Interview: Heather Antos, Chris Fenoglio and Ryan North on STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS: WARP YOUR OWN WAY
Happy 2024 Birthday to Ian Spelling!
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Happy birthday to Ian Spelling!
Ian R. Spelling is a freelance journalist and entertainment writer for numerous Star Trek related interviews for magazines, websites, and newspapers. He served as the editor of StarTrek.com, the official Star Trek site, from 2010 to 2019.
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Happy 2024 Birthday to Armin Shimerman!
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Happy birthday to Armin Shimerman!
Armin Shimerman is the actor who was best known in the Star Trek universe for his portrayal of the Ferengi bartender Quark on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. He is one of only six actors to appear in three different live action Star Trek series (The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, and Voyager) as the same character. Prior to assuming the role of Quark, however, Shimerman earned the distinction of being among the first to ever portray a Ferengi in the Star Trek franchise when the race first appeared in the Next Generation episode “The Last Outpost”. Shimerman went on to make two more appearances on TNG (including a second time as a Ferengi in the episode “Peak Performance”) and to star on Deep Space Nine for its entire seven-year run (1993 – 1999). He also co-wrote the Trek novel The 34th Rule.
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Happy 2024 Birthday to Phil Farrand!
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Happy birthday to Phil Farrand!
Phil Farrand is an American computer programmer and consultant, webmaster and author. He is known for his Nitpicker’s Guides, in which he nitpicks plot holes and continuity errors in the various Star Trek television programs and movies, and for the creation of Nitcentral, a website devoted to the same activity. Subsequent to his Nitpicker’s Guides, he has ventured into fiction as a novelist.
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Happy 2024 Birthday to Kathy Oltion!
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Happy birthday to Kathy Oltion!
Kathy F. Oltion lives in Eugene, Oregon with her husband, Jerry Oltion, with whom she co-wrote a TOS novel. She also entered the the Star Trek: Strange New Worlds writing contest and two of her short stories were chosen for publication.
Along with her husband, she is a member of the Wordos writing group, which specializes in science fiction.
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Out Today: “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Asylum”
Out today: “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Asylum“, by Una McCormack.
When Una Chin-Riley and Christopher Pike meet at Starfleet Academy after one of his lectures, they immediately become friends. A stellar student, Una is the “poster girl” of her class, and Pike is determined to become a Starfleet captain with his own ship, rhetorically assembling his dream crew. As their friendship evolves, Pike also suspects Una is involved with the Euxhana, a Chionian cultural minority, who are seeking asylum in Federation space, leading to more questions than answers.
Twenty-five years later, Una and Pike are working together on the USS Enterprise to settle a Chionian trade agreement when a pro-Euxhana saboteur launches a terrorist attack. When the suspect is taken into custody for interrogation and is discovered to have a history with Una, her past associations resurface, threatening to expose a secret she’s been harboring all these years…
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Star Trek Book Deals For November 2024
This month’s ebook deals have landed with 7 books on sale for $0.99 – $1.99 each, books that have never been on sale are in bold:
Get your cloak and dagger ready, it’s time to read some stories of Section 31!
Star Trek: 15 Corona
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Section 31: Abyss
Star Trek: Section 31: Cloak
Star Trek: Section 31: Disavowed
Star Trek: The Next Generation: Section 31: Rogue
Star Trek: The Original Series: Seasons of Light and Darkness
Star Trek: Voyager: Section 31: Shadow
Happy 2024 Birthday to Lorraine Anderson!
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Happy birthday to Lorraine Anderson!
Lorraine Anderson grew up on a free-range chicken ranch in Cupertino, California, in the days when the Santa Clara Valley was still known as the Valley of Heart’s Delight. (It’s now known as Silicon Valley.) She freelances as a writer and editor in Corvallis, Oregon.
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New Star Trek Comic Books Announced To Preorder! November 2024 Edition
IDW November 2024 Catalog
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…
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.
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?
From the pen of Alyssa Wong (Spirit World, Doctor Aphra) and the brush of Megan Levens (Star Trek) comes the exciting single-issue spin-off of the forthcoming Star Trek: Section 31 movie! The issue features Emperor Philippa Georgiou on a brand-new, raucous, and exhilarating adventure.
Nana Visitor on Blog.trekcore.com discussing “OPEN A CHANNEL: THE WOMEN OF STAR TREK”
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Nana Visitor was recently featured on Blog.trekcore.com to discuss OPEN A CHANNEL: THE WOMEN OF STAR TREK:
In Nana Visitor’s new book, Open a Channel — The Women of Star Trek, she weaves together tales from women of every incarnation of Star Trek into a rich tapestry of trials and triumphs. By centering both the characters and the unique women behind the roles, Visitor explores both the history of women characters in Star Trek, and even more deeply the experiences of the women who brought them to life throughout decades of Hollywood and how each era shaped the women who worked and lived through them.
Check out the Nana Visitor author page to view other sightings and a full list of books!
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Happy 2024 Birthday to Jean Lorrah!
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Happy birthday to Jean Lorrah!
