New Star Trek Book: “Infinity #79”
Infinity #79 by Roger Crow (et al) has been added to the Star Trek Book Club!
26. The Search for Spock at 40: Four decades after it first wowed cinema-goers, we look back on Star Trek III’s production.
The magazine was published on November 28, 2024
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“Star Trek: Lower Decks #3” Review by Aiptcomics.com
Aiptcomics.com has added a new review for Ryan North‘s “Star Trek: Lower Decks #3”:
North and Lawrence deliver a thrilling dive into the depths of character and science.
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Out Today: “Star Trek: Lower Decks (2024) #3”
Out today: “Star Trek: Lower Decks #3“, by Ryan North.
The crew of the USS Cerritos have just received their personality guidance reports from the counselors of the planet Clarew, and Rutherford feels guilty he’s not engineering at a higher capacity with his implants. He should be operating above 134 percent nominal at least. The Cerritos’ next mission is a supply run to Tavela Minor, but they first need to stop by the Alecto system to get some supplies to, uh, supply them with. However, just before they warp, they see the Alecto system isn’t only missing; it doesn’t exist. Like at all. Now they have a space mystery at hand: What could cause a whole star system to disappear?
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Star Trek Books Coming In The Next 30 Days, as of January 14, 2025
IDW is the sole publisher for the next month, and while I love the work they’re doing and want more of it, I sure would love to see more full length Treklit.
Comics
By: Ryan North
January 15, 2025The crew of the USS Cerritos have just received their personality guidance reports from the counselors of the planet Clarew, and Rutherford feels guilty he’s not engineering at a higher capacity with his implants. He should be operating above 134 percent nominal at least. The Cerritos’ next mission is a supply run to Tavela Minor, […]
By: Collin Kelly, Jackson Lanzing
January 22, 2025Lore has destroyed the multiverse, and its fate now lies in Benjamin Sisko’s hands. But after the U.S.S. Theseus slingshots into the Celestial Temple, Sisko finds himself without his crew…or any technology…on a Bronze-age Bajor. The ancient Bajorans don’t know what to make of him: Is he a terrifying threat or the prophet they’ve been […]
By: Christopher Cantwell
January 29, 2025Alexander’s cha’DIch Worf has tasked him with a near-impossible task for his Errand of Valor: rescue the workers rebelling against a deuterium mega-power, Archanis Inter-Corporate. He must fight selflessly in the name of the helpless… even if it costs him his life. If that weren’t enough of a challenge, a face from Alexander’s bloody past […]
By: Ryan North
February 12, 2025Rutherford to bridge. We’re not dead! However, after escaping a vacuum collapse of the Alecto system, the U.S.S. Cerritos is lost inside a new space-time that’s expanding away from us in every direction at the speed of light. To make matters worse, an alien intelligence made of pure energy has possessed Tendi and my bodies, […]
Preview of “Star Trek: Lower Decks #3”
Here’s a preview of Star Trek: Lower Decks #3 by Ryan North which is due to be released this Wednesday on January 15, 2025 at your local comic shop and digital retailers:
Happy 2025 Birthday to Una McCormack!
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Happy birthday to Una McCormack!
Una McCormack is the British author of several Star Trek novels and stories.
She has also written a number of Doctor Who novels and short stories.
She lives and works in Cambridge, England, and has taught at the world-famous university there.
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Happy 2025 Birthday to John Jackson Miller!
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Happy birthday to John Jackson Miller!
John Jackson Miller is an American science-fiction author, comic book writer, and commentator, known for his work on the Star Wars franchise and his research into comic book circulation history, as presented in the Standard Catalog of Comic Books series.
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Fictional Autobiography Authors Unite Combat Hunger
Derek Tyler Attico, Una McCormack, and David A. Goodman are joining forces with moderator and fellow author Michael Dismuke for a Trek Talks panel on January 18 to benefit the Hollywood Food Coalition, an organization dedicated to providing “warm, nutritious meal(s) along with access to basic daily needs, such as clothing, backpacks, sleeping bags, and hygiene items, as well as assistance with housing placement”.
Happy 2025 Birthday to Boris Vallejo!
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Happy birthday to Boris Vallejo!
Vallejo works almost exclusively in the fantasy and erotica genres.[3] His hyper-representational paintings have appeared on the covers of numerous science fiction and fantasy paperbacks and are featured in a series of best-selling glossy calendars. Subjects of his paintings are typically sword and sorcery gods, monsters, and well-muscled male and female barbarians engaged in battle.
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Out Today: “Star Trek: Defiant #22”
Out today: “Star Trek: Defiant #22“, by Christopher Cantwell.
B’Elanna Torres is in the captain’s chair of the Defiant, and she has a choice to make: return home and report for duty as the mother Miral needs or continue saving the universe with her crew. With her disavowed status from Starfleet command and all that she’s been through—from bounty hunting to parasite infestations—B’Elanna isn’t sure she’s strong enough for either task. Luckily, O’Brien proposes a detour adventure to dismantle minefields in the Alpha Quadrant, and B’Elanna jumps at the chance to forestall a final decision…for now.
