“Star Trek: Lore War #1” Review by Getyourcomicon.co.uk
Getyourcomicon.co.uk has added a new review for Christopher Cantwell and Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing‘s “Star Trek: Lore War #1”:
Everything has been building to this moment. All of the plot threads woven throughout both IDW’s Star Trek and Star Trek: Defiant series are coming together. The crossovers, the character work, all of the adventures interwoven across this entire initiative have led to this moment. The moment that Lore, Data’s evil brother, has taken over and reshaped reality in his own image. As the end of the series looms, can Trek pull off its biggest and most ambitious story yet?
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Preview of “Star Trek: Defiant #26”
Here’s a preview of Star Trek: Defiant #26 by Christopher Cantwell which is due to be released this Wednesday on April 16, 2025 at your local comic shop and digital retailers:
DTI Comic Book Investigation for the week of April 10, 2025
Here are all the comics printed this week in years past.
Happy 2025 Birthday to John Eaves!
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Happy birthday to John Eaves!
John Michael Eaves is a concept illustrator and designer who worked as production illustrator on the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine for its last four seasons and on Star Trek: Enterprise in its entirety, as well as on no less than eight Star Trek films.
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Out Today: “Star Trek: Lower Decks #6”
Out today: “Star Trek: Lower Decks #6“, by Ryan North.
When Mariner asked the Krulmuth-B portal to send her, Rutherford, Tendi, and Boimler to the moment when they could make the biggest impact on history, she meant, like, to the time period where they could help their crew the most. But they’ve ended up on board the Titanic! Yes, THE Titanic, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. The time traveler who’s responsible for a deadly wave of Federation rewrites is still at large, and the Lower Deckers are now further than ever from stopping them.
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Star Trek Books Coming In The Next 30 Days, as of April 8th, 2025
Fiction
By: James Swallow
April 29, 2025A thrilling new novel based on the Paramount+ TV series Star Trek: Strange New Worlds! While patrolling the borders of the Klingon Empire, Captain Christopher Pike and the crew of the USS Enterprise detect a series of subspace echoes from a planet orbiting a volatile flare star — and when Lieutenant Spock and Commander Una […]
Comics
By: Ryan North
April 9, 2025When Mariner asked the Krulmuth-B portal to send her, Rutherford, Tendi, and Boimler to the moment when they could make the biggest impact on history, she meant, like, to the time period where they could help their crew the most. But they’ve ended up on board the Titanic! Yes, THE Titanic, and that’s just the tip of the […]
By: Christopher Cantwell
April 16, 2025“Lore War,” Part 2. On one side of the war, Worf, Shaxs, Alexander, and others who once valued honor above all have now been designed by the malevolent android Lore to uphold his dictatorial rule; on the other side, a rebel Maquis fleet, Kahless II, Beverly, Sisko, and all those who know the truth behind […]
By: Collin Kelly, Jackson Lanzing
April 16, 2025Arc four of the acclaimed Star Trek ongoing comic series continues here in the collected paperback! Benjamin Sisko faces the gods themselves on their home turf: the Pleroma. Acclaimed writers Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly along with Star Trek: Strange New Worlds comics artist Megan Levens (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Starsigns) welcome you to the […]
By: Collin Kelly, Jackson Lanzing
April 23, 2025“Lore War,” Part 3. Friends and foes clash when Worf and his mind-twisted crew on the USS Enterprise come into contact with Sisko, Kahless II, and Beverly aboard the USS Phoenix in Alpha Quadrant space. Nothing in Lore’s universe is clear-but when Sisko sees his old friend on the viewscreen, he knows what he must do: wake Worf the […]
DTI Treklit Investigation for the week of April 8, 2025
Here’s a look at the books printed this week in the past.
2025 Hugo Award Finalists Has A Star Trek Book!
Ryan North and Chris Fenoglio’s “Star Trek: Lower Decks – Warp Your Own Way” has been nominated for a Huge Award, a fantastic honor!
Happy 2025 Birthday to Michael A. Martin!
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Happy birthday to Michael A. Martin!
Michael A. Martin’s solo short fiction has appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. He has also coauthored (with Andy Mangels) several Star Trek comics for Marvel and Wildstorm and numerous Star Trek novels and eBooks, including the USA Today bestseller Titan: Book One: Taking Wing; Titan: Book Two: The Red King; the Sy Fy Genre Award-winning Star Trek: Worlds of Deep Space 9 Book Two: Trill — Unjoined; Star Trek: The Lost Era 2298 — The Sundered; Star Trek: Deep Space 9 Mission: Gamma: Vol. Three: Cathedral; Star Trek: The Next Generation: Section 31 — Rogue; Star Trek: Starfleet Corps of Engineers #30 and #31 (“Ishtar Rising” Books 1 and 2); stories in the Prophecy and Change, Tales of the Dominion War, and Tales from the Captain’s Table anthologies; and three novels based on the Roswell television series. His work has also been published by Atlas Editions (in their Star Trek Universe subscription card series), Star Trek Monthly, Dreamwatch, Grolier Books, Visible Ink Press, The Oregonian, and Gareth Stevens, Inc., for whom he has penned several World Almanac Library of the States nonfiction books for young readers. He lives with his wife, Jenny, and their two sons in Portland, Oregon.
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Preview of “Star Trek: Lower Decks #6”
Here’s a preview of Star Trek: Lower Decks #6 by Ryan North which is due to be released this Wednesday on April 9, 2025 at your local comic shop and digital retailers:
New Star Trek Comic Books Announced To Preorder! April 2025 Edition
IDW April 2025 Catalog
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!
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.”