Jean Lorrah is the creator of the Savage Empire series and co-author of the Sime~Gen series created by Jacqueline Lichtenberg. She is also a screenwriter, with an optioned screenplay, Coal for Christmas, written with Lois Wickstrom. Be sure to look for her Nessie’s Grotto books with Lois, and folk tale favorite Rooster Under the Table. Besides all that, Jean has a one-off vampire novel, Blood Will Tell.
Jean specializes in Intimate Adventure, stories in which people with opposing points of view must resolve the conflict by working together, usually with lives at stake.
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“Star Trek: The Next Generation: 9 A Call To Darkness” Review by Themindreels.com
Themindreels.com has added a new review for Michael Jan Friedman‘s “Star Trek: The Next Generation: 9 A Call To Darkness”:
We’re still early into The Next Generation novel series, this is only the ninth in the series. Set in the second season, while the third season was just getting underway on television, the book had to be written while the second season was in production. And that means not everything was going to work as viewers and authors were still getting used to all the characters and the storytelling style, which the series hadn’t quite found yet.
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New Star Trek Book: “It Rhymes With Takei”
It Rhymes With Takei by George Takei has been added to the Star Trek Book Club!
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″
The book is currently scheduled to be published on June 1, 2024
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Una McCormack Interview With StarTrekBookClub.com
I start off my conversation with Una McCormack with a mutual admiration for time shenanigans, then we move on to talk about the audio adaptation of her upcoming book “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Asylum” and features “Una by Una”, which is a clever way of saying that this is the first time that Una McCormack has written a story specifically for Una Chin-Riley, the first officer of the Enterprise under Captain Pike. The story features multiple types of sentient alien cats, linguistic shenanigans, and a student production of The Mikado!
We have a great conversation about the origins of the story and how it changed from the initial concept to what we’re about to read and how the various strikes effected the final outcome, then briefly talk about how fun it is to be writing a character that’s been named after you. Una says Una (the character) is an onion with a solid but complicated relationship with Pike and they rely on each other in a wonderful way.
We then talk about her work in the Doctor Who franchise and the fantastic audio series that has hundreds upon hundreds of entries from “Big Finish”, something that we both feel Trek could learn and benefit from.
I ask her about the Weird Universe book series, it was started by Eric Brown and she’s written two of the four books in the series. It has a cool concept that I think I’d like to eventually check out.
Una McCormack can be found at her website, Mastodon, and Twitter
Out Today: “Star Trek Explorer #13”
Out today: “Star Trek Explorer #13“, by .
STAR TREK SECURITY SPECIAL- We celebrate the brave souls who’ve done more to keep Starfleet safe than any others!
AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH JONATHAN FRAKES- Star Trek’s very own William Riker chats about his behind-the-scenes work as a director.
THE KELVIN MOVIES- A definitive guide!
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Out Today: “It’s Not About The Destination: Life Lessons From Star Trek”
Out today: “It’s Not About The Destination: Life Lessons From Star Trek“, by Glen Henderson.
From Glen Henderson, the bestselling author of “All I Need To Know About Success I Learned From Star Trek,” comes his next deep dive into the soul of the greatest science fiction franchise of all time.
At its core, Star Trek is a story about us – our successes, our struggles, our hopes and fears and dreams for our future. Glen believes that the First Principles to be gleaned from the tales and characters of Trek have the power to profoundly influence our everyday lives – if we know where to look.
Come join the “continuing mission” of the Starship Enterprise … and set course on your OWN journey.
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Out Today: “Star Trek: Year Five Deluxe Edition: Book 2”
Out today: “Star Trek: Year Five Deluxe Edition: Book 2“, by Brandon Easton and Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing.
Embark on the critically acclaimed final chapter of the U.S.S. Enterprise‘s five-year voyage. The crew left Earth four years ago. Since then, they’ve traveled to strange new worlds, defeated impossible foes, and made universe-changing decisions. But now, with the end in sight, they’ll have to face their biggest challenge yet. Step aboard the Enterprise with Kirk, Spock, Bones, Uhura, Sulu, Scotty, and Chekov as they begin the end of their original five-year mission and boldly go into an uncertain future. This deluxe hardcover edition collects issues #15-25 and the Star Trek: Year Five Valentine’s Day Special.
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Happy 2024 Birthday to Mark A. Altman!
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Happy birthday to Mark A. Altman!
Mark A. Altman is a writer/producer, author, and comic book writer having written a number of issues for Malibu Comics, including the entire Star Trek: Deep Space Nine – The Maquis: Soldier of Peace and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine – Hearts and Minds series as well as “Terok Nor”. He also contributed a story for DC Comics.
Altman is also the co-author of several unlicensed reference books about the Star Trek saga, all of them with Edward Gross and much of which stemming from his writings for Cinefantastique-magazine. Their latest collaboration, The Fifty-Year Mission, Volume One: The First 25 Years, is the first of a two-volume set, each devoted to 25 years of the franchise, and was released in June 2016.
Check out the Mark A. Altman author page to view more author updates and a full list of books!
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Happy 2024 Birthday to Robert Hewitt Wolfe!
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Happy birthday to Robert Hewitt Wolfe!
