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.
STBC’s New Logo!
The STBC has a new logo, one that’s intellectually distinct from anything that’s owned by CBS in the hopes and honest effort to not get a phone call from anyone on their legal team.
I’m going to make stickers! And bookmarks! And wallpaper! Woo!
Happy 2025 Birthday to Rick Barba!
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Happy birthday to Rick Barba!
Rick Barba is an author who wrote The Delta Anomaly, the first of a new Starfleet Academy series, and the first original Star Trek: The Original Series book set within the alternate reality of the movie Star Trek.
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“Star Trek: Lower Decks #5” Review by Aiptcomics.com
Aiptcomics.com has added a new review for Ryan North‘s “Star Trek: Lower Decks #5”:
At this point, it’s fairly easy to point to this series as the quintessential ultimate Star Trek fan series.
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Happy 2025 Birthday to Judith Reeves-Stevens!
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Happy birthday to Judith Reeves-Stevens!
Judith Evelyn Reeves-Stevens, together with her husband Garfield Reeves-Stevens, is one of Star Trek’s best-selling original book writers. Together, the Reeves-Stevens’ 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.
She, along with her husband, officially joined the production staff of an actual Star Trek production, Enterprise’s fourth season, at the insistence of producers Manny Coto and Michael Sussman, who needed writers imbued with a deep sense of original Star Trek lore to repair the perceived shortcomings original producers Rick Berman and Brannon Braga had left. By the time the series concluded its third season, it arguably had become the most controversial of the television series, subject to inspired and vehement criticism of fans – and, as it turned out after-the-fact, by production staffers as well – for its perceived violations in established continuity. With both producers held responsible for the quick loss of viewer-ship, Paramount and UPN indicated its cancellation and the apparent end of Berman’s tenure as the overseer of Star Trek productions with the approach of the end of the third season. Though remaining credited, Berman and Braga were indeed essentially relegated to the role of figurehead by the franchise at the end of the third season, and their places were de facto filled for the last season by Coto and Sussman, under whose tenure much of the perceived continuity violations was redressed, aided by writers such as Judith and her husband, who, like them, had an equally thorough understanding of Star Trek lore. While the writer’s couple contributed to a season that, as a whole, was generally well received, it did not save the series, as its cancellation had already been decided upon.
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Happy 2025 Birthday to S.D. Perry!
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Happy birthday to S.D. Perry!
Stephani Danielle Perry is the author of many Star Trek novels and short stories.
S.D. Perry was born in the early 1970s and began to write media tie ins and novelizations in the mid-1990s. Her favorite Star Trek series is the original series, with her favorite characters being “The Big Three” – Kirk, Spock and McCoy.
She began to watch Star Trek: Deep Space Nine during its fourth season. Several characters from DS9 are her favorite Star Trek characters, including Elim Garak, Quark and Weyoun. One of the reasons she likes Spock is for his “pure animal magnetism”.
Perry saw an early copy of Andrew Robinson’s novel A Stitch in Time, which focused on Garak. Perry described it as “total genius, seriously, and no ghost writer. He adds new dimension to a very unusual character”
Perry has also written several Xena: Warrior Princess, Aliens and Resident Evil novels.
She currently lives in Portland, Oregon, and is married.
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“Star Trek Adventures – Second Edition – Technical Manual” Review by Trekcentral.net
Trekcentral.net has added a new review for ‘s “Star Trek Adventures – Second Edition – Technical Manual”:
I must admit that I was surprised to get a message earlier this month inviting me to review a new Star Trek Adventures Technical Manual 2E! So you don’t have the same rollercoaster of emotions that I had, I’ll preface this review by clarifying that this is a technical manual from Modiphius. It’s for Star Trek Adventures.
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New Star Trek Book: “Klingon Next Door: Off Duty the Warrior’s Way”
Klingon Next Door: Off Duty the Warrior’s Way by Joey Spiotto has been added to the Star Trek Book Club!
Quirky and humorous takes celebrating everything Klingon in an out-of-place existence
What does a Klingon warrior get up to in his downtime?
What song would he choose at a karaoke bar? How does a trip to the barber work out for him?
From sports to shopping, hobbies to holidays, pets to personal grooming, discover how an honorable warrior takes on the challenges of day-to-day life, and learns how to relax, in this very funny collection of cartoons.
The book is currently scheduled to be published on September 2, 2025
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New Star Trek Book: “Star Trek Adventures – Second Edition – Technical Manual”
Star Trek Adventures – Second Edition – Technical Manual by has been added to the Star Trek Book Club!
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 hardcore 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.
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 you engage in with your friends.
The 129-page full-color Star Trek Adventures Second Edition Technical Manual features:
- Details on the most commonly-used gear across the Star Trek universe, including PADDs, communication devices, replicators, and holography.
- Insight on Starfleet’s Diplomatic Corps, the universal translator, second contact supplies, and information on how a crew might respond to distress calls.
- A wealth of information on a wide variety of scientific gear, tricorders, and types of laboratories; and advice on conducting away missions and some of the gear an away team might utilize.
- Details on medical practices and medical gear, including sickbays, biobeds, medical treatments and drugs, guidance on using transporters to support treatment, and medical enhancements such as various forms of chair support, genetic engineering, and cybernetics.
- Insight on diagnostic levels, transporters, turbolifts, and environmental and utility systems, as well as digital engineering elements, such as computer systems and their various components.
- Detailed information on a wide variety of close combat weapons, ranged weapons, and body armor from across the Star Trek universe.
- Information on key starship technology and their components, including defensive systems and weapons, propulsion technologies, and life support systems.
- A wealth of new game mechanics for the Star Trek Adventures Second Edition roleplaying game, including 10 new character career event options and 16 new character talents; five new starship service records, 10 new starship talents, and mines as a new weapon type.
- More than 20 random complication tables designed to help you generate problems with specific situations and devices for use during your missions.
This second edition supplement is compatible with both first edition Star Trek Adventures and the Captain’s Log Solo RPG.
The book is currently scheduled to be published on June 3, 2025
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DTI Comic Book Investigation for the week of March 13, 2025
Here are all the comics printed this week in years past.
