Kennedy’s new vaccine advisers mean ‘people are going to die’
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as health secretary presents a clear and present danger to public health on multiple fronts.
He recently removed all 17 members of the esteemed Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices in a “clean sweep” and replaced them with handpicked proxies. The first official committee meeting last week shows how Kennedy and his lackeys are threatening preventive health care. Three of the new members oppose using mRNA in vaccines, two have been witnesses in lawsuits against vaccine makers and one served on the board of the nation’s oldest anti-vaccine group, according to the Washington Post.
The new panelists’ first shocking recommendation and discussions have received justifiable censure from the medical science community. Last week, at the formal meeting, all but one of the seven new advisory panelists recommended pulling flu vaccines that contain thimerosal, which Kennedy and the anti-vax movement falsely link to autism. Thimerosal has not been used in most childhood vaccines for over 20 years and remains in only one flu vaccine.
Scientific studies have thoroughly debunked the connection between the preservative and autism, but the accusation has been one of Kennedy’s pet causes. Only one panelist, Dr. Cody Meissner, a pediatrician with Dartmouth’s School of Medicine, dissented, saying, “The risk from influenza is so much greater than the nonexistent risk, as far as we know, from thimerosal.” While the impact of this particular vote will be slight in the United States, it shows that the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices as a body is willing to defer to Kennedy’s anti-vax, anti-science ideology.
Also shocking was Kennedy’s invitation to include Lyn Redwood — the former leader of Children’s Health Defense, the very anti-vaccine group Kennedy started — as an expert speaker before the panel. Redwood insisted that thimerosal is toxic. The New York Times reports that scientific evidence of thimerosal’s safety was posted last Tuesday by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention scientists, then removed.
Among other concerning developments at the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices meeting was a proposal by panel chair Martin Kulldorf, an epidemiologist who opposed the Covid-19 vaccine mandates, to review the entire childhood immunization schedule at a future meeting. Another panelist, Retself Levi, drew criticism from observers for raising concerns about clesrovimab, a monoclonal antibody (not a vaccine) approved by the FDA earlier this month that protects infants from R.S.V. infection, the leading cause of infant hospitalization. Fortunately, the new antibody was narrowly approved.
Shockingly, after a CDC advisor speaking before the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices panel documented that 250 U.S. children died during the last flu season, the highest number in a nonpandemic year for some time, panelist Dr. Robert Malone called that “a modest number.”
Also shocking, the panel did not even discuss the fall Covid booster, and it is not on the agenda for its next meeting in October. It is unclear what this means for the rollout of a Covid booster. In late May, Kennedy recklessly announced the CDC is no longer recommending the updated Covid vaccine for healthy children, adults who are not senior citizens and even for pregnant women, despite their serious increased risks. He demanded that booster shots for Covid go through unnecessary, time-consuming placebo-controlled clinical trials before approval, which is expected to delay their release.
The advisory panel is charged with reviewing the childhood vaccination schedule. Critics contend many on the new panel seem unaware of how the Vaccine for Children program runs, which provides free immunizations for about half of all U.S. children. Medicaid and insurance companies are required to cover CDC-recommended vaccines, and states base school mandates on the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices’ recommendations, giving the panel recommendations enormous power.
In response to the firings of the 17 seated committee members earlier this month, the physician overseeing surveillance of viruses resigned last week, warning that “people are going to die” as a result. Dr. Fiona Havers wrote colleagues: “I no longer have confidence that these data will be used objectively or evaluated with appropriate scientific rigor to make evidence-based vaccine policy decisions.”
The 17 removed committee members wrote in an article published by JAMA: “We are deeply concerned that these destabilizing decisions, made without clear rationale, may roll back the achievements of U.S. immunization policy, impact people’s access to lifesaving vaccines, and ultimately put U.S. families at risk of dangerous and preventable illnesses.”
As FFRF has continually pointed out, Kennedy’s worldview has been worrisome on various fronts. Cases of measles, one of the most contagious diseases in existence, continue to climb in the United States. Bird flu remains a threat at home and abroad. The virtual dissolution of USAID is already killing South Africans who can no longer obtain medicines against HIV/AIDS. PEPFAR, started under Republican President George W. Bush, is credited with saving 26 million lives, and now that its “soft diplomacy” outreach program has ended, 1.6 million could die unnecessarily within a year. Not only AIDS but tuberculosis, polio, Ebola and other mostly contained diseases could break out — also endangering American health in our global society. Last week, Kennedy cruelly announced the United States is pulling its support from Gavi, a vaccine alliance including WHO, UNICEF, the Gates Foundation and the World Bank that is credited with saving 18 million lives. The United States has been one of its major supporters, and Kennedy’s announcement revokes then-President Biden’s pledge of $1 billion through 2030.
It is intolerable that the fate of vaccination policies at this critical time is in the hands of a deluded fraudster who has thrown his support to a Christian nationalist agenda.
“The Freedom From Religion Foundation encourages everyone who values medical science over unfounded conspiracy theories to speak up in opposition to Kennedy’s malevolent policies,” says Annie Laurie Gaylor, FFRF co-president.
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is a U.S.-based nonprofit dedicated to promoting the constitutional principle of separation between state and church and educating the public on matters of nontheism. With more than 42,000 members, FFRF advocates for freethinkers’ rights. For more information, visit ffrf.org.
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FFRF urges Tenn. school district not to allow religious indoctrination class
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is urging the Bedford County Schools system in Shelbyville, Tenn., to reject a proposed “bible” class for the upcoming school year.
A concerned district parent informed the state/church watchdog that Community High School proposed adding a “bible” class to its course offerings for the 2025–26 school year. FFRF urged the district to drop the course or if it proceeds to ensure that students are not being indoctrinated because the curriculum that treats bible stories as historical fact or a source of moral instruction.
“Were it to adopt a bible curriculum, the district would display apparent favoritism for religion over nonreligion and Christianity above all other faiths,” FFRF Anne Nicol Gaylor Legal Fellow Kyle Steinberg wrote to Bedford County Schools Superintendent Tammy Garrett. “This not only violates students’ First Amendment rights, but it needlessly excludes and marginalizes those students who are a part of the 49 percent of Generation Z who are religiously unaffiliated.”
A fundamental principle of jurisprudence around the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause is that public schools may not advance, prefer or promote religion, FFRF emphasizes. Public schools may not provide religious instruction, and if the district disregards any impermissible religious curriculum, it becomes complicit in a constitutional violation and breach of trust.
FFRF settled a lawsuit a few years ago against a West Virginia school district after it allowed “Bible in the Schools” classes for elementary students. As part of the settlement, the district assumed responsibility for $225,000 in costs and attorney fees. Bedrock County Schools can avoid the risk of a similar fate by rejecting the proposed class.
FFRF is urging the district not to approve this bible class to respect the religious rights of high school students.