Tim Sheridan on Comicsbeat.com discussing “Star Trek: Lower Decks”
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Tim Sheridan was recently featured on Comicsbeat.com to discuss Star Trek: Lower Decks:
In advance of the issue’s arrival, Comics Beat got the chance to chat with Sheridan over email. We asked about his history with Star Trek, about balancing sci-fi and comedy in Lower Decks and (of course) about what he’d order from the food replicator. In addition, The Beat is proud to present two exclusive preview pages from the issue alongside the interview!
Check out the Tim Sheridan author page to view other sightings and a full list of books!
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Happy 2025 Birthday to William Leisner!
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Happy birthday to William Leisner!
William “Bill” Leisner currently lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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DTI Comic Book Investigation for the week of April 3, 2025
Here are all the comics printed this week in years past.
Out Today: “Star Trek: Lore War #1”
Out today: “Star Trek: Lore War #1“, by Christopher Cantwell and Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing.
The all-new crossover event between Star Trek and Defiant is here! From the Eisner-nominated writers of Star Trek, Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly; the critically acclaimed writer of Star Trek: Defiant, Christopher Cantwell; and artist Davide Tinto, Lore War #1 shows us a universe rebuilt in Lore’s image. The crews of the Theseus and the Defiant scattered across the universe with no memory of who they once were-some even worship Lore as their God. Lore has won; his rule is absolute. But The Sisko remains, and there are forces who wish to remind him of his power.
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Happy 2025 Birthday to Garfield Reeves-Stevens!
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Happy birthday to Garfield Reeves-Stevens!
Garfield Reeves-Stevens, together with his wife Judith Reeves-Stevens, is one of Star Trek’s best-selling original book writers. Together, the Reeves-Stevens couple wrote or co-wrote five episodes of Star Trek: Enterprise’s fourth season. Being Star Trek: The Original Series fans, the couple had already written several fully licensed reference books on the subject of Star Trek previously, prior to becoming officially involved with the live-action franchise.
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DTI Treklit Investigation for the week of April 1, 2025
Here’s a look at the books printed this week in the past.
Star Trek Book Deals For May 2025
This month’s ebook deals have landed with 20 books on sale for $0.99 – $1.99 each, books that have never been on sale are in bold:
Star Trek: 12 Mutiny On The Enterprise
Star Trek: 18 Rihannsu 1 – My Enemy, My Ally
Star Trek: 33 Deep Domain
Star Trek: 4 The Covenant Of The Crown
Star Trek: 42 Memory Prime
Star Trek: 5 The Prometheus Design
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: 14 The Long Night
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Lust’s Latinum Lost
Star Trek: Gateways: 1 One Small Step
Star Trek: Legacies: Book 3: Purgatory’s Key
Star Trek: Prime Directive
Star Trek: Sarek
Star Trek: Starfleet: Year One
Star Trek: The Children of Kings
Star Trek: The Next Generation: 10 A Rock And A Hard Place
Star Trek: The Next Generation: 43 A Fury Scorned
Star Trek: The Next Generation: 61 Diplomatic Implausibility
Star Trek: The Next Generation: Companion
Star Trek: The Original Series: Foul Deeds Will Rise
Worlds Of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Volume 2: Trill and Bajor
New Star Trek Book: “Take the Fall”
Take the Fall by Tess Fowler has been added to the Star Trek Book Club!
Take the Fall is an autobiographical watercolor adventure deep into the psyche of anxious career comic book artist Tess Fowler Gutierrez after she discovers she has breast cancer and a high risk genetic mutation. What happens when you find yourself trapped in your body with blooming cancer tumors and ghosts from the past who want you dead? You make a comic about it.
“Late Star Trek: The Final Frontier in the Franchise Era” Review by Theunderline.substack.com
Theunderline.substack.com has added a new review for Adam Kotsko‘s “Late Star Trek: The Final Frontier in the Franchise Era”:
The story Adam Kotsko traces in Late Star Trek: The Final Frontier in the Franchise Era (out today from University of Minnesota Press) is a story of learning—on one side fans learning far too much, memorizing and systematizing every bit of in-universe detail doled out over decades until the entire edifice threatens to collapse under its own weight; and on the other side, the executives and producers who have learned far too little, who have never understood what Star Trek is, why people like it, and its natural limitations as mainstream fare, who have repeated the same mistakes over and over, mismanaging the franchise in ways as predictable as they are dispiriting.
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Preview of “Star Trek: Lore War #1”
Here’s a preview of Star Trek: Lore War #1 by Christopher Cantwell and Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing which is due to be released this Wednesday on April 2, 2025 at your local comic shop and digital retailers:
TrekLit Connection: Deep Space Spines
TrekLit Connections is a series of columns from authors, artists, fans, and publishers in which I give them space to tell you in their own words why they’re so deeply involved in TrekLit. My goal is be able to have at least one of these up a month and would love to hear from you if you’d like to talk about your own TrekLit Connections, find the FAQ page on how to contact!
This time we’re hearing from J.W. Eubanks, author of my personal favorite reading of the entire Star Trek chronology at Deep Space Spines. Every post is witty and has cutting insights into the best and the worst that Treklit has to offer. You can find him on Blue Sky!
Life has a functionally infinite number of branching paths. The culture(s) we’re surrounded by, the decisions we make, and our individual personality quirks can bring their formidable combined powers to bear on leading us down some very peculiar roads. Sometimes, you might even end up on one that makes you think it would be a good idea to critically assess every Pocket Books Star Trek novel ever written in the order in which they were published.
Deep Space Spines was the result of me winding up on that road, a swirling nebula borne of a few different qualities and happenstances. I’ve always enjoyed inexpensive collections with low barriers to entry, and mass market paperbacks fit that bill, especially if you know where to look. I also try to look for the obscurities in a given field, the parts that get ignored. I remember seeing a (possibly apocryphal) statistic that only 2 percent of Star Trek fans read the novels, and a lot of Memory Alpha and Beta articles contain only the barest skeletons of information, so I thought it’d be nice for there to be more than a stub available out there for as many of them as possible. Lastly, reconnecting with Star Trek when I did ended up providing a nice respite from the hopelessness the political figures in power at the time so sadistically reveled in making people feel.
