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!
Robot Author
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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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DTI Investigation for the week of January 30, 2025
Here are all the comics printed this week in years past.
“Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Left Hand of Destiny: Book 1” Review by Atboundarysedge.com
Atboundarysedge.com has added a new review for J.G. Hertzler and Jeffrey Lang‘s “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Left Hand of Destiny: Book 1”:
Every now and then, a celebrity gets it into their head to write a novel. There’s no reason they shouldn’t do this. After all, they’re as qualified as anybody else. It’s just that sometimes the weight of their name overrules any actual writing ability. Those celebrities not endowed with sufficient prose skills have two options. Ghost-writers, and collaborators. I don’t know exactly how much of The Left Hand of Destiny can be attributed to each of its authors, but my understanding is that Hertzler came up with the ideas and wrote the first draft, and Lang did most of the actual writing that appears in the final version. Whatever the case, it’s a partnership that largely works.
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Out Today: “Star Trek: Defiant #23”
Out today: “Star Trek: Defiant #23“, by .
Alexander’s cha’DIch Worf has tasked him with a near-impossible task for his Errand of Valor: rescue the workers rebelling against a deuterium mega-power, Archanis Inter-Corporate. He must fight selflessly in the name of the helpless… even if it costs him his life. If that weren’t enough of a challenge, a face from Alexander’s bloody past appears to test where his heart truly lies. Meanwhile, in the minefield of the Alpha Quadrant, Ro, B’Elanna, and O’Brien find themselves in a stalemate between the Cardassians and Section 31 that could end explosively.
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New Star Trek Book: “Star Trek: The Original Series: Identity Theft”
Star Trek: The Original Series: Identity Theft by Greg Cox has been added to the Star Trek Book Club! There’s no official cover yet, so keep an eye on the book page for updates!
This all-new Star Trek novel celebrates the 60th anniversary of Star Trek: The Original Series—continuing the legacy of Captain James T. Kirk and the crew of the USS Enterprise.
2269: The prospect of peace had seemed unattainable until the assistance of the Federation. Finally, countless ancient enemies have stopped their conflicts simply by listening to one another. On the planet Voyzr, Captain James T. Kirk and his crew aided the planet to realize peace.
2289: Invited to celebrate twenty years of peace, the crew of the USS Enterprise-A is returning to Voyzr as honored guests. Security Chief Pavel Chekov remembers his visit to the planet as a green ensign. He has always believed the negotiations were too easy, and he wondered if there are people on the planet who still long for war—and have been waiting for just the right moment to upend the peace. Unfortunately, Chekov discovers he is right when he finds himself in the middle of a dangerous ploy.
The book is currently scheduled to be published on November 18, 2025
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DTI Investigation of the week of January 28, 2025
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Happy 2025 Birthday to Sonia Hillios!
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Happy birthday to Sonia Hillios!
Sonia R. Hillios (born 27 January 1961; age 63) is a comic book and novel cover painter. She got her break in the early 1980s and began a career of painting cinematic art and covers for science fiction franchises such as The Crow, Star Trek, Star Wars, and Cocoon. She was one of the first women to paint covers and art for both the Star Trek and Star Wars franchises.
In December 1994, she painted covers for Star Trek: The Next Generation – Shadowheart #1: “The Lion and the Lamb”, Star Trek Generations, and DS9/TNG #1: “Prophets and Losses” that formed a three-panel panorama released as a poster shortly thereafter.
Hillios has also created images for The Hamilton Collection’s Porcelain Card Collection, and SkyBox trading cards.
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Preview of “Star Trek: Defiant #23”
Here’s a preview of Star Trek: Defiant #23 by Christopher Cantwell which is due to be released this Wednesday on January 29, 2025 at your local comic shop and digital retailers:
2024 Audie Award Winners
The Audio Publisher Association recently (a few months ago) announced the winners of the 2024 Audie Awards and there were a couple notable Star Trek connections:
Making It So by Patrick Stewart was nominated for both the “Narration by the Author” and “Autobiography” categories, winning the latter.
January Lavoy was nominated for Twelve Dinging Doorbells in the “Young Listeners” category, but didn’t win.
Audiobook Additions
I’ve believe that the Complete List of Star Trek Audiobooks is now actually the complete list and the list of narrators for each of those audio books is correct, though it seems like the Peter Pan records have no record of who did the audio for any of them. A frustrating situation to be sure! They’ve all been given the unfortunate “unknown” credit, which is gross and I’d love to get to the bottom of who’s voices are on those adventures. Find me on Blue Sky or Discord if you happen to have a lead on those credits.
