era for the disavowed, mercenary crew of the U.S.S. Defiant! Political corruption ensues as Sela and her father, General Revo, leverage the imprisoned Defiant crewmates to kidnap the Romulan praetor and chairman of Tal Shiar Intelligence to advance their sinister plot to take over Romulus…
This leaves Worf, B’Elanna, and Ro with two crewmates down, and a planet on the brink of Romulan invasion. Despite how hopeful the planet’s meager farming population is, what are three failed Starfleet officers and lowly resistance fighters to a heavily armed and technologically advanced Romulan strike team?
Collects issues #17–21 of the series.
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Preview of “Star Trek: Lore War–Shaxs’ Worst Day #1”
Here’s a preview of Star Trek: Lore War–Shaxs’ Worst Day #1 by Derek Charm and Ryan North which is due to be released this Wednesday on May 28, 2025 at your local comic shop and digital retailers:
New Star Trek Comic Books Announced To Preorder! May 2025 Edition
D’Vana Tendi has only just begun to dig herself out of the mountain of student loan debt she owes Ferengi swindlers, and already she’s feeling burnt out. Despite Freeman brokering her a deal, and the help of fellow Lower Deckers, the Ferengi’s demands are becoming more intense and overwhelming by the day. So, Tendi decides to put her Starfleet education to use… and work smarter, not harder.
After weathering the deaths of their crewmates, the Red Shirts who survived hurtling to Arkonia 89 in torpedo casings have rendezvoused with Lieutenant Cromarty in his underground base. Their mission: to bed down and wait for enemy spies to take the bait they’ve laid in a data disk at the base of a subspace antenna. But little do the Federation officers know, they aren’t the only ones looking for unsuspecting prey…
Last Chance! Star Trek Book Deals For May 2025
You have until June 1st to grab this month’s ebook deals, with 15 books on sale for $0.99 – $1.99 each:
Star Trek: 65 Windows On A Lost World
Star Trek: 81 Mudd In Your Eye
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: 18 Saratoga
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: 26 Rebels Book 3: The Liberated
Star Trek: Legacies: Book 2: Best Defense
Star Trek: Starfleet Corps of Engineers 12: Some Assembly Required
Star Trek: Starfleet Corps of Engineers 48: Creative Couplings Book 2
Star Trek: Starfleet Corps of Engineers 58: Honor
Star Trek: Starfleet Corps of Engineers 6: Cold Fusion
Star Trek: Starfleet Corps of Engineers 60: The Cleanup
Star Trek: Starfleet Corps of Engineers: Turn the Page
Star Trek: The Captain’s Table: Book 1: War Dragons
Star Trek: The Next Generation: 52 Double Helix Book 2: Vectors
Star Trek: The Next Generation: Slings and Arrows Book 4: That Sleep of Death
Star Trek: Vulcan’s Forge
“Star Trek: Defiant #27” Review by Aiptcomics.com
Aiptcomics.com has added a new review for Christopher Cantwell‘s “Star Trek: Defiant #27”:
It’s looking like this will be a Star Trek story to remember.
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“Star Trek: Red Shirts #1” Review by Comicbook.com
Comicbook.com has added a new review for Christopher Cantwell‘s “Star Trek: Red Shirts #1”:
Star Trek fans can get a look at what IDW Publishing has in store for new titles featuring the Red Shirts and Strange New Worlds. A new era of Star Trek publishing is about to gear up as we race towards Star Trek: Omega, an oversized one-shot serving as the denouement of the critically acclaimed Star Trek comic series and Star Trek: Defiant storylines. Two of the new limited series spinning out of Star Trek: Omega are Star Trek: Red Shirts and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – The Seeds of Destruction, launching in July and August, respectively. We have a first hand look at covers and interior art for both titles.
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“Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Toward The Night” Review by Positivelytrek.com
Positivelytrek.com has added a new review for James Swallow‘s “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Toward The Night”:
In this episode of Positively Trek , we finally have a new novel to talk about and an author to interview! Dan Gunther welcomes back Bruce Gibson to discuss the new novel Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Towards the Night . Joining us is the amazing author himself, James Swallow! We talk about the novel spoiler-free to begin with, but get into spoilers later as we discuss the plot of this time-twisting adventure.
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Happy 2025 Birthday to Kelli Fitzpatrick!