Out Today: “Star Trek: Lower Decks #5”
Out today: “Star Trek: Lower Decks #5“, by Ryan North.
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.
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Out Today: “Star Trek #30”
Out today: “Star Trek #30“, by Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing.
After the Day of Blood, Kahless II is a defeated, broken man who has but one path left: face himself. Thrown backward in time by the Time Crystals of Boreth, Kahless witnesses his own cruelty, hubris, and thirst for messianic power. When he comes face-to-face with himself as a young boy holding his father’s blade for the first time, Kahless must decide what a Klingon’s honor truly means.
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Star Trek Books Coming In The Next 30 Days, as of March 11, 2025
Comic books continue to be where the bulk of Treklit is, which is great for me, as I’m a comic fan, but for those of you that are here for non-illustrated stories, it’s been a rough few months, but there’s fresh content coming to you soon! Just not within the next 30 days, which is the completely arbitrary time limit of this post. For those Enterprise fans out there, you’re about to have a fantastic month with the release of Adam Kotsko‘s “Late Star Trek” which goes into some fun detail on how that series has been the corner stone of nearly ever Star Trek release since its ending.
Non-Fiction
By: Adam Kotsko
March 25, 2025How 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 […]
Comics
By: Ryan North
March 12, 2025Suspicious 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 […]
By: Collin Kelly, Jackson Lanzing
March 12, 2025After the Day of Blood, Kahless II is a defeated, broken man who has but one path left: face himself. Thrown backward in time by the Time Crystals of Boreth, Kahless witnesses his own cruelty, hubris, and thirst for messianic power. When he comes face-to-face with himself as a young boy holding his father’s blade […]
By: Christopher Cantwell
March 26, 2025Nymira 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 […]
By: Christopher Cantwell, Collin Kelly, Jackson Lanzing
April 2, 2025The 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 […]
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 […]
DTI Treklit Investigation for the week of March 11, 2025
Here’s a look at the books printed this week in the past.
“Star Trek: The Next Generation: Hearts and Minds” Review by Lessaccurategrandmother.blogspot.com
Lessaccurategrandmother.blogspot.com has added a new review for Dayton Ward and Ed Schlesinger and Greg Cox and Kevin Lauderdale and Margaret Clark‘s “Star Trek: The Next Generation: Hearts and Minds”:
Way back in installments #1 and 4 of this chronological marathon, I read two original series novels, From History’s Shadow and Elusive Salvation, because their events would be referenced in a Destiny-era book. Over seven years later, that connection finally pays off with Hearts and Minds, which provides a third and final installment to Dayton Ward’s “secret history” sequence of novels about the Aegis and the U.S. security apparatus. Was it all worth it? Well, I may have appreciated the connections more had I read the books closer together, like they were released. That, I suppose, is the downside of reading in chronological order.
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“Star Trek: Defiant #24” Review by Fanbasepress.com
Fanbasepress.com has added a new review for Christopher Cantwell‘s “Star Trek: Defiant #24”:
In Star Trek: Defiant #24, Alexander faces the final challenge of the Quv Rite of vengeance. Christopher Cantwell has brought Worf and Alexander on a journey that began with complete estrangement and into, finally, love and acceptance.
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Preview of “Star Trek #30”
Here’s a preview of Star Trek #30 by Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing which is due to be released this Wednesday on March 12, 2025 at your local comic shop and digital retailers:
Preview of “Star Trek: Lower Decks #5”
Here’s a preview of Star Trek: Lower Decks #5 by Ryan North which is due to be released this Wednesday on March 12, 2025 at your local comic shop and digital retailers:
Happy 2025 Birthday to Michael Jan Friedman!
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Happy birthday to Michael Jan Friedman!
Michael Jan Friedman is one of the most prolific novelists for Pocket Books’ line of Star Trek novels, perhaps best known for creating the characters that would crew the Star Trek: Stargazer series of books. He assisted John J. Ordover in developing the Double Helix six-part miniseries. He also co-wrote the story for the Star Trek: Voyager episode “Resistance”. He was interviewed by Michael McAvennie for the article “Michael Jan Friedman – When Darkness Calls”, published in The Official Star Trek: The Next Generation Magazine Vol. 9, pp. 56-59.
Friedman is known in comics as a writer of superhero and science fiction/fantasy, as a comic writer he was a regular contributor to various of DC Comics’ later Star Trek series.
He is extremely prolific. Of his seventy plus novels, more than half are set in the Trek universe.
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DTI Comic Book Investigation for the week of March 6, 2025
Here are all the comics printed this week in years past.
Happy 2025 Birthday to Glenn Hauman!
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Happy birthday to Glenn Hauman!
Glenn Hauman is a Star Trek author.
Hauman was born in New York, and now lives in Weehawken, New Jersey. He is an alumnus of New York University. He works in e-publishing, and online content.
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DTI Treklit Investigation for the week of March 4, 2025
Here’s a look at the books printed this week in the past.
Star Trek Book Deals For March 2025
This month’s ebook deals have landed with 19 books on sale for $1.99 each, books that have never been on sale are in bold:
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
New Star Trek Comic Books Announced To Preorder! March 2025 Edition
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 more alone than Sisko. He’s taking the fight directly to Lore in a final all-or-nothing standoff. Will he and the actions of his crew be enough to restore the universe and everyone to their rightful selves? Or will Lore win again and reset the universe as he’s done so many times before?
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
Star Trek: Defiant, Volume 4: The Stars of Home
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.
Star Trek: Lore War–Shaxs’ Worst Day #1
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!
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?
TrekLit Connection: Star Trek Lit-Verse Reading Guide
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 Ryan Williams, author of the fantastic Star Trek reading guide that you’ve likely run into if you’ve done even a moment’s research into which order to read the relaunch books in. He has a novel Patreon that I’m sure he’d love for you to check out.
My earliest Star Trek memory dates back to 1987, seeing an advertisement for the premiere of The Next Generation on TV. At four years old, I knew this news would excite my dad. As the show aired after my bedtime, I rarely watched TNG for years but could hear my dad watching it in the next room every Sunday night, lying in bed, wishing I could stay up to join him.