The site’s most primordial origins trace back to 1993, when I was just nine years old. Trekkies tend to go back to near-infancy when ruminating on their fandom, which is probably slightly unnecessary in this case. I don’t think I have to breathlessly describe playing with the Playmates Next Generation action figures. But as far as connecting with the writing of Star Trek, the first relevant seed was planted when I got the Judgment Rites PC game for Christmas in 1993. The original series aired in syndication, but I was too put off by the Sixties aesthetic to give it a fair shake. Judgment Rites changed all that. Less than a year later, while browsing the shelves at Hastings (RIP to the GOAT), I bought my first Star Trek novel, Doctor’s Orders by Diane Duane. That one set a bar that few have since cleared. I read about nine or ten TOS novels throughout late elementary and middle school, then quietly dropped the habit. I didn’t revisit them again until 2015, when I wrote about Doctor’s Orders for a free WordPress blog that no longer exists. I planned the post to be part of a series, which I called The Spinal Frontier. I wish now that I had left the site up, or at the very least Waybacked it, because the post was very much an alpha version of the
ones that appear on Deep Space Spines today.
The idea of reviewing Star Trek novels started knocking around in my brain again a couple years later, when I worked overnights in the post-adjudication wing of a juvenile detention facility. The residents there had already been sentenced and were going through a program that would expunge their records upon successful completion. They went to bed an hour before my shift started and woke up an hour after it ended, and I only interacted with them if they had to pee. It was nice work if you could get it; I was basically a bathroom valet with CPR training. We had to peek into their rooms once every 15 minutes to make sure they weren’t covering their heads, but aside from that, we had the rest of the night to self-actualize however we wanted, as long as we were quiet.
I used the time to reread some beloved Trek books and try out some new ones, and realized I was really getting a kick out of it. At some point, I started reading in order from the beginning of my own volition. Then my birthday rolled around, and I decided to use the gift cash from that to buy a domain. My wife came up with the name Deep Space Spines, and since I had nothing better, I ran with it. (Rebranding would be disastrous at this point, but a few years ago, I came up with Attention Bajoran Readers, and I still kinda like it better.)
Eight years later, I’m still reviewing Star Trek novels, though not at the breakneck pace the graveyard shift once enabled. Teaching doesn’t quite afford the same amount of spare time. Still, I continue to find joy in discovering novel character pairings, watching authors find clever ways to link events across timelines that were never meant to be connected, and of course never ceasing to be surprised that there are other people who are also into this weird little niche of mine.
I’ve built a few disparate bodies of work on the internet over the decade. Deep Space Spines may be the least known and viewed among them, but it is the one I am the proudest of. Every new review shines that much more light on a little-known and -explored facet of the Trekverse. And although Star Trek is far from free of flaws and problematic elements, it nevertheless feels better to put one’s faith in it and be a part of its community than many other series. It could very well take me the rest of my life to get through all the Trek tales Pocket Books published from 1979 to the present, but I’ve yet to lose the thrill of exploring strange new literary worlds.
Happy 2025 Birthday to Doug Drexler!
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Happy birthday to Doug Drexler!
Artist Douglas “Doug” Drexler has been creating for, or contributing to, numerous Star Trek productions and publications, both official and unofficial, since the 1970s. Starting out in fandom, Drexler has proven to be one of the most versatile production staffers in the Star Trek franchise.
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“Star Trek Adventures – Second Edition – Technical Manual” Review by Thefandomentals.com
Thefandomentals.com has added a new review for ‘s “Star Trek Adventures – Second Edition – Technical Manual”:
This Technical Manual is essential reading for any casual Star Trek fan or tabletop roleplay 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. Players can 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 they engage in with their friends—it’s time to gear up and go exploring!
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“Late Star Trek: The Final Frontier in the Franchise Era” Review by Kara.reviews
Kara.reviews has added a new review for Adam Kotsko‘s “Late Star Trek: The Final Frontier in the Franchise Era”:
Most of you probably know already: Star Trek is my first science-fiction love. Before Stargate, before Buffy, before even Supergirl, I grew up in the nineties watching the bright primary colours of TOS on a 13-inch CRT TV.
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“Star Trek: The Next Generation: 10 A Rock And A Hard Place” Review by Themindreels.com
Themindreels.com has added a new review for Peter David‘s “Star Trek: The Next Generation: 10 A Rock And A Hard Place”:
There’s a couple of minor things that stick in my craw about Peter David’s A Rock and a Hard Place, but none of them detract from my enjoyment of the book which actually reads, and feels a lot like n actual episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
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DTI Comic Book Investigation for the week of March 27, 2025
Here are all the comics printed this week in years past.
“Star Trek: Challenger: Gateways: 2 Chainmail” Review by Trek.fm
Trek.fm has added a new review for Diane Carey‘s “Star Trek: Challenger: Gateways: 2 Chainmail”:
In this episode of Literary Treks hosts Casey Pettitt and Jonathan Koan talk about the second book in the Gateways series, Chainmail. We discuss the Challenger, it being out there, character work, worldview differences, drawbacks, Riutta and her people, use of the gateway, timey-whimy, thematic link, by the end, a page from Kirk, our ratings and final thoughts.