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Preview of “Star Trek: Defiant #22”
Here’s a preview of Star Trek: Defiant #22 by which is due to be released this Wednesday on January 8, 2025 at your local comic shop and digital retailers:
Happy 2025 Birthday to Robert E. Vardeman!
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Happy birthday to Robert E. Vardeman!
Robert Edward Vardeman (sometimes credited as Vardebob) is a fantasy, mystery and science fiction writer who has also written a couple of Star Trek novels.
Vardeman was born in Palo Pinto, Texas, but has lived much of his life in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He has degrees in physics and material sciences, and is the organizer of the Bubonicon, a science fiction convention in his home area.
He writes non-Trek material under at least eight pen names, notably Daniel Moran. He is prolific, having written over sixty novels.
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2024 Year in Review
We told you about 104 publications (really need to break this down by books/comics/magazines) that were published this year, and 372 reviews from these great sites:
strangehorizons.com
aiptcomics.com
akotsko.substack.com
blog.trekcore.com
borg.com
comicbook.com
comicsxf.com
lessaccurategrandmother.blogspot.com
trekcentral.net
trekmovie.com
treknews.net
warpfactortrek.com
www.dailystartreknews.com
www.msn.com
www.positivelytrek.com
www.shastrix.com
www.trek.fm
www.trekbbs.com
www.womenatwarp.com
In 2024 there were 845 posts, with 4 comments.
2024’s Top Commenters:
Michael Dismuke (1)
Alyson Buckman (1)
David Mack (1)
2024 In Memoriam:
RIP John G. Trimble
‘Star Trek: Voyager’ Co-Creator Jeri Taylor Has Passed Away
RIP David A. McIntee
Una McCormack on Positivelytrek.com discussing “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Asylum”
(Image by Umm10 )Una McCormack was recently featured on Positivelytrek.com to discuss Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Asylum:
In this episode of the Positively Trek Book Club, host Dan Gunther is joined by two co-hosts from the Infinite Diversity podcast: Chrissie De Clerck-Szilagyi and Thad Hait. Together, we have the honor of interviewing Dr. Una McCormack about her latest Trek novel: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Asylum!
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New Star Trek Book: “Tycho Shipyards: Volume One 2014-2024”
Tycho Shipyards: Volume One 2014-2024 by has been added to the Star Trek Book Club!
The book is currently scheduled to be published on April 1, 2024
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Star Trek Book Deals For January 2025
This month’s ebook deals have landed with 25 books on sale for $1.99 each, books that have never been on sale are in bold:
Happy New Year!
From Sawdust to Stardust: The Biography of DeForest Kelley, Star Trek’s Dr. McCoy
Making It So: A Memoir
Star Trek: 19 The Tears Of The Singers
Star Trek: 21 Uhura’s Song
Star Trek: 61 Sanctuary
Star Trek: 63 Shell Game
Star Trek: 82 Mind Meld
Star Trek: Coda, Book 3 – Oblivion’s Gate
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: 15 Objective Bajor
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: 6 Betrayal
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Mission Gamma Book 1: Twilight
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Rising Son
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Warpath
Star Trek: Destiny
Star Trek: Enterprise: The Good That Men Do
Star Trek: Klingon Empire: A Burning House
Star Trek: Mirror Universe: Obsidian Alliances
Star Trek: New Frontier: 5 Martyr
Star Trek: The Next Generation: 15 Fortune’s Light
Star Trek: The Next Generation: 3 A Time To Sow
Star Trek: The Next Generation: 7 A Time To Kill
Star Trek: The Next Generation: 9 A Time For War, A Time For Peace
Star Trek: The Original Series: The Janus Gate Book One of Three: Present Tense
Star Trek: The Original Series: The Shocks of Adversity
Star Trek: Voyager: Unworthy
“Star Trek: Titan: Fortune of War” Review by Lessaccurategrandmother.blogspot.com
Lessaccurategrandmother.blogspot.com has added a new review for ‘s “Star Trek: Titan: Fortune of War”:
this is the third Titan story in a row to sequelize a TNG episode (in this case, “The Survivors” from season 3). The original selling point of Titan was that it took a diverse group of characters into interesting new sfnal situations; Fortune of War, alas, does not really accomplish this. We have, on the one hand, a character focus mostly on Riker, Vale, and Titan’s new XO, Sarai, and an action-adventure plot.
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“Making of Star Trek” Review by Thoughtsfromthebridge.com
Thoughtsfromthebridge.com has added a new review for ‘s “Making of Star Trek”:
I could have pursued the easier more modern route by introducing Star Trek to my partner, Tori, beginning with TNG or current programs like Strange New Worlds or Discovery, as the look and storytelling methods are concurrent with today’s audiences. Yes, I’m aware that TNG was over thirty years ago, but it stubbornly holds up. Upon introduction, the original Star Trek series may seem dated, hokey, and a product of its time to those unfamiliar with the series. However, my short answer to defy conventional “wisdom” and start from its inception is simple: TOS has all the essential ingredients. Without those precious three seasons, we would have nothing. Besides, I took a gamble on the long view approach, being that over time one could have a deeper appreciation once made aware of ST‘s humble beginnings. The odds were not in the show’s favor as it was unlike any other television production.
