Happy 2024 Birthday to Alex Kurtzman!
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Happy birthday to Alex Kurtzman!
Alex Kurtzman is a producer and screenwriter who co-wrote the script for and executive produced the film Star Trek, along with writing partner Roberto Orci. Kurtzman and Orci later produced and (along with Damon Lindelof) wrote the screenplay for the sequel, Star Trek Into Darkness. After parting ways with Orci, he did not return for Star Trek Beyond, but will be serving as executive producer through his production company Secret Hideout on the next Star Trek series, expected for a January 2017 release.
Kurtzman also consulted on the Star Trek video game.
Check out the Alex Kurtzman author page to view more author updates and a full list of books!
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Out Today: “Space, the Feminist Frontier: Essays on Sex and Gender in Star Trek”
Out today: “Space, the Feminist Frontier: Essays on Sex and Gender in Star Trek“, by .
For nearly 60 years, Star Trek has imagined humanity’s future while reflecting its present. Star Trek: The Original Series debuted with three male leads, but in the wake of a Trek renaissance that began with Star Trek: Discovery in 2017, additional series have explored the frontiers of representation, making the present moment ripe for new critical engagement and thoughtful reflection on the narratives that have shaped the journey thus far.
Using the lens of feminist criticism and theory, this collection of essays presents a diverse array of academic and fan scholars engaging with the past, present, and future of Star Trek. Contributors consider issues like Klingon marriage, Majel Barrett’s legacy, the Bechdel-Wallace test, LGBTQ+ representation, and more. They offer updated readings on legacy characters while also addressing wholly new characters like Michael Burnham, Beckett Mariner, and Adira Tal. Their essays provide some of the first critical examinations of the newest additions to the Trek franchise, including Picard, Strange New Worlds and Lower Decks.
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Adeena Mignogna Interview With StarTrekBookClub.com
I just had a fantastic conversation with Adeena Mignogna, who I met at Shore-Leave. She was a presenter doing a talk about space junk, which was interesting enough to hold my attention for an hour and exactly what I was looking for, but she ended the presentation by saying she was going to be in the author room later that night. I already had plans to stop by that room to pick up a bundle of comics and books and swung by her table, picking up a copy of Lunar Logic (which I’m now about 25% of the way through) and chatted with her for a few minutes.
Turns out she has not one, but TWO stories coming out in Star Trek: Explorer, the first of which should be out now, but I feel like I’ve been saying that for over a month at this point. What’s going on with Titan?!
Lunar Logic is just her most recent book, it’s a pleasant stand alone story of a group of robots on the moon, and she has a series of books in a “Robots Galaxy” series that has a follow up collection of books that she’s currently working on now.
She has a wonderful podcast named “The Big Scifi Podcast” that you should out if you’re into science and science fiction!
Our hour long conversation includes a sidebar about how she enjoys world building and stories set in the background of the Trek Universe, astronomy, how her work is aimed at adults but is safe for kids, and her writing process, which involves getting up at 5am. Yes, really.
I talk way too long about my love of IDW’s comic books, but I think I got my point across and I’m really hoping that she’ll check out some of my suggestions and let us know what she thinks!
Oh and in the last 30 seconds she throws it out there that she was able to get Bruce Horak to narrate the audio book version of Lunar Logic.
She has her very first Kickstarter for audiobook versions of her Robot Galaxy book series, It hasn’t officially launched yet, but it’d be real cool if you could click the ‘follow’ button it to help her along and you’ll be notified the moment it goes live.
Adeena can be found on her website, Amazon, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Youtube.
Star Trek Book Deals For September 2024
This month’s ebook deals have landed with 18 books on sale for $0.99 – $1.99 each, books that have never been on sale are in bold:
A great month for anyone wanting to catch up on Discovery’s adventures in print form or anyone that wants to relive the movies without having to turn on your tv!
Star Trek
Star Trek 17: Star Trek III: The Search For Spock
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
Star Trek: Discovery: Desperate Hours
Star Trek: Discovery: Die Standing
Star Trek: Discovery: Die Standing
Star Trek: Discovery: Drastic Measures
Star Trek: Discovery: Drastic Measures
Star Trek: Discovery: Drastic Measures
Star Trek: Discovery: Fear Itself
Star Trek: Discovery: Somewhere to Belong
Star Trek: Discovery: The Enterprise War
Star Trek: Discovery: The Way To The Stars
Star Trek: Generations
Star Trek: Into Darkness
Star Trek: Picard: Firewall
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Star Trek: VI The Undiscovered Country
Press Release: STAR TREK™:LORE WAR CROSSOVER EVENT ARRIVES MARCH 2025
LOS ANGELES, CA (September 4, 2024) – The single most devious mind in the universe has won. Commander Data’s evil brother, Lore, has used the Orb of Destruction to obliterate all of reality and remake it in his image while declaring himself its God. Now that Lore has claimed the ultimate victory, what happens next?
IDW Publishing is thrilled to announce LORE WAR, the compelling crossover event that has been planned since the STAR TREK line of comics relaunched two years ago with the Eisner-nominated milestone issue STAR TREK #400.
Cover A by Malachi Ward
Beginning in STAR TREK: LORE WAR #1 from acclaimed creators Collin Kelly, Jackson Lanzing, Christopher Cantwell, and Davide Tinto, the crossover event will include the STAR TREK flagship ongoing series, STAR TREK: DEFIANT, and special one-shot tie-in issues. “This is it. The moment we’ve been building to since the Theseus left spacedock and the Defiant was stolen,” remarked Lanzing. ”The ultimate STAR TREK comics crossover event – as the heroes and villains of the galaxy must band together to defend its very existence.”
“Since the line’s inception, our grander story in both titles has dealt with STAR TREK’s concept of godlike beings and the rejection of those godlike beings — order and entropy as it exists throughout the four quadrants of the galaxy,” added Cantwell. “Who pulls the strings and who dares to cut them? LORE WAR is quite literally the apotheosis of that shared theme, two years in the making.”
“The gods are dead, and only one mad android holds the reins of our universe. With absolute power comes absolute corruption… but does it come with absolute control?” stated Kelly. “Featuring the incredible art of Davide Tinto – a newcomer to the Trek world – we’re not settling for anything less than the most impressive and world-ending STAR TREK event that comics can contain.”
Group Editor Heather Antos is thrilled to have fans finally see what they’ve been planning since the very beginning of the relaunch. “It’s all been building to this moment. No, literally. From the original prelude in STAR TREK #400 two years ago the road map has always led to LORE WAR. When Collin, Jackson, and Christopher first embarked on this mission we asked the question ‘Can a man be both man and a god?’ Well now Lore is answering.”
STAR TREK: LORE WAR #1 boldly beams into shops on March 26, 2025, and the crossover features primary covers by artist Malachi Ward. Fans can pre-order from their local comic shop. STAR TREK #500, which features the prelude story, is on sale now.
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IDW (NYSE AMERICAN: IDW) is a leading media company providing uniquely compelling stories and characters in various genres for global audiences across all entertainment platforms. The award-winning IDW Publishing and IDW Entertainment divisions holistically evaluate and acquire IP for franchise development across comics and graphic novels, television, theatrical, merchandise, and other entertainment platforms, in addition to bringing world-renowned storytelling to life with our creative partners.
Out Today: “Star Trek #500”
Out today: “Star Trek #500“, by Christopher Cantwell and Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing.
Celebrate IDW’s 500th issue of Star Trek comics (and an early Star Trek Day!) with this landmark oversized anthology issue! This collection of five short stories spans through fan-favorite eras of the beloved franchise from Lower Decks to Strange New Worlds, legacy characters from The Next Generation and the original series, written and illustrated by Star Trek comics veterans and new voices alike. Plus, don’t miss out on the prelude to 2025’s big Star Trek and Defiant comic crossover event written by Jackson Lanzing, Collin Kelly, and Christopher Cantwell!
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Out Today: “Star Trek Discovery: The Art of Glenn Hetrick’s Alchemy Studios”
Out today: “Star Trek Discovery: The Art of Glenn Hetrick’s Alchemy Studios“, by Joe Nazzaro.
Star Trek: Discovery introduces Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green), captain of the U.S.S. Discovery, who leads the expedition seeking imaginative new worlds and new civilizations, while exploring the dramatic contemporary themes that have been a signature of the franchise since its inception in 1966.
This illustrated coffee-table book features the art and behind-the-scenes photography inside Alchemy Studios and interviews with Glenn and his team about the design and creation of the aliens and creatures from Seasons 1-5 of the hit-TV show. Star Trek: Discovery is available to stream now on Paramount+.
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Preview of “Star Trek #500”
Here’s a preview of Star Trek #500 by Christopher Cantwell and Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing which is due to be released this Wednesday on September 4, 2024 at your local comic shop and digital retailers:
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New Star Trek Comic Books Announced To Preorder! September 2024 Edition
IDW September 2024 Catalog
In its escape from the Delta Quadrant, the U.S.S. Theseus has landed in an unknown sector of space that appears safer-if not a hundred years younger-than their own. There, the crew receive a signal from an oncoming ship: the U.S.S. Enterprise.Captain James T. Kirk is hailing.