“We’re calling on the district to adhere to our secular Constitution and keep religious indoctrination out of public education,” says FFRF Co-President Annie Laurie Gaylor. “Bedford County Schools must take action to protect its students from religious coercion.”
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is a national educational nonprofit with more than 40,000 members and several chapters across the country, including over 500 members and a chapter in Tennessee, FFRF East Tennessee. FFRF protects the constitutional separation between state and church and educates about nontheism.
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Happy 2025 Birthday to Jeri Taylor!
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Happy birthday to Jeri Taylor!
Jeri Cecile Taylor is a television writer and producer best known for her contributions to the Star Trek franchise. Born in Bloomington, Indiana, she received her Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Indiana University in 1959 , and her Master’s degree in English from California State University at Northridge. She is the mother of two time Star Trek: The Next Generation guest star and recurring Star Trek: Voyager actor Alexander Enberg.
Prior to joining Star Trek, Taylor was a producer, story editor, and occasional director on the hit medical series Quincy, M.E., on which Trek guest performers Robert Ito and Garry Walberg were regular cast members. She went on to serve as producer and writer for such series as Magnum, P.I., In the Heat of the Night, and Jake and the Fatman. She also directed episodes of the latter series. In addition, she co-wrote the 1987 CBS TV movie A Place to Call Home, for which she also served as supervising producer. She was also a producer of the short-lived TV adaptation of the film Blue Thunder, whose guest stars included Tracy Scoggins, Sam Anderson, Ray Wise, John Hancock, Robert DoQui and Kurtwood Smith.
She joined the staff of Star Trek: The Next Generation as supervising producer in 1990 and held that position through the show’s fifth season. She then served as co-executive producer for the show’s sixth season, and was then promoted to executive producer for its final season, and served as showrunner for the final year, as Michael Piller was primarily occupied with Star Trek: Deep Space Nine at the time. She also co-wrote three episodes of Deep Space Nine during the latter period. Additionally, she assisted in the production of the Trek films Star Trek Generations and Star Trek: First Contact, receiving special thanks notices in each of the film’s end credits for her contributions. Working in the business since 1976, Taylor was asked to join the staff after rewriting the episode “Suddenly Human”. (“Chronicles from the Final Frontier”, TNG Season 4 DVD special feature)
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Out Now: “Second Star to the Right: Essays on Leadership in Star Trek”
Out now: “Second Star to the Right: Essays on Leadership in Star Trek“, by Aaron M. Peterson and Bradley O. Browne and Bradley Stewart Chilton and Claude Berube and David Smith and Derek Tyler Attico and Drew Nichols and Emily Strand and James Beggan and James LeDuc and Jason A. Kaufman and Jason von Stietz and Jim Johnson and Kelli Fitzpatrick and Michael Dismuke and Michael Wong and Scott Allison and Scott Maravilla and Sebastian Stoppe and Ulster Laurie.
‘Star Trek’ provides an opportunity to explore the final frontier of leadership through its nearly six decades of series and films. With its basis in Enlightenment thinking (reason coupled to compassion) and its encouragement of diversity in its myriad forms, ‘Star Trek’ offers guidance on how to improve the human condition that has application in leadership across academic and professional fields. Leaders are constantly called upon to solve problems, direct institutional growth, and, on occasion, even solve humanitarian crises. Leadership development need not be complicated or overly staid. It should be engaging. ‘Star Trek’ provides us a venue through which to make it so. The proposed edited book will explore the application of Star Trek to the practice of leadership across a diverse array of professional and academic fields. ‘Second Star to the Right: Essays on Leadership in Star Trek…
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Out Today: “Inspired Enterprise”
Out today: “Inspired Enterprise“, by Glen E. Swanson.
Are you a fan of Star Trek? Do you want to know more about how the show was originally created and developed? Then you won’t want to miss this exciting new book, Inspired Enterprise: How NASA, the Smithsonian and Others Helped Launch Star Trek. I’m a former Chief Historian for NASA’s Johnson Space Center, and I used experience gained from conducting research and writing history for NASA to author a book that truly offers a fresh perspective on the creation of this iconic show.
In Inspired Enterprise, you’ll discover how a small but highly influential group of people worked behind the scenes to convey a high level of credibility, respect, and authenticity that helped convince network executives to fund production of Star Trek for three full seasons. This was important because having three full seasons helped qualify the series for syndication. Once syndicated, Star Trek achieved immortality, creating legions of new fans who brought about its growth and popularity.
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Faith leaders and families sue to block Texas’ new Ten Commandments in schools law
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By Jim Vertuno
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FFRF expresses solidarity with Wis. library’s Pride display against religious attacks
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is urging the Waupun Public Library Board to resist religious pushback against its Pride Month display honoring the LGBTQ-plus community.
In a letter sent today, FFRF expresses strong support for the library’s decision to highlight Pride Month and is calling on the board to uphold a neutral and inclusive display policy that serves the entire community.
The letter was prompted by reports that a local pastor, Forsell Gappa, had launched a crusade against the Waupun Public Library’s decision to create a Pride display for Pride Month celebrating the LGBTQ-plus community. Gappa and others recently attended a library board meeting to protest the display, using inflammatory religious language to disparage LGBTQ-plus people for committing “sin.” Gappa claimed that “each letter in the LGBTQ acronym represents wrongdoing” while another attendee labeled the library a “grooming factory.”
FFRF strongly condemns these remarks and warns against allowing religious pressure to dictate public policy.
FFRF’s legal counsel Chris Line notes, “Calls to remove Pride materials are a form of viewpoint discrimination, often grounded in religious ideology. That’s not just unconstitutional — it’s also deeply harmful to LGBTQ-plus youth and families.”
FFRF has increasingly been forced to speak out as public libraries across the country face religiously driven campaigns to suppress information and silence marginalized voices. This is part of a larger movement to impose religious dogma in public spaces — and libraries are on the front lines.
In a statement last year marking Banned Books Week, FFRF warned that censorship is back with a vengeance, driven largely by religious and political ideologies targeting LGBTQ-plus themes and authors.
FFRF sees the Waupun controversy as yet another manifestation of this growing threat to free thought and secular governance.
“Public institutions like libraries must serve everyone and remain free from religious bias,” says FFRF Co-President Annie Laurie Gaylor. “The library’s mission is to foster access to ideas and information — not to impose religious dogma or give in to those who wish to marginalize vulnerable communities.”
FFRF is urging the board to reject demands for censorship and to reaffirm its commitment to serving the full diversity of the Waupun community.
“There’s no true freedom of thought, conscience, or even religion,” the letter concludes, “unless our public institutions — schools, libraries, and local governments — are free from religious control over ideas.”