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New Star Trek Book: “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Ring of Fire”
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Ring of Fire by has been added to the Star Trek Book Club! There’s no official cover yet, no blurb, and no real details, so keep an eye on the book page for updates!
The book is currently scheduled to be published on August 26, 2025
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Colour guides are great comics collectibles
These unique pieces of art are affordable and often tell stories about the creation process.
Happy 2024 Birthday to David A. McIntee!
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Happy birthday to David A. McIntee!
David A. McIntee is a Scottish author. He is fairly well known in the United Kingdom for writing a number of Doctor Who novels and audio episodes.
In 2000, he wrote Delta Quadrant, a Star Trek: Voyager episode guide, for Virgin Books. This unofficial release caused issues with Pocket Books editor John Ordover, who scrapped a Voyager novel McIntee had sold to the publisher after seeing an advert for the publication.
In 2007, McIntee wrote the story “On the Spot” in the Pocket Books Star Trek: The Next Generation short story collection, The Sky’s the Limit. His short story “Reservoir Ferengi” features in the 2010 anthology, Seven Deadly Sins.
McIntee’s first full-length Star Trek novel, Indistinguishable from Magic, was released in 2011.
He has also contributed to various magazines, including Star Trek Communicator and Star Trek Magazine.
Check out the David A. McIntee author page to view more author updates and a full list of books!
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Happy 2024 Birthday to Susan Shwartz!
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Happy birthday to Susan Shwartz!
Susan Shwartz is a novelist and short story writer. She and co-author Josepha Sherman have written several Star Trek books, mostly concerning Vulcans and their Romulan cousins.
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“Star Trek: New Frontier: 1 House of Cards” Review by Atboundarysedge.com
Atboundarysedge.com has added a new review for ‘s “Star Trek: New Frontier: 1 House of Cards”:
There are a lot of Star Trek novels out there. Something in the region of eight hundred, the last time I checked. Most of these books are in some way an expansion or continuation of the stories told on television. The Latter Fire, by James Swallow is a bridge between the original series and its animated successor. Avatar, by S. D. Perry continues the saga of Deep Space Nine. The Good That Men Do, by Andy Mangels & Michael A. Martin rewrites the final ever episode of Enterprise. Along the way there are crossover events aplenty, and side characters being given their own spin-offs.
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“Star Trek: 49 The Pandora Principle” Review by In this episode of Literary Treks hosts Casey Pettitt and Jonathan Koan talk about the TOS novel, The Pandora Principle. We discuss, development hell, get him out of the way, the first chapter, Saavik, a positive or negative, mystery boxes, what?, disjointed, our ratings and final thoughts.
In this episode of Literary Treks hosts Casey Pettitt and Jonathan Koan talk about the TOS novel, The Pandora Principle. We discuss, development hell, get him out of the way, the first chapter, Saavik, a positive or negative, mystery boxes, what?, disjointed, our ratings and final thoughts. has added a new review for ‘s “Star Trek: 49 The Pandora Principle”:
In this episode of Literary Treks hosts Casey Pettitt and Jonathan Koan talk about the TOS novel, The Pandora Principle. We discuss, development hell, get him out of the way, the first chapter, Saavik, a positive or negative, mystery boxes, what?, disjointed, our ratings and final thoughts.
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“Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Mission Gamma Book 1: Twilight” Review by Atboundarysedge.com
Atboundarysedge.com has added a new review for ‘s “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Mission Gamma Book 1: Twilight”:
The collection of novels generally referred to as the Deep Space Nine Relaunch marked a bold experiment for Trek literature. Here were novels that didn’t only flesh out an existing storyline, but actively continued it. The run from Avatar to Unity essentially created an eighth season of the show. Avatar was a traditional two-part opener, and Rising Son gave Jake Sisko a starring role, The opening stages of this eighth season were a little jumbled, however. Abyss was part of the loosely tied Section 31 series, while demons of Air and Darkness fell in the middle of the Gateways epic. It was only with the Mission Gamma series that DS9 properly took centre stage once again.
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New Star Trek Comic Books Announced To Preorder! December 2024 Edition
IDW January 2025 Catalog
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.
Suspicious after the Cerritos docks for its second baryon sweep in the same year, Mariner sneaks into a command meeting. There, the Department of Temporal Investigations tasks the crew with finding a time traveler who is rewriting Federation history at an alarming rate. Mariner finds her friends and tells them what’s really going on… only for the timeline to change around them! Obviously, something has gone wrong with Command’s mission, and per usual, it’s now up to Mariner, Tendi, Rutherford, and Boimler to save the day.
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.
“Book Authors”, “Narrators”, and “Cover Artist” have been removed as custom taxonomies on STBC
tl;dr: some of the links have changed and you won’t notice a thing. It took hundreds hours of work to make this happen though, so I’m here to toot my own horn and there’s still much work to be done.
