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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Happy 2024 Birthday to Simon Hawke!
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Happy birthday to Simon Hawke!
Simon Hawke is an American author of mainly science fiction and fantasy novels. He was born Nicholas Valentin Yermakov, but began writing as Simon Hawke in 1984 and later changed his legal name to Hawke. He has also written near future adventure novels under the pen name J. D. Masters and a series of humorous mystery novels. He was the Colorado Writer of the Year, 1992.
As Nicholas Yermakov, his early books were published in 1981-1984 including two Battlestar Galactica novelizations. Since re-launching his career as Simon Hawke in 1984, he has produced a large volume of lighter fiction. Almost all of his books published after 1984 have been either part of a series and/or tie-in novels and novelizations.
His first major work as Simon Hawke was the Timewars series, which recounts the adventures of an organization tasked with protecting history from being changed by time travellers. In the world of the series, many people and events we consider fictional are historical, and vice versa; the action of each book in the series weaves in and out of the events of a famous work of literature. For example, in the first book in the series time travellers contesting the fate of Richard I of England become caught up in Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe.
He has also written a series of humorous murder mysteries which features a young William Shakespeare and a fictional friend, Symington “Tuck” Smythe.
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Last Chance! Star Trek Book Deals For August 2024
Here’s your last chance to grab this month’s ebook deals: 14 books on sale for $0.99 – $1.99 each. The sale ends on September 1st!
Cross-Stitch: Explore Strange New Worlds of Crafting
Star Trek: 49 The Pandora Principle
Star Trek: 64 The Starship Trap
Star Trek: Day of Honor Omnibus
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Rising Son
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations: The Collectors
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations: Watching the Clock
Star Trek: Enterprise Logs
Star Trek: The Brave And The Bold Book 1
Star Trek: The Brave And The Bold Book 2
Star Trek: The Next Generation: 43 A Fury Scorned
Star Trek: The Next Generation: X-Men: Planet X
Star Trek: Voyager: 16 Seven Of Nine
Star Trek: Voyager: Captain Proton: Defender of the Earth
Authors added to both “Outside In” Trek books
Why am I making a big deal about adding all the authors for these two books? Outside In Boldly Goes has 117 authors and Outside In Makes it So has 174 authors, many of whom you’ll likely recognize for their other Trek work. Next up: I’m going to read them!
“Star Trek: Picard: No Man’s Land” Review by Treknews.net
Treknews.net has added a new review for Kirsten Beyer and Mike Johnson‘s “Star Trek: Picard: No Man’s Land”:
In what might be the first for a Star Trek audiobook, Star Trek: Picard: No Man’s Land gets a physical release treatment. The audiobook, which came out in 2022 and was written by Trek vets Kirsten Beyer and Mike Johnson, tells a story centering on Raffi Musiker (Michelle Hurd, who reprises her role from Star Trek: Picard) and Seven of Nine (Jeri Ryan, reprising her role from Star Trek: Voyager and Picard) set in between the first and second seasons of Picard. Whereas before today fans could only enjoy this story in its original audiobook form, those who eschew audio dramas can now read the script of this production. But the question is: would you want to?
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Dayton Ward on Warpfactortrek.com discussing “Pliable Truths”
()Dayton Ward was recently featured on Warpfactortrek.com to discuss Pliable Truths:
Star Trek fans had an excellent start to their summer with author Dayton Ward’s dive into the worlds of TNG and DS9 in the novel Pliable Truths. Set at the end of the Cardassian occupation of Bajor, Ward had the fun task of creating a story highlighting that tumultuous time. I recently talked to Ward about this novel and other Trek-related topics.
Check out the Dayton Ward author page to view other sightings and a full list of books!
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“Star Trek Discovery: The Art of Glenn Hetrick’s Alchemy Studios” Review by Blog.trekcore.com
Blog.trekcore.com has added a new review for Joe Nazzaro‘s “Star Trek Discovery: The Art of Glenn Hetrick’s Alchemy Studios”:
Star Trek: The Art of Glenn Hetrick’s Alchemy Studios, the new 192-page reference book detailing much of the creative make-up design and application for Star Trek: Discovery from Joe Nazarro and Titan Books, is appropriately titled.