The two crews join together in the race against Lore’s wave of destruction, convinced there must be some countermeasure that will save their universes from complete annihilation. But will their combined bravery and brainpower be enough? Or is it already too late for both their timelines?
INTERVIEWS: STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS creator Mike McMahan and voice actor Gabrielle Ruiz. PLUS STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS cinematographer, Benji Bakshi.
STAR TREK: DISCOVERY: The best moments from the hit series!
AN ALL NEW STAR TREK: DISCOVERY STORY: Writer Keith R.A. Candido and
artist Mike Collins bring you a tale that explores AUGMENTED REALITY.
AND MORE!
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.
Hot off their Eisner nomination for Lower Decks tie-in Shax’s Best Day, stellar duo Ryan North and Derek Charm are kicking off a brand-new ongoing series that’s a big fun adventure on a big fun ship……wherein Dr. T’Ana saves the crew from a virulent, purple-boiled disease that is sure to- Wait, no, everyone’s cured pretty quickly, actually.
Okay…wherein Deep Space 2’s distress call is mysteriously cut off and the crew has to- Wait, nope, they just needed some help resetting their comms systems.
ALL RIGHT, WHEREIN Mariner gets so totally frustrated with the lack of thrills aboard the Cerritos that she drags her friends into a holodeck adventure that would definitely kill them in reality! Should totally provide them all with a sense of purpose and well-being, right?
Right.
Or at least it would have. If the U.S.S. Bonaventure hadn’t shown back up from the Delta Triangle to provide them with a real challenge. It’s time to explore a ghost ship, baby!
Star Trek: Sons of Star Trek TPB
In the aftermath of Kahless’ harrowing Day of Blood, Jake Sisko struggles to find his place in the universe now that his family has been reunited and his father, Benjamin Sisko, has once again saved the Galaxy. Meanwhile, Nog faces the challenges of being the first Ferengi in Starfleet and Alexander Rozhenko is recovering mentally and emotionally from his time as one of Kahless’ devout followers. Although his father, Worf, was able to break him away from the Red Path cult, Alexander is haunted by his actions during the bloody coup and is unsure of his ability to atone for the devastation he caused. Jake, Alexander, and Nog find their stories intertwined as they’re thrust into an alternate reality full of lessons that may be just what the doctor ordered!
Happy 2024 Birthday to Allyn Gibson!
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Happy birthday to Allyn Gibson!
Allyn Gibson: Writer of various and sundry things. Baltimore resident. Chicago Cubs fan. Amateur historian. Political junkie
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Happy 2024 Birthday to Scott Pearson!
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Happy birthday to Scott Pearson!
Scott Michael Pearson is a writer and an editor. He was first published in 1987 with “The Mailbox,” a short story about an elderly farming couple. In the years since, he has published a smattering of humor, poetry, short stories, and novellas. He contributed stories to the three ReDeus shared-world anthologies edited by Robert Greenberger and Aaron Rosenberg. His Lovecraft pastiche “The Squid that Came to Phil’s Basement” appeared in Space and Time Magazine. Scott has edited such books as Tales from a Tin Can: The USS Dale from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay, which received a starred review in Publishers Weekly, and Will to Murder: The True Story Behind the Crimes & Trials Surrounding the Glensheen Killings, which was featured on Dominick Dunne’s Power, Privilege, and Justice series on CourtTV.
As a freelancer, he has copyedited several Star Trek novels. He cohosts the Generations Geek podcast with his daughter, covering geeky movies, books, TV, and just about anything else that comes to mind. Guests have included Kevin Dilmore, Kevin Lauderdale, and Una McCormack. Scott lives near the banks of the mighty Mississippi River, fabled in story and song, in personable St. Paul, Minnesota, with his wife, Sandra, and daughter, Ella.
Check out the Scott Pearson author page to view more author updates and a full list of books!
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Out Today: “Star Trek Adventures: Second Edition: Core Rulebook”
Out today: “Star Trek Adventures: Second Edition: Core Rulebook“, by .
The Star Trek Adventures roleplaying game takes you to the final frontier!
From the 21st through to the 32nd century, join Starfleet, the Klingon Empire, the Romulan Star Empire, and countless other civilizations, and journey across the Star Trek universe with your crew. Explore strange new worlds, encounter fantastical alien life-forms, and engage in dramatic adventures in a detailed and immersive Galaxy.
Tell your stories and unravel the mysteries of the unknown!
The 376-page, full-color, hardcover Star Trek Adventures Second Edition Core Rulebook contains:
A complete and updated version of the 2d20 System rules, designed for an authentic Star Trek experience.
An extensive primer on Star Trek, including details on a range of societies, worlds, species, and the scientific concepts that underpin this timeless universe.
14 player character species to choose from, including Andorian, Cardassian, Klingon, Orion, and Vulcan.
Guidelines for both novice and experienced gamemasters, offering advice on challenging your players with dramatic and thoughtful gameplay, unique to the Star Trek universe.
Game statistics and graphics for 15 playable starship classes, including Federation, Klingon, and Romulan vessels.
Dozens of non-player characters, starships, and creatures to populate your missions, including Federation, Klingon, Cardassian, and Dominion.
Historical excerpts, personal logs, and intercepted communications provide fresh perspectives and insights from across the Galaxy.
Created by an expert Star Trek development team, including a diverse mix of experienced and new artists, designers, editors, and writers.
These are the voyages of your ship, your crew. Live it together.
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Happy 2024 Birthday to Mark Garland!
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Happy birthday to Mark Garland!
US author who began to publish work of genre interest with “Zen-Coding” for Nova Express in 1989, most of his later short fiction appearing as by Mark A Garland.
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Out Today: “Star Trek Video Games”
Out today: “Star Trek Video Games“, by Mat Bradley-Tschirgi.
Star Trek video games have been around almost as long as Star Trek itself. From humble beginnings as an unofficial text-based game playable on mainframe computers to modern multi-million dollar spectacles, Star Trek video games span the history of gaming itself.
In Star Trek Video Games: An Unofficial Guide to the Final Frontier, author Mat Bradley-Tschirgi dives into notable Star Trek games across a variety of genres in his fun, humorous style with loads of aplomb. Whether they are based on the live-action or animated TV series, movies, or crossover scenarios, dozens of games (some memorable, some not so memorable) are covered in rich detail with proper historical context along the way.
Aside from its sometimes snarky text, this book features over 100 color photos showing off the wide variety of Star Trek video games covered within. There’s also interviews with game designers, writers, producers, and gaming journalists on select titles offering a behind the scenes look or color commentary on such fan favorites as Star Trek: Starfleet Command, Star Trek: Judgment Rites, Star Trek: Legacy, Star Trek: Resurgence, and more!
Relive memories of playing Star Trek games on Mac, PCs, consoles, handhelds, and mobile phones or discover new favorites to add to your collection. Whether you’ve played all the Star Trek games or are curious as to what the world of Trek gaming holds, Star Trek Video Games: An Unofficial Guide to the Final Frontier will make a fun addition to your home library.
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Michael Dismuke Interview With StarTrekBookClub.com
This week’s interview is with Michael Dismuke who has his first Star Trek fiction printed in Star Trek Explorer #11 and is going to be included in the upcoming compilation Star Trek Explorer: A Year to the Day That I Saw Myself Die and Other Stories due out on October 1, 2024. It’s not his first writing effort though, with plenty of other content already out there for you to enjoy, specifically on Continuing Mission.
The conversation runs about an hour and we discuss his Continuing Conversation podcast that covers all things STA and recent had a three part series with a play through of a mission with some familiar faces. We shared our mutual appreciation for good clean stories that don’t have to rely on violence or extreme content and touched on how the unseen is scarier than showing everything on the screen, regardless of how great the graphics are.
His next Trek work is a starter pack that was just announced, you’ll be able to find it on the Modiphius website soon enough. I’m not at all familiar with how to play STA, so this feels like something that will be right up my alley.
You can find Michael Dismuke on his website, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Youtube.
Happy 2024 Birthday to Barbara Hambly!
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Happy birthday to Barbara Hambly!
Barbara Hambly is a fantasy author, drawn to the genre after reading The Wizard of Oz at an early age. She has written for Star Trek, Star Wars, and Beauty and the Beast, as well as her own original stories. She lives in California with her dogs, cats, and lizards.
Born in San Diego, California, she earned a masters in Medieval History at the University of California in 1975 and studying in Bordeaux, France. She works in various other genres including mystery/detective fiction and horror. She was married to the late George Alec Effinger, a science fiction writer.
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Out Today: “Star Trek: Defiant #18”
Out today: “Star Trek: Defiant #18“, by Christopher Cantwell.