It’s true! If you were to go to any of the old links for your favorite Treklit authors like Dayton Ward, David Mack, or Kelli Fitzpatrick, you’ll be automagically redirected to the new and improved “Credits” taxonomy, which is a fancy word for grouping or category. When I first started this site over a decade ago, my primary focus was just on the stories, so the only credit I cared about what the author. Then I started to add images for the books, which meant I started to be interested in cover artists, which for most part for the books were all a single person at a time like Keith Birdsong or Boris Vallejo. It was great that a book author and the cover artist were never the same person, so having different taxonomies for those positions was just fine.
Then I realized I should add the audio books, and it turns out that there’s a number of authors are also narrators. Shatner is a great example of this, he has narrated nearly never full length books that he wrote and I ended up with two different pages for his content, which was less than ideal. Adding social links, photos, and tracking which version of them I’m linking to, it was getting a little complicated but not horrendously so.
Then I started adding comic books and the situation became was more complicated with cover artists, interior artists, editors, authors, and nearly a dozen other possible credits to include and when I really thought it out, I realized that it’s going to be an incredibly complicated web of custom taxonomies if I were to create a new one for each new type of content creator, and nearly every interior artist of a comic book would also have a cover artist taxonomy and many of the authors were also editors or artists (John Byrne would have at least four different taxonomies!).
Then I made the decision to have magazines on the site and whew buddy if I thought having comics would make it complicated, credits for magazines are whole other ball of yarn. Fiction, non-fiction, interviewers, interviewees, and news posts were all going to be new taxonomies and people like Larry Nemecek would be in each of them.
The situation had an obvious solution, which is to move everyone over to a single taxonomy of “credits” then build a separate taxonomy of “roles” then tie the two of them together in a custom field on the book or the book cover for people that were doing specific credits for specific editions of the books, like narrators or cover variants for comics or magazines. It’s working out well that everyone on the main book page is just an author and can be treated like one if there’s no custom field, and for the most part everyone on the specific version of the book on the attachment page is a cover artist and can be assumed to be one of those if there’s no role custom field. I had to actually update all the audio books with the new role collections, so each of those will have examples of the news stuff. It looks exactly like the old stuff, just slightly different, you won’t notice a thing on the front end, but let me assure you, there are things happening in the background that are most impressive.
The work ahead of me is to manually go through each book that doesn’t have that field and get every credit I can. Easy enough to say here, but with the books, comics, and magazines, we’re talking about over 4,000 edits to be made, so it’s going to be slow going. I’m also going to need to figure out how to break out the roles on the author page and make sure that the various imports and conversions I did to make all this happen didn’t result in duplicate entries and if it did (spoilers, it did ) and I can remediate them (spoilers, I figured it out).
The not so great news is that with all those imports to be in a single taxonomy the “all authors” page ballooned to have a list of over 2,000 people on it, which was killing the server if more than 5 people hit it at the same time. Solution? Create a new “Credits” page to search for specific people. It also has a list of 51 random people to scratch my itch for having a list on that page.
If you’d like to help motivate me along, you can support me via Patreon. Right now all the people signed up for my other sites and I don’t have a single Trek fan supporting the site. Guess I’ll eat some worms while editing credits+roles.
Happy 2024 Birthday to George Zebrowski!
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Happy birthday to George Zebrowski!
George Zebrowski is a science fiction writer of over seventy short stories and forty books. He has authored a few Star Trek novels with his writing partner, Pamela Sargent.
He was born Jerzy Tadeus Zebrowski in Villach, Austria, of Polish descent and has lived in the USA since 1951. He continues to be interested in his Eastern European heritage, as evidence by his Beneath the Red Star: Studies on International Science Fiction, which collected his writings on SF behind the Iron Curtain.
He was part of the part of the earlier Clarion Science Fiction Writers’ Workshops. He has been nominated for the Theodore Sturgeon and Nebula awards, and won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award in 1999.
Check out the George Zebrowski author page to view more author updates and a full list of books!
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“Star Trek: Lower Decks – Warp Your Own Way” Review by Strangehorizons.com
Strangehorizons.com has added a new review for Ryan North‘s “Star Trek: Lower Decks – Warp Your Own Way”:
Welcome to this Choose Your Own Adventure-style review of Star Trek: Lower Decks—Warp Your Own Way. In this review, you will be able to control the topics under discussion and the extent to which they are discussed. There is an ongoing debate within the critical scene over how much a review should reveal about the work under discussion, and what constitutes “spoilers.” Where on that scale do you fall?
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Happy 2024 Birthday to Bobbi JG Weiss!
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Happy birthday to Bobbi JG Weiss!
Bobbi JG Weiss has been a full-time freelance writer for many years. She and her husband, writer David Cody Weiss, began their careers focusing on Hollywood tie-in merchandise like games and MMOs for Disney, movie/TV show novels, comic books and graphic novels, and many other products. After 20+ years of this, the “WeissGuys” decided to enter the wild world of self-publishing.