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Happy birthday to Kelli Fitzpatrick!
Kelli Fitzpatrick is an author, teacher, Trekkie, cosplayer, artist, geek, traveler, runner, and lover of all things literary.
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“Star Trek: Lower Decks #7” Review by Getyourcomicon.co.uk
Getyourcomicon.co.uk has added a new review for Tim Sheridan‘s “Star Trek: Lower Decks #7”:
Star Trek: Lower Decks is back in comic book stores today. Tim Sheridan takes over writing duties as the story shifts from our Lower Deckers to their captain. The shifting time period and location offers the book chance to explore the wider-Trek universe through the Lower Decks lens. But it does also raise the question of whether audiences are interested in seeing more from the series supporting cast?
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“Star Trek: Red Shirts #1” Review by Comicon.com
Comicon.com has added a new review for Christopher Cantwell‘s “Star Trek: Red Shirts #1”:
A limited series that centers on characters with half-lives that can be measured in minutes, is a challenge. Unfortunately this premiere issue doesn’t live up to its premise, largely because it’s difficult to connect with these security officers who may not live long enough to see the next issue.
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Happy 2025 Birthday to Carlos Garzón!
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Happy birthday to Carlos Garzón!
Carlos Garzónis a Colombian comic book artist, working with both pencils and inks. He began his career in the late 1960s with his character “El Dago”. By the mid-1970s, he had begun working for Marvel, DC, and Dark Horse Comics. He is best known for his work with both the Star Wars and Star Trek lines, doing covers, inks, and pencils across their various runs.
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“Star Trek #31” Review by Positivelytrek.com
Positivelytrek.com has added a new review for Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing‘s “Star Trek #31”:
In this episode of Positively Trek , hosts Dan and Brandi are continuing their coverage of the current Lore War event that has scrambled the galaxy in the on-going Star Trek and Star Trek: Defiant comic series. They discuss Star Trek: Defiant #26 and Star Trek #31, parts 2 and 3 of Lore War . We talk about the events of both issues, and share our thoughts as well as our predictions for the next part of the story!
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DTI Comic Book Investigation for the week of May 22, 2025
Here are all the comics printed this week in years past.
Out Today: “Star Trek: Defiant #27”
Out today: “Star Trek: Defiant #27“, by Christopher Cantwell.
Part four of “Lore War.” Sisko is approaching a moment of crisis: Lore is god of the universe, and the number of heroes operating outside his influence is dwindling with every encounter. Everywhere Sisko looks, he sees those he’s failed. Is he really the person meant to defeat Lore and restore his timeline? Just as he is about to set down the burden of leadership…he dreams of a familiar blue light…and remembers there is hope yet in the universe waiting for those with the courage to seek it out
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“Star Trek: Dark Victory” Review by Themindreels.com
Themindreels.com has added a new review for Garfield Reeves-Stevens and Judith Reeves-Stevens and William Shatner‘s “Star Trek: Dark Victory”:
Shatner continues his mirror universe trilogy, with Dark Victory. It seems not only has Captain James T. Kirk survived into the 24th century, so has his mirror universe counterpart, Emperor Tiberius. And they are on a collision course.
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“Star Trek: Lower Decks #7” Review by Comicsonline.com
Comicsonline.com has added a new review for Tim Sheridan‘s “Star Trek: Lower Decks #7”:
RED ALERT! How are we supposed to cope with the loss of Ryan North from Lower Decks?! He wrote every character perfectly! Only six issues in, and he’s wandering off to go write who knows what series for who knows what comic publisher? How are we expected to live like this?!
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New Star Trek Book: “Outside In Can Live With It”
Outside In Can Live With It by has been added to the Star Trek Book Club!
Put ten DS9 fans in a room, and you’ll wind up with eleven opinions, fourteen heated debates about the ethics of the Dominion War and somebody cosplaying Odo shapeshifting into Quark. That’s because DS9 fans are gloriously weird, uniquely different and sometimes entirely outlandish. And so is this book.
Celebrating over 30 years of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, OUTSIDE IN CAN LIVE WITH IT is a collection of 171 brand new reviews, one for every episode of DS9. Well, we say “reviews”, but we mean that loosely: within these pages, you’ll find game reviews, lesson plans, quizzes, fashion blogs, redacted articles, gossip columns, wine labels, exit interviews, parables and even a talk show. Not to mention insightful and thoughtful articles, examining DS9 from just about every aspect imaginable… and then some!