With Spock rotting in a Romulan cell aboard Sela’s ship, the rest of the Defiant crew readies the farmers of Antara for an invasion by General Revo and his relentless Romulan army. This leaves Worf, B’Elanna, and Ro with two crewmates down, and despite how hopeful the planet’s population is, what are three failed Starfleet officers and lowly resistance fighters to a heavily armed and technologically advanced Romulan strike team?
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Greg Cox on Podcasters.spotify.com discussing “Lost to Eternity”
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Greg Cox was recently featured on Podcasters.spotify.com to discuss Lost to Eternity:
This Week we chat with New York Times best selling author Greg Cox about his new Star Trek Book Lost to Eternity (Star Trek: The Original Series)!
Check out the Greg Cox author page to view other sightings and a full list of books!
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Preview of “Star Trek: Defiant #18”
Here’s a preview of Star Trek: Defiant #18 by Christopher Cantwell which is due to be released this Wednesday on August 28, 2024 at your local comic shop and digital retailers:
New Star Trek Book: “It’s Not About The Destination: Life Lessons From Star Trek”
It’s Not About The Destination: Life Lessons From Star Trek by Glen Henderson has been added to the Star Trek Book Club!
From Glen Henderson, the bestselling author of “All I Need To Know About Success I Learned From Star Trek,” comes his next deep dive into the soul of the greatest science fiction franchise of all time.
At its core, Star Trek is a story about us – our successes, our struggles, our hopes and fears and dreams for our future. Glen believes that the First Principles to be gleaned from the tales and characters of Trek have the power to profoundly influence our everyday lives – if we know where to look.
Come join the “continuing mission” of the Starship Enterprise … and set course on your OWN journey.
The book is currently scheduled to be published on October 30, 2024
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Happy 2024 Birthday to Geoffrey Mandel!
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Happy birthday to Geoffrey Mandel!
Geoffrey T. Mandel is a production artist and designer who was the scenic artist for Star Trek: Insurrection, the sixth and seventh seasons of Star Trek: Voyager, and the first season of Star Trek: Enterprise. Prior to this, however, he was a production assistant in the art department of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine in 1994 and was also involved in the production of Star Trek Generations. More recently he was a graphic designer on 2009’s Star Trek.
Check out the Geoffrey Mandel author page to view more author updates and a full list of books!
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New Star Trek Book: “Space, the Feminist Frontier: Essays on Sex and Gender in Star Trek”
Space, the Feminist Frontier: Essays on Sex and Gender in Star Trek by has been added to the Star Trek Book Club!
For nearly 60 years, Star Trek has imagined humanity’s future while reflecting its present. Star Trek: The Original Series debuted with three male leads, but in the wake of a Trek renaissance that began with Star Trek: Discovery in 2017, additional series have explored the frontiers of representation, making the present moment ripe for new critical engagement and thoughtful reflection on the narratives that have shaped the journey thus far.
Using the lens of feminist criticism and theory, this collection of essays presents a diverse array of academic and fan scholars engaging with the past, present, and future of Star Trek. Contributors consider issues like Klingon marriage, Majel Barrett’s legacy, the Bechdel-Wallace test, LGBTQ+ representation, and more. They offer updated readings on legacy characters while also addressing wholly new characters like Michael Burnham, Beckett Mariner, and Adira Tal. Their essays provide some of the first critical examinations of the newest additions to the Trek franchise, including Picard, Strange New Worlds and Lower Decks.
The book is currently scheduled to be published on September 6, 2024
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Happy 2024 Birthday to Chris Roberson!
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Happy birthday to Chris Roberson!
Chris Roberson is a novelist and comic book writer from Texas, USA. He is also a publisher, owning and operating MonkeyBrain Books, which publishes non-fiction about speculative fiction.
He began publishing prose works in the late 1990s with the “Clockwork Storybook” group and that led to novels through the 2000s.
Comics titles he wrote include iZombie, Elric: The Balance Lost, Superman, Starborn, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, and Memorial.
He wrote the “Brave New World” novella in the Echoes and Refractions collection under the Myriad Universes banner. More recently, he was the writer of the Star Trek – Legion of Super-Heroes comic series from IDW Publishing.
He was born in Memphis, Tennessee, and grew up near Dallas, Texas. He attended the University of Texas, Austin. He is married, and has a daughter, and lives in Portland, Oregon.
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Happy 2024 Birthday to Dr. James I. Kirkland!
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Happy birthday to Dr. James I. Kirkland!
Dr. James Ian Kirkland is a paleontologist and geologist, who co-authored the Star Trek novel, First Frontier with writer Diane Carey. Kirkland is an avid Star Trek fan, who helped to conceive the novel’s depiction of dinosaurs and their modern-day humanoid descendants.
Check out the Dr. James I. Kirkland author page to view more author updates and a full list of books!
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Out Today: “Star Trek #23”
Out today: “Star Trek #23“, by Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing.
After defying the laws of physics to reach the Pleroma, Captain Sisko and the Theseus crew find themselves unwelcome. The gods want them home and warn that everyone will die if they don’t leave, but they’re too late and their worst fears just might come true. The new godkiller is on their doorsteps… and it’s none other than Lore!
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Disney said it “strive[s] to put humanity above all other considerations.”
“Star Trek: Lost to Eternity” Review by Trekmovie.com
Trekmovie.com has added a new review for Greg Cox‘s “Star Trek: Lost to Eternity”:
And so, cetacean specialist Dr. Gillian Taylor disappeared from San Francisco that morning in 1986, never to be seen again. Or not for a long time, at any rate. What did her friends and co-workers think about her disappearance? Was there a police investigation? When combined with the other strange occurrences in those three days, like the capture and loss of an odd Russian spy aboard a US Navy aircraft carrier, that same spy’s disappearance from a local hospital the next day, and odd happenings around Golden Gate Park, did Dr. Taylor’s missing person’s case raise any red flags in the United States government? Well Greg Cox’s new Star Trek book has that covered, and more so.
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Preview of “Star Trek #23”
Here’s a preview of Star Trek #23 by Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing which is due to be released this Wednesday on August 21, 2024 at your local comic shop and digital retailers:
Happy 2024 Birthday to Robert Blackman!
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Happy birthday to Robert Blackman!
Robert “Bob” Blackman is a Costume Designer who worked on the last five seasons of Star Trek: The Next Generation and the entire run of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Enterprise. He also worked on Star Trek Generations and designed the Starfleet uniforms introduced in Star Trek: First Contact and subsequently used on Deep Space Nine, Voyager, Star Trek: Insurrection, and Star Trek Nemesis. Brought in on recommendation of colleague and friend Durinda Rice Wood, who opted to leave the franchise, his costume work for Star Trek has earned him two Emmy Awards, supplemented with an additional eight nominations.
Blackman was honored by SkyBox International with an individual card entry, no. 17, in their 1993 specialty Star Trek: The Next Generation – Behind the Scenes trading card set . In 2007 he was interviewed for the documentary Star Trek: Beyond the Final Frontier, which is about the 40 Years of Star Trek: The Collection auction, held in 2006 and for which he also filmed a short interview which is available as a supplement to the collectors edition of the auctions catalogue. In the Trek series Blackman was referenced on okudagrams and dedication plaques as Bob Blackman (Starfleet), Bob Blackman (23rd century Starfleet), and R. Blackman in addition to several interviews and articles in Star Trek magazines (listed below).
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Mid Month Star Trek Book Deals For August 2024
Here’s this month’s mid-month ebook sale with 44 books on sale for $0.99 – $2.99 each:
Hidden Universe Travel Guides: Star Trek: Vulcan
Star Trek: 87 My Brother’s Keeper Book 3: Enterprise
Star Trek: Dark Victory
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: I, The Constable
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Ferengi Rules of Acquisition
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Twist of Faith
Star Trek: Enterprise: Rise of the Federation: A Choice of Futures
Star Trek: Enterprise: Rise of the Federation: Patterns of Interference
Star Trek: Enterprise: What Price Honor?