In the early ’90s, my lifelong fandom was cemented by three events: watching the original series movies repeatedly on cable, finally watching TNG episodes recorded with our new VCR, and most impactfully, collecting Star Trek Micro Machines starting in 1993. Those little ships sparked my ten-year-old imagination, making Star Trek the focus of my life through the rest of the decade. I spent countless hours drawing ship diagrams, updating handwritten portions of the Star Trek Encyclopedia and Chronology with each episode’s new lore, and covering my walls with expansive hand-drawn galaxy maps.
For years Star Trek was my hobby, the world I could escape to when the struggles of being a young teen, and the pains of middle school were just more than I wanted to deal with. We’ve all been there. Having something to lose myself in during those challenging years left Star Trek imprinted on my heart for life. Honestly Star Trek became so important to me that when our local UPN affiliate transitioned to the WB, causing me to miss three years of Voyager’s first run, I sunk into quite a depression.
Having studied at the feet of the Okudas for most of the decade, I had never delved into the novels, as they were NON-CANON!, a seemingly dirty word. On occasion I would flip through an interesting looking Trek book from the library like I was delving into something forbidden, never allowing myself to really read it, like some sinful knowledge would taint my pure view of Trek canon. But as Trek’s onscreen presence waned in the early 2000s, and the novels gained fame for continuing the stories of Picard, Sisko, and Janeway beyond the series, I gave in. I read A Stitch in Time, and the rest was history. What began as a plan to read a few DS9 stories back in 2004, just to see what happened after the series ended, led to me still not having completed reading the ever expanding list of all those interconnected novels more than twenty years later.
Trek Literature became the real continuation of those stories I so immersed myself in as a kid, the stories of Sisko, and Janeway, and Picard. The fight against the Borg, the exploration of the Delta Quadrant, the politics of the Federation and the Klingon Empire. And the story just got better because prose eliminated so many of the restrictions of live action TV. Janeway meeting Picard, Tuvok serving with Riker, the Enterprise crew teaming up with the heroes on Deep Space Nine. Anything was possible in the novels and the story never had to end. For twenty years, through narrative high points like the Destiny trilogy, the Typhon Pact, and Cold Equations, and even to low points like leaving us hanging with that damned Ascendants cliffhanger for more years than I could barely swallow, the pages kept turning and more and more adventures were always on the horizon for our heroes.
Until Picard. Returning onscreen to the 24th century was a thrilling prospect when it was announced, as that was “home.” Where we had all spent so much time. It had been almost twenty years since we had last left that time period onscreen, and seeing Patrick Stewart as Picard again was hard to argue with. But mostly I was disappointed, because I knew the novels would lose the freedom they had had during those decades, and that one way or another it would all be ruined going forward.
The 24th century novel line slowed to a crawl, and it looked like it would end with a whimper. Picard premiered, and I was actually thrilled. High on excitement the night of the premiere, and although it was a different Picard than “mine,” the father of Rene and husband of Beverly, I actually felt that the first episode was my favorite onscreen Star Trek production ever. The things I loved, though, were actually all the great things about Treklit. Moving those stories from the 90s forward, taking advantage of the huge universe and looking into some of those rarer nooks and crannies. Using the entire cast of characters that were available when appropriate. Picard meeting Seven of Nine! I’m hooked!
But by the end of the season, things hadn’t ended up staying at the highs they started out on. Discovery likewise was a huge disappointment to me, and gave me the perfect opportunity to jump ship on the modern series at the end of season two. The only show I continued with was Picard, and I absolutely loved season three, again because it felt like all the things I loved about Treklit. I never watched Lower Decks, Prodigy, or Strange New Worlds. I was very thankful for the Coda trilogy letting the Lit-verse go out on an (admittedly flawed) bang and not a whimper. But it has felt like a poor trade off to lose continuing the amazing story in the novels which I had been enjoying for twenty years, in exchange for one amazing season of tv and a bunch of stuff I didn’t even like.
But beyond just liking something on tv, even as an adult Star Trek has been my hobby, hugely affecting my time and creating friendships I never would have expected. Years spent on the TrekBBS somehow led to the creation of my website, which at this point I’ve spent far more hours than I can count working on and improving. I’m soon to complete a slow revamp of the entire thing, and then I have ideas on how to move forward in a post-Coda Treklit world. And my website led me to joining the Star Trek Timeliners group, which had created three iterations of the Pocket Books Star Trek Novel Timeline, last published in Voyages of Imagination in 2006. We’ve spent the last eight years slowly bringing the project back up to date, and improving it in ways that I’m excited for the world to someday see. Hopefully it will find its way back into being published again in some form eventually. Through these projects, Treklit has introduced me to quite a few people who I can truly call friends in real life and have made an impactful mark on me.
I first published an essay like this on my site in preparation for the Coda trilogy a few years ago, and at that time I titled it “Star Trek Comes To An End.” But despite what I said then, and even as more and more real world differences have separated Star Trek and I over the years, I have to admit that it will probably always hold a special place in my life and my heart. It was my world as a kid, and my comfort during difficult years, which left an indelible mark on me. And the years have proven that that accustomed emotional refuge, and that childhood love, is difficult to erase. So I’m thankful that I’ll never get around to reading every bit of Treklit (2,693 stories and counting!), and so there will always be more heroic adventures of Picard, Riker, Worf, Sisko, Janeway, and Seven. In my life, Star Trek in general, and Treklit in particular, will never come to an end.
New Starship Book Library (with bonus spaceship)
I could have sworn that Fanhome had the license for all these diecast, but here’s Master Replicas with an announcement of their own:
The Starship Library is an exciting new collection that combines die-cast models with reference books to provide an in-depth guide to the ships of Star Trek.
Each model is made of die-cast and ABS resin and is between 4 and 5 inches long. They are based on the original VFX models that were used on the shows and movies, and have been carefully painted to ensure a high level of accuracy.
Each model is accompanied by a 48-page book that provides an in-universe profile, annotated views, and an in-depth article about the ship’s origins, exploring how and why it was created, illustrated with production artwork. The book is designed to slide into the base to create a miniature display.