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“Star Trek: Lower Decks #5” Review by Getyourcomicon.co.uk
Getyourcomicon.co.uk has added a new review for Ryan North‘s “Star Trek: Lower Decks #5”:
It’s time for a brand new arc to kick off in IDW’s brilliant Star Trek: Lower Decks ongoing series and boy is this one a doozy. Ryan North is cherrypicking from a lifetime of Trek knowledge to pull together what could be Lower Decks’ very own First Contact moment…
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Happy 2025 Birthday to K.W. Jeter!
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Happy birthday to K.W. Jeter!
Kevin Wayne Jeter is an American science fiction and horror author from California.
Jeter was born in Los Angeles. At California State University, he met science fiction author Philip K. Dick. The esteemed science fiction writer based a character on him – Kevin in Valis. In common with Dick, his style of writing is known for its dark themes, and paranoid and sometimes unsympathetic characters. He has also written several sequels to Bladerunner, which began life as Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?.
His book Dr. Adder is considered by some to be the first true Cyberpunk novel. He also coined the phrase “Steampunk”, which refers to retro-technology.
Jeter has also written tie-ins to the Star Wars franchise.
He has lived in Las Vegas, Nevada, but now lives in Ecuador with his wife.
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Out Today: “Star Trek: Defiant #25”
Out today: “Star Trek: Defiant #25“, by Christopher Cantwell.
Nymira Vondect is back from the dead, having survived the cataclysmic explosion on Starbase 99 with help from the universe’s seediest rogue, Berlinghoff Rasmussen. Now she and Berlinghoff are running elaborate scams together to take advantage of unsuspecting Berbians and make a quick buck. But something niggles at Nymira… Should she tell her old crew she’s still alive or keep living the life she thinks she deserves? Meanwhile, Captain B’Elanna Torres, Ro, and O’Brien combine forces with Section 31’s Captain Frears to take out the minefield in the Gamma Quadrant once and for all.
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“Star Trek #53” Review by Scottmpearson.wordpress.com
Scottmpearson.wordpress.com has added a new review for George Kashdan‘s “Star Trek #53”:
First, some housekeeping. Some of you may be thinking, “Hey, I’ve been following this blog for a while and have never heard of ‘My Epic Trek Comic Book Read,’ so how can it be on the 49th post?”
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“Star Trek #30” Review by Comicon.com
Comicon.com has added a new review for Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing‘s “Star Trek #30”:
Ahead of the upcoming ‘Lore War’ event, a final, very important piece, tackles a journey with ramifications for the entire future of the universe. A splendidly crafted tale that dances between previous continuity revelations in order to bring things almost full circle for the whole entire run.
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“Star Trek Adventures – Second Edition – Technical Manual” Review by Geekgirlauthority.com
Geekgirlauthority.com has added a new review for ‘s “Star Trek Adventures – Second Edition – Technical Manual”:
Are you looking to expand your Star Trek Adventures game to all-new heights? Then, you’ll want to consider the Star Trek Adventures 2E Technical Manual. This supplement is currently available for preorder, with immediate access to the PDF when you do so. Here’s what you can expect from the title when yours beams in.
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Out Today: “Late Star Trek: The Final Frontier in the Franchise Era”
Out today: “Late Star Trek: The Final Frontier in the Franchise Era“, by Adam Kotsko.
How Star Trek’s twenty-first-century reinventions illuminate the unique challenges and opportunities of franchise-style corporate storytelling
Late Star Trek explores the beloved science fiction franchise’s repeated attempts to reinvent itself after the end of its 1990s golden age. Beginning with the prequel series Enterprise, Adam Kotsko analyzes the wealth of content set within Star Trek’s sprawling continuity—including authorized books, the three J. J. Abrams “Kelvin Timeline” films, and the streaming series Discovery, Picard, Lower Decks, Prodigy, and Strange New Worlds—as well as fan discourse, to reflect on the perils and promise of the franchise as a unique form of storytelling.
Significantly including the licensed novels and comic books that fill out the Star Trek universe for its fans, Kotsko brings the multiple productions of the early twenty-first century together as a unified whole rather than analyzing them in their current stratified view. He argues that the variety of styles and approaches in this tumultuous era of Star Trek history provides the perfect opportunity to reflect on the nature of the franchise storyworlds that now dominate popular culture. By taking the spin-offs and tie-ins seriously as creative attempts to tell a new story within an established universe, Late Star Trek highlights creative triumphs as well as the tendency for franchise faithfulness to get in the way of creating engaging characters and ideas.
Arguing forcefully against the prevailing consensus that franchises are a sign of cultural decay, Kotsko contends that the Star Trek universe exemplifies an approach to storytelling that has been perennial across cultures. Instead, he finds that what limits creativity within franchises is not their reliance on the familiar but their status as modern myths held not as common cultural heritage but rather owned as corporate intellectual property.
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DTI Treklit Investigation for the week of March 25, 2025
Here’s a look at the books printed this week in the past.
“Star Trek: Insurrection” Review by Deepspacespines.com
Deepspacespines.com has added a new review for J.M. Dillard‘s “Star Trek: Insurrection”:
In today’s episode, a misguided admiral teams up with a mysterious partner to bring one planet’s Fountain of Youth to the rest of the Federation. But the scowling man with unnaturally stretch skin draped in robes and jewels seemed so trustworthy! Will there ever be another Search for Spock–level novelization? Does Picard have a crush on his dead mom? And shouldn’t Worf know more Earth references? All this and more in Star Trek: Insurrection, the film that un-grows the beard.
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“Star Trek #30” Review by Getyourcomicon.co.uk
Getyourcomicon.co.uk has added a new review for Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing‘s “Star Trek #30”:
This is fellow Starfleet Cadets. The final issue of Star Trek before the huge Lore War event kicks off in earnest. After two months tracking Benjamin Sisko across the history of Bajor we’re shifting focus this month. It’s now Kahless who surprisingly takes the spotlight setting up a confrontation which may just save the entire universe from certain doom.