FFRF is a national nonprofit organization headquartered in Wisconsin with more than 42,000 members across the country, including over 1,800 members in Wisconsin. FFRF’s purposes are to protect the constitutional principle of separation between church and state, and to educate the public on matters relating to nontheism.
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Supreme Court hands religious parents an opt-out to LGBTQ+ inclusive curricula
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is appalled at the U.S. Supreme Court decision today in Mahmoud v. Taylor, which opens the door for parents to opt out of inclusive public school curricula on religious grounds.
“This is a deeply troubling outcome for public education, equality and the constitutional principle of the separation between state and church,” says FFRF Co-President Annie Laurie Gaylor.
The case involves a group of religious parents who objected to LGBTQ-plus characters in storybooks that were approved for use in a Maryland school district. The parents claimed that their religious beliefs require the school to exempt their children from being exposed to the inclusive stories, demanding the right to withdraw children from classes on days when stories with LGBTQ-plus themes are discussed. The lower courts rightly declined to issue a preliminary injunction that would require schools to notify the parents when the storybooks would be used and provide them a chance to opt out of instruction. The lower court noted the “threadbare” evidentiary record and affirmed that public schools are not required to tailor their curricula to individual religious preferences.
Unfortunately, the Supreme Court’s extremist majority has now reversed that sensible approach and sided with the parents.
The court held in a 6–3 decision that LGBTQ-plus inclusive materials amounted to inculcation against faith and that not providing an opt-out to the plaintiffs violates their Free Exercise rights. Justice Samuel Alito, writing for the court, described the books as “clearly designed to present certain values and beliefs as things to be celebrated and certain contrary values and beliefs as things to be rejected.” Alito found that these books created a substantial burden on the religious exercise of the Jewish, Muslim and Christian petitioners. Justice Clarence Thomas, in concurrence, wrote that almost all LGBTQ-plus books integrated into broader education would be considered hostile toward religion and create “ideological conformity.”
While the majority opinion paves a regressive path, the impassioned dissent in the judgment reaffirms that public schools exist to prepare students for life in a diverse and pluralistic society and not to shield them from it.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor authored the dissenting opinion, which was joined by Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson. The dissent reiterated that public schools are the “symbol of our democracy.” Sotomayor wrote, “They offer to children of all faiths and backgrounds an education and an opportunity to practice living in our multicultural society. That experience is critical to our nation’s civic vitality.” She warned, “Yet it will become a mere memory if children must be insulated from exposure to ideas and concepts that may conflict with their parents’ religious beliefs.”
The dissent correctly points out that the majority opinion “constitutionalizes a parental veto power over curricular choices long left to the democratic process and local administrators.” Sotomayor concludes, “The reverberations of the court’s error will be felt, I fear, for generations. Unable to condone that grave misjudgment, I dissent.”
FFRF had filed a friend-of-the-court brief before the Supreme Court to support the Montgomery County School Board. The brief emphasized that the parents had not cited a single precedent in which a neutral curriculum policy was invalidated based solely on claims of hostility to religion. Courts have consistently ruled that parents do not have a Free Exercise or Due Process right to insulate their children from ideas they find objectionable in public education.
“As our brief detailed, for nearly a century, parents claiming that mere exposure to history, science or life skills that conflict with their religion have uniformly lost on that point,” adds FFRF Legal Fellow Hirsh M. Joshi, who helped author FFRF’s amicus brief. “But every day is a new day to favor religion over decades of well-settled legal precedent.”
“This ruling threatens to give any religious parent veto power over public school curricula,” warns Gaylor. “If this dangerous logic is carried forward, it could unravel decades of progress toward inclusive education and equal rights. It has grave ramifications for the teaching of evolution, for example. Public schools must be grounded in facts and reality and not subject to religious censors.”
This decision undermines the First Amendment, emboldens religious interference in public education, and sets a harmful precedent for the future. FFRF will continue to fight to protect secular, inclusive and evidence-based education for all students — free from religious coercion and censorship.
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is the largest national association of freethinkers, representing atheists, agnostics, and others who form their opinions about religion based on reason rather than faith, tradition, or authority. Founded in Wisconsin in 1978 as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, FFRF has more than 42,000 members, including members in every state and the District of Columbia. FFRF’s primary purposes are to educate about nontheism and to preserve the cherished constitutional principle of separation between religion and government.
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FFRF blasts high court birthright ruling
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is adding its voice to the widespread condemnation of Friday’s Supreme Court ruling in which the high court essentially barred lower courts from issuing nationwide injunctions to protect constitutional birthright citizenship.
The 6–3 decision means the high court has diminished the impact of the federal judiciary’s checks on executive power, requiring every victim of a blatantly unconstitutional executive order to litigate to vindicate their constitutional rights.
President Trump’s Jan. 20 executive order revoking citizenship to most children born in the United States to undocumented immigrants will take effect in 30 days in some 28 states where the order hasn’t been challenged.
“The court’s decision to permit the executive to violate the Constitution with respect to anyone who has not yet sued is an existential threat to the rule of law,” warns Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson in her passionate separate dissent.
“Today,” her dissent continued, “six justices on the Supreme Court eliminated one of the most effective checks on Donald Trump, clearing a path for him to impose his extreme, anti-democratic agenda on any American who can’t afford a lawyer or doesn’t join the game of litigation whac-a-mole now required to protect their basic rights. This ruling should send a chill down every American’s spine.”
Comments FFRF Co-President Annie Laurie Gaylor: “The ominous ruling has broad ramifications for FFRF’s legal work, as well as for general enforcement of the Constitution and the rule of law.”
“The extremist court majority, knowing its ruling will mean chaos and deportation for many citizens, shows that it cares more about rubber-stamping dictatorial powers assumed by Trump, than in upholding the Constitution,” Gaylor adds. “This action imperils our democracy, and it imperils FFRF’s work because our mission can only be achieved in a democracy that adheres to our Constitution.”
To be sure, nationwide injunctions can be problematic, and encourage judge-shopping, such as the case involving U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk’s universal injunction against the medication abortion pill mifepristone, which was overturned. Even Justice Elena Kagan, who joined the dissenters in today’s ruling, has previously questioned the idea that “one district judge can stop a nationwide policy in its tracks and leave it stopped for the years that it takes to go through the normal process.”
However, the extreme, emergency nature of what’s at stake and the number of individuals affected nationwide makes a strong case for universal injunctions in this instance. As Jackson writes, “It is important to recognize that the executive’s bid to vanquish so-called ‘universal injunctions’ is, at bottom, a request for this court’s permission to engage in unlawful behavior.”
Jackson adds: “When the government says, ‘Do not allow the lower courts to enjoin executive action universally as a remedy for unconstitutional conduct,’ what it is actually saying is that the executive wants to continue doing something that a court has determined violates the Constitution.”
The language of the 14th Amendment could not be more clear: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside.”