Robert Hewitt Wolfe is a writer of many Star Trek episodes. His first episode was the Next Generation episode “A Fistful of Datas”, which helped him get a job as a writer on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
Check out the Robert Hewitt Wolfe author page to view more author updates and a full list of books!
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Happy 2024 Birthday to Brad Strickland!
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Happy birthday to Brad Strickland!
William Bradley “Brad” Strickland is a Star Trek author.
He was born in New Holland, Georgia, and still lives in the state.
Since he began writing, he has published over sixty novels, and more than sixty short stories and poems. He is the husband of his frequent co-author Barbara Strickland. He writes primarily for young adults, but does have several novels, mostly in the mystery genre, aimed at adults.
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‘Star Trek: Voyager’ Co-Creator Jeri Taylor Has Passed Away
Taylor also worked for four seasons on ‘The Next Generation.’
Happy 2024 Birthday to John Gregory Betancourt!
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Happy birthday to John Gregory Betancourt!
Betancourt was born in St. Louis, Missouri, to Philip Betancourt, a notable archeologist, and expert on Bronze Age Greece. His younger brother, Michael, is a well-known critical theorist and cultural historian. As a child, Betancourt was taken on digs in Greece by his father. His first story was published at age sixteen.
His wife Kim Betancourt is also a speculative fiction author, and they run their own publishing company, Wildside Press together.
Betancourt is also co-author of The Sci-Fi Channel Encyclopedia of TV Science Fiction (1998). He has written over thirty novels. He has described writing his Star Trek tie-ins as “business mingled with pleasure”.
He currently lives in Maryland.
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Happy 2024 Birthday to Ira Steven Behr!
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Happy birthday to Ira Steven Behr!
Ira Steven Behr was executive producer of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, as well as a writer of several episodes. He was also a producer on Star Trek: The Next Generation from 1989 to 1990. With writing partners Robert Hewitt Wolfe and, later, Hans Beimler, he possibly deserves the most credit for the Deep Space Nine Dominion War story arc and the series’ approach to characterization and story.
Behr is currently working on a documentary about Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and it is expected for release in 2017. The documentary will see Behr reunite the writing staff and actors to discuss the impact and influence of the series, as well as develop the story of the first episode of the “eighth season”.
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Out Today: “Star Trek: Defiant #20”
Out today: “Star Trek: Defiant #20“, by Christopher Cantwell.
The Romulans are descending on Antara, and Worf must lead his militia to victory against the warship Ran’Kara. When the battle turns against the Antarans, Worf is forced into a duel with one of the best Romulan fighters ever seen: Maiek. Has the battle already been lost, or will Maiek finally meet the edge of Worf’s bat’leth?
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Out Today: “Star Trek: Lower Decks – Warp Your Own Way”
Out today: “Star Trek: Lower Decks – Warp Your Own Way“, by Ryan North.
Mariner just wants to have a normal day, but no matter what side of the bed she wakes up on, the world is ending. Literally. If she has coffee, Borg attack! If she has raktajino, cue the Romulan boarding party! And in each scenario, Mariner and her friends end up dead, sometimes the ship is destroyed—and the day starts all over again.
But by exploring the different paths, you, the reader, can discover things that Mariner can’t. There are inconsistencies that don’t make sense—putting aside the fact that Mariner’s choice of drink each morning shouldn’t affect which alien races attack the ship, other facts of her world seem to change too. Something is definitely off. It’s up to you to discover!
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Last Chance! Star Trek Book Deals For October 2024
This is your last chance to participate in Spocktober, which brings 11 books on sale for $1.99 each!
Star Trek: 11 Yesterday’s Son
Star Trek: 2 The Entropy Effect
Star Trek: 20 The Vulcan Academy Murders
Star Trek: 38 The Idic Epidemic
Star Trek: 39 The Yesterday Saga Book 2: Time For Yesterday
Star Trek: 49 The Pandora Principle
Star Trek: Picard: The Last Best Hope
Star Trek: Spock’s World
Star Trek: The Next Generation: 1 Ghost Ship
Star Trek: The Original Series: Child of Two Worlds
Star Trek: Troublesome Minds
IDW PUBLISHING USHERS IN A NEW ERA WITH A BOLD NEW LOGO
LOS ANGELES, CA (October 16, 2024) –This year, IDW Publishing commemorated 25 years of award-winning comic book storytelling with a celebratory logo that was inspired by the company’s prestigious history. Now, IDW Publishing is embracing its next era with a bold new logo that represents the energy and innovation within the company as it looks to the next 25 years of entertainment.
Ushering in an all-new era of IDW Publishing’s vision was a creative mission that Nathan Widick, Director of Design, embraced with open arms. “This rebrand was an opportunity for us to redefine the entire identity of IDW from the ground up. During the process, we went through hundreds of different designs, concepts, and ideas including a big push to retool our classic lightbulb logo. Ultimately, we decided that rather than looking back, it was time for us to look forward and show the world the new and bold direction of IDW with a dynamic and innovative identity.” Widick added, “The simple and effective combination of the company’s identifying letters rendered in dynamic forward-moving angles perfectly captures the energy and inspirational attitude we are looking to cultivate with this next era of IDW.”