You can find more information about Bobbi and her books at BobbiJGWeiss.com.
Bobbi and David run an online service called WeissWriters Edits, Critiques and Reviews which provides editing, critiquing and book reviews at WeissWritersECR.com
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Happy 2024 Birthday to Rick Berman!
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Happy birthday to Rick Berman!
Richard Keith Berman is a veteran writer and producer of American television. He was the executive producer of Star Trek: The Next Generation (1991-1994) and co-creator of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager and Enterprise. He also produced and co-wrote four Star Trek films.
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Happy 2024 Birthday to Nicholas Meyer!
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Happy birthday to Nicholas Meyer!
Nicholas Meyer directed Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. He wrote the screenplays for Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home and Star Trek VI. Though never credited for his efforts, Meyer rewrote much of the screenplay for The Wrath of Khan by combining several elements from earlier drafts. He is also largely responsible for the nautical influence that pervades The Wrath of Khan and its sequels, from the military essence of the red-jacket uniforms to the more heated and dramatic character of the battle sequences.
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Happy 2024 Birthday to Tony Isabella!
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Happy birthday to Tony Isabella!
Tony Isabella is a comic book and novel writer. He has worked on two Star Trek publications, both with Bob Ingersoll, who is also from Ohio. In addition to his Star Trek works, he is credited with the creation of the DC Comics characters “Black Goliath” and “Black Lightning”. He also worked for Marvel Comics, writing titles such as Captain America, Ghost Rider, and The Champions.
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“Star Trek: Lower Decks #2” Review by Aiptcomics.com
Aiptcomics.com has added a new review for Ryan North‘s “Star Trek: Lower Decks #2”:
‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ continues to delight with its mix of zany humor, deep-cut Star Trek references, and vibrant visuals.
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Out Today: “Star Trek: Lower Decks (2024) #2”
Out today: “Star Trek: Lower Decks #2“, by Ryan North.
Mariner, T’Lyn, Rutherford, and Tendi have beamed off the mysterious U.S.S. Bonaventure and onto an equally mysterious surface of an unknown world, significantly raising the statistical likelihood of death and injury! Finally, the crew is up to their necks in adventure. There’s the senior staff’s safety to confirm, a weird planet to escape, and an alien race that wishes to learn more about mentorship…through a battle royale! Enter Jadzia Dax, Montgomery Scott, Kathyrn Janeway, T’Pol, and Jean-Luc Picard as the mentors and the Lower Deckers as the mentees. May the best student live.
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Out Today: “Star Trek #27”
Out today: “Star Trek #27“, by Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing.
Lore’s destruction has consumed everything in the universe except the U.S.S. Theseus and the Celestial Temple. In one last maneuver, the crew uses every ounce of power left in their main systems to shoot their ship across the galaxy to the temple. While their ship flies, the crew has a Louisiana-style supper and heal wounds between them before they must say their final goodbyes, for Benjamin Sisko is of Bajor, and he must return home if Lore is to be stopped.
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New Star Trek Book: “Star Trek III: The Search for Spock – The Making of the Classic Film”
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock – The Making of the Classic Film by John Tenuto and Maria Jose Tenuto has been added to the Star Trek Book Club!
Over 40 years ago, in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, Admiral Kirk and his crew embarked on a perilous mission to retrieve Spock’s body and reunite his soul with his physical form, defying Starfleet orders and facing off against Klingon enemies to save their friend.
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock – The Making of the Classic Film delves into the untold stories behind the making of one of the most pivotal films in the Star Trek saga. From the pressures of continuing the iconic story after The Wrath of Khan to Leonard Nimoy stepping into the director’s chair, this book explores the creative challenges, technical innovations, and behind-the-scenes drama that shaped the film. Featuring interviews with cast, crew, and production staff, it uncovers the intricate world-building, the special effects that brought Klingon battles and the Genesis Planet to life, and the emotional weight of Spock’s resurrection.
Featuring a foreword from Robin Curtis, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock – The Making of the Classic Film is a must-read for Trek fans and film enthusiasts alike, celebrating the legacy of a film that solidified the franchise’s place in pop culture history.
The book is currently scheduled to be published on September 2, 2025 by Titan Books.
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Happy 2024 Birthday to J.M. Dillard!
(J.M. Dillard aka Jeanne Kalogridis – Aug 1989 – Star Trek Convention – Tampa, Florida Photo by Alan C. Teeple)
Happy birthday to J.M. Dillard!
Jeanne M. Dillard is a pseudonym for Jeanne Kalogridis. She is an author who has written many Star Trek books as “J. M. Dillard”. She is notable for writing the novelizations for six of the first ten Star Trek feature films. She has also published other fictional works under her real name , mainly her series about vampires.
She is originally from Winter Haven, Florida, and has degrees in Russian and Linguistics. She lived in Washington, D.C. for a while, but now lives in the western USA. She lists her interests as “yoga, Buddhism, quilting, dog training and reading everything ever published.”