This includes LPs, Cassette Tapes, CDs, MP3s, and digital books.
New Star Trek Comic Books Announced To Preorder! February 2025 Edition
“Lore War,” Part 3. Friends and foes clash when Worf and his mind-twisted crew on the USS Enterprise come into contact with Sisko, Kahless II, and Beverly aboard the USS Phoenix in Alpha Quadrant space. Nothing in Lore’s universe is clear-but when Sisko sees his old friend on the viewscreen, he knows what he must do: wake Worf the hell up!
Star Trek, Volume Four: Pleroma
Arc four of the acclaimed Star Trek ongoing comic series continues here in the collected paperback! Benjamin Sisko faces the gods themselves on their home turf: the Pleroma.
Acclaimed writers Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly along with Star Trek: Strange New Worlds comics artist Megan Levens (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Starsigns) welcome you to the thrilling brand-new chapter of the Eisner-nominated Star Trek flagship series!
Benjamin Sisko has begun imagining an end to his journey and is looking forward to establishing a normal, human life. But unfortunately for Captain Sisko, his next test has been a member of his crew this whole time…
T’Lir, the crew’s former science officer, has returned to the U.S.S. Theseus bridge with a shocking revelation and a plea. Kahless’ attempted war with the gods has altered the very fabric of spacetime, threatening the destruction of several godlike species. Already, anomalies are beginning to form across the galaxy. Their only hope: the Emissary of the Prophets, Benjamin Sisko, and his valiant crew of Starfleet’s finest.
In the follow up to Star Trek, Vol. 3: Glass and Bone, Volume 4 collects Star Trek issues #19-24 and the 2024 Annual by writers Collin Kelly & Jackson Lanzing with artists Megen Levens and Rachael Stott.
“Lore War,” Part 2. On one side of the war, Worf, Shaxs, Alexander, and others who once valued honor above all have now been designed by the malevolent android Lore to uphold his dictatorial rule; on the other side, a rebel Maquis fleet, Kahless II, Beverly, Sisko, and all those who know the truth behind their current reality endeavor to tear it down with what little resources they have. But not everything is as hopeless as it seems: There are allies hidden in the unlikeliest of places and assets-like the famous USS Phoenix-that escape even the all-seeing positronic eye of Lore.
When Mariner asked the Krulmuth-B portal to send her, Rutherford, Tendi, and Boimler to the moment when they could make the biggest impact on history, she meant, like, to the time period where they could help their crew the most. But they’ve ended up on board the Titanic! Yes, THE Titanic, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. The time traveler who’s responsible for a deadly wave of Federation rewrites is still at large, and the Lower Deckers are now further than ever from stopping them.
Happy 2025 Birthday to John Peel!
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Happy birthday to John Peel!
John Ronald Peel is a Star Trek author from Nottingham, England. He moved to the USA in 1981 and sold his first professional piece of writing to Marvel Comics. Over the next few years, he became friendly with Terry Nation (creator of Daleks for Doctor Who) through his magazine publishing and writing. The two soon collaborated on The Official Doctor Who & The Daleks Book for St. Martin’s Press. This led to Peel writing episode adaptations of some early Doctor Who television serials and several original Doctor Who novels.
Over the next several years, he began writing a number of tie-in novels for various television series including five Star Trek novels, and several James Bond, Jr, Eerie, Indiana, and Carmen Sandiego books.
Peel has also written under a number of pseudonyms including J.P. Trent, Nicholas Adams, Rick North, and John Vincent.
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Happy 2025 Birthday to David Gerrold!
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Happy birthday to David Gerrold!
David Gerrold is the author of the Hugo and Nebula Award-nominated The Man Who Folded Himself, When Harlie Was One, and the Chtorr, Dingillian, and Star Wolf series. He also wrote “The Trouble with Tribbles” episode of Star Trek, which was voted the most popular Star Trek episode of all time. He lives in Northridge, California.
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DTI Investigation for the week of January 23, 2025
Here are all the comics printed this week in years past.
Happy 2025 Birthday to Derek Tyler Attico!
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Happy birthday to Derek Tyler Attico!
Derek Tyler Attico is a speculative fiction author, essayist, and award-winning photographer. In fiction, Derek has won the Excellence in Playwriting Award from the Dramatist Guild of America, and he is a two-time winner of the Star Trek Strange New Worlds short story contest (“Alpha & Omega,” “The Dreamer and the Dream”) published by Simon and Schuster. Derek is also the author of the bestselling, critically acclaimed Star Trek novel The Autobiography of Benjamin Sisko by Titan Publishing.