“As we turn the page to a new chapter at IDW Publishing, our rebrand is more than a new look—it’s a signal of our renewed commitment to creativity and storytelling. With this bold new logo, we are not just revisiting our roots but pushing forward to redefine what a comic book publisher can be,” said Aub Driver, Director of Marketing. “This rebrand is set to match the innovative and diverse storytelling our team is passionate about delivering. It marks a pivotal moment as we continue to engage our loyal fan base and welcome new readers worldwide.”
“This rebrand reflects our strategic vision to propel IDW Publishing into a future rich with possibilities,” stated Davidi Jonas, CEO/Publisher. “It represents our commitment to originality and excellence as we continue to lead in the comic book industry and underscores our resilience and readiness to adapt in a rapidly evolving entertainment landscape.”
The new logo will begin appearing on all IDW Publishing releases starting in 2025.
This week during New York Comic Con, IDW will announce more plans for its ambitious future during the panel IDW Publishing: The Next 25 Years Fears on Friday, October 18 at 2:15pm EST in Room 1C03.
About IDW Publishing
IDW (NYSE AMERICAN: IDW) is a leading media company providing uniquely compelling stories and characters in various genres for global audiences across all entertainment platforms. The award-winning IDW Publishing and IDW Entertainment divisions holistically evaluate and acquire IP for franchise development across comics and graphic novels, television, theatrical, merchandise, and other entertainment platforms, in addition to bringing world-renowned storytelling to life with our creative partners.
Happy 2024 Birthday to Daffyd ab Hugh!
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Happy birthday to Daffyd ab Hugh!
Dafydd ab Hugh, born David Friedman in Los Angeles, is a US science fiction author who wrote several Star Trek books. He is the child of a secular Jewish father and a Welsh-descended mother who converted to Judaism on marriage. The name “Dafydd ab Hugh” is Welsh for “David son of Hugh”, and is now his legal name.
During the 1980s, he served in the United States Navy training to be a Radar Intercept Officer, hoping to eventually become an astronaut, but left the Navy sometime in the late-1980s to pursue a career of writing. Ab Hugh also co-wrote four novels associated with the game Doom, with libertarian science fiction author Brad Linaweaver and published some unrelated short fiction stories. His most notable work “The Coon Rolled Down and Ruptured His Larinks, A Squeezed Novel by Mr. Skunk”, was nominated for the Hugo Award and Nebula Award.
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New Star Trek Book: “The Art of Star Trek: Lower Decks”
The Art of Star Trek: Lower Decks by Megan Treviño 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!
Get 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 interviews with members of the art team, who provide special insights into the making of the series and the art process.
The book is currently scheduled to be published on July 8, 2025
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Preview of “Star Trek: Defiant #20”
Here’s a preview of Star Trek: Defiant #20 by Christopher Cantwell which is due to be released this Wednesday on October 23, 2024 at your local comic shop and digital retailers:
Happy 2024 Birthday to Carmen Carter!
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Happy birthday to Carmen Carter!
Carmen Carter is a Star Trek novelist. She began writing fantasy and science fiction in 1984. Her first Star Trek novel, Dreams of the Raven was published in 1987, and since then she authored three Next Generation novels.
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“Star Trek: Voyager: The Nanotech War” Review by Trek.fm
Trek.fm has added a new review for Steven Piziks‘s “Star Trek: Voyager: The Nanotech War”:
In this episode of Literary Treks hosts Casey Pettitt and Jonathan Koan talk about The Nanotech War. We discuss the book not being numbered, first impression, first contact, B’Elanna and Seven’s arcs, putting everything back in the box, wrapping up with our ratings and final thoughts.
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Happy 2024 Birthday to Ryan North!
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Happy birthday to Ryan North!
Ryan North’s recent work includes the non-fiction books How To Take Over The World and How To Invent Everything, the semi-fictional graphic novel adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five, and the so-far-fictional Fantastic Four series for Marvel. He’s an internationally-recognized multiple-New-York-Times-bestselling author whose work has been translated into 16 different languages, and as a linguist, he’s very happy about that. He lives in Toronto, where he once messed up walking his dog so badly it made the news.
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Star Trek Murder Mystery and Escape Room Games
While this isn’t a full length book, I’m going to assume there’s going to be narrative elements that would attract the TrekLit audience.
Happy 2024 Birthday to Mary Scott-Wiecek!
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Happy birthday to Mary Scott-Wiecek!
Mary Scott-Wiecek is a Star Trek author. She lives in Ohio, and is sometimes credited elsewhere as Mary Wiecek. Grand Prize winner in the Strange New Worlds V competition. She lives in Ohio.
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Robert Petkoff Interview With StarTrekBookClub.com
This conversation is my first branch out from talking to Star Trek authors, this week I spoke to Robert Petkoff! He’s narrated over 30 Trek books and has done dozens upon dozens of audio books not related to Trek. You may notice his glorious mustache that he has in place for a role that he’s playing in a production of Moulin Rouge.