The collection will launch with new ships that have never been produced at this kind of scale before. The first three ships are the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701 from Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, the Enterprise from the movie Star Trek(2009) and the U.S.S. Cerritos.
While I would love to have yet another set of books on my shelf, I’m at the very limit of what my budget can handle, so I’m likely going to be skipping this launch. Maybe. or more likely I’ll find some spare cash from my Patreon and I’ll be able to give you guys some reviews.
Happy 2025 Birthday to Bernd Perplies!
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Happy birthday to Bernd Perplies!
Bernd Perplies is a german writer, translator and journalist from Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany.
Bernd Perplies studied Film Science, Germanistics, Book Sciences and Psychology in Mainz. He was then employed by the German Film Institute in Frankfurt am Main, where he worked as an editor of filmportal.de between 2004 and 2009. He also works besides that as an editor for SpaceView magazine, and as a translator for the Heel publishing house, Pegasus Games and Cross Cult.
His debut novel “Tarean – Sohn des Fluchbringers” appeared in August 2008. The novel reached 3rd place at the Deutschen Phantastik Preis-Award 2009 in the category “Best German-language Novel”. He won in the next Years also several german SF and Fantasy Awards.
At the Perry Rhodan Worldcon 2011 Bernd Perplies learned about the new “Perry Rhodan” series “Perry Rhodan NEO” and applied for a cooperation. In April 2012 his first novel appeared in the series.Since then he has written as a guest for this franchise.
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New Star Trek Book: “Star Trek: Voyager Omnibus”
Star Trek: Voyager Omnibus by Dave Baker and Paul Allor has been added to the Star Trek Book Club!
Join Captain Janeway and the Voyager crew in four tales of adventure and intrigue!
First, in Seven’s Reckoning, a chance encounter with a reptilian alien race draws Seven of Nine and the rest of the U.S.S. Voyager crew into an ancient class conflict that’s on the brink of exploding into all-out war! Set during Star Trek: Voyager‘s amazing fourth season, Seven finds her newfound humanity in conflict with her commitment to the Prime Directive. When she finally makes her choice, will it have the desired result? And will there still be a place for her aboard the Voyager once the dust clears? By writer Dave Baker and artist Angel Hernandez.
Then, in Mirrors and Smoke, it’s 2372. Rebel ship Voyager—captained by Kathryn Janeway, an escaped slave from a brutal Cardassian mining facility—is flung halfway across the universe. Stranded in the Delta Quadrant, Janeway and her ragtag rebel crew are faced with a choice. Find their way home, or quietly forge a new life far away from Klingons, Cardassians, and the Rebellion? Janeway chooses the third option. The Voyager will stay. The Voyager will plunder. The Delta Quadrant will be hers, and she will be its Pirate Queen. By writer Paul Allor and artist J.K. Woodward.
Closing out this omnibus are two short stories, “The Wildman Maneuver” from Star Trek: Waypoint by writer Mairghread Scott and artist Corin Howell and “The Swift Spoke” from Star Trek: Waypoint Special 2019 by Malachi Ward and Matt Sheehan.
The book is currently scheduled to be published on September 30, 2025
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DTI Comic Book Investigation for the week of February 27, 2025
Here are all the comics printed this week in years past.
Last Chance: Star Trek Book Deals For February 2025
Your time is running out if you’d like to take advantage of this month’s ebook deals! There are 20 books on sale for $1.99 each!
Star Trek: 31 Fortunes Of War Book 2: Battlestations!
Star Trek: 34 Dreams Of The Raven
Star Trek: 41 The Three-Minute Universe
Star Trek: 44 Vulcan’s Glory
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: 10 Valhalla
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: 16 Invasion! Book 3: Time’s Enemy
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Prophecy and Change
Star Trek: Enterprise: Kobayashi Maru
Star Trek: Enterprise: The Romulan War: To Brave the Storm
Star Trek: New Frontier: 7 The Quiet Place
Star Trek: Preserver
Star Trek: Stargazer: Three
Star Trek: The Klingon Dictionary
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Star Trek: The Next Generation: 30 Debtors’ Planet
Star Trek: The Next Generation: 5 Strike Zone
Star Trek: Voyager: 16 Seven Of Nine
Star Trek: Voyager: String Theory: 2 Fusion
Star Trek: Vulcan’s Heart
Star Trek: Vulcan’s Soul Book 1: Exodus
“Star Trek: Section 31: Emperor Born #1” Review by Aiptcomics.com
Aiptcomics.com has added a new review for Alyssa Wong‘s “Star Trek: Section 31: Emperor Born #1”:
A compelling glimpse into the Mirror Universe.
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“Star Trek: Resurgence TPB” Review by Comicon.com
Comicon.com has added a new review for Andrew Grant and Dan Martin‘s “Star Trek: Resurgence TPB”:
With inconsistent illustrations and characters behaving bizarrely, you’re better off spending your time playing the video game that this book is based on. You’ll get much more enjoyment from it.
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“Star Trek: Lower Decks #1” Review by Fanbasepress.com
Fanbasepress.com has added a new review for Ryan North‘s “Star Trek: Lower Decks #1”:
It was an easy decision then to review the new Star Trek: Lower Decks #1.
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Out Today: “Star Trek: Section 31 #1”
Out today: “Star Trek: Section 31 #1“, by Alyssa Wong.
From the pen of Alyssa Wong (Spirit World, Doctor Aphra) and the brush of Megan Levens (Star Trek) comes the exciting single-issue spin-off of the forthcoming Star Trek: Section 31 movie! The issue features Emperor Philippa Georgiou on a brand-new, raucous, and exhilarating adventure.
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Out Today: “Star Trek: Defiant #24”
Out today: “Star Trek: Defiant #24“, by Christopher Cantwell.
Alexander has but one errand left on his Quv Rite: the Errand of Vengeance. In it, he must find the orchestrator of his dishonor, Kahless II… and kill him. But is a swift death the vengeance Alexander seeks? And is it the end his manipulator deserves?