Outside of Star Trek, his short stories appear in Double Trouble and Turning the Tied from the International Association of Media Tie-In Writers, the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute at Caltech, Thrilling Adventure Yarns from Crazy 8 Press, and others. His essays appear in print from ATB Publishing and Star Trek Magazine.
Derek is also a role-playing game designer and a contributing writer for the Star Trek Adventures tabletop role-playing game. With a degree in English and History, Derek is an advocate of the arts, human rights, and inclusion. He can be found at DerekAttico.com and on social media platforms under the handle @Dattico.
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Out Today: “Star Trek #28”
Out today: “Star Trek #28“, by Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing.
Lore has destroyed the multiverse, and its fate now lies in Benjamin Sisko’s hands. But after the U.S.S. Theseus slingshots into the Celestial Temple, Sisko finds himself without his crew…or any technology…on a Bronze-age Bajor. The ancient Bajorans don’t know what to make of him: Is he a terrifying threat or the prophet they’ve been waiting for? If Sisko is to save life itself from the Orb of Destruction, he must first save himself…
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“Eaglemoss Graphic Novel Collection #3: Hive” Review by Shastrix.com
Shastrix.com has added a new review for Brannon Braga and Terry Matalas and Travis Fickett‘s “Eaglemoss Graphic Novel Collection #3: Hive”:
I’m not normally one for graphic novels, but I remember this one being heavily marketed at the time and found it very cheap.
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Last Chance! Star Trek Book Deals For January 2025
You have until February 2nd to grab this month’s ebook deals, 25 books on sale for $1.99 each:
From Sawdust to Stardust: The Biography of DeForest Kelley, Star Trek’s Dr. McCoy
Making It So: A Memoir
Star Trek: 19 The Tears Of The Singers
Star Trek: 21 Uhura’s Song
Star Trek: 61 Sanctuary
Star Trek: 63 Shell Game
Star Trek: 82 Mind Meld
Star Trek: Coda, Book 3 – Oblivion’s Gate
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: 15 Objective Bajor
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: 6 Betrayal
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Mission Gamma Book 1: Twilight
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Rising Son
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Warpath
Star Trek: Destiny
Star Trek: Enterprise: The Good That Men Do
Star Trek: Klingon Empire: A Burning House
Star Trek: Mirror Universe: Obsidian Alliances
Star Trek: New Frontier: 5 Martyr
Star Trek: The Next Generation: 15 Fortune’s Light
Star Trek: The Next Generation: 3 A Time To Sow
Star Trek: The Next Generation: 7 A Time To Kill
Star Trek: The Next Generation: 9 A Time For War, A Time For Peace
Star Trek: The Original Series: The Janus Gate Book One of Three: Present Tense
Star Trek: The Original Series: The Shocks of Adversity
Star Trek: Voyager: Unworthy
Credits, Roles, and Related books
#1 – Displaying Roles for Credits
I’ve somehow managed to display the roles for people that have Credits on the site. D.C. Fontana is a great example of someone that has credits -> roles mapped as well as a few that are not current mapped. I even had to do a brainstorming session with my wife (and our cats) to figure out the best way to say “this book was dedicated to this person, but they didn’t write the dedication, no, it was dedicated to them by someone else” but you know, in fewer words.
#2 – I have added some code to display “Related Books” based on the credits for the post, book, or cover that you’re looking at. It’s very nice and works exactly how I wanted it to, and I’m very excited to see how it’ll break in fun and unexpected ways. Want to help out? Click around to some of your favorite books and see which ones have related books and which ones do not, report back to me on either discord or blue sky.
Preview of “Star Trek #28”
Here’s a preview of Star Trek #28 by Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing which is due to be released this Wednesday on January 22, 2025 at your local comic shop and digital retailers:
New Star Trek Book: “Star Trek: Picard Omnibus”
Star Trek: Picard Omnibus by has been added to the Star Trek Book Club!
Can’t get enough of the Picard series? Read two graphic novel adventures that provide more context, with one story taking place before season one and the second taking place after season two!
Witness the events leading to the epic series Star Trek: Picard. Before he retired to his vineyard, Jean-Luc Picard was the most decorated admiral in Starfleet. Then one mission changed his life forever. After discovering that a looming supernova threatens the entirety of the Romulan Empire, the Federation launches a mission of unparalleled scale. Admiral Picard heads to the colony to plan the evacuation but makes a shocking discovery!