Our conversation starts with a talk about the work he does that’s outside of audio book narration, though he does mention that he just wrapped up his work on narrating Una McCormick’s upcoming book Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Asylum. He talks about his “on the road” setup for when he’s doing duration with some good information for those of you that are audio nerds.
We talk about his process for narration, which includes some fun discussions on his he isn’t an impersonator, but that there are small changes that can be made for different characters that give a great indication about who’s saying what.
We have a discussion about how A.I. is super useful for current narrators, but has the capability to end the careers of upcoming narrators before they can even get started. Is there going to be a marketplace for human narrators when something like Amazon Kindle can do it automatically for us?
We also talk about narrating for TOS Kirk vs narrating for SNW Kirk.
Robert Petkoff can be found on his website, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.
Out Today: “Star Trek #25”
Out today: “Star Trek #25“, by Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing.
The android Lore has done the unthinkable: He has detonated the Orb of Destruction, unmaking the universe. After an extra-galactic tumble on the ensuing shockwave, the Theseus sinks into fluidic space. There, the crew melds in and out of a manifold of realities. Benjamin Sisko is against a godkiller once again, but this time it’s up to him alone to save reality itself!
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Out Today: “Star Trek, Vol. 3: Glass and Bone”
Out today: “Star Trek, Vol. 3: Glass and Bone“, by Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing.
The third arc of the critically acclaimed Star Trek flagship comic series continues in paperback collection! Benjamin Sisko is called out of retirement to defeat the Tzenkethi Coalition!
Captain Benjamin Sisko’s quest to defeat the killer of gods is at an end, and the Prophets beckon him home to the Celestial Temple. He’s earned his rest, but he no longer wants to retire into godhood. So when Starfleet requests his help to stop a familiar foe, the Tzenkethi Coalition, from launching their fleet across the Alpha Quadrant, Sisko and the Theseus’ crew set out to once again save the galaxy. They team up with Operative Kingsnake (a.k.a. HARRY KIM), but the Tzenkethi leader has surprising allies of his own: the Romulans! There’s a reason this species of spiritually rich, lizard birds has twice defeated Starfleet in battle. They’re xenophobic, ruthless, and innovative…and confronting them on their home turf, a planet thought to be an organism itself, is a death sentence.
In this paperback follow up to Star Trek, Vol. 1: Godshock and Vol. 2: The Red Path, Volume 3 collects Star Trek issues #13–18 by writers Collin Kelly & Jackson Lanzing with artist Marcus To.
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Preview of “Star Trek #25”
Here’s a preview of Star Trek #25 by Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing which is due to be released this Wednesday on October 16, 2024 at your local comic shop and digital retailers:
Happy 2024 Birthday to Bob Ingersoll!
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Happy birthday to Bob Ingersoll!
Robert “Bob” Ingersoll is a Star Trek writer from Ohio with Tony Isabella. He recently collaborated with Thom Zahler on “‘Til Death” in The Sky’s the Limit.
He is a lawyer by profession, and worked as an attorney in Cleveland, Ohio.
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Happy 2024 Birthday to Aaron Rosenberg!
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Happy birthday to Aaron Rosenberg!
AARON ROSENBERG is the award-winning, #1 bestselling author of the DuckBob humorous science fiction series and the Dread Remora space-opera series, and the co-author of the O.C.L.T. thriller series and the ReDeus modern-day fantasy series, among others. He’s written tie-in novels (including the PsiPhi winner Collective Hindsight for Star Trek: SCE, the Daemon Gates trilogy for Warhammer, Tides of Darkness and (with Christie Golden) the Scribe-nominated Beyond the Dark Portal for WarCraft, Hunt and Run for Stargate: Atlantis, and Substitution Method and The Road Less Traveled for Eureka), children’s books (including an original series, Pete and Penny’s Pizza Puzzles, and work for PowerPuff Girls and Transformers Animated), roleplaying games (including original games like Asylum and Spookshow, the Origins Award-winning Gamemastering Secrets, and sections of The Supernatural Roleplaying Game, Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, and The Deryni Roleplaying Game), young adult novels (including the #1 bestseller 42: The Jackie Robinson Story, the Scribe-winning Bandslam: The Novel and two books for iCarly), short stories, webcomics, essays, and educational books. He has ranged from mystery to speculative fiction to drama to comedy, always with the same intent—to tell a good story. Aaron lives in New York with his family. You can follow him online at gryphonrose.com, on Facebook at facebook.com/gryphonrose, and on Twitter @gryphonrose.
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Happy 2024 Birthday to Dan Abnett!
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Happy birthday to Dan Abnett!
Dan Abnett is an English comic book writer and novelist. He has been a frequent collaborator with fellow writer Andy Lanning, and is known for his work on books for both Marvel Comics, and their UK imprint, Marvel UK, since the 1990s, and also 2000 AD. He has also contributed to DC Comics titles, and his Warhammer Fantasy and Warhammer 40,000 novels and graphic novels for Games Workshop’s Black Library now run to several dozen titles and have sold over two million copies. In 2009 he released his first original fiction novels through Angry Robot books.