Star Trek: New Earth: Book 2: Belle Terre
Star Trek: New Earth: Book 6: Challenger
Star Trek: Starfleet Corps of Engineers 66 What’s Past Book 6: Many Splendors
Star Trek: Starfleet Corps of Engineers: Omnibus 1: Have Tech, Will Travel
Star Trek: Tales of the Dominion War
Star Trek: Terok Nor: Day of the Vipers
Star Trek: Terok Nor: Night of the Wolves
Star Trek: The Fall: A Ceremony of Losses
Star Trek: The Fall: Peaceable Kingdoms
Star Trek: The Fall: Revelation and Dust
Star Trek: The Fall: The Crimson Shadow
Star Trek: The Fall: The Poisoned Chalice
Star Trek: The Last Roundup
Star Trek: The Next Generation: 62 Maximum Warp Book One
Star Trek: The Next Generation: First Contact
Star Trek: The Next Generation: I, Q
Star Trek: The Next Generation: Indistinguishable from Magic
Star Trek: The Next Generation: Takedown
Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Buried Age
Star Trek: The Original Series: Child of Two Worlds
Star Trek: The Original Series: Errand Of Vengeance 2: Killing Blow
Star Trek: The Original Series: No Time Like the Past
Star Trek: The Original Series: Savage Trade
Star Trek: The Original Series: The Higher Frontier
Star Trek: The Q Continuum
Star Trek: Titan: Orion’s Hounds
Star Trek: Titan: Sight Unseen
Star Trek: Titan: Synthesis
Star Trek: Titan: Taking Wing
Star Trek: Troublesome Minds
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: 1 Zero Sum Game
Star Trek: Vanguard: Harbinger
Star Trek: Vanguard: Open Secrets
Star Trek: Vanguard: What Judgments Come
Star Trek: Voyager: The Nanotech War
Happy 2024 Birthday to TG Theodore!
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Happy birthday to TG Theodore!
Ted Kopulos, credited as TG Theodore, is a Star Trek author.
Kopulos was born in San Francisco, and has worked as a computer programmer, among other things.
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Happy 2024 Birthday to Bjo Trimble!
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Happy birthday to Bjo Trimble!
Betty JoAnne Trimble, universally known as Bjo Trimble (maiden name Betty JoAnne Conway) is an artist, writer, and a strong presence in Star Trek fandom. Trimble was one of the major forces behind the letter-writing campaign that saw the original series renewed for its third season. She was also the driving force behind the letter-writing campaign that urged President Ford to change the name of the first space shuttle to Enterprise. Trimble and her husband John also helped set up Lincoln Enterprises, the mail-order company run by Majel Barrett-Roddenberry.
Her only “official” work is the Star Trek Concordance, an episode guide and encyclopedia for The Original Series and The Animated Series, which began as a fandom publication, but was later published by Ballantine Books and endorsed by Paramount. Her fan works include the previously-mentioned encyclopedia and On the Good Ship Enterprise, a humorous work detailing her fifteen-year involvement with the show. Trimble has also written articles for numerous sci-fi magazines, including Starlog (for whom she wrote the Fan Scene column, concerning the fandom phenomena, that ran from issues 33, 1980 through 69, 1983) and the magazines of the US and UK official Trek fan clubs.
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New Star Trek Book: “Star Trek Adventures: Second Edition: Core Rulebook”
Star Trek Adventures: Second Edition: Core Rulebook by has been added to the Star Trek Book Club!
The Star Trek Adventures roleplaying game takes you to the final frontier!
From the 21st through to the 32nd century, join Starfleet, the Klingon Empire, the Romulan Star Empire, and countless other civilizations, and journey across the Star Trek universe with your crew. Explore strange new worlds, encounter fantastical alien life-forms, and engage in dramatic adventures in a detailed and immersive Galaxy.
Tell your stories and unravel the mysteries of the unknown!
The 376-page, full-color, hardcover Star Trek Adventures Second Edition Core Rulebook contains:
A complete and updated version of the 2d20 System rules, designed for an authentic Star Trek experience.
An extensive primer on Star Trek, including details on a range of societies, worlds, species, and the scientific concepts that underpin this timeless universe.
14 player character species to choose from, including Andorian, Cardassian, Klingon, Orion, and Vulcan.
Guidelines for both novice and experienced gamemasters, offering advice on challenging your players with dramatic and thoughtful gameplay, unique to the Star Trek universe.
Game statistics and graphics for 15 playable starship classes, including Federation, Klingon, and Romulan vessels.
Dozens of non-player characters, starships, and creatures to populate your missions, including Federation, Klingon, Cardassian, and Dominion.
Historical excerpts, personal logs, and intercepted communications provide fresh perspectives and insights from across the Galaxy.
Created by an expert Star Trek development team, including a diverse mix of experienced and new artists, designers, editors, and writers.
These are the voyages of your ship, your crew. Live it together.
TM & © 2024 CBS Studios Inc. © 2024 Paramount Pictures Corp. STAR TREK and related marks and logos are trademarks of CBS Studios Inc. All Rights Reserved.
The book is currently scheduled to be published on August 31, 2024
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“Star Trek Adventures: Second Edition: Core Rulebook” Review by Trekcentral.net
Trekcentral.net has added a new review for ‘s “Star Trek Adventures: Second Edition: Core Rulebook”:
The latest edition of Star Trek Adventures is here! With Star Trek: Picard coming to an end last year, Star Trek: Discovery bowing out a few months ago, Star Trek: Prodigy being unceremoniously cancelled (despite delighting Trek fans around the world) and Star Trek: Lower Decks finishing up later this year you could forgive a Star Trek fan who has become accustomed to the volume and variety of content we’ve been gifted in recent years for feeling a bit glum.
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“Star Trek: The Motion Picture” Review by Treknews.net
Treknews.net has added a new review for Alan Dean Foster and Gene Roddenberry and Harold Livingston‘s “Star Trek: The Motion Picture”:
We here at TrekNews.net love Star Trek: The Motion Picture. The 1979 movie, directed by Robert Wise, is a remarkable examination of the human condition wrapped in a big-budget 1970s sci-fi spectacle. Despite the decades-old qualms about its running time and pacing, it’s a great watch – especially if you catch 2022’s remastered Director’s Edition. But did you know there was a novelization of this movie, written by none other than The Great Bird of the Galaxy himself, Gene Roddenberry?
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Happy 2024 Birthday to Brannon Braga!
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Happy birthday to Brannon Braga!
Brannon Braga was a writer, producer and creator, serving as such on the spin-off television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: Enterprise, as well as on the Star Trek films Star Trek Generations and Star Trek: First Contact.
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“Star Trek: The Next Generation: 48 The Q Continuum 2: Q-Zone” Review by Deepspacespines.com
Deepspacespines.com has added a new review for Greg Cox‘s “Star Trek: The Next Generation: 48 The Q Continuum 2: Q-Zone”:
In today’s episode, Riker realizes the only way to get the Calamarain off his back might be a little cloud-on-cloud action. Meanwhile, Picard continues to squirm in his front-row seat to Q’s early struggles with peer pressure. Is Q wearing a Starfleet uniform stolen valor? What does civilian parlance reveal about their attitudes about various races? And what are the contents of a soiled Q diaper? All this and more in Q-Zone, the book that doesn’t know “The Laughing Vulcan and His Dog”, but if you hum a few bars…
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“Star Trek: Lost to Eternity” Review by Positivelytrek.com
Positivelytrek.com has added a new review for Greg Cox‘s “Star Trek: Lost to Eternity”:
In this episode of the Positively Trek Book Club, Dan Gunther is joined by guest host Chrissie De Clerck-Szilagyi in welcoming author Greg Cox to the show to discuss his latest novel: Star Trek: The Original Series: Lost to Eternity. We talk about the three different time periods that make up the story and share our thoughts on the novel. The first part of the episode is spoiler-free, but be warned: we get into spoilers later on, so listener beware!
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Star Trek Books Coming In The Next 30 Days, as of October 13, 2024
Non-Fiction
By: Mat Bradley-Tschirgi
August 30, 2024Star Trek video games have been around almost as long as Star Trek itself. From humble beginnings as an unofficial text-based game playable on mainframe computers to modern multi-million dollar spectacles, Star Trek video games span the history of gaming itself. In Star Trek Video Games: An Unofficial Guide to the Final Frontier, author Mat […]
Comics
By: Collin Kelly, Jackson Lanzing
August 21, 2024After defying the laws of physics to reach the Pleroma, Captain Sisko and the Theseus crew find themselves unwelcome. The gods want them home and warn that everyone will die if they don’t leave, but they’re too late and their worst fears just might come true. The new godkiller is on their doorsteps… and it’s […]
By: Christopher Cantwell
August 28, 2024With Spock rotting in a Romulan cell aboard Sela’s ship, the rest of the Defiant crew readies the farmers of Antara for an invasion by General Revo and his relentless Romulan army. This leaves Worf, B’Elanna, and Ro with two crewmates down, and despite how hopeful the planet’s population is, what are three failed Starfleet […]
By: Christopher Cantwell, Collin Kelly, Jackson Lanzing
September 4, 2024Celebrate IDW’s 500th issue of Star Trek comics (and an early Star Trek Day!) with this landmark oversized anthology issue! This collection of five short stories spans through fan-favorite eras of the beloved franchise from Lower Decks to Strange New Worlds, legacy characters from The Next Generation and the original series, written and illustrated by […]
By: Collin Kelly, Jackson Lanzing
September 9, 2024The android Lore has done the unthinkable: He has detonated the Orb of Destruction, unmaking the universe. After an extra-galactic tumble on the ensuing shockwave, the Theseus sinks into fluidic space. There, the crew melds in and out of a manifold of realities. Benjamin Sisko is against a godkiller once again, but this time it’s […]
New Star Trek Comic Books Announced To Preorder! August 2024 Edition
IDW August 2024 Catalog
The android Lore has done the unthinkable: He has detonated the Orb of Destruction, unmaking the universe. After an extra-galactic tumble on the ensuing shockwave, the Theseus sinks into fluidic space. There, the crew melds in and out of a manifold of realities. Benjamin Sisko is against a godkiller once again, but this time it’s up to him alone to save reality itself!