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“Star Trek: Alien Spotlight: Orions #1” Review by Comicon.com
Comicon.com has added a new review for David Tipton and Scott Tipton‘s “Star Trek: Alien Spotlight: Orions #1”:
Classic Comics Cavalcade: ‘Star Trek: Alien Spotlight- Orions’ Sheds Light On A Shadowy Corner Of The Galaxy
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‘Star Trek’ Movies Writer/Producer Robert Orci Has Passed Away
The big Star Trek fan helped revive the franchise on the big screen.
“Star Trek: Discovery: Adventures In The 32nd Century #2” Review by Comicon.com
Comicon.com has added a new review for Kirsten Beyer and Mike Johnson‘s “Star Trek: Discovery: Adventures In The 32nd Century #2”:
IDW collects the four issues from its quirky but strong Star Trek: Discovery series in a trade paperback. For the most part, the stories don’t take themselves too seriously, but they do provide some much-appreciated insight into fringe character from the series.
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“Star Trek: Sons of Star Trek TPB” Review by Comicon.com
Comicon.com has added a new review for Morgan Hampton‘s “Star Trek: Sons of Star Trek TPB”:
Star Trek: Sons of Star Trek is a an emotional journey through the legacy of Trek, both in and out of the universe, creating a powerfully rich miniseries. Big heavy yet light visuals bring such bold and superb life to a story which tackles the sci-fi and personal exploration with expert care.
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“Star Trek: Trill #1” Review by Comicon.com
Comicon.com has added a new review for Jody Houser‘s “Star Trek: Trill #1”:
Ever since IDW Publishing launched their latest Star Trek series, I’ve rediscovered my love for the franchise. When it comes to Trek, every fan has a favorite series, character and alien race. One of mine has always been the Trill, and around the time Star Trek #1 was released, IDW also gave this fascinating alien species a spotlight one-shot.
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DTI Treklit Investigation for the week of February 25, 2025
Here’s a look at the books printed this week in the past.
Preview of “Star Trek: Section 31: Emperor Born #1”
Here’s a preview of Star Trek: Section 31: Emperor Born #1 by Alyssa Wong which is due to be released this Wednesday on February 26, 2025 at your local comic shop and digital retailers:
Preview of “Star Trek: Defiant #24”
Here’s a preview of Star Trek: Defiant #24 by Christopher Cantwell which is due to be released this Wednesday on February 26, 2025 at your local comic shop and digital retailers:
“Star Trek: Lore War #1” Review by Comicbook.com
Comicbook.com has added a new review for Christopher Cantwell and Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing‘s “Star Trek: Lore War #1”:
For the past several years, IDW Publishing has provided readers with some of the best storytelling set in the Star Trek universe, with both the flagship Star Trek series and the slightly darker Star Trek: Defiant featuring all-star casts of characters from across the franchise’s nearly 60-year history, as well as new characters, in the kinds of stories that would be difficult to achieve with the restrictions of live-action film and television. Those years of stories are coming to a head in the crossover event Star Trek: Lore War, which brings storylines from both series to their simultaneous climax as the Star Trek universe is remade in the image of one of its most memorable recurring villains.
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New Star Trek Book: “Michelle Yeoh: A Little Golden Book Biography”
Michelle Yeoh: A Little Golden Book Biography by Angela Song and Irene Chan has been added to the Star Trek Book Club!
Dream big with a Little Golden Book biography about Malaysian action movie star and Oscar winner Michelle Yeoh, the first person of Asian descent to win an Academy Award for Best Actress. It’s the perfect introduction to nonfiction for young readers—as well as fans of all ages!
This Little Golden Book about Michelle Yeoh—the first person of Asian descent to win an Academy Award for Best Actress, known for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Crazy Rich Asians, and Everything Everywhere All At Once—is an inspiring read-aloud for young kids as well as fans of any age!
The book is currently scheduled to be published on February 4, 2025
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New Star Trek Book: “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Omnibus, Vol. 1”
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Omnibus, Vol. 1 by has been added to the Star Trek Book Club!
Explore never-before-seen adventures of the hit Paramount+ show in this graphic novel omnibus!
First, in The Illyrian Enigma, set between seasons one and two, Una is accused of unlawful genetic modification by Starfleet and Captain Pike sets out in search of evidence that could prove her innocence. But, when Captain Pike and the crew of the Enterprise get caught in the Pryllia colony, home to the illusive Illyrians, the mission objective quickly shifts from gathering evidence to exonerate Una to…breaking out.
Then, in The Scorpius Run set course with Captain Pike and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise to the Scorpius Constellation as they become the first Federation vessel to explore this uncharted region of space! In this romp across the stars, the Enterprise crew learn what it truly means to explore the strange and unfamiliar when they lose contact with Starfleet and everything outside the region. After entering a crime lord’s starship competition to save an innocent pilot, the Enterprise jets through a gauntlet of dangerous environments in the unexplored Scorpius sector. But cosmic storms and sentient ship-eating asteroids aren’t the only obstacles the crew will have to survive!
Collects Star Trek: Strange New Worlds—The Illyrian Enigma by Kirsten Beyer, Mike Johnson, and Megan Levens; Star Trek: Strange New Worlds—The Scorpius Run by Mike Johnson, Ryan Parrott, and Angel Hernandez; plus two short stories, “Yesterday’s Shadow” from Star Trek #500 by Jody Houser and Vernon Smith and “Facemaker” from Star Trek: Celebrations by Mags Visaggio and Tench.
The book is currently scheduled to be published on August 12, 2025
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DTI Comic Book Investigation for the week of February 20, 2025
Here are all the comics printed this week in years past.
Out Today: “Star Trek #29”
Out today: “Star Trek #29“, by Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing.
Sisko is stuck outside space-time on Bajor. He does not know if his crew and his family are alive or if his universe even exists beyond this plane. All Sisko knows is that he must stop Lore before everyone and everything he loves is destroyed forever. To do that, he must build the Orbs of Destiny. It all comes down to this. If there’s any hope for a future, the Prophets will reveal it now.
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DTI Treklit Investigation for the week of February 18, 2025
Here’s a look at the books printed this week in the past.