Provocative, engrossing, hilarious and utterly gonzo. This is OUTSIDE IN.
Featuring contributions from Derek Tyler Attico, Maggie Bandur, Diana Dru Botsford, Kelli Fitzpatrick, Talia Franks, David R. George III, Janet Hetherington, Susanne Lambdin, David A. McIntee, Jill Sherwin, and 161 more!
The book is currently scheduled to be published on January 1, 1970
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“Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Toward The Night” Review by Treknews.net
Treknews.net has added a new review for James Swallow‘s “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Toward The Night”:
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – Toward the Night sees Captain Pike and his crew stumble across a century-old mystery, one that involves an older Starfleet ship, time travel, Klingons, and a heroic figure from the past of one of the Enterprise’screw. Does this adventure do justice to the hit television show?
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“Star Trek: Lower Decks #7” Review by Aiptcomics.com
Aiptcomics.com has added a new review for Tim Sheridan‘s “Star Trek: Lower Decks #7”:
There’s nothing quite like a mother-daughter relationship….
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Preview of “Star Trek: Defiant #27”
Here’s a preview of Star Trek: Defiant #27 by Christopher Cantwell which is due to be released this Wednesday on May 21, 2025 at your local comic shop and digital retailers:
Happy 2025 Birthday to Diane Duane!
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Happy birthday to Diane Duane!
Diane Elizabeth Duane is the author of numerous Star Trek novels, including The Wounded Sky, Doctor’s Orders and Spock’s World (Pocket TOS), Dark Mirror and Intellivore (Pocket TNG), and the Rihannsu series – My Enemy, My Ally, The Romulan Way, Swordhunt, Honor Blade, and The Empty Chair. She also created a Romulan language for the Rihannsu novels.
Duane is the co-writer of TNG: “Where No One Has Gone Before”, which was loosely based on The Wounded Sky.
Trek comics she has written include “Double Blind, Part One” and “Double Blind, Part II”, “The Last Word”, and the Star Trek: The Next Generation – Ill Wind mini-series.
Diane Duane has worked with Star Trek in perhaps the most forms of anyone alive. Besides comics, novels and TV, she has adapted her own work for audio, has written for the Star Trek manga series by Tokyopop, has written short Trek fiction for anthologies, and plotted and wrote the first Star Trek computer game, Star Trek: The Kobayashi Alternative.
Duane has also written more than thirty non-Trek books; among these she is probably best known for the Young Wizards series, which is currently in its eighth volume. Other books include the “Feline Wizardry Sequence” and the Door… series. She makes a habit of including Star Trek references in her non-Trek books.
Born in New York City, Duane now lives in County Wicklow, Ireland with her husband Peter Morwood, who has collaborated with her on several books and also on some film and television projects.
A character in “Debt of Honor”, a comic from DC, was named for Diane Duane – a Diane Morwood was the third-in-command of the engineering section of the USS Farragut, and a colleague of Lieutenant James T. Kirk, in 2254.
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“Another Universe” Star Trek $10 Book Sale
Another Universe is having a $10 book sale, many of which I’ve been holding off buying for this very situation.