Star Trek, Vol. 3: Glass and Bone
The third arc of the critically acclaimed Star Trek flagship comic series continues in paperback collection! Benjamin Sisko is called out of retirement to defeat the Tzenkethi Coalition!
Captain Benjamin Sisko’s quest to defeat the killer of gods is at an end, and the Prophets beckon him home to the Celestial Temple. He’s earned his rest, but he no longer wants to retire into godhood. So when Starfleet requests his help to stop a familiar foe, the Tzenkethi Coalition, from launching their fleet across the Alpha Quadrant, Sisko and the Theseus’ crew set out to once again save the galaxy. They team up with Operative Kingsnake (a.k.a. HARRY KIM), but the Tzenkethi leader has surprising allies of his own: the Romulans! There’s a reason this species of spiritually rich, lizard birds has twice defeated Starfleet in battle. They’re xenophobic, ruthless, and innovative…and confronting them on their home turf, a planet thought to be an organism itself, is a death sentence.
In this paperback follow up to Star Trek, Vol. 1: Godshock and Vol. 2: The Red Path, Volume 3 collects Star Trek issues #13–18 by writers Collin Kelly & Jackson Lanzing with artist Marcus To.
The Romulans are descending on Antara, and Worf must lead his militia to victory against the warship Ran’Kara. When the battle turns against the Antarans, Worf is forced into a duel with one of the best Romulan fighters ever seen: Maiek. Has the battle already been lost, or will Maiek finally meet the edge of Worf’s bat’leth?
Star Trek: Lower Decks—Warp Your Own Way
Warp into the action with Star Trek’s first-ever interactive original graphic novel!
Mariner just wants to have a normal day, but no matter what side of the bed she wakes up on, the world is ending. Literally. If she has coffee, Borg attack! If she has raktajino, cue the Romulan boarding party! And in each scenario, Mariner and her friends end up dead, sometimes the ship is destroyed—and the day starts all over again.
But by exploring the different paths, you, the reader, can discover things that Mariner can’t. There are inconsistencies that don’t make sense—putting aside the fact that Mariner’s choice of drink each morning shouldn’t affect which alien races attack the ship, other facts of her world seem to change too. Something is definitely off. It’s up to you to discover!
Star Trek: Year Five Deluxe Edition: Book 2
Embark on the critically acclaimed final chapter of the U.S.S. Enterprise‘s five-year voyage. The crew left Earth four years ago. Since then, they’ve traveled to strange new worlds, defeated impossible foes, and made universe-changing decisions. But now, with the end in sight, they’ll have to face their biggest challenge yet. Step aboard the Enterprise with Kirk, Spock, Bones, Uhura, Sulu, Scotty, and Chekov as they begin the end of their original five-year mission and boldly go into an uncertain future. This deluxe hardcover edition collects issues #15-25 and the Star Trek: Year Five Valentine’s Day Special.
“Star Trek: Lost to Eternity” Review by Warpfactortrek.com
Warpfactortrek.com has added a new review for Greg Cox‘s “Star Trek: Lost to Eternity”:
Greg Cox, one of the best original series Star Trek novelists, delivers what appears at first to be three different stories but marvelously connects them.
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Happy 2024 Birthday to Dan Jolley!
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Happy birthday to Dan Jolley!
Dan Jolley is a comic book author, but is also a Star Trek novelist with Scott Ciencin, having written eBook #12, “Some Assembly Required” in the Star Trek: Starfleet Corps of Engineers series.
He has also written tie-ins for the Buffy the Vampire Slayer franchise.
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Happy 2024 Birthday to Terry J. Erdmann!
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Happy birthday to Terry J. Erdmann!
Terry J. Erdmann is an author and publicist. A graduate of UCLA, Erdmann resides in Southern California with his wife, Trek editor, licensing liaison and fellow author Paula M. Block.
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Greg Cox on Warpfactortrek.com discussing “Lost to Eternity”
(Photograph courtesy of the author)Greg Cox was recently featured on Warpfactortrek.com to discuss Lost to Eternity:
Admiral, there be whales here! Not quite the kind of whales you’re probably thinking of, but a whale of a time, threefold. You see, Greg Cox’s ambitious new Star Trek novel, Lost to Eternity, alternates between three time periods: a storyline set in 2024, with a true crime podcaster investigating the disappearance of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home’s Gillian Taylor; an adventure during the Enterprise’s five-year mission from Star Trek: The Original Series; and a Saavik-heavy storyline that also involves diplomacy, Klingons, Romulans, and the Enterprise-A shortly before Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. About the latter era, Cox notes, “That’s about the only time you can insert an original-movie-era novel.” I recently enjoyed interviewing the author on a deep-dive discussion about his new book.
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Shore-Leave 44 After Action Report Part 4
Shore-Leave 44 was well done and over with, so this is just the story of my journey out of Lancaster, PA and back to Jacksonville, FL. I started out by leaving the hotel around 8am and driving about an hour and a half closer to Philadelphia and made a pit stop at Uncanny! Comics, which initially had some Google Maps struggles, as it seemed to want to put me in the middle of a parking garage instead of inside the mall. I eventually found the place and it was a fantastic store, but I think I walked about a mile inside that massive mall trying to find it, then took about 2 minutes getting out. If I remember correctly I bought a couple movie novelizations in comic form and one of the 2 missing Energon covers that were recently released. The guy behind the counter was very friendly and they had a ton of product on the shelves.
Next up was a shop about 30 or 40 minutes closer to Philly named Showcase Comics and Games. It had a more lived in and dusty feel to it, but their back issue bins were insane, literally dozens upon dozens of boxes all lined up, with about 2 long boxes dedicated to Trek books, of which I bought my fair share. The staff was pretty friendly and the downtown area they were located in was pretty fun to walk through. I looked for the final missing Energon cover and they had the fourth one that I needed, yay! I may put all four together to show you what they look like in that form, but it’s not necessarily Trek related, so maybe…not?
My next step was to get into Philadelphia proper, which wasn’t as painful as I was expecting, Google Maps had all the suggestions I needed for which lane to be in and what to expect, but it was still a bit of a surprise when I came around a corner and saw the gorgeous city doing it’s thing in the distance:
I made two stops to two different shops, both of which had decidedly different feels to them. The first was Brave New World, which had a touristy feel with about 4 or 5 long boxes of back issues, but still had the LCS charm that I enjoy feeling. Only problem was that with limited back issues there wasn’t much for me to do, but on my way out the door they had a 20 pack of science fiction comics for $10, wrapped in brown paper. A mysterious grab bag of comics? Yes please! I still haven’t even opened them yet to see what I have, but I’m definitely going to do that on a video of some sort. Will there be a Trek comic in there? Who knows!
My final stop was at Atomic City Comics who has an amazing sign out front with an amazing logo and had a huge back issue area that had just a few Trek comics, of which I bought half of. The guy behind the counter was super friendly and we chatted for about 5 minutes and I would have stayed longer but I was getting super nervous about turning in my rental car and making it to my flight back home. Sure I still had about 2 hours before I needed to be at the gate, but I didn’t want to get stuck in any kind of TSA situation, so after paying for my books, I headed off to PHL.
PHL turned out to be an interesting experience for all the wrong reasons. I made it to the rental car place, turning in the car involved just showing up, leaving it in a lot with the keys inside and just walking away with no paperwork or signatures at all, which was super weird and I didn’t like the experience at all. I caught the right bus, made it to the right terminal, got my bag checked, and made it through TSA security, almost. For the first time in my admittedly light flight history, my carry on backpack got flagged and I had to go to a special area to have it searched. It wasn’t anything major, but the solar cells on the phone battery pack caused them some concern, hence needing to let them see the thing to make sure it was what I said it was. After that slight delay I made it to my gate with about an hour and a half to spare, so I walked around the entire terminal to see what I could see, grab a bite to eat, and get my 10k steps in. I did all that, made it back to my gate with about 30 minutes to spare, so found a seat and started the last parts of The Autobiography of Benjamin Sisko. About 2 minutes before we’re supposed to board at 3:45pm, the gate attendant came over the speakers and said:
We were delayed! I think! I conferred with fellow passengers and they agreed that they think the same thing but had no idea what was actually being said due to loud crowd, the restaurant next to our gate, the tvs that didn’t mute when the announcement came over, the accent of the person on the mic, and the fact they were wearing a mask while trying to talk into that same mic. We sat around until about 4:30 when we were finally able to board and the pilot came over the onboard speakers and said that there was some maintenance done to the plane but the maintenance crew didn’t sign the maintenance log, so we’d have to wait for them to come back out to do the paperwork. We didn’t push back from the gate until about 5pm, but then promptly discovered that the maintenance that was performed did not do the needful, and one of our engines just would not start. We spent the next hour and a half just sitting there in the jet listening to that one stubborn engine cycle up and fail to start, then cycle down. Luckily it was all figured out and we were finally in the air at 6:45pm. No problems in the air, and we landed safely in JAX around 9:30, my sister picked me up and I got back to my car around 10pm and I was on the road at 10:05pm because there was a three hour trip across the top of Florida to make it back to my own bed so I could get back to work that very next day.