Then, following the climactic events of season two’s finale, Jean-Luc and Seven of Nine launch an unsanctioned mission that sets the stage for season three! When an offer comes in from the stars, Picard is once more compelled to leave his chateau and confront the shadows of his past. Before his days on the Enterprise, a young Picard and his crew aboard the U.S.S. Stargazer saved a thriving planet from resource-hungry Romulans…or so he thought. Now landing on a seemingly unrecognizable planet, he and his crew work to save the system—and their ship—from disaster.
Written by Star Trek: Picard co-creator and supervising producer Kirsten Beyer and fan favorite Mike Johnson with art by Angel Hernandez! This omnibus also contains an interview with Kirsten Beyer, discussing the development and creation of the TV series and how the comic fits into its world, and a special look into how the U.S.S. Verity was designed by Thomas Marrone, lead ship and UI artist for Star Trek Online.
The book is currently scheduled to be published on October 14, 2025
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New Star Trek Book: “The Art of Star Trek & Defiant”
The Art of Star Trek & Defiant by has been added to the Star Trek Book Club! There’s no official cover yet, so keep an eye on the book page for updates!
Star Trek and Star Trek: Defiant have woven a story consisting of 65 issues’ worth of comics into one interconnected epic. This art book gives you an in-depth look into what made it all possible. Cover art, concept art, and final interior art are spotlighted with a focus on characters, aliens, and ships. Also included are interviews with a select number of artists talking about their process and what makes Star Trek special for them.
Artists include Ramon Rosanas, Francesco Francavilla, Declan Shalvey, Rachael Stott, Malachi Ward, JK Woodward, Liana Kangas, Ángel Unzueta, Angel Hernandez, Marcus To, Megan Levens, and more. In total, over 65 artists are highlighted for their contributions to the series!
The book is currently scheduled to be published on September 9, 2025
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DTI Investigation of the week of January 21, 2025
Here’s a look at the books printed this week in the past.
“Star Trek: Section 31: Control” Review by Lessaccurategrandmother.blogspot.com
Lessaccurategrandmother.blogspot.com has added a new review for David Mack‘s “Star Trek: Section 31: Control”:
Section 31 has, of course, been a controversial addition to the Star Trek universe since its debut in Deep Space Nine’s “Inquisition.” At the time, I was all in on it; as a teenager, it appealed to my cynical view of the world. Of course, it seemed to me (it’s very easy to be cynical when you’re young) the Federation had to be as bad as all the other interstellar polities. That’s how the world works.
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“Star Trek: Crucible: McCoy: Provenance of Shadows” Review by Treknews.net
Treknews.net has added a new review for David R. George III‘s “Star Trek: Crucible: McCoy: Provenance of Shadows”:
Star Trek veteran David R. George III‘s Star Trek – Crucible: McCoy – Provenance of Shadows boldly expands upon one of The Original Series’ most iconic episodes, “The City on the Edge of Forever.” George offers a compelling exploration of how Leonard McCoy’s unintended meddling with history forever shapes his remaining days in the 20th century. At the same time, George explores and expands upon McCoy’s life in the Prime Timeline. This lengthy character study delves fascinatingly into McCoy’s struggles with loneliness, his demons, and the profound consequences of his decisions.
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New Star Trek Book: “Star Trek: Lower Decks, Vol. 1: Second Contact”
Star Trek: Lower Decks, Vol. 1: Second Contact by Derek Charm and Ryan North has been added to the Star Trek Book Club!
The crew of the U.S.S. Cerritos is back in a new ongoing comic series that’s a big, fun adventure from the hit TV show Star Trek: Lower Decks.
Hot off their Eisner nomination for the Lower Decks tie-in Shaxs’ Best Day, stellar duo Ryan North and Derek Charm are kicking off a brand-new ongoing series…
…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!
Volume 1 collects issues #1–4 of the new ongoing series.
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The book is currently scheduled to be published on September 16, 2025
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Happy 2025 Birthday to Geoffrey Thorne!
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Happy birthday to Geoffrey Thorne!
Geoffrey A. Thorne is a prolific science fiction author and screenwriter who has written a number of short stories for the Star Trek anthologies and the novel Sword of Damocles. He also wrote an unproduced episode of TNG, The Rivals, not to be confused with the similarly titled episode in DS9.