The Supreme Court decision today saying a federal judge cannot order the president to adhere to the Constitution amalgamates more power to itself by disempowering lower courts, but also grants the office of the president nearly unfettered powers. The decision will create acute misery and inequity across the land, clogging our courts and victimizing those without the means to sue, while eroding America’s precious constitutional principle of “equal rights under law.”
“With the stroke of a pen,” as Justice Sonia Sotomayor writes in her dissent joined by Justices Kagan and Jackson, “the president has made a ‘solemn mockery’ of our Constitution.”
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is a U.S.-based nonprofit dedicated to promoting the constitutional principle of separation between state and church and educating the public on matters of nontheism. With more than 42,000 members, FFRF advocates for freethinkers’ rights.
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DTI Comic Book Investigation for the week of June 26, 2025
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DTI Treklit Investigation for the week of June 24, 2025
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Last Chance: Star Trek Book Deals For June 2025
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DTI Comic Book Investigation for the week of June 19, 2025
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Out Today: “Star Trek: Omega #1”
Out today: “Star Trek: Omega #1“, by Christopher Cantwell and Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing.
Two and a half years of comics spanning 60 years of Star Trek history, a fair few awards, and more than a few universe detonations, and it’s all been coming to this! Star Trek: Omega is the denouement of the critically acclaimed Star Trek and Star Trek: Defiant storylines, and the first glimpse at what comes after. The crews of the Theseus, Defiant, and Enterprise set to work restoring the universe to what it should be after the evil android Lore’s intervention. Each hero finds their peace in preordained or unexpected ways, with individual scenes depicted by one of Star Trek’s or Defiant’s mainline artists! This finale pays tribute to all those involved in the series Screen Rant calls “the gold standard for ambitious comic book storytelling.”
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Captain Kirk Is Back from the Dead in New Star Trek Comic ‘The Last Starship’ (Exclusive)
Hollywood Reporter has embarrassingly put this in their “Tv’ section and not their “Star Trek Books” section.
DTI Treklit Investigation for the week of June 17, 2025
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Out Today: “Star Trek: Red Shirts #1”
Out today: “Star Trek: Red Shirts #1“, by Christopher Cantwell.
The start of an all-new heartrending Star Trek five-issue miniseries by writer Christopher Cantwell (Star Trek: Defiant) and artist Megan Levens (Star Trek), featuring Starfleet’s most intrepid and doomed crewmembers: red shirts. Now, finally, they get their own story.Led by an experienced officer embedded on the snow-ridden planet Arkonia 89, the crew of the U.S.S. Warren has a small window in which to pin down spies seeking to steal classified secrets and keep Starfleet data out of their nefarious hands.
They face threats not only from their faceless enemies but from the brutalizing elements and wildlife of a planet far from home. The red shirts’ lives and Starfleet’s sanctity are on the line…and no one is safe.
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Preview of “Star Trek: Omega #1”
Here’s a preview of Star Trek: Omega #1 by Christopher Cantwell and Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing which is due to be released this Wednesday on June 18, 2025 at your local comic shop and digital retailers:
Happy 2025 Birthday to Sondra Marshak!
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Happy birthday to Sondra Marshak!
Sondra Marshak is the author and editor of several early Star Trek novels, and also one of the biographers of William Shatner. She often collaborates with Myrna Culbreath.
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Happy 2025 Birthday to Paul Kupperberg!
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Happy birthday to Paul Kupperberg!
Paul Kupperberg is a former editor for DC Comics, and a prolific writer of comic books and newspaper strips. While with DC, he wrote in excess of 600 individual issues in a wide variety of titles, including two in the first Star Trek line, #18: “Rest and Recreation!” and #30: “Uhura’s Story”. Other titles he wrote for include Action Comics, Aquaman, Batman, Captain America, The Flash, and Wonder Woman.
In July 2004, he revisited the Star Trek universe with the eBook Sargasso Sector which was published as #42 in the Pocket SCE series.
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Happy 2025 Birthday to Ben Robinson!
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Happy birthday to Ben Robinson!
Ben Robinson is the English writer and editor of several Star Trek-related reference works and projects.
Robinson is the grandson of Bernard Robinson, most notably known as the production designer of most Hammer films made from 1957 until 1968. A 1991 University of York graduate holding a Masters degree in English and Related Literature, Robinson was an Original Series fan from an early age.
In 1996, Robinson’s first two years of working for GE Fabbri saw him serve as one of the initiators, editors, and writers of the comprehensive Star Trek Fact Files partwork magazine. He worked alongside Marcus Riley, Penny L. Juday, Larry Nemecek, Guy Vardaman, Tim Gaskill, and Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens on this project.
Following the tremendous success of the Fact Files which sold over 50 million units, he was reassigned to edit its US counterpart called Star Trek: The Magazine in 1998. A noted contribution that he made for the latter publication was the extensive interview he conducted with legendary Original Series Art Director Matt Jefferies which was published over five issues during the 2000-2002 run of the magazine. Later, Robinson followed this up with an interview featuring Andrew Probert, one of Jefferies’ successors. Over this period, he conducted interviews with many of the actors, designers, directors, writers, and effects artists involved with the franchise. Nicholas Meyer, Leonard Nimoy, and Robert Wise were among his favorite interviewees. Along the way, Robinson also compiled a massive archive of Trek materials outside of Paramount’s vaults.
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Happy 2025 Birthday to Kevin Dilmore!
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Happy birthday to Kevin Dilmore!
Kevin Dilmore is a Kansas-based writer of many Star Trek novels and short stories, specifically in the Star Trek: Starfleet Corps of Engineers series. He often collaborates with Dayton Ward.
In 1997, he began writing for the Star Trek: Communicator. Before working there, he was a newspaper reporter and editor for almost fifteen years on a community newspaper in Kansas.
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“Star Trek: Discovery: The Way To The Stars” Review by Akotsko.substack.com
Akotsko.substack.com has added a new review for Una McCormack‘s “Star Trek: Discovery: The Way To The Stars”:
My main travel reading for our trip to Mexico City was the tail end of the A Time To… series. On the flight home, though, I finished more quickly than anticipated and was thrown back on the resources of the random assortment of Star Trek novels that my Kindle had seen fit to download. I let My Esteemed Partner make the selection, and she chose Una McCormack’s Discovery: The Way to the Stars, which might be more accurately entitled The Tilly Novel. I found it to be an unexpected pleasure.
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DTI Comic Book Investigation for the week of June 12, 2025
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Out Today: “It Rhymes With Takei”
Out today: “It Rhymes With Takei“, by George Takei.
Following the award-winning bestseller They Called Us Enemy, George Takei’s new full-color graphic memoir reveals his most personal story of all—told in full for the first time anywhere!
George Takei has shown the world many faces: actor, author, outspoken activist, helmsman of the starship Enterprise, living witness to the internment of Japanese Americans, and king of social media. But until October 27, 2005, there was always one piece missing—one face he did not show the world. There was one very intimate fact about George that he never shared… and it rhymes with Takei.