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“Star Trek: The Lost Era: Catalyst of Sorrows” Review by Trek.fm
Trek.fm has added a new review for Margaret Wander Bonanno‘s “Star Trek: The Lost Era: Catalyst of Sorrows”:
In this episode of Literary Treks hosts Casey Pettitt and Jonathan Koan talk about The Lost Era book, Catalyst of Shadows. We discuss an Uhura story, Crusher vs Pulaski, the rest of the cast, other characters, the mystery, trauma, flashbacks and timelines, plus our ratings and final thoughts.
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Ryan North Interview With StarTrekBookClub.com
This week’s conversation is with Ryan North, author of the current Fantastic Four series, Adventure Time comics, Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, Lower Decks (2022), Shaxs’ Best Day, and the upcoming Lower Decks: Warp Your Own Way and Lower Decks (2024). A slight disclaimer, I’ve actually been emailing Ryan for years and years, he ran an advertising system named “Project Wonderful” that was indeed wonderful and I loved it very much. It’s not around now though and that makes me sad.
Our conversation roams from his fantastic work on the first Lower Decks mini series, then moves to how to build a choose your own adventure type of story. Turns out that the upcoming Trek story isn’t his first attempt at this!
Back in 2018 he wrote “How To Invent Everything” and we talk about how frustrating it would be to time travel without knowing how anything actually works. He was so frustrated with this idea he went out and wrote a book that would let any stray traveler of time jump start the wheels of invention and get you back to the style of civilization that you were previously accustomed to. Some of that lead to what I personally call “hated knowledge” which is when you learn so much about something that’s broken that you hate knowing all that. For me it’s a carpet cleaner that I’ve taken apart 50 times and could fix in the dark. That kind of experience leads to learning how to take things apart and trouble shoot and is actually a good thing, but I still hate it. .
I ask him if he’d be able to write a lower decks literature book and his answer will shock you! (he said yes and it would be a blast to do)
We finish up our conversation by talking about Eaglemoss’s spaceship subscription program that we both got pulled into and I give one final plug for my fishtank that’s on twitch (and has a crashed 1701A in it).
Ryan North can be found at his website, Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, and Twitter.
Nana Visitor on Podcasters.spotify.com discussing “Star Trek: Open a Channel: A Woman’s Trek”
(no image available)Nana Visitor was recently featured on Podcasters.spotify.com to discuss Star Trek: Open a Channel: A Woman’s Trek:
With a remarkable career spanning over four decades, Nana Visitor has brought powerful, multifaceted female characters to life on both television and stage. Beyond her iconic roles, she champions women’s empowerment in media, a passion reflected in her debut book Star Trek: Open a Channel: A Woman’s Trek. This week, I am deeply honoured to welcome the extraordinary Nana Visitor.
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“Star Trek: Open a Channel: A Woman’s Trek” Review by Warpfactortrek.com
Warpfactortrek.com has added a new review for Nana Visitor‘s “Star Trek: Open a Channel: A Woman’s Trek”:
When I was asked to review Nana Visitor’s forthcoming book Open a Channel: The Women of Star Trek, I jumped at the chance. Not only did she play one of my favorite Star Trek characters (Major Kira in Deep Space Nine), but Nana herself is one of my favorite actors in the franchise and continues to captivate me with what she’s offered of herself since. This book is, in a word, impressive. It is a serious and detailed dive into every female character in every Star Trek series. But it’s so much more than an encyclopedic listing on the topic.
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Star Trek Books Coming In The Next 30 Days, as of October 8th, 2024
Fiction
By: Ryan North
October 23, 2024
Mariner just wants to have a normal day, but no matter what side of the bed she wakes up on, the world is ending. Literally. If she has coffee, Borg attack! If she has raktajino, cue the Romulan boarding party! And in each scenario, Mariner and her friends end up dead, sometimes the ship is […]
By: Una McCormack
November 5, 2024
When Una Chin-Riley and Christopher Pike meet at Starfleet Academy after one of his lectures, they immediately become friends. A stellar student, Una is the “poster girl” of her class, and Pike is determined to become a Starfleet captain with his own ship, rhetorically assembling his dream crew. As their friendship evolves, Pike also suspects […]
Non-Fiction
By: Glen Henderson
October 30, 2024
From Glen Henderson, the bestselling author of “All I Need To Know About Success I Learned From Star Trek,” comes his next deep dive into the soul of the greatest science fiction franchise of all time. At its core, Star Trek is a story about us – our successes, our struggles, our hopes and fears […]
Magazines
October 30, 2024
STAR TREK SECURITY SPECIAL- We celebrate the brave souls who’ve done more to keep Starfleet safe than any others! AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH JONATHAN FRAKES- Star Trek’s very own William Riker chats about his behind-the-scenes work as a director. THE KELVIN MOVIES- A definitive guide!