Click here for more information: anotheruniverse.co/search?page=1&q=star+trek+sale
“Star Trek: Lower Decks #7” Review by Youtube.com
Youtube.com has added a new review for Tim Sheridan‘s “Star Trek: Lower Decks #7”:
RED ALERT! How are we supposed to cope with the loss of Ryan North from Lower Decks?! He wrote every character perfectly! Only six issues in, and he’s wandering off to go write who knows what series for who knows what comic publisher? How are we expected to live like this?! Oh wait, now we have Tim Sheridan? Maybe this is a Q week…
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Star Trek Books Coming In The Next 30 Days, as of May 15th, 2025
Fiction
June 3, 2025
From its inception, Star Trek
has illustrated humanity and its allies and adversaries exploring the Galaxy with a wide variety of tools and technologies at their disposal. From tricorders to phasers, deflector dishes to replicators, all the key technological achievements of the future are detailed in this book. This Technical Manual is essential reading for any casual Star Trek fan or […]
July 1, 2025
This version of the U.S.S. Enterprise made its debut at the end of Star Trek: Discovery’s first season before going on to star in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds where it is commanded by Captain Pike. The ship is a reimagining of Matt Jefferies’ original design combined with elements of the motion picture version of […]
Comics
By: Christopher Cantwell
May 21, 2025
Part four of “Lore War.” Sisko is approaching a moment of crisis: Lore is god of the universe, and the number of heroes operating outside his influence is dwindling with every encounter. Everywhere Sisko looks, he sees those he’s failed. Is he really the person meant to defeat Lore and restore his timeline? Just as […]
By: Christopher Cantwell
May 27, 2025
Connecting with the voyages of the ongoing Star Trek comic series, Defiant ventures into the dark side of the cosmos! Original Star Trek: Defiant writer-artist duo Christopher Cantwell and Ángel Unzueta delve into the sci-fi horror genre in arc four of the fan-favorite series! It’s the beginning of a new era for the disavowed, mercenary […]
By: Derek Charm, Ryan North
May 28, 2025
From the team who brought you the Ringo- and Eisner-nominated Shaxs’ Best Day comes a rip-roaring ride full of clever ship high jinks, nonstop badassery, and bombastic punches… because at the end of the day, let’s face it. It’s not Shaxs’ worst day. It’s fascism’s. Shaxs had his best day, but now that the universe […]
By: Collin Kelly, Jackson Lanzing
June 4, 2025
Part five of “Lore War.” Armed with the knowledge of how to defeat Lore once and for all, Sisko and what’s left of his crew scatter to the four quadrants of space. Spock, Hugh, Alexander, and Paris each set out alone on a mission to save their remaining friends from Lore’s control, but none is […]
By: Tim Sheridan
June 11, 2025
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 […]
By: Christopher Cantwell
June 16, 2025
The start of an all-new heartrending Star Trek five-issue miniseries by writer Christopher Cantwell (Star Trek: Defiant) and artist Megan Levens (Star Trek), featuring Starfleet’s most intrepid and doomed crewmembers: red shirts. Now, finally, they get their own story.Led by an experienced officer embedded on the snow-ridden planet Arkonia 89, the crew of the U.S.S. […]
DTI Comic Book Investigation for the week of May 15, 2025
Here are all the comics printed this week in years past.
Out Today: “Star Trek: Lower Decks #7”
Out today: “Star Trek: Lower Decks #7“, by Tim Sheridan.
There’s nothing quite like a mother-daughter relationship. There’s also nothing quite like finding out your monolith of a captain used to be a carefree ensign who accidentally vanished her whole crew in an experiment gone wrong. Lucky for Beckett Mariner, she gets to soak up both experiences all on the same day as her mother, Captain Freeman, regales her with a throwback tale of how she was “just like you when she was young,” and “mistakes help us grow, blah, blah.” Meanwhile, all Mariner wants to know is how could Freeman let Pulaski get away with hair like that?
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New Star Trek Book: “The Modern Afterlives of Old Irish Travel Narratives: From Gulliver to Star Trek”
The Modern Afterlives of Old Irish Travel Narratives: From Gulliver to Star Trek by Natalia I Petrovskaia has been added to the Star Trek Book Club!
This book explores the reception of the medieval Irish tradition of fantastic journey tales in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, C.S. Lewis’s The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Umberto Eco’s Baudolino, and the science fiction television franchises Star Trek and Stargate. In doing so, the book opens the door to a new history of literary reception, using Old Irish genre categories to analyse post-medieval texts. It aims to show that there is a family of texts produced in the post-medieval period that are heirs of the medieval Irish literary tradition of fantastic voyage narratives and that using Old Irish genre categories to analyse post-medieval works can open up new perspectives in our understanding of these works.
The book is currently scheduled to be published on July 24, 2025
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Happy 2025 Birthday to David Mack!
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Happy birthday to David Mack!
David Mack is the award-winning and The New York Times bestselling author of 38 novels and numerous short works of science-fiction, fantasy, and adventure, including the Star Trek Destiny and Cold Equations trilogies.
Mack’s writing credits span television (for episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), film, and comic books. He also has worked as a consultant on the animated television series Star Trek: Lower Decks and Star Trek: Prodigy. In June 2022, the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers honored him as a Grandmaster with its Faust Award.