“Star Trek: Defiant #23” Review by Comicsonline.com
Comicsonline.com has added a new review for Christopher Cantwell‘s “Star Trek: Defiant #23”:
IDW continues to team up beloved Star Trek characters from The Original Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and beyond to tell stories that we didn’t realize we’ve been aching for (maybe for decades). This week, we can momentarily set aside the multiverse spanning epic by Kelly and Lanzing, and instead Christopher Cantwell can talk about Star Trek: Defiant things more close to home. Or he could if B’Lanna would have followed Worf’s orders!
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“Star Trek: Lower Decks, Vol. 1: Second Contact” Review by Akotsko.substack.com
Akotsko.substack.com has added a new review for Derek Charm and Ryan North‘s “Star Trek: Lower Decks, Vol. 1: Second Contact”:
I feel like we are amid a bit of a Star Trek desert, at least compared to recent years. One of the two remaining ongoing shows recently ended, there is no set release date for the next season of Strange New Worlds, and the last canonical production to air was, to put it charitably, unwatchable garbage that should be decanonized and deleted (and the earth should be salted wherever it was filmed). Novels have slowed to a trickle since the demise of the novelverse, with most devoted to filling in backstory for Picard. (There are still regular one-off Original Series novels, but if I’m going to read an Original Series novel it’s going to be from their Golden Age in the early 80s.) Comics are the one area of booming activity, with two monthly ongoing titles (one self-titled and one with the subtitle Defiant) chronicling events between Nemesis and Picard. But—though I will inevitably catch up some day—I can’t bring myself to follow them, simply because the stories sound too absurd. (For example, apparently in the current arc Data’s evil brother Lore has somehow caused the universe to blink out of existence.)
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“Star Trek: Lower Decks #2” Review by Fanbasepress.com
Fanbasepress.com has added a new review for Ryan North‘s “Star Trek: Lower Decks #2”:
The on-screen adventures of the Cerritos crew might be coming to an end, but their comic adventures continue this week with the second issue of their new series from IDW. Ryan North and Derek Charm continue their strong work from the prior issue in capturing the style and feel of the animated series.
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“Star Trek #27” Review by Comicon.com
Comicon.com has added a new review for Cassandra Jones and Clayton Cowles and Collin Kelly and Heather Antos and Jackson Lanzing and Lee Loughridge and Mike Feehan and Tess Fowler‘s “Star Trek #27”:
With the crossover event “Lore War” moving ever closer, the team of Collin Kelly, Jackson Lanzing, Mike Feehan, Tess Fowler, Lee Loughridge, and Clayton Cowles continues to lay out the path with Star Trek #27.
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Preview of “Star Trek #29”
Here’s a preview of Star Trek #29 by Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing which is due to be released this Wednesday on February 19, 2025 at your local comic shop and digital retailers:
Happy 2025 Birthday to Tim Bradstreet!
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Happy birthday to Tim Bradstreet!
Eisner Award nominated illustrator ,Tim Bradstreet, was born February 16, 1967 in Cheverly, Maryland. Primarily a self-taught illustrator, he has been working professionally since graduating from high school in 1985. Forgoing institutional art instruction, Tim joined Fantasmagraphics in 1986, where he worked for two years with fellow illustrator Steve Venters. Under the guidance of Venters, Tim began illustrating role-playing games, honing his skills while pursuing his lifelong ambition to draw comics. In 1990 he hit the ground running with industry legend Tim Truman on Dragon Chiang, and never looked back.
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Happy 2025 Birthday to John Vornholt!
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Happy birthday to John Vornholt!
John Vornholt is the acclaimed author of numerous Star Trek novels, including Gemworld Books One and Two, Sanctuary, Mind Meld, Masks, Contamination, Antimatter, Rogue Saucer, and The Dominion War Books One and Three. He lives in Arizona with his wife and two sons.
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Happy 2025 Birthday to Paula M. Block!
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Happy birthday to Paula M. Block!
Paula M. Block oversees licensed Star Trek publishing for Paramount Pictures and, as of 2006, CBS. She has worked closely with the editors at Pocket Books since 1989, and is perhaps best known to fans for her role in co-editing Pocket’s Strange New Worlds series – a collection of fan-submitted short stories.
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Happy 2025 Birthday to Andre Bormanis!
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Happy birthday to Andre Bormanis!
André Bormanis was the science consultant on the seventh season of Star Trek: The Next Generation, and for all of both Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager. He served as story editor on the first season, as executive story editor on the third season, and as co-producer on the fourth season of Star Trek: Enterprise. In addition he wrote and co-wrote several episodes of Voyager and Enterprise and served as technical adviser on Star Trek: Insurrection.
He has written the book Star Trek Science Logs, served as technical adviser for the reference book Star Trek: Star Charts in 2002, and was interviewed for several DVD special features and Trek magazines. Bormanis was also among the Enterprise staff and crewmembers who appeared in the final episode “These Are the Voyages…”, where he portrayed a civilian ceremony attendee. He hosted the television documentary The Science of Star Trek in 1995 with Bill Kurtis and was interviewed for the 2005 documentary How William Shatner Changed the World, hosted and narrated by William Shatner. He also contributed to the reference book New Worlds, New Civilizations and wrote the planetarium show for the Griffith Observatory. His name was referenced on screen two times; A. Bormanis in Enterprise and André Bormanis (Starfleet) in Star Trek: Voyager.
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DTI Comic Book Investigation for the week of February 13, 2025
Here are all the comics printed this week in years past.
Out Today: “Star Trek: Lower Decks #4”
Out today: “Star Trek: Lower Decks #4“, by Ryan North.
Rutherford 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, shunting our consciousnesses into the ship’s computer. While it’s a fun, flirty energy, we’d very much like our bodies back so we can pop the expanding time bubble and save our universe!
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Star Trek Books Coming In The Next 30 Days, as of February 11th, 2025
No fictional books, no non-fiction, no magazines. We’re currently in an empty void with nothing but comic books to keep us company, which if you haven’t checked them out yet, I strongly suggest it, there’s some mighty fine work being done in the the comic space!