By: Chris Dows, Chris McAuley, David Mack, Greg Cox, Jake Black, Keith R.A. DeCandido, Michael Dismuke, Mike Collins, Peter Holmstrom, Rich Handley, Una McCormack, Walter Koenig
December 10, 2024
Explore the Star Trek universe in this anthology of 14 fully illustrated short stories collected for the first time and including an adventure written by Walter Koenig who played Pavel Chekov in the original classic series and seven feature films. This incredible collection features stories starring iconic characters from Star Trek series including Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek: The […]
Comics
By: Collin Kelly, Jackson Lanzing
October 15, 2024
The third arc of the critically acclaimed Star Trek flagship comic series continues in paperback collection! Benjamin Sisko is called out of retirement to defeat the Tzenkethi Coalition! Captain Benjamin Sisko’s quest to defeat the killer of gods is at an end, and the Prophets beckon him home to the Celestial Temple. He’s earned his […]
By: Collin Kelly, Jackson Lanzing
October 16, 2024
The android Lore has done the unthinkable: He has detonated the Orb of Destruction, unmaking the universe. After an extra-galactic tumble on the ensuing shockwave, the Theseus sinks into fluidic space. There, the crew melds in and out of a manifold of realities. Benjamin Sisko is against a godkiller once again, but this time it’s […]
By: Christopher Cantwell
October 23, 2024
The Romulans are descending on Antara, and Worf must lead his militia to victory against the warship Ran’Kara. When the battle turns against the Antarans, Worf is forced into a duel with one of the best Romulan fighters ever seen: Maiek. Has the battle already been lost, or will Maiek finally meet the edge of […]
By: Brandon Easton, Collin Kelly, Jackson Lanzing
October 30, 2024
Embark on the critically acclaimed final chapter of the U.S.S. Enterprise‘s five-year voyage. The crew left Earth four years ago. Since then, they’ve traveled to strange new worlds, defeated impossible foes, and made universe-changing decisions. But now, with the end in sight, they’ll have to face their biggest challenge yet. Step aboard the Enterprise with Kirk, Spock, Bones, […]
“Star Trek: Open a Channel: A Woman’s Trek” Review by Borg.com
Borg.com has added a new review for Nana Visitor‘s “Star Trek: Open a Channel: A Woman’s Trek”:
For literally decades trading card series have highlighted the diversity of the women characters in the Star Trek franchise via Women of Star Trek cards. The key champion of the subject has always been the groundbreaking Nichelle Nichols, who via speeches, books, and in-person events shared what it meant being the first woman of color in the main cast of a major TV series as Lieutenant Uhura. She would recount to anyone who asked her the conversation she had with Martin Luther King, Jr. when she considered leaving the series, and he encouraged her to stay–she had not yet realized the impact she had. But nobody has really looked at what it means to portray women in Star Trek, both behind the scenes as actors and writers, and in front as heroines, really exploring every aspect of the human condition.
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Happy 2024 Birthday to David Dvorkin!
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Happy birthday to David Dvorkin!
David Dvorkin is an English-born science fiction and horror novelist. He earned a BA in mathematics and physics from Indiana University as well as an MS in mathematics from the University of Houston. He is the father of Daniel Dvorkin, another Star Trek author.
Although born in England, Dvorkin has lived in the USA for many decades. He is a computer programmer, and has worked for NASA, where he was involved in “navigation error analysis” for both the Apollo and Viking programs. He has also written a non-fiction book on the potential of solar energy in the renewables market. He currently lives in Denver, Colorado.
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Rich Handley Interview With StarTrekBookClub.com
Today’s interview is with Rich Handley, author of many Trek magazine columns, editor of the Eaglemoss comic book collection, and owner of every printed Star Trek comic known to mankind, you’ll even see his collection over his shoulders! Star Trek isn’t his own passion, with a ton of work in Planet of the Apes, Star Wars, and other franchises.
We talk about how great the Eaglemoss work product was, how easily I was sucked into the subscription model because of the spine art, and we have some pretty fun show and tell in which we show off our coolest or most recent comic purchases.
Rich can be found on his website, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. He runs the Star Trek Comics Weekly Facebook group that I’m an avid poster and commenter in, so swing by if you’re into Trek comics and want to chat!
Happy 2024 Birthday to Diane Carey!
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Happy birthday to Diane Carey!
Diane Lydia Carey-Brodeur is an author from Flint, Michigan with over forty novels written in total in her career, which stretches back to the late 1970s. Best known for co-creating Star Trek: New Earth with John J. Ordover, she is one of the most prolific Star Trek authors, with over thirty novels to her name.
She currently resides in Owosso, Michigan with her husband, fellow Trek novelist, Greg Brodeur. Her primary work is owning and managing Falconbane Historic Events and Weddings, but she has also taught English and Business Communications for one of the local schools, Baker College.
Outside of her writing and work, her hobbies include playing the bagpipes, working on historic sailing ships, and motorcycling. She and her family also spend much time rescuing dogs and cats and finding new homes for them.
She also uses the pen names Lydia Gregory and D.L. Carey.
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“Star Trek: Open a Channel: A Woman’s Trek” Review by Trekmovie.com
Trekmovie.com has added a new review for Nana Visitor‘s “Star Trek: Open a Channel: A Woman’s Trek”:
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’s Nana Visitor’s expansive new book exploring the female characters and experiences of women who worked on Star Trek in front of and behind the camera is out today. This is going to sound odd, but it’s almost a disservice that this is a coffee table-style book. It’s large and heavy with glossy pages, and while the beauty treatment is deserved, it’s almost a contradiction to the type of book it actually is. This is a book to be read cover to cover, then referenced and quoted over and over again—and maybe even carried around with you.