His most recent publications include Harm’s Way, a Star Trek: Vanguard / Star Trek: The Original Series crossover novel, several new works of original short fiction, and a new Star Trek: Picard novel titled Firewall.
Mack resides in New York City with his wife, Kara.
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Happy 2025 Birthday to Edward Gross!
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Happy birthday to Edward Gross!
Edward Gross is an author and journalist. Gross is the (co-)author of several unauthorized Star Trek reference books. His first Trek work was as a contributing free-lance writer for Starlog Press, the former O’Quinn Studios, for whom he started working from 1986 onward, submitting numerous articles. His articles were published in their Starlog magazine as well as the 1986-1988 publications Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home – The Official Movie Magazine and several issues of The Official Star Trek: The Next Generation Magazine.
For Starlog, Gross specialized in tracking down and interviewing the more peripheral contributors to the franchise, such as guest actors, directors, and writers, as well as lesser known production staffers, that were rarely, if at all referred to in other, later publications covering the franchise. Building upon the knowledge and experience garnered there he started writing his unlicensed reference books, most of them in cooperation with Mark A. Altman. In them he expanded upon the interviews he had done with said contributors, resulting in point of view works that were somewhat outside the more “political correct” ones utilized in the officially licensed works of, for example, Pocket Books. Interviewees, long outside the purview of official studio policies, often felt free to proffer a more critical view on the production of Star Trek and the studio policies surrounding them.
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Preview of “Star Trek: Lower Decks #7”
Here’s a preview of Star Trek: Lower Decks #7 by Tim Sheridan which is due to be released this Wednesday on May 14, 2025 at your local comic shop and digital retailers:
Happy 2025 Birthday to Ty Templeton!
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Happy birthday to Ty Templeton!
Ty Templeton is a comic book writer from Canada. His career began in the mid-1980s when he wrote and drew Stig’s Inferno for Vortex Comics. That led to further work with DC Comics on titles such as Justice League of America, Superman, and Batman. He then authored the How to Draw Batman and How to Draw Superman guidebooks. He is also known as the person who created the artwork for “Suicide Squid”.
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DTI Comic Book Investigation for the week of May 8, 2025
Here are all the comics printed this week in years past.
Happy 2025 Birthday to John J. Ordover!
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Happy birthday to John J. Ordover!
John J. Ordover is a former editor at Pocket Books, and for many years he was responsible for overseeing the company’s line of Star Trek books. He is partially responsible for the “rebirth” of Star Trek fiction in the 1990s, being the driving force behind series-bending concepts such as the Invasion! miniseries, the Eugenics Wars novels, and Star Trek: New Frontier, Trek’s first novel-only series. He also edited the first seven volumes of the Strange New Worlds anthologies.
In August of 2003, Ordover left Pocket books to start up a book packager (though he did continue to work on a few projects he had left at Pocket), but ended up a part-owner of Phobos Books where he holds the title of editor-in-chief. There, he was responsible for the development of the new Phobos Impact Science Fiction and Fantasy lines, presenting the forthcoming novels All Eve’s Hallows by Dean Wesley Smith (September, 2005) Dragon America by Mike Resnick (also September, 2005), Sword of Orion by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller (October, 2005), Blood and Roses by Ann Tonsor Zeddies (November, 2005), The Genesis Project by Dayton Ward (January, 2006) Luna City Special Investigations: Dead Man on the Moon by Stephen Harper (February, 2006) and Phobos Rising by L.A. Graf (March, 2006).
In 2000, Ordover won the Psi Phi Award for Lifetime Achievement. It was subsequently nicknamed “the Ordie” in his honor.
He runs the SoHo Gallery for Digital Art in Manhattan.
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DTI Comic Book Investigation for the week of May 1, 2025
Here are all the comics printed this week in years past.
Happy 2025 Birthday to Larry Niven!
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Happy birthday to Larry Niven!
Laurence van Cott Niven is an American science fiction writer who wrote the Animated Series episode “The Slaver Weapon” and co-authored the Star Trek comic strip story arc “The Wristwatch Plantation”. Niven is best known as the creator of the Known Space universe, for which he has written many novels and short stories. Ringworld is the most famous of these novels, winning the 1970 Hugo and Nebula Awards awards.
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Happy 2025 Birthday to Kate Mulgrew!
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Happy birthday to Kate Mulgrew!