Thorne is also an actor and appeared in a regular role in the police procedural In the Heat of the Night during the 1990s. He also appeared in the likes of Diagnosis Murder, ER, Hill Street Blues and the film City of Angels.
He became a professional writer after winning Second Prize in Simon & Schuster’s Strange New Worlds competition.
He currently lives in Los Angeles, and is an advocate of African American rights.
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Happy 2025 Birthday to Scott Tipton!
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Happy birthday to Scott Tipton!
Scott Tipton is a comic book writer and comic historian. He has worked primarily for IDW Publishing, working on a number of their Angel titles, including several with David Messina. He has also worked on a few of the Spike titles for the same company. He, along with his brother David, wrote the Star Trek: Klingons – Blood Will Tell mini-series, as well as several entries in the Star Trek: Alien Spotlight series, and the mini-series Star Trek: The Next Generation – Intelligence Gathering, Star Trek: Mirror Images, and Star Trek: Spock: Reflections.
Born in northern California, Scott is a comic book historian and provides weekly essays about the history of the industry on his “Comics 101” webpage. When asked how he and his brother divide writing duties, they responded by saying “Scott writes the nouns and David writes the verbs, and for everything else they flip a coin.” (Star Trek: The Next Generation – Intelligence Gathering: “Valued Intelligence”)
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Happy 2025 Birthday to Larry Nemecek!
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Happy birthday to Larry Nemecek!
Larry Wayne Nemecek is a noted Star Trek author, editor, archivist, consultant, and producer. He is married to onetime script coordinator Janet Nemecek.
A native Oklahoman, Nemecek began considering news and communications as a career in high school after being inspired by a teacher in his journalism class. He majored in theater at college with a journalism minor, and began writing about Star Trek because “all the Will Rogers and Sooners football books had been written.” He also cites Stephen Edward Poe’s classic The Making of Star Trek and Bjo Trimble’s Star Trek Concordance as seminal influences in entertainment and genre writing.
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New Star Trek Book: “Infinity #79”
Infinity #79 by Roger Crow (et al) has been added to the Star Trek Book Club!
26. The Search for Spock at 40: Four decades after it first wowed cinema-goers, we look back on Star Trek III’s production.
The magazine was published on November 28, 2024
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“Star Trek: Lower Decks #3” Review by Aiptcomics.com
Aiptcomics.com has added a new review for Ryan North‘s “Star Trek: Lower Decks #3”:
North and Lawrence deliver a thrilling dive into the depths of character and science.
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Out Today: “Star Trek: Lower Decks (2024) #3”
Out today: “Star Trek: Lower Decks #3“, by Ryan North.
The crew of the USS Cerritos have just received their personality guidance reports from the counselors of the planet Clarew, and Rutherford feels guilty he’s not engineering at a higher capacity with his implants. He should be operating above 134 percent nominal at least. The Cerritos’ next mission is a supply run to Tavela Minor, but they first need to stop by the Alecto system to get some supplies to, uh, supply them with. However, just before they warp, they see the Alecto system isn’t only missing; it doesn’t exist. Like at all. Now they have a space mystery at hand: What could cause a whole star system to disappear?
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Star Trek Books Coming In The Next 30 Days, as of January 14, 2025
IDW is the sole publisher for the next month, and while I love the work they’re doing and want more of it, I sure would love to see more full length Treklit.
Comics
By: Ryan North
January 15, 2025The crew of the USS Cerritos have just received their personality guidance reports from the counselors of the planet Clarew, and Rutherford feels guilty he’s not engineering at a higher capacity with his implants. He should be operating above 134 percent nominal at least. The Cerritos’ next mission is a supply run to Tavela Minor, […]
By: Collin Kelly, Jackson Lanzing
January 22, 2025Lore has destroyed the multiverse, and its fate now lies in Benjamin Sisko’s hands. But after the U.S.S. Theseus slingshots into the Celestial Temple, Sisko finds himself without his crew…or any technology…on a Bronze-age Bajor. The ancient Bajorans don’t know what to make of him: Is he a terrifying threat or the prophet they’ve been […]
By: Christopher Cantwell
January 29, 2025Alexander’s cha’DIch Worf has tasked him with a near-impossible task for his Errand of Valor: rescue the workers rebelling against a deuterium mega-power, Archanis Inter-Corporate. He must fight selflessly in the name of the helpless… even if it costs him his life. If that weren’t enough of a challenge, a face from Alexander’s bloody past […]
By: Ryan North
February 12, 2025Rutherford to bridge. We’re not dead! However, after escaping a vacuum collapse of the Alecto system, the U.S.S. Cerritos is lost inside a new space-time that’s expanding away from us in every direction at the speed of light. To make matters worse, an alien intelligence made of pure energy has possessed Tendi and my bodies, […]
Preview of “Star Trek: Lower Decks #3”
Here’s a preview of Star Trek: Lower Decks #3 by Ryan North which is due to be released this Wednesday on January 15, 2025 at your local comic shop and digital retailers:
Happy 2025 Birthday to Una McCormack!