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Preview of “Star Trek: Defiant #25”
Here’s a preview of Star Trek: Defiant #25 by Christopher Cantwell which is due to be released this Wednesday on March 26, 2025 at your local comic shop and digital retailers:
Last Chance: Star Trek Book Deals For March 2025
Here’s your last chance to grab this month’s ebook deals: 19 books on sale for $1.99 each:
Star Trek: 26 Pawns And Symbols
Star Trek: 27 Mindshadow
Star Trek: 8 Black Fire
Star Trek: A Singular Destiny
Star Trek: Captain’s Blood
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Millennium: 2 The War Of The Prophets
Star Trek: Discovery: The Way To The Stars
Star Trek: Enterprise: Last Full Measure
Star Trek: Imzadi Forever
Star Trek: New Frontier: 6 Fire on High
Star Trek: New Frontier: Missing In Action
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 9
Star Trek: Tales From The Captain’s Table
Star Trek: The Lost Era: 2311 Serpents Among The Ruins
Star Trek: The Next Generation: Armageddon’s Arrow
Star Trek: The Next Generation: Losing The Peace
Star Trek: Voyager: Gateways: 5 No Man’s Land
Star Trek: Voyager: Homecoming Book 1
Star Trek: Voyager: Mosaic
Happy 2025 Birthday to William Shatner!
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Happy birthday to William Shatner!
William Shatner, a Canadian-born American Emmy Award-winning actor, became most famous for portraying Captain James Tiberius Kirk of the starship Enterprise in all 79 aired episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series, 21 of the 22 episodes of Star Trek: The Animated Series, and the first seven Star Trek movies. He also directed and co-wrote the story for Star Trek V: The Final Frontier.
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Happy 2025 Birthday to Michael Westmore!
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Happy birthday to Michael Westmore!
Michael “Mike” George Westmore was the makeup designer, makeup artist, and makeup supervisor on all of the Star Trek spin-offs set in the prime universe, and created the majority of species that first appeared in Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Enterprise. He was also the makeup artist for the four Next Generation movies, Star Trek Generations, Star Trek: First Contact, Star Trek: Insurrection, and Star Trek Nemesis, as well as three Star Trek video games, Star Trek: Klingon, Star Trek: Borg and Star Trek: Starfleet Academy.
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Upcoming Server Move
I’m about to pull the trigger on consolidating various servers I have and the first up is this STBC site. In theory you won’t notice a thing, but there’s an opportunity for shenanigans, so here’s your heads up.
Happy 2025 Birthday to Pamela Sargent!
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Happy birthday to Pamela Sargent!
Pamela Sargent is an author who wrote a number of Star Trek novels with her writing partner, George Zebrowski.
Born in Ithaca, New York, Sargent attended Binghamton University. She has done some editorial work, particularly of anthologies of women’s SF. She has won a number of awards for her non-Trek work including Nebula, Locus, the Sidewise Award and Theodore Sturgeon award, as well as being a finalist for the Hugo, and being given a lifetime achievement Pilgrim Award. She also writes historical fiction, and her novel about Genghis Khan was particularly successful in Europe.
Her trilogy about the terraforming of Venus predates Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars trilogy, and has been cited as an influence on it.
She currently lives in Albany, New York, and sees herself as an atheist and a feminist.
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Happy 2025 Birthday to John De Lancie!
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Happy birthday to John De Lancie!
Jonathan “John” de Lancie, Jr. is an actor, director, producer, writer, voice artist, and comedian, best known for his portrayal of Q on Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and Star Trek: Voyager. He also portrayed the character in Star Trek: The Game Show and Star Trek: Borg. In addition, de Lancie co-wrote the novel I, Q with Peter David and has narrated audio adaptations of several novels, including Q-in-Law (with Majel Barrett Roddenberry) and Dark Mirror. His Borg costume from his latter video game appearance was sold off on the It’s A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay and was also worn by Michael Reilly Burke, Gary Hunter, and Tom Morga.
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DTI Comic Book Investigation for the week of March 20, 2025
Here are all the comics printed this week in years past.
Happy 2025 Birthday to Kevin G. Summers!
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Happy birthday to Kevin G. Summers!
Kevin G. Summers started as a Star Trek author by entering into the Strange New Worlds writing contests. He was published twice and then went on to write a short story for a Star Trek: Deep Space Nine anthology.
Summers grew up in northern Virginia, where his mother took him to lectures on literature at George Mason University, given by the likes of John Irving. He still lives in Virginia, with his wife and children.
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Happy 2025 Birthday to J.G. Hertzler!
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Happy birthday to J.G. Hertzler!
J.G. Hertzler is the actor who played the Klingon General Martok on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Jeffrey Lang’s Star Trek books include the top sellers Section 31: Abyss and Star Trek The Next Generation: Immortal Coil.
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DTI Treklit Investigation for the week of March 18, 2025
Here’s a look at the books printed this week in the past.
STBC’s New Logo!
The STBC has a new logo, one that’s intellectually distinct from anything that’s owned by CBS in the hopes and honest effort to not get a phone call from anyone on their legal team.
I’m going to make stickers! And bookmarks! And wallpaper! Woo!
Happy 2025 Birthday to Rick Barba!
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Happy birthday to Rick Barba!
Rick Barba is an author who wrote The Delta Anomaly, the first of a new Starfleet Academy series, and the first original Star Trek: The Original Series book set within the alternate reality of the movie Star Trek.
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“Star Trek: Lower Decks #5” Review by Aiptcomics.com
Aiptcomics.com has added a new review for Ryan North‘s “Star Trek: Lower Decks #5”:
At this point, it’s fairly easy to point to this series as the quintessential ultimate Star Trek fan series.
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Happy 2025 Birthday to Judith Reeves-Stevens!