Kate Mulgrew is an actress who is best known for playing Captain Kathryn Janeway on Star Trek: Voyager. Before stepping into the role of a Starfleet captain, her claim to fame was playing Mary Ryan on the ABC soap opera Ryan’s Hope. Since then, she has been part of the main cast in the Netflix series Orange Is the New Black, for which she received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series.
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“Star Trek: The Next Generation: 11 Gulliver’s Fugitives” Review by Shastrix.com
Shastrix.com has added a new review for Keith Sharee‘s “Star Trek: The Next Generation: 11 Gulliver’s Fugitives”:
The eleventh numbered Next Generation novel comes from 1990, and somehow has a feel of being science fiction from that era.
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Out Today: “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Toward The Night”
Out today: “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Toward The Night“, by James Swallow.
A 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 Chin-Riley lead a landing party to learn more, they discover the ruins of a dead civilization and evidence of starship-grade metals…quite possibly a crash site.
As they continue to investigate the strange signals, Spock and Una find shocking signs of dangerous alien life and remnants of what can only be Federation hardware. The trail soon leads Pike and Enterprise’s helmswoman Lieutenant Erica Ortegas deep into the mystery of a lost Starfleet vessel, missing in action for over ninety years—and to a terrible dilemma that will challenge the crew to question their past…and their future.
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Star Trek Book Deals For May 2025
This month’s ebook deals have landed with 15 books on sale for $0.99 – $1.99 each, books that have never been on sale are in bold:
This is a good news / bad news situation. Good news, half the books this month are 99 centa again! Bad news, they’re random stories in the highly serialized SCE series and one random book from the Slings and Arrows mini series.
Star Trek: 65 Windows On A Lost World
Star Trek: 81 Mudd In Your Eye
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: 18 Saratoga
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: 26 Rebels Book 3: The Liberated
Star Trek: Legacies: Book 2: Best Defense
Star Trek: Starfleet Corps of Engineers 12: Some Assembly Required
Star Trek: Starfleet Corps of Engineers 48: Creative Couplings Book 2
Star Trek: Starfleet Corps of Engineers 58: Honor
Star Trek: Starfleet Corps of Engineers 6: Cold Fusion
Star Trek: Starfleet Corps of Engineers 60: The Cleanup
Star Trek: Starfleet Corps of Engineers: Turn the Page
Star Trek: The Captain’s Table: Book 1: War Dragons
Star Trek: The Next Generation: 52 Double Helix Book 2: Vectors
Star Trek: The Next Generation: Slings and Arrows Book 4: That Sleep of Death
Star Trek: Vulcan’s Forge
Happy 2025 Birthday to Britta Burdett Dennison!
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Happy birthday to Britta Burdett Dennison!
With S.D. Perry, she wrote two of the three installments of the Star Trek: Terok Nor miniseries: Night of the Wolves and Dawn of the Eagles, Dennison’s first published works. In 2010, Dennison again collaborated with Perry on the Original Series novel, Inception, and also wrote “Freedom Angst” in Seven Deadly Sins.
Dennison currently lives in Portland, Oregon.
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New Star Trek Comic Books Announced To Preorder! April 2025 Edition (part 2)!
On a mission to collect gormangander excrement, the U.S.S. Cerritos is attacked by a Ferengi warship! The Ferengi are hot on the tail of a debt dodger who owes them a fortune-D’Vana Tendi. But as a member of Starfleet, Tendi has no way to earn the money to pay them back, and if she tells her family in the Orion Syndicate, they’ll simply murder her to clear the account. One thing is for certain: If Tendi can’t devise a way to clear her ledger, the Lower Deckers are going to find themselves in deep doo, regardless of whether they find any gormaganders.
The start of an all-new heartrending Star Trek five-issue miniseries by writer Christopher Cantwell (Star Trek: Defiant) and artist Megan Levens (Star Trek), featuring Starfleet’s most intrepid and doomed crewmembers: red shirts. Now, finally, they get their own story.Led by an experienced officer embedded on the snow-ridden planet Arkonia 89, the crew of the U.S.S. Warren has a small window in which to pin down spies seeking to steal classified secrets and keep Starfleet data out of their nefarious hands.
They face threats not only from their faceless enemies but from the brutalizing elements and wildlife of a planet far from home. The red shirts’ lives and Starfleet’s sanctity are on the line…and no one is safe.
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.