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Happy birthday to Una McCormack!
Una McCormack is the British author of several Star Trek novels and stories.
She has also written a number of Doctor Who novels and short stories.
She lives and works in Cambridge, England, and has taught at the world-famous university there.
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Happy 2025 Birthday to John Jackson Miller!
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Happy birthday to John Jackson Miller!
John Jackson Miller is an American science-fiction author, comic book writer, and commentator, known for his work on the Star Wars franchise and his research into comic book circulation history, as presented in the Standard Catalog of Comic Books series.
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Fictional Autobiography Authors Unite Combat Hunger
Derek Tyler Attico, Una McCormack, and David A. Goodman are joining forces with moderator and fellow author Michael Dismuke for a Trek Talks panel on January 18 to benefit the Hollywood Food Coalition, an organization dedicated to providing “warm, nutritious meal(s) along with access to basic daily needs, such as clothing, backpacks, sleeping bags, and hygiene items, as well as assistance with housing placement”.
Happy 2025 Birthday to Boris Vallejo!
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Happy birthday to Boris Vallejo!
Vallejo works almost exclusively in the fantasy and erotica genres.[3] His hyper-representational paintings have appeared on the covers of numerous science fiction and fantasy paperbacks and are featured in a series of best-selling glossy calendars. Subjects of his paintings are typically sword and sorcery gods, monsters, and well-muscled male and female barbarians engaged in battle.
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Out Today: “Star Trek: Defiant #22”
Out today: “Star Trek: Defiant #22“, by Christopher Cantwell.
B’Elanna Torres is in the captain’s chair of the Defiant, and she has a choice to make: return home and report for duty as the mother Miral needs or continue saving the universe with her crew. With her disavowed status from Starfleet command and all that she’s been through—from bounty hunting to parasite infestations—B’Elanna isn’t sure she’s strong enough for either task. Luckily, O’Brien proposes a detour adventure to dismantle minefields in the Alpha Quadrant, and B’Elanna jumps at the chance to forestall a final decision…for now.
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Preview of “Star Trek: Defiant #22”
Here’s a preview of Star Trek: Defiant #22 by which is due to be released this Wednesday on January 8, 2025 at your local comic shop and digital retailers:
Happy 2025 Birthday to Robert E. Vardeman!
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Happy birthday to Robert E. Vardeman!
Robert Edward Vardeman (sometimes credited as Vardebob) is a fantasy, mystery and science fiction writer who has also written a couple of Star Trek novels.
Vardeman was born in Palo Pinto, Texas, but has lived much of his life in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He has degrees in physics and material sciences, and is the organizer of the Bubonicon, a science fiction convention in his home area.
He writes non-Trek material under at least eight pen names, notably Daniel Moran. He is prolific, having written over sixty novels.
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2024 Year in Review
We told you about 104 publications (really need to break this down by books/comics/magazines) that were published this year, and 372 reviews from these great sites:
strangehorizons.com
aiptcomics.com
akotsko.substack.com
blog.trekcore.com
borg.com
comicbook.com
comicsxf.com
lessaccurategrandmother.blogspot.com
trekcentral.net
trekmovie.com
treknews.net
warpfactortrek.com
www.dailystartreknews.com
www.msn.com
www.positivelytrek.com
www.shastrix.com
www.trek.fm
www.trekbbs.com
www.womenatwarp.com
In 2024 there were 845 posts, with 4 comments.
2024’s Top Commenters:
Michael Dismuke (1)
Alyson Buckman (1)
David Mack (1)
2024 In Memoriam:
RIP John G. Trimble
‘Star Trek: Voyager’ Co-Creator Jeri Taylor Has Passed Away
RIP David A. McIntee
Una McCormack on Positivelytrek.com discussing “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Asylum”
(Image by Umm10 )Una McCormack was recently featured on Positivelytrek.com to discuss Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Asylum:
In this episode of the Positively Trek Book Club, host Dan Gunther is joined by two co-hosts from the Infinite Diversity podcast: Chrissie De Clerck-Szilagyi and Thad Hait. Together, we have the honor of interviewing Dr. Una McCormack about her latest Trek novel: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Asylum!