Now, for the first time ever, George shares the full story of his life in the closet, his decision to come out as gay at the age of 68, and the way that moment transformed everything. Following the phenomenal success of his first graphic memoir, They Called Us Enemy, George Takei reunites with the team of Harmony Becker, Steven Scott, and Justin Eisinger, now joined by the award-winning colorist José Villarrubia, for a jaw-dropping new testament. From his earliest childhood crushes and youthful experiments in the rigidly conformist 1950s, to global fame as an actor and the paralyzing fear of exposure, to the watershed moment of speaking his truth and becoming one of the most high-profile gay men on the planet, It Rhymes With Takei presents a sweeping portrait of one iconic American navigating the tides of LGBTQ+ history.
Combining historical context with intimate subjectivity, It Rhymes With Takei shows how the personal and the political have always been intertwined. Its richly emotional words and images depict the terror of entrapment even in gay community spaces, the anguish of speaking up for so many issues while remaining silent on his most personal issue, the grief of losing friends to AIDS, the joy of finding true love with Brad Altman, and the determination to declare that love openly—and legally—before the whole world.
Looking back on his own astonishing life on both sides of the closet, George Takei presents a charismatic and candid witness to how far America has come… and how precious that progress is. — a 328-page, full-color, HARDCOVER graphic novel with 3″ French flaps, 6.5″ x 9″
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New Star Trek Book: “Second Star to the Right: Essays on Leadership in Star Trek”
Second Star to the Right: Essays on Leadership in Star Trek by Aaron M. Peterson and Bradley O. Browne and Bradley Stewart Chilton and Claude Berube and David Smith and Derek Tyler Attico and Drew Nichols and Emily Strand and James Beggan and James LeDuc and Jason A. Kaufman and Jason von Stietz and Jim Johnson and Kelli Fitzpatrick and Michael Dismuke and Michael Wong and Scott Allison and Scott Maravilla and Sebastian Stoppe and Ulster Laurie has been added to the Star Trek Book Club!
‘Star Trek’ provides an opportunity to explore the final frontier of leadership through its nearly six decades of series and films. With its basis in Enlightenment thinking (reason coupled to compassion) and its encouragement of diversity in its myriad forms, ‘Star Trek’ offers guidance on how to improve the human condition that has application in leadership across academic and professional fields. Leaders are constantly called upon to solve problems, direct institutional growth, and, on occasion, even solve humanitarian crises. Leadership development need not be complicated or overly staid. It should be engaging. ‘Star Trek’ provides us a venue through which to make it so. The proposed edited book will explore the application of Star Trek to the practice of leadership across a diverse array of professional and academic fields. ‘Second Star to the Right: Essays on Leadership in Star Trek…
The book is currently scheduled to be published on January 1, 1970
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Out Today: “Star Trek: Lower Decks #8”
Out today: “Star Trek: Lower Decks #8“, by Tim Sheridan.
In a moment of mother-daughter bonding, Captain Freeman continues the story of how she was once a nobody screw-up just like Mariner! Where she last left off, Dr. Katherine Pulaski had taken the helm of the U.S.S. Illinois in its clash with a Romulan warbird-but, as feared, Pulaski’s brilliant track record of crashing spacecraft isn’t doing her any favors in the encounter. Freeman and Durango are called upon to save the day. If the crew is to survive, the two ensigns need to rise to the challenge of command… and fast!
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Star Trek Books Coming In The Next 30 Days, as of June 10th, 2025
Non-Fiction
By: Glen E. Swanson
June 28, 2025Are you a fan of Star Trek? Do you want to know more about how the show was originally created and developed? Then you won’t want to miss this exciting new book, Inspired Enterprise: How NASA, the Smithsonian and Others Helped Launch Star Trek. I’m a former Chief Historian for NASA’s Johnson Space Center, and […]
Star Trek: The Starship Library: Volume 1: U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701
July 1, 2025
This version of the U.S.S. Enterprise made its debut at the end of Star Trek: Discovery’s first season before going on to star in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds where it is commanded by Captain Pike. The ship is a reimagining of Matt Jefferies’ original design combined with elements of the motion picture version of […]
By: Megan Treviño
July 8, 2025Get a behind-the-scenes look at the art of this fan-favorite series! Climb aboard the U.S.S. Cerritos with its crew in this special look at the art of the critically acclaimed animated series. With special sections focusing on characters, ships, backgrounds, and scenery, you’ll know the lower decks better than the crew! Also included will be […]
Comics
By: Christopher Cantwell
June 16, 2025The start of an all-new heartrending Star Trek five-issue miniseries by writer Christopher Cantwell (Star Trek: Defiant) and artist Megan Levens (Star Trek), featuring Starfleet’s most intrepid and doomed crewmembers: red shirts. Now, finally, they get their own story.Led by an experienced officer embedded on the snow-ridden planet Arkonia 89, the crew of the U.S.S. […]
By: Christopher Cantwell, Collin Kelly, Jackson Lanzing
June 18, 2025Two and a half years of comics spanning 60 years of Star Trek history, a fair few awards, and more than a few universe detonations, and it’s all been coming to this! Star Trek: Omega is the denouement of the critically acclaimed Star Trek and Star Trek: Defiant storylines, and the first glimpse at what […]
By: Tim Sheridan
July 9, 2025On a mission to collect gormangander excrement, the U.S.S. Cerritos is attacked by a Ferengi warship! The Ferengi are hot on the tail of a debt dodger who owes them a fortune-D’Vana Tendi. But as a member of Starfleet, Tendi has no way to earn the money to pay them back, and if she tells […]
Happy 2025 Birthday to Joe Haldeman!
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Happy birthday to Joe Haldeman!
Joe William Haldeman is the Oklahoma-born author of Planet of Judgment and World Without End, as well as over twenty other books. He is the younger brother of Jack C. Haldeman II.
He graduated from the University of Maryland in 1967 with a BS in Astronomy, and later went on to achieve an MFA in Creative Writing from the Iowa Writer’s Workshop in 1975. He is currently an Adjunct Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he teaches writing. The Forever War is one of his best known non-Trek works, and reflects his personal experiences in the Vietnam War (during which he was awarded a Purple Heart for bravery and was wounded.). Many people have seen the work as a reply to Robert Heinlein’s Starship Troopers.
He has been married since 1965.
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Preview of “Star Trek: Lower Decks #8”
Here’s a preview of Star Trek: Lower Decks #8 by Tim Sheridan which is due to be released this Wednesday on June 11, 2025 at your local comic shop and digital retailers:
Happy 2025 Birthday to Dayton Ward!
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Happy birthday to Dayton Ward!