I did finally make it home around 1:30am, unwound my brain for about 30 minutes and was sleeping by 2am. The entire week after this I was in a fog and trying to catch up on work that I missed, both in my day job, my side job, my other side job, my other OTHER side job, and all the Trek stuff that I need to talk about is still sitting around, waiting to be talked about. I still need to catalog the books I bought, need to see a couple movies to do reviews, and now there’s a hurricane that by the time this post goes up will have already either wiped out my city or fizzled out and gave us a ton of rain.
I’m hoping for the latter.
Shore-Leave 44 After Action Report Part 3
Sunday was day 3 of Shore-Leave 44 and to be honest I was about ready to head back home, my feet and legs were wiped out, I missed my cats, I missed my wife, and I missed my own familiar stomping grounds, but I knew that this was going to be a great day full of meeting more cool people and talking about my favorite science fiction franchise. After some good breakfast and a cup of coffee I was off to the show again!
The day started at 10am with “The Bob and Howie Show, Minus One”, normally Robert Greenberger and Howard Weinstein do this two man show, but with Greenberger not at the show, Weinstein held his own with a rowdy crowd of people complaining about modern tv’s audio levels and acting methods. It was entertaining to listen to the attendees!
11am was another panel with Derek Tyler Attico, this one specifically for his Autobiography of Benjamin Sisko, which I finally finished on my way home on the airplane. It’s a great book and I was surprised at both the number of people in the audience and how many of them hadn’t known about the book before the panel and were interested in buying copies from him. Both of the panels that had Sisko as the main topic ended with a line nearly out the door with people wanting to get the book!
Noon I went to Greg Grunberg’s on stage event with Ingvild Deila in which he took a call from Todd Stashwick to get a Chipotle order, which was adorable.
Next up I made it a missing to track down as many authors as possible to get a selfie with them. Point of interest, I’m 6’6″ and all the authors are much less than that, so there’s varying degrees of me leaning down or just making them all look incredibly short, which they are not, I’m just super tall compared to them.
In no particular order:
Then I was back up into the main theater room to catch some of Amanda Tapping and Teryle Rothery’s Q&A session. I’ve seen all the Stargate stuff so I was very familiar with both of them and it was great to see them in person.
1pm rolled around and I found myself at the Espec books panel with a large group of familiar authors and a few that I didn’t know yet. Attending were Danielle Ackley-McPhail, Christopher L Bennett, Keith DeCandido, Christine Norris, Aaron Rosenberg, and Hildy Silverman. It was in the “Cromwall Room” which I haven’t mentioned yet, but I think this was my third panel in this room. It was like a wind tunnel and the mics didn’t work, so it was a real struggle to hear what people were saying. What I could catch though was fantastic and I’ll be honest I’ve bought a large number of books from them in the past and I’ll likely pick up a whole bunch more in the future.
After the Espec panel I booked it back up to the main theater to catch some of Todd Stashwick and Ashlei Sharpe Chestnut’s Q&A, which was great to attend, they both had fun stories of how they got involved in Trek and I’d like to think that at least one of them will be back with the franchise soon. Also, Stashwick has massive biceps with some pretty gnarly tattoos on at least one arm, not something they showed off on Picard!
2pm was the Crazy 8 Press panel with Glenn Hauman, Michael Jan Friedman, Mary Fan, Christopher D. Abbott, Hildy Silverman, and Aaron Rosenberg. They did a bonkers version of spin the wheel for questions and what if’s about their stories that worked far better than I initially thought it would and it ended up being a great panel. It was also my last panel, so one more quick trip through the vendors room and I was done with the show for the night, but my night wasn’t over!
I went to one more comic shop that was north of the area I was in for the convention, this one was “Critical Finds” and I’m super happy that I made the drive out to see them, it was my favorite of the stores that I had been to so far. Even though I only found a few books to buy from them, the husband and wife team that owns and runs the store were super friendly and we spent about half an hour talking about the convention I was just at, their recent move to their current location, and how much they enjoyed working in the industry. They were also the only ones to have a cute comic box as a mascot and they even gave me a sticker to put on my comic portfolio that I use every week. It’s adorable!
I then walked around the corner and bought a cheese steak to eat back in my hotel room, it was dang delicious and likely the best thing I ate all weekend.
I packed up my comic / book suitcase and got to bed pretty early, I had some big plans for Monday, which included a mapped out route that would take me past a few comic shops and get me back home to Florida in time to get to bed at a respectable time.
Those plans did not work out the way I was hoping.
The final part is coming tomorrow!
Out Today: “Star Trek: Holo-Ween TPB”
Out today: “Star Trek: Holo-Ween TPB“, by Christopher Sequeira.
Horrors from Starfleet’s past are back with a vengeance in this miniseries. To save the ship, Picard and crew will have to become monsters themselves!
The evil Redjac presence—a.k.a. Jack the Ripper from the Star Trek episode “Wolf in the Fold”—has returned. And this time it has a new terrifying tool at its disposal: the holodeck. As Redjac seizes control of Picard’s Enterprise and spreads holographic horror, the only way for the crew to resist insanity is to become one with their fears. Ship counselor Commander Deanna Troi concocts a daring plan for an away team to become hypnotized holodeck-incarnations of timeless horror monsters, such as Dracula, Frankenstein, the Mummy, and others. Once they infiltrate the illusions, they can fight fear with fear. However, will they be able to defeat Redjac and break their hypnosis before their minds are permanently altered? Or will the crew be stuck as movie monsters forever?
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2024 Scribe Awards
Two stories by David Mack won Scribe Awards!
Star Trek: Picard: Firewall and “Lost and Founder”, from the upcoming collection of stories in “Star Trek Explorer: A Year to the Day That I Saw Myself Die and Other Stories” that were originally printed in Star Trek Explorer.
Star Trek Book Deals For August 2024
This month’s ebook deals have landed with 14 books on sale for $0.99 – $1.99 each, books that have never been on sale are in bold:
Cross-Stitch: Explore Strange New Worlds of Crafting
Star Trek: 49 The Pandora Principle
Star Trek: 64 The Starship Trap
Star Trek: Day of Honor Omnibus
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Rising Son
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations: The Collectors
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations: Watching the Clock
Star Trek: Enterprise Logs
Star Trek: The Brave And The Bold Book 1
Star Trek: The Brave And The Bold Book 2
Star Trek: The Next Generation: 43 A Fury Scorned
Star Trek: The Next Generation: X-Men: Planet X
Star Trek: Voyager: 16 Seven Of Nine
Star Trek: Voyager: Captain Proton: Defender of the Earth
“Star Trek: Picard: Firewall” Review by Treklit.com
Treklit.com has added a new review for David Mack‘s “Star Trek: Picard: Firewall”:
When Seven of Nine first showed up on Star Trek: Picard at the end of the episode “Absolute Candor,” many Star Trek fans were left wondering about her backstory. What happened to her in the aftermath of Voyager’s return to the Alpha Quadrant? Why was she not in Starfleet? And how had she come to join the Fenris Rangers? While some aspects of those questions have been addressed on-screen in the years since, the vast majority of Seven’s time from the end of Voyager to where we see her in Star Trek: Picard still remained a mystery. Until now!
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Happy Belated 2024 Birthday to Wil Wheaton!
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We’re a little late to the party, but wanted to say “Happy Birthday” to Wil Wheaton!
Wil Wheaton may be one of the most unusual celebrities of our time. Born into stardom with the movie “Stand By Me”, and then growing up on television as Wesley Crusher on “Star Trek: The Next Generation”, Wil was in the spotlight nearly his entire childhood. Instead of burning out as a child star, he left fame behind and became a computer specialist in what Hollywood might consider the middle of nowhere: Topeka, Kansas. Now, Wil considers himself “just a geek”, and both Dancing Barefoot and the forthcoming biography Just a Geek are about his journey in rediscovering himself and coming to terms with what it means to be famous, or, ironically, famous for being previously famous.
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There are 2,000-plus dead rockets in orbit—here’s a rare view of one
A Japanese company becomes the first to approach a piece of space junk in low-Earth orbit.
Intel makes good on CPU instability issues by extending warranties by two years
Intel’s Core 13th and 14th-gen processors have serious instability issues.