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Happy birthday to Judith Reeves-Stevens!
Judith Evelyn Reeves-Stevens, together with her husband Garfield Reeves-Stevens, is one of Star Trek’s best-selling original book writers. Together, the Reeves-Stevens’ wrote or co-wrote five episodes of Star Trek: Enterprise’s fourth season. Being Star Trek: The Original Series fans, the couple had already written several fully licensed reference books on the subject of Star Trek previously, prior to becoming officially involved with the live-action franchise.
She, along with her husband, officially joined the production staff of an actual Star Trek production, Enterprise’s fourth season, at the insistence of producers Manny Coto and Michael Sussman, who needed writers imbued with a deep sense of original Star Trek lore to repair the perceived shortcomings original producers Rick Berman and Brannon Braga had left. By the time the series concluded its third season, it arguably had become the most controversial of the television series, subject to inspired and vehement criticism of fans – and, as it turned out after-the-fact, by production staffers as well – for its perceived violations in established continuity. With both producers held responsible for the quick loss of viewer-ship, Paramount and UPN indicated its cancellation and the apparent end of Berman’s tenure as the overseer of Star Trek productions with the approach of the end of the third season. Though remaining credited, Berman and Braga were indeed essentially relegated to the role of figurehead by the franchise at the end of the third season, and their places were de facto filled for the last season by Coto and Sussman, under whose tenure much of the perceived continuity violations was redressed, aided by writers such as Judith and her husband, who, like them, had an equally thorough understanding of Star Trek lore. While the writer’s couple contributed to a season that, as a whole, was generally well received, it did not save the series, as its cancellation had already been decided upon.
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Happy 2025 Birthday to S.D. Perry!
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Happy birthday to S.D. Perry!
Stephani Danielle Perry is the author of many Star Trek novels and short stories.
S.D. Perry was born in the early 1970s and began to write media tie ins and novelizations in the mid-1990s. Her favorite Star Trek series is the original series, with her favorite characters being “The Big Three” – Kirk, Spock and McCoy.
She began to watch Star Trek: Deep Space Nine during its fourth season. Several characters from DS9 are her favorite Star Trek characters, including Elim Garak, Quark and Weyoun. One of the reasons she likes Spock is for his “pure animal magnetism”.
Perry saw an early copy of Andrew Robinson’s novel A Stitch in Time, which focused on Garak. Perry described it as “total genius, seriously, and no ghost writer. He adds new dimension to a very unusual character”
Perry has also written several Xena: Warrior Princess, Aliens and Resident Evil novels.
She currently lives in Portland, Oregon, and is married.
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“Star Trek Adventures – Second Edition – Technical Manual” Review by Trekcentral.net
Trekcentral.net has added a new review for ‘s “Star Trek Adventures – Second Edition – Technical Manual”:
I must admit that I was surprised to get a message earlier this month inviting me to review a new Star Trek Adventures Technical Manual 2E! So you don’t have the same rollercoaster of emotions that I had, I’ll preface this review by clarifying that this is a technical manual from Modiphius. It’s for Star Trek Adventures.
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New Star Trek Book: “Klingon Next Door: Off Duty the Warrior’s Way”
Klingon Next Door: Off Duty the Warrior’s Way by Joey Spiotto has been added to the Star Trek Book Club!
Quirky and humorous takes celebrating everything Klingon in an out-of-place existence
What does a Klingon warrior get up to in his downtime?
What song would he choose at a karaoke bar? How does a trip to the barber work out for him?
From sports to shopping, hobbies to holidays, pets to personal grooming, discover how an honorable warrior takes on the challenges of day-to-day life, and learns how to relax, in this very funny collection of cartoons.
The book is currently scheduled to be published on September 2, 2025
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New Star Trek Book: “Star Trek Adventures – Second Edition – Technical Manual”
Star Trek Adventures – Second Edition – Technical Manual by has been added to the Star Trek Book Club!
From its inception, Star Trek
has illustrated humanity and its allies and adversaries exploring the Galaxy with a wide variety of tools and technologies at their disposal. From tricorders to phasers, deflector dishes to replicators, all the key technological achievements of the future are detailed in this book.
This Technical Manual is essential reading for any casual Star Trek fan or hardcore gamer interested in learning more about the wondrous technologies, ships, and weapons available to Starfleet personnel as well as members of many other species inhabiting the Star Trek universe, including the Klingons, Romulans, and Orions.
Use the contents of this book to learn more about the gear, weapons, and technologies of the Star Trek universe, and to enhance the Star Trek Adventures missions and campaigns you engage in with your friends.
The 129-page full-color Star Trek Adventures Second Edition Technical Manual features:
- Details on the most commonly-used gear across the Star Trek universe, including PADDs, communication devices, replicators, and holography.
- Insight on Starfleet’s Diplomatic Corps, the universal translator, second contact supplies, and information on how a crew might respond to distress calls.
- A wealth of information on a wide variety of scientific gear, tricorders, and types of laboratories; and advice on conducting away missions and some of the gear an away team might utilize.
- Details on medical practices and medical gear, including sickbays, biobeds, medical treatments and drugs, guidance on using transporters to support treatment, and medical enhancements such as various forms of chair support, genetic engineering, and cybernetics.
- Insight on diagnostic levels, transporters, turbolifts, and environmental and utility systems, as well as digital engineering elements, such as computer systems and their various components.
- Detailed information on a wide variety of close combat weapons, ranged weapons, and body armor from across the Star Trek universe.
- Information on key starship technology and their components, including defensive systems and weapons, propulsion technologies, and life support systems.
- A wealth of new game mechanics for the Star Trek Adventures Second Edition roleplaying game, including 10 new character career event options and 16 new character talents; five new starship service records, 10 new starship talents, and mines as a new weapon type.