Comics
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, […]
By: Collin Kelly, Jackson Lanzing
February 19, 2025Sisko is stuck outside space-time on Bajor. He does not know if his crew and his family are alive or if his universe even exists beyond this plane. All Sisko knows is that he must stop Lore before everyone and everything he loves is destroyed forever. To do that, he must build the Orbs of […]
By: Alyssa Wong
February 26, 2025From the pen of Alyssa Wong (Spirit World, Doctor Aphra) and the brush of Megan Levens (Star Trek) comes the exciting single-issue spin-off of the forthcoming Star Trek: Section 31 movie! The issue features Emperor Philippa Georgiou on a brand-new, raucous, and exhilarating adventure.
By: Christopher Cantwell
February 26, 2025Alexander has but one errand left on his Quv Rite: the Errand of Vengeance. In it, he must find the orchestrator of his dishonor, Kahless II… and kill him. But is a swift death the vengeance Alexander seeks? And is it the end his manipulator deserves?
By: Collin Kelly, Jackson Lanzing
March 12, 2025After the Day of Blood, Kahless II is a defeated, broken man who has but one path left: face himself. Thrown backward in time by the Time Crystals of Boreth, Kahless witnesses his own cruelty, hubris, and thirst for messianic power. When he comes face-to-face with himself as a young boy holding his father’s blade […]
By: Ryan North
March 12, 2025Suspicious 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 […]
DTI Treklit Investigation for the week of February 11, 2025
Here’s a look at the books printed this week in the past.
“Star Trek: The Captain’s Table: 6 Where Sea Meets Sky” Review by Deepspacespines.com
Deepspacespines.com has added a new review for Jerry Oltion‘s “Star Trek: The Captain’s Table: 6 Where Sea Meets Sky”:
In today’s episode, “there be whales here” is an omen rather than a victory cry. But when the Enterprise heads to uncharted systems in search of an answer to controlling the pet population, they end up drawing their food chain diagram in jumbo crayon. What do Klingons consider the most honorable Earth delicacy? Does the Star Trek future include good school boards? And what strange new worlds lie upstairs at the Captain’s Table? All this and more in Where Sea Meets Sky, the book that ill-advisedly loops the loop.
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“Star Trek: Gateways: 1 One Small Step” Review by Trek.fm
Trek.fm has added a new review for Susan Wright‘s “Star Trek: Gateways: 1 One Small Step”:
In this episode of Literary Treks hosts Casey Pettitt and Jonathan Koan talk about One Small Step. We discuss the new series, watching an episode, the virus, impersonating Kalandans, the Klingons, the gateways, restructuring, something that works well, our ratings and final thoughts.
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Preview of “Star Trek: Lower Decks #4”
Here’s a preview of Star Trek: Lower Decks #4 by Ryan North which is due to be released this Wednesday on February 12, 2025 at your local comic shop and digital retailers:
Happy 2025 Birthday to Ethan Phillips!
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Happy birthday to Ethan Phillips!
Ethan Phillips was born into a restaurant family. His father was the owner of the famous New York steak house Frankie and Johnnie’s, which still serves up the most delicious sirloin in all of Manhattan. Striking out on his own, Ethan, who plays Neelix on Star Trek: Voyager, became an actor as well as the author of the play Penguin Blues published by Samuel French. He has acted in many of the major regional theaters across the country as well as on and off Broadway, and has appeared in many television shows including Star Trek: The Next Generation,, NYPD Blue, Chicago Hope, Murphy Brown, Law and Order, HBO’s From the Earth to the Moon, as well as playing “Pete” for five seasons on Benson. His feature films include Jeffrey, Civil Action, For Richer or Poorer, Greencard, The Shadow, Lean on Me, Wagons East, and Man Without a Face, among others. Ethan acts, writes, cooks, and lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Patty, an artist.
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“Star Trek: The Motion Picture” Review by Akotsko.substack.com
Akotsko.substack.com has added a new review for Alan Dean Foster and Gene Roddenberry and Harold Livingston‘s “Star Trek: The Motion Picture”:
Reflections on the novelization of The Motion Picture by The Man Himself
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DTI Comic Book Investigation for the week of February 6, 2025
Here are all the comics printed this week in years past.
Star Trek Book Deals For February 2025
This month’s ebook deals have landed with 20 books on sale for $1.99 each, books that have never been on sale are in bold:
Star Trek: 31 Fortunes Of War Book 2: Battlestations!
Star Trek: 34 Dreams Of The Raven
Star Trek: 41 The Three-Minute Universe
Star Trek: 44 Vulcan’s Glory
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: 10 Valhalla
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: 16 Invasion! Book 3: Time’s Enemy
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Prophecy and Change
Star Trek: Enterprise: Kobayashi Maru
Star Trek: Enterprise: The Romulan War: To Brave the Storm
Star Trek: New Frontier: 7 The Quiet Place
Star Trek: Preserver
Star Trek: Stargazer: Three
Star Trek: The Klingon Dictionary
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Star Trek: The Next Generation: 30 Debtors’ Planet
Star Trek: The Next Generation: 5 Strike Zone
Star Trek: Voyager: 16 Seven Of Nine
Star Trek: Voyager: String Theory: 2 Fusion
Star Trek: Vulcan’s Heart
Star Trek: Vulcan’s Soul Book 1: Exodus
DTI Treklit Investigation for the week of February 4, 2025
Here’s a look at the books printed this week in the past.
“Star Trek: 87 My Brother’s Keeper Book 3: Enterprise” Review by Themindreels.com
Themindreels.com has added a new review for Michael Jan Friedman‘s “Star Trek: 87 My Brother’s Keeper Book 3: Enterprise”:
Friedman wraps up the My Brother’s Keeper trilogy with Enterprise. Captain James Kirk and his crew have returned to Earth for the funeral of Gary Mitchell. Kirk is still struggling with his role in Mitchell’s death, and is struggling with how he’ll present it to Gary’s parents.