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New Star Trek Book: “Tycho Shipyards: Volume One 2014-2024”
Tycho Shipyards: Volume One 2014-2024 by has been added to the Star Trek Book Club!
The book is currently scheduled to be published on April 1, 2024
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Star Trek Book Deals For January 2025
This month’s ebook deals have landed with 25 books on sale for $1.99 each, books that have never been on sale are in bold:
Happy New Year!
From Sawdust to Stardust: The Biography of DeForest Kelley, Star Trek’s Dr. McCoy
Making It So: A Memoir
Star Trek: 19 The Tears Of The Singers
Star Trek: 21 Uhura’s Song
Star Trek: 61 Sanctuary
Star Trek: 63 Shell Game
Star Trek: 82 Mind Meld
Star Trek: Coda, Book 3 – Oblivion’s Gate
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: 15 Objective Bajor
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: 6 Betrayal
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Mission Gamma Book 1: Twilight
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Rising Son
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Warpath
Star Trek: Destiny
Star Trek: Enterprise: The Good That Men Do
Star Trek: Klingon Empire: A Burning House
Star Trek: Mirror Universe: Obsidian Alliances
Star Trek: New Frontier: 5 Martyr
Star Trek: The Next Generation: 15 Fortune’s Light
Star Trek: The Next Generation: 3 A Time To Sow
Star Trek: The Next Generation: 7 A Time To Kill
Star Trek: The Next Generation: 9 A Time For War, A Time For Peace
Star Trek: The Original Series: The Janus Gate Book One of Three: Present Tense
Star Trek: The Original Series: The Shocks of Adversity
Star Trek: Voyager: Unworthy
“Star Trek: Titan: Fortune of War” Review by Lessaccurategrandmother.blogspot.com
Lessaccurategrandmother.blogspot.com has added a new review for ‘s “Star Trek: Titan: Fortune of War”:
this is the third Titan story in a row to sequelize a TNG episode (in this case, “The Survivors” from season 3). The original selling point of Titan was that it took a diverse group of characters into interesting new sfnal situations; Fortune of War, alas, does not really accomplish this. We have, on the one hand, a character focus mostly on Riker, Vale, and Titan’s new XO, Sarai, and an action-adventure plot.
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“Making of Star Trek” Review by Thoughtsfromthebridge.com
Thoughtsfromthebridge.com has added a new review for ‘s “Making of Star Trek”:
I could have pursued the easier more modern route by introducing Star Trek to my partner, Tori, beginning with TNG or current programs like Strange New Worlds or Discovery, as the look and storytelling methods are concurrent with today’s audiences. Yes, I’m aware that TNG was over thirty years ago, but it stubbornly holds up. Upon introduction, the original Star Trek series may seem dated, hokey, and a product of its time to those unfamiliar with the series. However, my short answer to defy conventional “wisdom” and start from its inception is simple: TOS has all the essential ingredients. Without those precious three seasons, we would have nothing. Besides, I took a gamble on the long view approach, being that over time one could have a deeper appreciation once made aware of ST‘s humble beginnings. The odds were not in the show’s favor as it was unlike any other television production.
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New Star Trek Book: “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Ring of Fire”
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Ring of Fire by has been added to the Star Trek Book Club! There’s no official cover yet, no blurb, and no real details, so keep an eye on the book page for updates!
The book is currently scheduled to be published on August 26, 2025
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Colour guides are great comics collectibles
These unique pieces of art are affordable and often tell stories about the creation process.
Happy 2024 Birthday to David A. McIntee!
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Happy birthday to David A. McIntee!
David A. McIntee is a Scottish author. He is fairly well known in the United Kingdom for writing a number of Doctor Who novels and audio episodes.
In 2000, he wrote Delta Quadrant, a Star Trek: Voyager episode guide, for Virgin Books. This unofficial release caused issues with Pocket Books editor John Ordover, who scrapped a Voyager novel McIntee had sold to the publisher after seeing an advert for the publication.
In 2007, McIntee wrote the story “On the Spot” in the Pocket Books Star Trek: The Next Generation short story collection, The Sky’s the Limit. His short story “Reservoir Ferengi” features in the 2010 anthology, Seven Deadly Sins.