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“Star Trek: Picard: Firewall” Review by Theforgottenfiction.com
Theforgottenfiction.com has added a new review for David Mack‘s “Star Trek: Picard: Firewall”:
David Mack’s Star Trek: Picard – Firewall 5-Star Book Review gives a Spoiler-Free account of the new prequel in the Star Trek: Picard Series, and TFF is also simultaneously publishing an Author Interview here for the first time, as David Mack was kind enough to take the time to speak with R.J. Huneke about this brilliant novel.
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Preview of “Star Trek #27”
Here’s a preview of Star Trek #27 by Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing which is due to be released this Wednesday on December 18, 2024 at your local comic shop and digital retailers:
Preview of “Star Trek: Lower Decks #2”
Here’s a preview of Star Trek: Lower Decks #2 by Ryan North which is due to be released this Wednesday on December 18, 2024 at your local comic shop and digital retailers:
“Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Asylum” Review by Lessaccurategrandmother.blogspot.com
Lessaccurategrandmother.blogspot.com has added a new review for Una McCormack‘s “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Asylum”:
Strange New Worlds is by far my favorite of the Paramount+-era Star Trek shows, and Una McCormack is by far my favorite of the current stable of Star Trek novelists. Put these two together, and let’s say that I was predisposed to like this book.
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“Star Trek Explorer: A Year to the Day That I Saw Myself Die and Other Stories” Review by Trekmovie.com
Trekmovie.com has added a new review for Chris Dows and Chris McAuley and David Mack and Greg Cox and Jake Black and Keith R.A. DeCandido and Michael Dismuke and Mike Collins and Peter Holmstrom and Rich Handley and Una McCormack and Walter Koenig‘s “Star Trek Explorer: A Year to the Day That I Saw Myself Die and Other Stories”:
The impending demise of Star Trek Explorer Magazine is sad for a number of reasons, one of which is the closing of a forum for regular publication of Star Trek short stories. Fortunately, Titan Magazines has been dutiful in collecting these short stories and presenting them in an attractive, lavishly-illustrated format for Trek fans to enjoy. “A Year to the Day that I Saw Myself Die” and Other Stories is the latest collection, and is available now for purchase.
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“Star Trek: The Next Generation: Vendetta” Review by Akotsko.substack.com
Akotsko.substack.com has added a new review for Peter David‘s “Star Trek: The Next Generation: Vendetta”:
When people discuss the classic Star Trek novels, the focus is usually on The Original Series tie-ins from the late 70s and early 80s. Those were the days when giants walked the earth, when writers like Diane Duane and John M. Ford were redefining the basic parameters of the franchise in ambitious novels that have kept attracting readers even after their ideas were “overwritten” by later canonical broadcast material. By contrast, there are relatively few legendary individual titles for Next Generation.
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Out Today: “Star Trek: Defiant, Vol. 3: Hell Is Only A Word”
Out today: “Star Trek: Defiant, Vol. 3: Hell Is Only A Word“, by Christopher Cantwell.
Connecting with the voyages of the ongoing Star Trek comic series, Vol. 3 ventures into the sci-fi horror genre in the third arc!
Eager to move past the unofficial bounty-hunting mission assigned to them by Starfleet, disgraced former ambassador and Starfleet legend Worf and his rogue crew make way for Starbase 99, a run-down remnant of the Dominion War, to complete their fugitive drop-off. The clandestine assignment has left them disillusioned with Starfleet and with one another, but a surprise awaits the Defiant crew, threatening to tear them apart even further—literally.
Written by Christopher Cantwell (Hellcat, Star Wars: Obi-Wan), drawn by Ángel Unzueta (Iron Man, Star Wars: Poe Dameron), and colored by Marissa Louise (Defiant, Black Manta) with letters by Clayton Cowles (Batman, Daredevil).
This volume collects issues #12–16.
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Out Today: “Star Trek Explorer: A Year to the Day That I Saw Myself Die and Other Stories”
Out today: “Star Trek Explorer: A Year to the Day That I Saw Myself Die and Other Stories“, by Chris Dows and Chris McAuley and David Mack and Greg Cox and Jake Black and Keith R.A. DeCandido and Michael Dismuke and Mike Collins and Peter Holmstrom and Rich Handley and Una McCormack and Walter Koenig.
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“Star Trek: Picard: Second Self” Review by Selimpensfiction.com
Selimpensfiction.com has added a new review for Una McCormack‘s “Star Trek: Picard: Second Self”:
I knew a guy who, before purchasing a book, read the last couple of pages. Why would you do that? I asked him. Wouldn’t that spoil the whole thing? Because, he said, why would I read a book if I don’t like the ending?