- More than 20 random complication tables designed to help you generate problems with specific situations and devices for use during your missions.
This second edition supplement is compatible with both first edition Star Trek Adventures and the Captain’s Log Solo RPG.
The book is currently scheduled to be published on June 3, 2025
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DTI Comic Book Investigation for the week of March 13, 2025
Here are all the comics printed this week in years past.
Out Today: “Star Trek: Lower Decks #5”
Out today: “Star Trek: Lower Decks #5“, by Ryan North.
Suspicious after the Cerritos docks for its second baryon sweep in the same year, Mariner sneaks into a command meeting. There, the Department of Temporal Investigations tasks the crew with finding a time traveler who is rewriting Federation history at an alarming rate. Mariner finds her friends and tells them what’s really going on… only for the timeline to change around them! Obviously, something has gone wrong with Command’s mission, and per usual, it’s now up to Mariner, Tendi, Rutherford, and Boimler to save the day.
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Out Today: “Star Trek #30”
Out today: “Star Trek #30“, by Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing.
After the Day of Blood, Kahless II is a defeated, broken man who has but one path left: face himself. Thrown backward in time by the Time Crystals of Boreth, Kahless witnesses his own cruelty, hubris, and thirst for messianic power. When he comes face-to-face with himself as a young boy holding his father’s blade for the first time, Kahless must decide what a Klingon’s honor truly means.
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Star Trek Books Coming In The Next 30 Days, as of March 11, 2025
Comic books continue to be where the bulk of Treklit is, which is great for me, as I’m a comic fan, but for those of you that are here for non-illustrated stories, it’s been a rough few months, but there’s fresh content coming to you soon! Just not within the next 30 days, which is the completely arbitrary time limit of this post. For those Enterprise fans out there, you’re about to have a fantastic month with the release of Adam Kotsko‘s “Late Star Trek” which goes into some fun detail on how that series has been the corner stone of nearly ever Star Trek release since its ending.
Non-Fiction
By: Adam Kotsko
March 25, 2025How Star Trek’s twenty-first-century reinventions illuminate the unique challenges and opportunities of franchise-style corporate storytelling Late Star Trek explores the beloved science fiction franchise’s repeated attempts to reinvent itself after the end of its 1990s golden age. Beginning with the prequel series Enterprise, Adam Kotsko analyzes the wealth of content set within Star Trek’s sprawling […]
Comics
By: Ryan North
March 12, 2025Suspicious after the Cerritos docks for its second baryon sweep in the same year, Mariner sneaks into a command meeting. There, the Department of Temporal Investigations tasks the crew with finding a time traveler who is rewriting Federation history at an alarming rate. Mariner finds her friends and tells them what’s really going on… only […]
By: Collin Kelly, Jackson Lanzing
March 12, 2025After the Day of Blood, Kahless II is a defeated, broken man who has but one path left: face himself. Thrown backward in time by the Time Crystals of Boreth, Kahless witnesses his own cruelty, hubris, and thirst for messianic power. When he comes face-to-face with himself as a young boy holding his father’s blade […]
By: Christopher Cantwell
March 26, 2025Nymira Vondect is back from the dead, having survived the cataclysmic explosion on Starbase 99 with help from the universe’s seediest rogue, Berlinghoff Rasmussen. Now she and Berlinghoff are running elaborate scams together to take advantage of unsuspecting Berbians and make a quick buck. But something niggles at Nymira… Should she tell her old crew […]
By: Christopher Cantwell, Collin Kelly, Jackson Lanzing
April 2, 2025The all-new crossover event between Star Trek and Defiant is here! From the Eisner-nominated writers of Star Trek, Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly; the critically acclaimed writer of Star Trek: Defiant, Christopher Cantwell; and artist Davide Tinto, Lore War #1 shows us a universe rebuilt in Lore’s image. The crews of the Theseus and the […]
By: Ryan North
April 9, 2025When Mariner asked the Krulmuth-B portal to send her, Rutherford, Tendi, and Boimler to the moment when they could make the biggest impact on history, she meant, like, to the time period where they could help their crew the most. But they’ve ended up on board the Titanic! Yes, THE Titanic, and that’s just the tip of the […]
DTI Treklit Investigation for the week of March 11, 2025
Here’s a look at the books printed this week in the past.
“Star Trek: The Next Generation: Hearts and Minds” Review by Lessaccurategrandmother.blogspot.com
Lessaccurategrandmother.blogspot.com has added a new review for Dayton Ward and Ed Schlesinger and Greg Cox and Kevin Lauderdale and Margaret Clark‘s “Star Trek: The Next Generation: Hearts and Minds”:
Way back in installments #1 and 4 of this chronological marathon, I read two original series novels, From History’s Shadow and Elusive Salvation, because their events would be referenced in a Destiny-era book. Over seven years later, that connection finally pays off with Hearts and Minds, which provides a third and final installment to Dayton Ward’s “secret history” sequence of novels about the Aegis and the U.S. security apparatus. Was it all worth it? Well, I may have appreciated the connections more had I read the books closer together, like they were released. That, I suppose, is the downside of reading in chronological order.
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“Star Trek: Defiant #24” Review by Fanbasepress.com
Fanbasepress.com has added a new review for Christopher Cantwell‘s “Star Trek: Defiant #24”:
In Star Trek: Defiant #24, Alexander faces the final challenge of the Quv Rite of vengeance. Christopher Cantwell has brought Worf and Alexander on a journey that began with complete estrangement and into, finally, love and acceptance.