McIntee’s first full-length Star Trek novel, Indistinguishable from Magic, was released in 2011.
He has also contributed to various magazines, including Star Trek Communicator and Star Trek Magazine.
Check out the David A. McIntee author page to view more author updates and a full list of books!
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Happy 2024 Birthday to Susan Shwartz!
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Happy birthday to Susan Shwartz!
Susan Shwartz is a novelist and short story writer. She and co-author Josepha Sherman have written several Star Trek books, mostly concerning Vulcans and their Romulan cousins.
Check out the Susan Shwartz author page to view more author updates and a full list of books!
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“Star Trek: New Frontier: 1 House of Cards” Review by Atboundarysedge.com
Atboundarysedge.com has added a new review for ‘s “Star Trek: New Frontier: 1 House of Cards”:
There are a lot of Star Trek novels out there. Something in the region of eight hundred, the last time I checked. Most of these books are in some way an expansion or continuation of the stories told on television. The Latter Fire, by James Swallow is a bridge between the original series and its animated successor. Avatar, by S. D. Perry continues the saga of Deep Space Nine. The Good That Men Do, by Andy Mangels & Michael A. Martin rewrites the final ever episode of Enterprise. Along the way there are crossover events aplenty, and side characters being given their own spin-offs.
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“Star Trek: 49 The Pandora Principle” Review by In this episode of Literary Treks hosts Casey Pettitt and Jonathan Koan talk about the TOS novel, The Pandora Principle. We discuss, development hell, get him out of the way, the first chapter, Saavik, a positive or negative, mystery boxes, what?, disjointed, our ratings and final thoughts.
In this episode of Literary Treks hosts Casey Pettitt and Jonathan Koan talk about the TOS novel, The Pandora Principle. We discuss, development hell, get him out of the way, the first chapter, Saavik, a positive or negative, mystery boxes, what?, disjointed, our ratings and final thoughts. has added a new review for ‘s “Star Trek: 49 The Pandora Principle”:
In this episode of Literary Treks hosts Casey Pettitt and Jonathan Koan talk about the TOS novel, The Pandora Principle. We discuss, development hell, get him out of the way, the first chapter, Saavik, a positive or negative, mystery boxes, what?, disjointed, our ratings and final thoughts.
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“Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Mission Gamma Book 1: Twilight” Review by Atboundarysedge.com
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The collection of novels generally referred to as the Deep Space Nine Relaunch marked a bold experiment for Trek literature. Here were novels that didn’t only flesh out an existing storyline, but actively continued it. The run from Avatar to Unity essentially created an eighth season of the show. Avatar was a traditional two-part opener, and Rising Son gave Jake Sisko a starring role, The opening stages of this eighth season were a little jumbled, however. Abyss was part of the loosely tied Section 31 series, while demons of Air and Darkness fell in the middle of the Gateways epic. It was only with the Mission Gamma series that DS9 properly took centre stage once again.
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New Star Trek Comic Books Announced To Preorder! December 2024 Edition
IDW January 2025 Catalog
Nymira Vondect is back from the dead, having survived the cataclysmic explosion on Starbase 99 with help from the universe’s seediest rogue, Berlinghoff Rasmussen. Now she and Berlinghoff are running elaborate scams together to take advantage of unsuspecting Berbians and make a quick buck. But something niggles at Nymira… Should she tell her old crew she’s still alive or keep living the life she thinks she deserves? Meanwhile, Captain B’Elanna Torres, Ro, and O’Brien combine forces with Section 31’s Captain Frears to take out the minefield in the Gamma Quadrant once and for all.
Suspicious after the Cerritos docks for its second baryon sweep in the same year, Mariner sneaks into a command meeting. There, the Department of Temporal Investigations tasks the crew with finding a time traveler who is rewriting Federation history at an alarming rate. Mariner finds her friends and tells them what’s really going on… only for the timeline to change around them! Obviously, something has gone wrong with Command’s mission, and per usual, it’s now up to Mariner, Tendi, Rutherford, and Boimler to save the day.
The all-new crossover event between Star Trek and Defiant is here! From the Eisner-nominated writers of Star Trek, Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly; the critically acclaimed writer of Star Trek: Defiant, Christopher Cantwell; and artist Davide Tinto, Lore War #1 shows us a universe rebuilt in Lore’s image. The crews of the Theseus and the Defiant scattered across the universe with no memory of who they once were-some even worship Lore as their God. Lore has won; his rule is absolute. But The Sisko remains, and there are forces who wish to remind him of his power.
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