Dayton Ward is a writer and software developer based out of Kansas City, Missouri. He has written a large number of Star Trek novels and short stories, specifically Star Trek: Starfleet Corps of Engineers. He often collaborates with Kevin Dilmore.
Ward was born in Tampa, Florida. After leaving high school, he joined the US Marine Corps, where he served for almost eleven years. He is married and has two daughters.
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DTI Comic Book Investigation for the week of June 5, 2025
Here are all the comics printed this week in years past.
“Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Toward The Night” Review by Treklit.com
Treklit.com has added a new review for James Swallow‘s “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Toward The Night”:
In this episode of Positively Trek, we finally have a new novel to talk about and an author to interview! Dan Gunther welcomes back Bruce Gibson to discuss the new novel Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Toward the Night . Joining us is the amazing author himself, James Swallow! We talk about the novel spoiler-free to begin with, but get into spoilers later as we discuss the plot of this time-twisting adventure.
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Happy 2025 Birthday to Kristine Kathryn Rusch!
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Happy birthday to Kristine Kathryn Rusch!
Kristine Kathryn Rusch is an American writer and editor. She writes under various pseudonyms in multiple genres, including science fiction, fantasy, mystery, romance, and mainstream.
Rusch won the Hugo Award for Best Novelette in 2001 for her story “Millennium Babies” and the 2003 Endeavour Award for The Disappeared 2002. Her story “Recovering Apollo 8” won the Sidewise Award for Alternate History (short form) in 2008. Her novel The Enemy Within won the Sidewise (long form) in 2015. She is married to fellow writer Dean Wesley Smith; they have collaborated on several works.
She edited The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction for six years, from mid-1991 through mid-1997, winning one Hugo Award as Best Professional Editor. Rusch and Smith operated Pulphouse Publishing for many years and edited the original (hardback) incarnation of Pulphouse Magazine; they won a World Fantasy Award in 1989.
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“Star Trek: Lore War–Shaxs’ Worst Day #1” Review by Aiptcomics.com
Aiptcomics.com has added a new review for Derek Charm and Ryan North‘s “Star Trek: Lore War–Shaxs’ Worst Day #1”:
The Lower Decks comic’s creative team gives a comedic angle to Lore War.
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Out Today: “Star Trek #32”
Out today: “Star Trek #32“, by Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing.
Part five of “Lore War.” Armed with the knowledge of how to defeat Lore once and for all, Sisko and what’s left of his crew scatter to the four quadrants of space. Spock, Hugh, Alexander, and Paris each set out alone on a mission to save their remaining friends from Lore’s control, but none is more alone than Sisko. He’s taking the fight directly to Lore in a final all-or-nothing standoff. Will he and the actions of his crew be enough to restore the universe and everyone to their rightful selves? Or will Lore win again and reset the universe as he’s done so many times before?
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“Star Trek: Lore War–Shaxs’ Worst Day #1” Review by Comicsonline.com
Comicsonline.com has added a new review for Derek Charm and Ryan North‘s “Star Trek: Lore War–Shaxs’ Worst Day #1”:
I didn’t think I could possibly love the IDW Publishing Star Trek books more…and then I read this book.
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Out Today: “Star Trek Adventures – Second Edition – Technical Manual”
Out today: “Star Trek Adventures – Second Edition – Technical Manual“, by .
From its inception, Star Trek
has illustrated humanity and its allies and adversaries exploring the Galaxy with a wide variety of tools and technologies at their disposal. From tricorders to phasers, deflector dishes to replicators, all the key technological achievements of the future are detailed in this book.
This Technical Manual is essential reading for any casual Star Trek fan or hardcore gamer interested in learning more about the wondrous technologies, ships, and weapons available to Starfleet personnel as well as members of many other species inhabiting the Star Trek universe, including the Klingons, Romulans, and Orions.
Use the contents of this book to learn more about the gear, weapons, and technologies of the Star Trek universe, and to enhance the Star Trek Adventures missions and campaigns you engage in with your friends.
The 129-page full-color Star Trek Adventures Second Edition Technical Manual features:
- Details on the most commonly-used gear across the Star Trek universe, including PADDs, communication devices, replicators, and holography.
- Insight on Starfleet’s Diplomatic Corps, the universal translator, second contact supplies, and information on how a crew might respond to distress calls.
- A wealth of information on a wide variety of scientific gear, tricorders, and types of laboratories; and advice on conducting away missions and some of the gear an away team might utilize.
- Details on medical practices and medical gear, including sickbays, biobeds, medical treatments and drugs, guidance on using transporters to support treatment, and medical enhancements such as various forms of chair support, genetic engineering, and cybernetics.
- Insight on diagnostic levels, transporters, turbolifts, and environmental and utility systems, as well as digital engineering elements, such as computer systems and their various components.
- Detailed information on a wide variety of close combat weapons, ranged weapons, and body armor from across the Star Trek universe.
- Information on key starship technology and their components, including defensive systems and weapons, propulsion technologies, and life support systems.
- A wealth of new game mechanics for the Star Trek Adventures Second Edition roleplaying game, including 10 new character career event options and 16 new character talents; five new starship service records, 10 new starship talents, and mines as a new weapon type.
- More than 20 random complication tables designed to help you generate problems with specific situations and devices for use during your missions.
This second edition supplement is compatible with both first edition Star Trek Adventures and the Captain’s Log Solo RPG.
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Star Trek Book Deals For June 2025
This month’s ebook deals have landed with 15 books on sale for $0.99 – $1.99 each, books that have never been on sale are in bold:
Quotable Star Trek
Star Trek: 58 Faces of Fire
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: 12 The Laertian Gamble
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: 25 Rebels: Book 2 The Courageous
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Day Of Honor 2: Armageddon Sky
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Far Beyond the Stars
Star Trek: Nemesis
Star Trek: Starfleet Corps of Engineers 35: The Demon Book 1
Star Trek: Starfleet Corps of Engineers 43: Paradise Interrupted
Star Trek: Starfleet Corps of Engineers 59: Blackout
Star Trek: Starfleet Corps of Engineers 7: Invincible Book One
Star Trek: Starfleet Corps of Engineers: Troubleshooting
Star Trek: The Next Generation: Slings and Arrows Book 3: The Insolence of Office
Star Trek: Voyager: Captain Proton: Defender of the Earth
The Art of Star Trek
“Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Dominion War: Book 2: Call to Arms” Review by Deepspacespines.com
Deepspacespines.com has added a new review for Bradley Thompson and David Weddle and Diane Carey and Hans Beimler and Ira Steven Behr and Rene Echevarria and Robert Hewitt Wolfe and Ronald D. Moore‘s “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Dominion War: Book 2: Call to Arms”:
Today’s episode is actually three episodes! The Federation manages to steal a Jem’Hadar ship in one episode, only for it to get shot down the next, and all the while, the surprise appearances of multiple teenagers make several people uncomfortable. When can you start to see the Diane Carey traces? If we believe hard enough in art, will it do something? And how can I minimize my Fandom exposure levels? All this and more in A Call to Arms, the book that’s here to kick ass and chew toothpicks.