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“Star Trek: New Frontier: The Captain’s Table Book 5: New Frontier: Once Burned” Review by Deepspacespines.com
Deepspacespines.com has added a new review for Peter David‘s “Star Trek: New Frontier: The Captain’s Table Book 5: New Frontier: Once Burned”:
In today’s episode, Mackenzie Calhoun’s new captain gets rave reviews from everyone who serves under him. But when a couple of the captain’s relatives get delivered back to the ship extra well-done, Calhoun learns it’s the nice ones you have to watch out for. Is a nice guy who facilitates the destruction of an entire civilization actually nice? Does Starfleet need a touch of Chigurh? And did Calhoun cheat at the Captain’s Table? All this and more in Once Burned, the book that needs Robin Williams to tell him “It’s not your fault.”
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New Star Trek Book: “Late Star Trek: The Final Frontier in the Franchise Era”
Late Star Trek: The Final Frontier in the Franchise Era by Adam Kotsko has been added to the Star Trek Book Club!
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.
The book is currently scheduled to be published on March 25, 2025
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Happy 2024 Birthday to Greg Cox!
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Happy birthday to Greg Cox!
Greg Cox is an American writer of science fiction, including works that are media tie-ins. He lives in Oxford, Pennsylvania.
He has written numerous Star Trek novels, including The Eugenics Wars (Volume One and Two), The Q Continuum, Assignment: Eternity, and The Black Shore. His short fiction can be found in such anthologies as Star Trek: Tales of the Dominion War, Star Trek: The Amazing Stories and Star Trek: Enterprise logs. His first “Khan” novel, The Eugenics Wars: Volume One, was voted best sci-fi book of the year by the readers of Dreamwatch magazine. Cox can be found in a bonus feature on the “Director’s Edition” DVD of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
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Combined cover test
This is a test to see if I can figure out how to grab covers that are all part of a combined art layout and make it look like it should on this here site.
Boy howdy!
This test is with Jake Bartok’s fantastic covers:
And here’s the stained glass covers from J.J. Lendl:
And here’s David Deitrick’s covers for Wrath of Khan:
Star Trek: Countdown had a fun combo that was later repeated in photo form, then repeated again a few months later for Star Trek: Nero, then 2013’s Star Trek: Countdown To Darkness:
Star Trek (2011) #49 and 50:
Star Trek (2011) #1 had a fun series of photo covers:
Did I miss any?
Out Today: “Star Trek Explorer #14”
Out today: “Star Trek Explorer #14“, by .
It’s the final issue, but we’re going out with a bang!
GOD AND SUPERBEINGS –
Delving into the worlds of Star Trek’s most powerful species!
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS –
With John de Lancie, Denise Crosby, and the one and only William Shatner!
STAR TREK EXPLORER TAKES A BOW –
We take a look back of at 30 years of the magazine at Titan Magazines, celebrating its coverage of the franchise and sharing some favourite memories from editors past and present!
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Thanks to this months Patreons!
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Star Trek Book Deals For December 2024
This month’s ebook deals have landed with 12 books on sale for $1.99 each, books that have never been on sale are in bold:
Star Trek: 13 The Wounded Sky
Star Trek: 23 Ishmael
Star Trek: 25 Dwellers In The Crucible
Star Trek: 80 The Joy Machine
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Ascendance
Star Trek: Section 31: Control
Star Trek: Strangers From The Sky
Star Trek: The Next Generation: 13 The Eyes Of The Beholders
Star Trek: The Next Generation: 36 Into The Nebula
Star Trek: The Next Generation: 39 Rogue Saucer
Star Trek: The Next Generation: 7 Masks
Star Trek: The Original Series: Savage Trade
“Star Trek: The Next Generation: Triangle: Imzadi II” Review by Deepspacespines.com
Deepspacespines.com has added a new review for Peter David‘s “Star Trek: The Next Generation: Triangle: Imzadi II”:
In today’s episode, the moment Riker decides to stand up for his love is the same moment Worf takes a knee. But the love he hopes to proclaim might not be so undying when some old adversaries roll up to Betazed at the same time. How many of the padds that cross Picard’s desk are time cards? Can Deanna sense Data’s chip emotions? And is it really fair to compare this book to the first Imzadi? All this and more in Triangle: Imzadi II, the book that’s really more of a square, if you think about it.
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Happy 2024 Birthday to Andy Mangels!
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Happy birthday to Andy Mangels!
Andy Mangels is a writer of many Star Trek novels, in collaboration with Michael A. Martin. Although some of his novels feature the recurring homosexual character of Ranul Keru (ex-lover of Star Trek: First Contact’s Lt. Hawk), contrary to some claims, he is not the first Trek writer to place a homosexual character in a novel (see The Best and the Brightest by Susan Wright for a minor character, and the Star Trek: SCE series of eBooks). Keru is the first significantly-featured homosexual character in paper novels, however, and Mangels (an openly gay man) and Martin have consistently featured characters of a diverse sexuality, as well as diverse ethnicities, religious backgrounds, and physical abilities, in all of their works.
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“Star Trek: The Original Series: Living Memory” Review by Treknews.net
Treknews.net has added a new review for Christopher L. Bennett‘s “Star Trek: The Original Series: Living Memory”:
Let’s cut to the chase: If you want to read one of the best Star Trek: The Original Series-era novels, then Christopher L. Bennet‘s Living Memory is for you. We were surprised at how much we enjoyed this delicately crafted science-fiction tale, in no small part because the story centers on Nyota Uhura, one of Star Trek’s most underutilized characters who is nonetheless ripe for discovery.