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Star Trek Book Deals For October 2024
This month’s ebook deals have landed with 11 books on sale for $1.99 each, books that have never been on sale are in bold:
Welcome to Spocktober, which brings scary news that the $0.99 price point is no longer among us!
Star Trek: 11 Yesterday’s Son
Star Trek: 2 The Entropy Effect
Star Trek: 20 The Vulcan Academy Murders
Star Trek: 38 The Idic Epidemic
Star Trek: 39 The Yesterday Saga Book 2: Time For Yesterday
Star Trek: 49 The Pandora Principle
Star Trek: Picard: The Last Best Hope
Star Trek: Spock’s World
Star Trek: The Next Generation: 1 Ghost Ship
Star Trek: The Original Series: Child of Two Worlds
Star Trek: Troublesome Minds
Happy 2024 Birthday to Michael Dismuke!
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Happy birthday to Michael Dismuke!
Michael Dismuke writes various supplements for the Star Trek Adventures line of tabletop roleplaying games. He reverse engineers the television shows and movies into amazing gameplay. Writing new adventures and developing modules for fantastic fun and exploration makes him tick. He is also a fiction writer published in Star Trek Explorer magazine, premiering in issue #11 with a story featuring Seven of Nine and Captain Liam Shaw. He is also the writer and creator of Gamemasters, a manga graphic novel featuring kids whose powers are based on the popular gags and games children love.
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Out Today: “Star Trek Library Collection, Vol. 3”
Out today: “Star Trek Library Collection, Vol. 3“, by D.C. Fontana and David Tischman and Derek Chester.
Delve into the history of IDW’s Star Trek comics! Discover series you may have missed or revisit some old favorites in Year Four, Year Four—The Enterprise Experiment, and Alien Spotlight one-shots featuring Vulcans and the Gorn.
The Star Trek Library Collection is a comprehensive line of books that will collect every Star Trek miniseries published by IDW! In Volume 3, read a selection of the Alien Spotlight one-shots and the entirety of the Star Trek: Year Four series.
First, two series set during the fourth year of the U.S.S. Enterprise’s five-year mission! In Star Trek: Year Four the Enterprise encounters a strange series of planets, arranged to look like a strand of DNA floating through space. The crew can’t help but explore once Spock realizes that the desolate structure once supported more than 800 billion beings in the past. By David Tischman, Leonard O’Grady, Steve Conley, Gordon Purcell, and Joe & Rob Sharp. In a sequel to “The Enterprise Incident,” The Enterprise Experiment details the Federation’s experiments with a Romulan cloaking device, by D.C. Fontana, Derek Chester, and Gordon Purcell.
Also collected are two one-shots featuring Vulcans and the Gorn! A Starfleet starship arrives at a planet on the brink of its own destruction. A once peaceful society is now savage and warlike linking itself to the turmoiled past of the Vulcans, by James Patrick and Josep Maria Beloy. Then, after their shuttlecraft crash-lands on an uncharted planet, Captain Terrell and Commander Chekov calculate that their odds of survival are somewhat decreased when they find themselves facing off against an army of Gorn warriors, by Scott & David Tipton and David Messina.
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Out Today: “Star Trek: Open a Channel: A Woman’s Trek”
Out today: “Star Trek: Open a Channel: A Woman’s Trek“, by Nana Visitor.
Nana Visitor, Star Trek’s Kira Nerys, explores how the series has portrayed and influenced women. Interviews with the stars, writers, producers, and celebrity fans reveal the struggles and triumphs of women both behind and in front of the camera throughout the sixty-year history of Star Trek, and how they have mirrored the experiences of women everywhere.
The groundbreaking casting of Nichelle Nichols as Lt. Uhura in 1966 took women and people of color into a newly-imagined future. But it was the 1960s and she had to do it in a miniskirt.
Since then, each Star Trek show has both re?ected the values of its time and imagined a more future in which all genders were equal. In her first book, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine star Nana Visitor sets out to discover both how Star Trek led the way for women, and how it was trapped in its own era.
For Visitor, this is more than a book about Star Trek. It’s about how society and the stories we tell have evolved in the last 60 years, and how the role of women has changed in that time.
STAR AUTHOR: Written by Star Trek actor Nana Visitor, famous for playing Major Kira Nerys. This is both her story and her journey through the stories of other women involved with Star Trek from the 1960s to the 21st century.
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS: Features interviews with almost every woman who has starred in Star Trek, including Kate Mulgrew, Terry Farrell, Denise Crosby, Mary Wiseman, and Rebecca Romijn.
INSPIRING STORIES: Explore how Star Trek has influenced women in the real world, including soldiers, scientists, and even astronauts. In one remarkable episode, author Nana Visitor interviewed astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti while she was in orbit around Earth on the International Space Station.
PIONEERING SERIES: Star Trek has often taken a leading role in promoting women on both sides of the camera. It had women writers when they were rare, and it introduced female captain Kathryn Janeway in Star Trek: Voyager in 1995.
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