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Preview of “Star Trek #32”
Here’s a preview of Star Trek #32 by Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing which is due to be released this Wednesday on June 4, 2025 at your local comic shop and digital retailers:
Happy 2025 Birthday to Myrna Culbreath!
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Happy birthday to Myrna Culbreath!
Myrna Culbreath is the author and editor of several early Star Trek novels, and also one of the biographers of William Shatner.
She collaborates with Sondra Marshak.
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Happy 2025 Birthday to Mike W. Barr!
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Happy birthday to Mike W. Barr!
Mike W. Barr also credited as Mike Barr, is a writer of comic books and novels. Outside of his Star Trek work, he wrote Batman and the Outsiders, Mantra, and Camelot 3000.
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“Star Trek: Lore War–Shaxs’ Worst Day #1” Review by Getyourcomicon.co.uk
Getyourcomicon.co.uk has added a new review for Derek Charm and Ryan North‘s “Star Trek: Lore War–Shaxs’ Worst Day #1”:
Star Trek’s current Lore War event begins to wind down this week with its only tie-in book, Shaxs’ Worst Day. The sweeping event is part of IDW’s plans to bring the current continuity to Trek comics to an epic conclusion. But following an incredibly tightly executed five-part arc can this tie-in replicate that success using the Eisner-nominated team of Ryan North and Derek Charm?
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“Star Trek: Defiant #27” Review by Getyourcomicon.co.uk
Getyourcomicon.co.uk has added a new review for Christopher Cantwell‘s “Star Trek: Defiant #27”:
Today the penultimate chapter of IDW’s Star Trek: Lore War event arrives in comic book stores. What we’re trying to not think about is that means this current run of comics, over two years of storytelling, is soon to come to an end. There’s still plenty to get through as Worf, Sisko and Kahless II try to fix the timeline and save all of civilisation from Lore’s clutches. Christopher Cantwell steers the ship through a heady mix of exposition and character tension as the event looks to set itself up for an explosive finale.
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DTI Comic Book Investigation for the week of May 29, 2025
Here are all the comics printed this week in years past.
“Star Trek: Red Shirts #1” Review by Aiptcomics.com
Aiptcomics.com has added a new review for Christopher Cantwell‘s “Star Trek: Red Shirts #1”:
Turns Starfleet’s most expendable crew members into complex, compelling protagonists in a dark and surprisingly emotional series.
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“Star Trek: Defiant #27” Review by Comicsonline.com
Comicsonline.com has added a new review for Christopher Cantwell‘s “Star Trek: Defiant #27”:
The Lore War continues! After the shocking reveal in Part 3, it’s hard to believe that things can get much worse for our favorite cosmic explorers…but leave it to this creative team to push our heroes to new limits. Star Trek: Defiant #27 (Lore War – Part 4) has arrived thanks to IDW Publishing, and you might want to get your hands on it as fast as possible.
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Out Today: “Star Trek: Lore War–Shaxs’ Worst Day #1”
Out today: “Star Trek: Lore War–Shaxs’ Worst Day #1“, by Derek Charm and Ryan North.
From the team who brought you the Ringo- and Eisner-nominated Shaxs’ Best Day comes a rip-roaring ride full of clever ship high jinks, nonstop badassery, and bombastic punches… because at the end of the day, let’s face it. It’s not Shaxs’ worst day. It’s fascism’s. Shaxs had his best day, but now that the universe has been rewritten by the mad android Lore, he’s about to have his worst. Starfleet has been distorted into a machinery of oppression antithetical to everything it once stood for, and Shaxs has been made into the one thing he despises most in the universe: a fascist. Now free of Lore’s hold over his mind, it’s up to Shaxs to revert everyone in Starfleet back to their old selves and save the cosmos!
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“Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Toward The Night” Review by Shastrix.com
Shastrix.com has added a new review for James Swallow‘s “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Toward The Night”:
It’s a classic planet-of-the-week story with plenty of character stuff, adventure, and the occasional British cultural reference which will go totally over the head of most American readers and therefore I find incredibly delightful.
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“Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Toward The Night” Review by Creators.spotify.com
Creators.spotify.com has added a new review for James Swallow‘s “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Toward The Night”:
Join Jodi on this week’s episode of The Clonestar Podcast for an exclusive interview with bestselling author James Swallow, as he discusses his brand-new Star Trek: Strange New Worlds novel, Toward the Night.Set during Pike’s tenure on the Enterprise, the story follows a haunting mystery that begins with subspace echoes from a lifeless world near the Klingon border. When Spock and Una discover signs of alien life—and a long-lost Federation ship—Pike, Ortegas, and the crew are drawn into a decades-old enigma that forces them to confront questions about who they are, and who they might become.James shares insights into crafting this suspenseful tale, writing for legacy characters like Spock and Pike, and the thrill of bringing Strange New Worlds to the page.
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Happy 2025 Birthday to Lawrence M. Krauss!
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Happy birthday to Lawrence M. Krauss!
Lawrence Maxwell Krauss is a professor of physics and astronomy, and Foundation Professor of the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University. He is also director of its Origins Project.
He’s the author of ten popular books, explaining scientific principles and physics for a general public, using, in the cases of the international bestseller The Physics of Star Trek, and Beyond Star Trek, examples from the live-action Star Trek franchise as illustrative back-drops for his treatises. Other popular works, Krauss has written include the award winning Atom, and Hiding in the Mirror: The Mysterious Allure of Extra Dimensions from Plato to String Theory and Beyond.
Krauss also appeared in a segment of How William Shatner Changed the World.
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Out Today: “Star Trek: Defiant, Volume 4: The Stars of Home”
Out today: “Star Trek: Defiant, Volume 4: The Stars of Home“, by Christopher Cantwell.
Connecting with the voyages of the ongoing Star Trek comic series, Defiant ventures into the dark side of the cosmos!
Original Star Trek: Defiant writer-artist duo Christopher Cantwell and Ángel Unzueta delve into the sci-fi horror genre in arc four of the fan-favorite series!
It’s the beginning of a new era for the disavowed, mercenary crew of the U.S.S. Defiant! Political corruption ensues as Sela and her father, General Revo, leverage the imprisoned Defiant crewmates to kidnap the Romulan praetor and chairman of Tal Shiar Intelligence to advance their sinister plot to take over Romulus…
This leaves Worf, B’Elanna, and Ro with two crewmates down, and a planet on the brink of Romulan invasion. Despite how hopeful the planet’s meager farming population is, what are three failed Starfleet officers and lowly resistance fighters to a heavily armed and technologically advanced Romulan strike team?