Shore-Leave 44 After Action Report Part 1
I started this Shore-Leave adventure by getting off of work at 6pm, then driving from Tallahassee to Jacksonville, spent the night at my sister’s house, then she dropped me off at the airport at 10am, and I arrived in Philadelphia around 12:45pm. After some confusion about how to get my rental car (all the buses said “Avis” which I guess I should have known they also own Budget?) I found myself with a “Chevy Malibu” which was a perfectly fine car, it’s the first one that I’ve ever driven with a backup camera (I hated it) and android auto (it was ok, but flaky). I was whelmed by the experience. I then drove about 45 minutes west to go to a comic shop (Comic Universe), but they were in the middle of sorting their back inventory and said they didn’t have anything Trek related, so I left without buying anything, the only shop that I did that with. I then drove the full 2 hours it took to get to my hotel, which wasn’t the hotel that the convention was at, but was instead about 30 minutes away. It stunk of mildew, but the room itself was ok, so I was able to comfortably sleep when I needed it, and oh boy did I did it the next few nights. By the time it was situated in my room, I loaded up my backpack with the books I was going to get signed later that night and headed off to the Wyndham Resort.
The hotel was initially a confusing mess of stairs, elevators, more stairs, lobbies, and yes, more stairs. The registration table was as far away from the front door as you could get and absolutely no one was checking badges for panels or the dealer room, but it was still super cool picking up my badge and having the media banner on it. I didn’t exactly use the media credentials all that much, but I did get a ton of selfies with authors and took some pictures of actors. Robin Curtis even winked at me as we passed each other in a hallway!
That first night was light on panels, but one big one for me was the Convention 101 where the STAT club’s volunteers spoke to a small crowd about the show. There’s about $180,000 in guest costs, about 2,00 attendees, and they have two classifications of membership that are either $35 or $25 each with varying degrees of rights. They’re the oldest fan run show in the country!
After Con101 I went to my first ‘real’ panel on “The Marvels” with Kelli Fitzpatrick, Laura Ware, Rigel Ailure, Christopher Bennett, and Kathleen David. It was a super interesting panel and exposed me to something that was going to repeatedly happen where audience members would try to start talking over panelists and steer the conversations to something they wanted to talk about. It was interesting to see how the moderators handled it without breaking a sweat, but was eye opening to me. There was a point where I was the only guy in the audience, which wasn’t alarming, but interesting to notice.
The panels were all set to start at the top if the hour and run about 45-50 minutes, so around 6:50 the Marvels panel was adjourning and some rumors that one of the elevators broke with guest inside were quickly circulating. The truth was pretty close to that, but they were only in there for a few minutes and the elevator was quickly fixed. While I didn’t hear of anyone else getting stuck IN an elevator, there were plenty of attendees riding around on their mobility scooters that weren’t moving quickly enough for the elevator doors and a couple people got smacked. The hotel quickly realized the problem and I kid you not, assigned an employee to attend to every elevator to be sure it was called properly and the doors stayed open long enough. Kudos to them!
10pm rolls around and it’s time for the “Meet The Pros” event, which was a fantastic experience that I’m looking forward to attending again in the future. During the interviews that I did with all the authors before the show, Howard Weinstein offered to sell me some Trek comics, so I got a whole pile from him, a few of them I got autographed since I had the guy right there in front of me. Did I get a picture with him? Of course not, I was too busy being fan to think of my professional obligations! I did end up spending about half the cash I brought up with me on a huge pile of books, and I got nearly every single of them autographed. It was a super cool experience. I even got to speak to Michael Jan Friedman about “A Star to Steer Her By” which I’ve only ever seen the Kirk and Picard versions and never once have I seen the Sisko version, even on ebay. He didn’t have much memory of the actual publication of the book and thought they only did the two I’ve seen, but did think he had seen the Sisko version, at least in a demo. Alas, my search continues!
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Out Today: “Star Trek: The Illustrated Oral History: The Original Cast”
Out today: “Star Trek: The Illustrated Oral History: The Original Cast“, by Titan Books.
The original cast and crew of Gene Roddenberrys’ Star Trek discuss the making of the iconic show and films in this fully illustrated collector’s edition.
Featuring interviews with the U.S.S Enterprise crew members William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Nichelle Nichols, George Takei, Walter Koenig, and James Doohan.
This illustrated book compiles years of unmissible content with exclusive new features.
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“Star Trek: The Motion Picture: Echoes TPB” Review by Positivelytrek.com
Positivelytrek.com has added a new review for Marc Guggenheim‘s “Star Trek: The Motion Picture: Echoes TPB”:
In this episode of the Positively Trek Book Club, hosts Dan and Brandi discuss the 5-issue miniseries Star Trek: The Motion Picture – Echoes from IDW! We talk about all five issues, what we liked and didn’t like, and share our thoughts on the miniseries as a whole.
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IDW PUBLISHING AND PARAMOUNT RENEW STAR TREK™ COMIC BOOK PARTNERSHIP
LOS ANGELES, CA (July 28, 2024) – STAR TREK will continue to boldly go forth into all-new adventures!
The STAR TREK line of comic books has received universal praise, earning prestigious Eisner Award nominations in both 2023 and 2024, as well ComicBook.com stating “it’s hard to imagine what more any fan could want from a STAR TREK comic.” Now, IDW Publishing and Paramount Global are immensely proud to announce an extension of the partnership between the two companies to continue their mission of exploring the vast and imaginative STAR TREK universe in the comic book medium.
“STAR TREK is not just an iconic franchise, but a universe that celebrates diversity and creativity,” remarked Davidi Jonas, CEO of IDW Media Holdings. “The STAR TREK community is one that we’re proud to serve and be part of. The team at Paramount share our love of storytelling, universe expansion, and delighting fans. We are humbled and excited to renew our commitment, and plan on years of going boldly forward with our partners and fans.”
IDW Publisher Mark Doyle is honored to have the legacy of STAR TREK continue to expand under IDW. “I have always loved STAR TREK for its positive vision of the future. It’s been such a joy to watch and support the editorial and creative teams as they tell bold new stories in this universe that have really resonated with audiences old and new.” The Publisher continued, “From Eisner nominations to glowing fan praise, the STAR TREK community has really embraced the stories we’re telling and I cannot wait for them to see where we go next!”
STAR TREK #500, the massive milestone issue which includes a prelude for the next big event, as well as a short story co-written by Patton Oswalt and featuring much more, goes on sale September 4, 2024. The innovative and interactive original graphic novel STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS – WARP YOUR OWN WAY beams into shops on October 22, 2024. Meanwhile, the acclaimed titles STAR TREK, STAR TREK: DEFIANT, and SONS OF STAR TREK are currently available in comic book shops. For updates on everything regarding STAR TREK comics, be sure to follow IDW and the official STAR TREK accounts on social media.
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Star Trek: Lower Decks Returns in New Ongoing Comic Series
IDW Publishing announced the new series arrives this November!
Happy 2024 Birthday to Robert Greenberger!
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Happy birthday to Robert Greenberger!
A writer, editor, and project manager, Robert Greenberger has been working in publishing since 1980. A lifelong fan of comics and science fiction, he watched dreams become reality when he first joined Starlog Press in 1980. There, he created Comics Scene which he edited during its initial run. In 1984, he moved to DC Comics where he worked as an editor or administrator until 2000, earning plaudits for his work on the Star Trek comic book. After a brief sojourn to the Internet, he returned to comics in 2001, this time working as an executive at Marvel Comics. This turned out to be a stormy, frustrating year and in 2002 he returned to DC as a senior editor in their growing collected editions department. In 2006, he left DC and found himself having the time of his life as Managing Editor at Weekly World News unitl its clueless management shuttered the paper.
Since then he has been a freelance writer, working on media tie-in properties, original fiction, non-fiction for your young adults and adults, and whatever else has come his way. He has cofounded the digital Crazy 8 Press.
He currently teaches high school English and Creative Writing in Baltimore County.
He makes his home in Maryland. For more.
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Out Today: “Star Trek: Defiant #17”
Out today: “Star Trek: Defiant #17“, by Christopher Cantwell.
Enter a brand-new arc and 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…
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Jim Johnson Interview With StarTrekBookClub.com
Jim Johnson has been working on Star Trek properties since at least 2004 with three stories in three different Strange New Worlds collections and more recently as a project manager for Mõdiphiüs, pronounced Moe-diphius, not Mod-iphius as I said for the first half of the video until I was correctly corrected. I was able to speak to him due to some introductions by Derek Tyler Attico, and I think is going to open up another group of writers to talk to about their involvement in Trek and has even given me a few ideas for future content on Twitch.
We open the talk with me drooling over his Blue Bricks Defiant he has on a shelf behind him, then swap a couple “million dollar ideas” that are sure to have us in the two comma club soon enough. We move on to have a great discussion on how exceptionally friendly everyone is on the creative side of Trek books and how willing they are to help people out with interviews and games and how lucky we are to be involved in the fandom.