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“Star Trek Discovery: The Art of Glenn Hetrick’s Alchemy Studios” Review by Treknews.net
Treknews.net has added a new review for Joe Nazzaro‘s “Star Trek Discovery: The Art of Glenn Hetrick’s Alchemy Studios”:
If you enjoy learning about the behind-the-scenes process of making Star Trek, there’s been a bit of a buffet for you recently. From The Art of Neville Page to the Art of John Eaves to The Artistry of Dan Curry and The Wrath of Khan: The Making of the Classic Film, there’s never been a better time to appreciate the countless hours spent bringing Star Trek to life.
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Last Chance! Star Trek Book Deals For November 2024
Here’s your last chance to grab this month’s ebook deals! 7 books on sale for $0.99 – $1.99 each, this sale ends December 1st!
Get your cloak and dagger ready, it’s time to read some stories of Section 31!
Star Trek: 15 Corona
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Section 31: Abyss
Star Trek: Section 31: Cloak
Star Trek: Section 31: Disavowed
Star Trek: The Next Generation: Section 31: Rogue
Star Trek: The Original Series: Seasons of Light and Darkness
Star Trek: Voyager: Section 31: Shadow
Happy 2024 Birthday to Melinda Snodgrass!
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Happy birthday to Melinda Snodgrass!
Melinda M. Snodgrass is a writer who worked on several stories and teleplays for Star Trek: The Next Generation. She was also a story editor for The Next Generation during the second season and an executive script consultant on the third season. Her script for “The Measure Of A Man” was unsolicited, the first such script to be produced for The Next Generation. It was also one of the first scripts that she ever wrote. (Peter Lauritson, TNG Season 2 DVD special feature “Departmental Briefing Year Two: Memorable Mission – The Measure Of A Man”)
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Out Today: “Star Trek: Defiant #21”
Out today: “Star Trek: Defiant #21“, by Christopher Cantwell.
Spock and Sela are trapped in the belly of the Romulan warbird Taredrix and General Revo’s coup. The three of them are the only living souls who know of the impending Romulan supernova. With Revo offering Sela the choice between death or a seat at the head of the empire itself, Spock will learn the answer to the question of what drives the universe ever forward: sheer willpower or blood?Meanwhile, it’s up to Worf, B’Elanna, and Ro to save the pastoral planet Antara from the hostile Romulans seeking to take it as their own.
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“Star Trek: Open a Channel: A Woman’s Trek” Review by Trekclivos79.blogspot.com
Trekclivos79.blogspot.com has added a new review for Nana Visitor‘s “Star Trek: Open a Channel: A Woman’s Trek”:
Perhaps hugely masculine but I thought this was a book about the characters and their appearances in the franchise. I was very wrong and should be scolded for such an unusually closed opinion. Open a Channel is likely to be seen as one of the most ground-breaking books in Star Trek literary history and rightly so. Encompassing every generation from The Cage right up to Strange New Worlds, Nana Visitor has taken an incredible deep dive into the very foundations of not just the Star Trek franchise but the fabric of Hollywood across the last 60 years.
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“Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Asylum” Review by Trekmovie.com
Trekmovie.com has added a new review for Una McCormack‘s “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Asylum”:
Little has been said in canon about the Starfleet Academy careers of Una Chin-Riley (a.k.a. “Number One,” a.k.a. “Numero Una” “Don’t call her that. No one called her that.”) and Captain Christopher Pike. In the Strange New Worlds episode “Ad Astra per Aspera” we learn that Una’s admission to the Academy was sponsored by Captain Robert April, and that she first met Christopher Pike when she challenged his facts following an inspiring speech he gave at the Academy. We also know (from “Lost in Translation”) that one of her Academy instructors was Pelia, who gave her a “well-deserved” C on her final paper for Starship Maintenance 307. We also know that by the time she was at the Academy, Una had already been long accustomed to hiding her background as an Illyrian, lying to April, Pike, and all of Starfleet, out of fear of being arrested and drummed out of the Fleet for violating the Federation’s laws against genetic modifications.
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“Star Trek #26” Review by Aiptcomics.com
Aiptcomics.com has added a new review for Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing‘s “Star Trek #26”:
Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly’s run on Star Trek is unique in the way that it’s touched on nearly every era of Star Trek lore. It brought back Benjamin Sisko after the events of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, brought in characters from Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Voyager, and even newer shows like Picard and Lower Decks. But Star Trek #26 tops them all by warping the U.S.S. Thesus to the Kelvin Timeline…aka where J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek takes place.
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“Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Asylum” Review by Shastrix.com
Shastrix.com has added a new review for Una McCormack‘s “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Asylum”:
Una McCormack arrives as a Strange New Worlds author in this poignant and entertaining novel set in both season two of the show and as a prequel, giving us backstory about the first meeting of Pike and Chin-Riley.
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