Collects issues #17–21 of the series.
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Preview of “Star Trek: Lore War–Shaxs’ Worst Day #1”
Here’s a preview of Star Trek: Lore War–Shaxs’ Worst Day #1 by Derek Charm and Ryan North which is due to be released this Wednesday on May 28, 2025 at your local comic shop and digital retailers:
New Star Trek Comic Books Announced To Preorder! May 2025 Edition
D’Vana Tendi has only just begun to dig herself out of the mountain of student loan debt she owes Ferengi swindlers, and already she’s feeling burnt out. Despite Freeman brokering her a deal, and the help of fellow Lower Deckers, the Ferengi’s demands are becoming more intense and overwhelming by the day. So, Tendi decides to put her Starfleet education to use… and work smarter, not harder.
After weathering the deaths of their crewmates, the Red Shirts who survived hurtling to Arkonia 89 in torpedo casings have rendezvoused with Lieutenant Cromarty in his underground base. Their mission: to bed down and wait for enemy spies to take the bait they’ve laid in a data disk at the base of a subspace antenna. But little do the Federation officers know, they aren’t the only ones looking for unsuspecting prey…
Last Chance! Star Trek Book Deals For May 2025
You have until June 1st to grab this month’s ebook deals, with 15 books on sale for $0.99 – $1.99 each:
Star Trek: 65 Windows On A Lost World
Star Trek: 81 Mudd In Your Eye
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: 18 Saratoga
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: 26 Rebels Book 3: The Liberated
Star Trek: Legacies: Book 2: Best Defense
Star Trek: Starfleet Corps of Engineers 12: Some Assembly Required
Star Trek: Starfleet Corps of Engineers 48: Creative Couplings Book 2
Star Trek: Starfleet Corps of Engineers 58: Honor
Star Trek: Starfleet Corps of Engineers 6: Cold Fusion
Star Trek: Starfleet Corps of Engineers 60: The Cleanup
Star Trek: Starfleet Corps of Engineers: Turn the Page
Star Trek: The Captain’s Table: Book 1: War Dragons
Star Trek: The Next Generation: 52 Double Helix Book 2: Vectors
Star Trek: The Next Generation: Slings and Arrows Book 4: That Sleep of Death
Star Trek: Vulcan’s Forge
“Star Trek: Defiant #27” Review by Aiptcomics.com
Aiptcomics.com has added a new review for Christopher Cantwell‘s “Star Trek: Defiant #27”:
It’s looking like this will be a Star Trek story to remember.
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“Star Trek: Red Shirts #1” Review by Comicbook.com
Comicbook.com has added a new review for Christopher Cantwell‘s “Star Trek: Red Shirts #1”:
Star Trek fans can get a look at what IDW Publishing has in store for new titles featuring the Red Shirts and Strange New Worlds. A new era of Star Trek publishing is about to gear up as we race towards Star Trek: Omega, an oversized one-shot serving as the denouement of the critically acclaimed Star Trek comic series and Star Trek: Defiant storylines. Two of the new limited series spinning out of Star Trek: Omega are Star Trek: Red Shirts and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – The Seeds of Destruction, launching in July and August, respectively. We have a first hand look at covers and interior art for both titles.
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“Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Toward The Night” Review by Positivelytrek.com
Positivelytrek.com has added a new review for James Swallow‘s “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Toward The Night”:
In this episode of Positively Trek , we finally have a new novel to talk about and an author to interview! Dan Gunther welcomes back Bruce Gibson to discuss the new novel Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Towards the Night . Joining us is the amazing author himself, James Swallow! We talk about the novel spoiler-free to begin with, but get into spoilers later as we discuss the plot of this time-twisting adventure.
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Happy 2025 Birthday to Kelli Fitzpatrick!
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Happy birthday to Kelli Fitzpatrick!
Kelli Fitzpatrick is an author, teacher, Trekkie, cosplayer, artist, geek, traveler, runner, and lover of all things literary.
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“Star Trek: Lower Decks #7” Review by Getyourcomicon.co.uk
Getyourcomicon.co.uk has added a new review for Tim Sheridan‘s “Star Trek: Lower Decks #7”:
Star Trek: Lower Decks is back in comic book stores today. Tim Sheridan takes over writing duties as the story shifts from our Lower Deckers to their captain. The shifting time period and location offers the book chance to explore the wider-Trek universe through the Lower Decks lens. But it does also raise the question of whether audiences are interested in seeing more from the series supporting cast?
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“Star Trek: Red Shirts #1” Review by Comicon.com
Comicon.com has added a new review for Christopher Cantwell‘s “Star Trek: Red Shirts #1”:
A limited series that centers on characters with half-lives that can be measured in minutes, is a challenge. Unfortunately this premiere issue doesn’t live up to its premise, largely because it’s difficult to connect with these security officers who may not live long enough to see the next issue.
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Happy 2025 Birthday to Carlos Garzón!
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Happy birthday to Carlos Garzón!
Carlos Garzónis a Colombian comic book artist, working with both pencils and inks. He began his career in the late 1960s with his character “El Dago”. By the mid-1970s, he had begun working for Marvel, DC, and Dark Horse Comics. He is best known for his work with both the Star Wars and Star Trek lines, doing covers, inks, and pencils across their various runs.
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“Star Trek #31” Review by Positivelytrek.com
Positivelytrek.com has added a new review for Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing‘s “Star Trek #31”:
In this episode of Positively Trek , hosts Dan and Brandi are continuing their coverage of the current Lore War event that has scrambled the galaxy in the on-going Star Trek and Star Trek: Defiant comic series. They discuss Star Trek: Defiant #26 and Star Trek #31, parts 2 and 3 of Lore War . We talk about the events of both issues, and share our thoughts as well as our predictions for the next part of the story!
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DTI Comic Book Investigation for the week of May 22, 2025
Here are all the comics printed this week in years past.
Out Today: “Star Trek: Defiant #27”
Out today: “Star Trek: Defiant #27“, by Christopher Cantwell.
Part four of “Lore War.” Sisko is approaching a moment of crisis: Lore is god of the universe, and the number of heroes operating outside his influence is dwindling with every encounter. Everywhere Sisko looks, he sees those he’s failed. Is he really the person meant to defeat Lore and restore his timeline? Just as he is about to set down the burden of leadership…he dreams of a familiar blue light…and remembers there is hope yet in the universe waiting for those with the courage to seek it out
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“Star Trek: Dark Victory” Review by Themindreels.com
Themindreels.com has added a new review for Garfield Reeves-Stevens and Judith Reeves-Stevens and William Shatner‘s “Star Trek: Dark Victory”:
Shatner continues his mirror universe trilogy, with Dark Victory. It seems not only has Captain James T. Kirk survived into the 24th century, so has his mirror universe counterpart, Emperor Tiberius. And they are on a collision course.
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