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“Star Trek: Lower Decks #3” Review by Comicon.com
Comicon.com has added a new review for Ryan North‘s “Star Trek: Lower Decks #3”:
What if a greater stability within the universe also meant the collapse of all life, matter, and most universal constants? Gee, that sure would suck wouldn’t it? Good thing that isn’t something to worry about.
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“Star Trek: Prodigy: Escape Route” Review by Shastrix.com
Shastrix.com has added a new review for Cassandra Rose Clarke‘s “Star Trek: Prodigy: Escape Route”:
The plot feels exactly like the sort of thing that would happen in a prodigy episode, and fits neatly into the universe.
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“Star Trek: Defiant #23” Review by Fanbasepress.com
Fanbasepress.com has added a new review for Christopher Cantwell‘s “Star Trek: Defiant #23”:
IDW’s Star Trek: Defiant and the story of Captain Worf and his ragtag crew continues this week with Issue #23. Two years ago, IDW re-launched the Star Trek comic universe with Star Trek, soon followed by its sister book, Defiant. These stories take place roughly between the movies, Star Trek: Insurrection and Star Trek: Nemesis. Christopher Cantwell has been writing Star Trek: Defiant since the beginning, and I’ve enjoyed his take on Worf and especially his handling of the estranged relationship between Worf and Worf’s son Alexander.
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Happy 2025 Birthday to Brent Spiner!
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Happy birthday to Brent Spiner!
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TrekLit Connection: True Confessions of the World’s Biggest Enterprise Fan
With a huge dose of inspiration from John Scalzi’s “The Big Idea“, I’m beginning my own 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.
The first is from Adam Kotsko author of the upcoming “Late Star Trek” which is due out in March of 2025. Through a completely unrelated review opportunity, I had a copy of his book on my kindle when I reached out to him to see if he would be game to help launch this fun little project.
Many years ago, somewhere around 2010, my girlfriend and I needed a new TV show to watch. We had been alternating between stuff from our childhood and things we had missed as young adults, and it was time for another entry in the first category. She suggested Star Trek: The Next Generation, and I gladly accepted.
It may seem like a small thing, but in retrospect, returning to Star Trek as an adult was a defining moment for my life. I had been a fan as a kid. Watching Next Generation on Saturday evenings was a comfortable ritual for me, soon supplemented by the early seasons of Deep Space Nine, and I even tracked down a novel or two. But I left it behind when I got to high school, alongside comic books and the other signs of nerdiness I could stand to part with. Once I got back into it again—much less with my girlfriend’s explicit invitation!—I never looked back. We watched all the modern shows and all the movies. She didn’t like The Original Series, so that became my regular viewing on nights she was out, soon to be followed by The Animated Series.
Only after I had devoured almost all of existing Trek did I make contact with fan circles, most notably the very learned and rigorous fan/scholars at The Daystrom Institute subreddit. I quickly realized that my attitude to Star Trek was very different. First and most importantly, I was a professor in the humanities, so I was used to approaching stories as stories—analyzing how they were put together, assessing how well they lived up to certain standards, comparing and contrasting them with other stories, etc., etc. By contrast, most fans at Daystrom approached the episodes as though they were news broadcasts from another universe and saw their task as developing in-universe theories. Their goal was typically either to reconcile apparent contradictions between episodes or to make connections between them that the writers obviously could never have intended. Second, where most of them had engaged with fan culture all through their viewing, I came to the discussion with my own pre-formed opinions, which often seemed contrarian. For instance, I realized that Enterprise was not a work of art, but it was not that bad—certainly not bad enough to warrant writing it out of the Prime Timeline, a favorite project of Daystromites at that time.
Thus I became the resident crank, pursuing two strange projects. I was determined to read Star Trek as literature, and I was committed to proving that Enterprise was not only fully canonical, but interesting and fine. Often I combined the two, discovering along the way that Enterprise was actually more carefully structured than previous shows. The sum total of those posts—highlights of which can be found here—almost certainly make me the world’s foremost expert on the red-headed stepchild of the Star Trek franchise. I also became one of the leading advocates of The Animated Series, which had only recently become readily available on streaming. Such was my love of the neglected corners of the franchise that, when I was invited to contribute to an academic journal issue marking the 50th anniversary of Star Trek, I chose to write about the unexpected influence of Enterprise, The Animated Series, and “Spock’s Brain” on later installments. The resulting article (sadly paywalled) remains one of the most-cited works on The Animated Series, perhaps because it’s one of the only peer-reviewed publications to discuss it at all.
This contrarian streak culminated in my forthcoming book, Late Star Trek: The Final Frontier in the Franchise Era (available for preorder directly from the press, from Bookshop.org, or from the Evil Empire). Most previous books on Star Trek put Enterprise at the end of the story, as the moment when the franchise finally crashed and burned. But I actually start my story with Enterprise, claiming that it was the first attempt to reinvent Star Trek in a changing political and economic context. From there, I cover the novelverse, the JJ Abrams films, and the various streaming shows, looking at how each installment tries to thread the needle between offering something new and staying loyal to what came before. Again and again, I find that these shows get bogged down by trying to stake out a place in the franchise—self-consciously breaking with fan expectations, indulging in excessive fan service, constantly writing stories with crazy over-the-top stakes where the entire galaxy is in the balance, or even combining two or three of those approaches into one garbled plot. And I suggest that the best recent Star Trek installments, Lower Decks and Strange New Worlds, have the confidence to simply do what people want out of Star Trek rather than constantly obsessing about their relationship to canon.
Strangely, though, even writing a whole book didn’t exhaust my thoughts on Star Trek, so I started a Substack by the same title, where I’ve applied my unique literary and contrarian approach to almost all the live-action shows as well as a couple novels and comics. Iroincally, though, looking back over my posts, I realize that the show I’ve given the least attention is Enterprise! Maybe it really is possible to get something out of your system after all.
Happy 2025 Birthday to Jeffrey Lang!
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Happy birthday to Jeffrey Lang!
Jeffrey Lang is the author of several Star Trek novelizations. He currently lives in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania with his partner Helen, and his son, Andrew.
He also wrote the short story “Dead Man’s Hand” in the DS9 anthology The Lives of Dax.
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