What prompted me to post this interview before Shore Leave is Kelli Fitzpatrick is bringing the new second edition core books with her to the show. Up to this point, I’ve been blissfully unfamiliar with IRL RPG games, as most of my RPG experiences are PC based with minimal human interactions. The second edition is officially launching at GenCon, but those of us at Shore Leave are going to get to see it a week early.
As a newcomer to the RPG space, I had to ask, what exactly is a second edition and how does it effect the content that’s been previously released? Jim gives a great breakdown of the hows and whys, and essentially the original game was good but they had a ton of content come out since the original core book came out, so some tinkering was in order to make it all align better.
There’s a conversation on how different reviews for literary books are from RPG books, the project management methodologies of Mõdiphiüs, the process of choosing authors for the books, and how content is approved by Paramount.
We wrap things up by mentioning that Mõdiphiüs is currently running a 50% off sale on both the US and UK sites, the second edition is up for preorder, and there’s going to be a starter kit that’s going to be a great entry point to the game system for people like me that are intimidated by those big gorgeous books.
Mõdiphiüs can be found on Facebook and Discord.
Jim Johnson can found on his personal website, Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube.
Out Today: “Star Trek: Picard’s Academy: Commit No Mistakes TPB”
Out today: “Star Trek: Picard’s Academy: Commit No Mistakes TPB“, by Sam Maggs.
Go back to academy days with one of Starfleet’s most celebrated officers: Jean-Luc Picard! A new collected series by New York Times best-selling author, Sam Maggs.
Before becoming the Federation’s finest, Jean-Luc was an ordinary student at Starfleet Academy with sights on the stars. His path forward was charted: blow his classmates out of the water on the infamous Evasive Maneuvers exam and graduate early. But there’s a detail Cadet Picard hadn’t factored into his plan: the exam was a group project and he’d need to make friends with, ugh, people if he stood a chance at passing.
Federation starships aren’t run by a party of one, after all. During the training exercise, Picard accidentally puts the lives of himself and two of his classmates—Doq and Marty—in danger!
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Out Today: “Star Trek: Lost to Eternity”
Out today: “Star Trek: Lost to Eternity“, by Greg Cox.
A thrilling new Star Trek “movie era” novel from New York Times bestselling author Greg Cox!
Three Eras. Three Mysteries. One Ancient Enemy?
2024: Almost forty years ago, marine biologist Gillian Armstrong stormed away from her dream job at San Francisco’s Cetacean Institute—and was never seen or heard from again. Now a new true crime podcast has reopened that cold case, but investigator Melinda Silver has no idea that her search for the truth about Gillian’s disappearance will ultimately stretch across time and space—and attract the attention of a ruthless obsessive with his own secret agenda.
2268: The USS Enterprise’s five-year mission is interrupted when Captain James T. Kirk and his crew set out to recover an abducted Federation scientist whose classified secrets are being sought by the Klingons as well. The trail leads to a barbaric world off limits to both Starfleet and the Klingon Empire—and an ageless mastermind on a quest for eternity.
2292: The Osori, an ancient alien species, has finally agreed to establish relations with its much younger neighbors: the Federation, the Klingons, and the Romulans. A joint mission involving ships from all three powers, including the Enterprise-A, turns explosive when one of the Osori envoys is apparently killed. Each side blames the others, but the truth lies buried deep, nearly three hundred years in the past…
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Preview of “Star Trek: Defiant #17”
Here’s a preview of Star Trek: Defiant #17 by Christopher Cantwell which is due to be released this Wednesday on July 24, 2024 at your local comic shop and digital retailers:
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…
Lorraine Anderson Interview With StarTrekBookClub.com
Lorraine Anderson’s been going to Shore Leave since 2005 and it was a pleasure to talk to her about her winning entry in Strange New Worlds 8 and her recent essay in Women Take The Conn, a book that I fully intend to get in my collection as soon as I can. During our conversation she recounts how she had a concussion when she was included in Strange New Worlds and was happily surprised to be included and honored.
We talk about our love of cats and how frustrated they get when you’re in a room with a closed door, then we spoke about her involvement in The Infinite Bard a IAMTW project that has fizzled out recently.
She’s been on dozens of panels at Shore Leave and we touch on how incredibly smart many of the panelists are and how much they know about Star Trek. This year she’s going to be on some pretty cool panels, like “Shifting, Swirling HERitage: Shiny New Anthology”, “When Does SF Become Fantasy?”, and “Cozy Fantasies”.
Lorraine can be found on her website, Blue Sky, Facebook, Twitter and if you want to check out her singing, she’s on Youtube as well!
David Mack Interview With StarTrekBookClub.com
I thought I was all wrapped up with interviews and conversations with Star Trek authors, but as the posts started going up I started getting responses back from authors that were busy with life when my original invites went out (the nerve!), so here’s a surprise one with David Mack, author of the recently released Star Trek: Picard: Firewall. This will be his 21st year going to Shore Leave, so as a veteran of the convention circuit he shared great opinions on Shore Leave specifically and the larger convention system that wasn’t necessarily doing him many favors.
In 2022 he received the IAMTW Grand Master award and this year he had two stories nominated for the 2024 Scribe Awards. There’s a number of great stories on that list and he’s happy to be included with them. He’s also happy that the audience he was aiming for with Firewall found the book and that it struck a cord with them.
About half the conversation is discussing the confusion between David Mack (the artist) and David Alan Mack (the author) and how the disambiguous page for DavidMack.com came about. It’s a great story that’s right up my alley as I was a big fan of the artist when he was doing Daredevil work, then came to know the author from his Trek work and had a moment of confusion when I figured out they were different people. Couple all that with my love for making websites and maintaining them, whew.
Mr. Mack has some good final advice for a first time convention going person like me: check in early and attend the “Meet The Pros” event, which echoes the advice that I’ve received from others.
David Alan Mack (the author) can be found at his website, Facebook, Mastodon, and Twitter .
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Dayton Ward Interview With StarTrekBookClub.com
Dayton Ward is no stranger to Star Trek, getting his start in the Strange New Worlds contest and going on to write dozens of books in the franchise, including entries in SCE, Vanguard, Seekers, a couple Trek Travel Guides, and the wonderful Kirk-Fu Manual. We open our conversation by being grumpy about AI writing, but quickly move on to talking about Shore Leave, a show he’s been going to since 2003.
He talks about his sweet personal library and predicts that he’s going to die happy down there, an enviable goal if there ever was one, and we both agree that unread books are still a valid part of a personal library. Anyone disagreeing with that can go build their own library of books and leave us to our unread ones.
I ask him a line of questions about the Incredibuilds kits, I have them on STBC because there’s a book that comes with them and I’ve never managed to get my hands on it, at least not yet, and he lets me know what’s in those books. Spoilers: it’s all Star Trek content to give background on the build that you’re incredibuilding.
He and his writing partner Kevin Dilmore recently had a comic book adjacent project released, “Captain America: Declassified“, which is a riff on “The Last Interview” series of books, featuring interviews with comic books characters to gain insight on how they viewed the big events that happened in the Marvel Comic Universe. This might sound familiar because I recently spoke with Kelli Fitzpatrick and she has a book in the same series coming out next year, hers will be Captain Marvel themed.
He gives some good advice to first time convention going folks like me at the end of the talk, I’m grateful for it and I’m already taking him up on some of it!
Dayton Ward can be found on his website, Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, and Twitter
Derek Tyler Attico Interview With StarTrekBookClub.com
Derek Tyler Attico is the final interview for my series before I head off to Shore Leave, this one was recorded about a week before the show. We start with a discussion about his recent nomination for a Scribe award by the IAMTW for the recently released Autobiography of Benjamin Sisko in the in universe series of autobiographies. The other four books where from two authors who each wrote two books, so we talk about who he would write about if he were able to do another book in the series. He’s done a good bit of work with Modiphius on their Star Trek line of RPG books.
We then discuss Shore Leave and his history with the show, they recently released their program, and holy moly I was not prepared for how much they’re going to be doing in just three days. Derek talked me through his schedule and I’m hoping to catch at least one of his panels.
Our discussion about Galloping Around the Cosmos led to a fun conversation about what brought him to the franchise, specifically the episode “The Devil in the Dark”, a story of fear, hope, and trying to communicate.
He’s currently doing a master class series for Tallaght Academy of Sequential Art on story telling, which brought us to a conversation about his time in a class that was taught by comic industry legend Dennis O’Neil and how their relationship lead to Attico learning about the comic industry in general and how to deal with hitting writers blocks.
He currently has an exhibit at the American Writers Museum on Role Playing, a very cool accomplishment!
Also, I didn’t figure out his shirt until about half way through the video. It’s clever and now I want one.
Derek Tyler Attico can be found on his website, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.