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Preview of “Star Trek #30”
Here’s a preview of Star Trek #30 by Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing which is due to be released this Wednesday on March 12, 2025 at your local comic shop and digital retailers:
Preview of “Star Trek: Lower Decks #5”
Here’s a preview of Star Trek: Lower Decks #5 by Ryan North which is due to be released this Wednesday on March 12, 2025 at your local comic shop and digital retailers:
Happy 2025 Birthday to Michael Jan Friedman!
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Happy birthday to Michael Jan Friedman!
Michael Jan Friedman is one of the most prolific novelists for Pocket Books’ line of Star Trek novels, perhaps best known for creating the characters that would crew the Star Trek: Stargazer series of books. He assisted John J. Ordover in developing the Double Helix six-part miniseries. He also co-wrote the story for the Star Trek: Voyager episode “Resistance”. He was interviewed by Michael McAvennie for the article “Michael Jan Friedman – When Darkness Calls”, published in The Official Star Trek: The Next Generation Magazine Vol. 9, pp. 56-59.
Friedman is known in comics as a writer of superhero and science fiction/fantasy, as a comic writer he was a regular contributor to various of DC Comics’ later Star Trek series.
He is extremely prolific. Of his seventy plus novels, more than half are set in the Trek universe.
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DTI Comic Book Investigation for the week of March 6, 2025
Here are all the comics printed this week in years past.
Happy 2025 Birthday to Glenn Hauman!
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Happy birthday to Glenn Hauman!
Glenn Hauman is a Star Trek author.
Hauman was born in New York, and now lives in Weehawken, New Jersey. He is an alumnus of New York University. He works in e-publishing, and online content.
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DTI Treklit Investigation for the week of March 4, 2025
Here’s a look at the books printed this week in the past.
Star Trek Book Deals For March 2025
This month’s ebook deals have landed with 19 books on sale for $1.99 each, books that have never been on sale are in bold:
Star Trek: 26 Pawns And Symbols
Star Trek: 27 Mindshadow
Star Trek: 8 Black Fire
Star Trek: A Singular Destiny
Star Trek: Captain’s Blood
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Millennium: 2 The War Of The Prophets
Star Trek: Discovery: The Way To The Stars
Star Trek: Enterprise: Last Full Measure
Star Trek: Imzadi Forever
Star Trek: New Frontier: 6 Fire on High
Star Trek: New Frontier: Missing In Action
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 9
Star Trek: Tales From The Captain’s Table
Star Trek: The Lost Era: 2311 Serpents Among The Ruins
Star Trek: The Next Generation: Armageddon’s Arrow
Star Trek: The Next Generation: Losing The Peace
Star Trek: Voyager: Gateways: 5 No Man’s Land
Star Trek: Voyager: Homecoming Book 1
Star Trek: Voyager: Mosaic
New Star Trek Comic Books Announced To Preorder! March 2025 Edition
Part five of “Lore War.” Armed with the knowledge of how to defeat Lore once and for all, Sisko and what’s left of his crew scatter to the four quadrants of space. Spock, Hugh, Alexander, and Paris each set out alone on a mission to save their remaining friends from Lore’s control, but none is more alone than Sisko. He’s taking the fight directly to Lore in a final all-or-nothing standoff. Will he and the actions of his crew be enough to restore the universe and everyone to their rightful selves? Or will Lore win again and reset the universe as he’s done so many times before?
Part four of “Lore War.” Sisko is approaching a moment of crisis: Lore is god of the universe, and the number of heroes operating outside his influence is dwindling with every encounter. Everywhere Sisko looks, he sees those he’s failed. Is he really the person meant to defeat Lore and restore his timeline? Just as he is about to set down the burden of leadership…he dreams of a familiar blue light…and remembers there is hope yet in the universe waiting for those with the courage to seek it out
Star Trek: Defiant, Volume 4: The Stars of Home
Connecting with the voyages of the ongoing Star Trek comic series, Defiant ventures into the dark side of the cosmos!
Original Star Trek: Defiant writer-artist duo Christopher Cantwell and Ángel Unzueta delve into the sci-fi horror genre in arc four of the fan-favorite series!
It’s the beginning of a new era for the disavowed, mercenary crew of the U.S.S. Defiant! Political corruption ensues as Sela and her father, General Revo, leverage the imprisoned Defiant crewmates to kidnap the Romulan praetor and chairman of Tal Shiar Intelligence to advance their sinister plot to take over Romulus…
This leaves Worf, B’Elanna, and Ro with two crewmates down, and a planet on the brink of Romulan invasion. Despite how hopeful the planet’s meager farming population is, what are three failed Starfleet officers and lowly resistance fighters to a heavily armed and technologically advanced Romulan strike team?
Collects issues #17–21 of the series.
Star Trek: Lore War–Shaxs’ Worst Day #1
From the team who brought you the Ringo- and Eisner-nominated Shaxs’ Best Day comes a rip-roaring ride full of clever ship high jinks, nonstop badassery, and bombastic punches… because at the end of the day, let’s face it. It’s not Shaxs’ worst day. It’s fascism’s. Shaxs had his best day, but now that the universe has been rewritten by the mad android Lore, he’s about to have his worst. Starfleet has been distorted into a machinery of oppression antithetical to everything it once stood for, and Shaxs has been made into the one thing he despises most in the universe: a fascist. Now free of Lore’s hold over his mind, it’s up to Shaxs to revert everyone in Starfleet back to their old selves and save the cosmos!
There’s nothing quite like a mother-daughter relationship. There’s also nothing quite like finding out your monolith of a captain used to be a carefree ensign who accidentally vanished her whole crew in an experiment gone wrong. Lucky for Beckett Mariner, she gets to soak up both experiences all on the same day as her mother, Captain Freeman, regales her with a throwback tale of how she was “just like you when she was young,” and “mistakes help us grow, blah, blah.” Meanwhile, all Mariner wants to know is how could Freeman let Pulaski get away with hair like that?