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“Star Trek Discovery: The Art of Glenn Hetrick’s Alchemy Studios” Review by Borg.com
Borg.com has added a new review for Joe Nazzaro‘s “Star Trek Discovery: The Art of Glenn Hetrick’s Alchemy Studios”:
A new behind-the-scenes book on the Star Trek franchise makes a good companion to some classic looks at the series. Star Trek: The Art of Glenn Hetrick’s Alchemy Studios (available here at Amazon) really is a look at the makeups and prosthetics made for Star Trek: Discovery’s five seasons. It’s a continuation of some books we reviewed previously here at borg, especially Star Trek: The Art of Neville Page (reviewed here).
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“Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Scorpius Run” Review by Positivelytrek.com
Positivelytrek.com has added a new review for Mike Johnson and Ryan Parrott‘s “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Scorpius Run”:
In this episode of the Positively Trek Book Club, hosts Dan Gunther and Brandi Jackola discuss Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: The Scorpius Run, a five-issue comic miniseries from IDW. We talk about all five issues, and give our thoughts on the series as a whole.
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Out Today: “Star Trek: Defiant #19”
Out today: “Star Trek: Defiant #19“, by Christopher Cantwell.
Miles O’Brien and his trusty holo-helm set course for the planet Antara as Romulan forces prepare to besiege the population with Worf, B’Elanna, and Ro among them. A menacing Romulan blockade stands between him and his friends, but as he braces to brave the Romulans alone, matters are further complicated when an old friend—none other than Dr. Julian Bashir—delivers an urgent message from Section 31. Meanwhile, on Romulus, Commander Sela and Spock uncover a dark secret that General Revo is willing to kill to keep secret…
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Out Today: “Star Trek #24”
Out today: “Star Trek #24“, by Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing.
Reality has literally begun collapsing around Captain Sisko and the U.S.S. Theseus crew as they race through space and, one by one, witness the gods be annihilated by the new godkiller! The detonation of a god-scale bomb at the Pleroma started a chain reaction beginning the unraveling of time and space. But the Theseus crew are Starfleet officers ready to step up to the plate and boldly take on the unknown, and their captain is a prophet ready to embrace his godhood for the sake of the universe…or else!
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New Star Trek Comic Books Announced To Preorder! October 2024 Edition
IDW October 2024 Catalog
Lore’s destruction has consumed everything in the universe except the U.S.S. Theseus and the Celestial Temple. In one last maneuver, the crew uses every ounce of power left in their main systems to shoot their ship across the galaxy to the temple. While their ship flies, the crew has a Louisiana-style supper and heal wounds between them before they must say their final goodbyes, for Benjamin Sisko is of Bajor, and he must return home if Lore is to be stopped.
B’Elanna Torres is in the captain’s chair of the Defiant, and she has a choice to make: return home and report for duty as the mother Miral needs or continue saving the universe with her crew. With her disavowed status from Starfleet command and all that she’s been through—from bounty hunting to parasite infestations—B’Elanna isn’t sure she’s strong enough for either task. Luckily, O’Brien proposes a detour adventure to dismantle minefields in the Alpha Quadrant, and B’Elanna jumps at the chance to forestall a final decision…for now.
Star Trek: Defiant, Vol. 3: Hell Is Only A Word
Connecting with the voyages of the ongoing Star Trek comic series, Vol. 3 ventures into the sci-fi horror genre in the third arc!
Eager to move past the unofficial bounty-hunting mission assigned to them by Starfleet, disgraced former ambassador and Starfleet legend Worf and his rogue crew make way for Starbase 99, a run-down remnant of the Dominion War, to complete their fugitive drop-off. The clandestine assignment has left them disillusioned with Starfleet and with one another, but a surprise awaits the Defiant crew, threatening to tear them apart even further—literally.
Written by Christopher Cantwell (Hellcat, Star Wars: Obi-Wan), drawn by Ángel Unzueta (Iron Man, Star Wars: Poe Dameron), and colored by Marissa Louise (Defiant, Black Manta) with letters by Clayton Cowles (Batman, Daredevil).
This volume collects issues #12–16.
Mariner, T’Lyn, Rutherford, and Tendi have beamed off the mysterious U.S.S. Bonaventure and onto an equally mysterious surface of an unknown world, significantly raising the statistical likelihood of death and injury! Finally, the crew is up to their necks in adventure. There’s the senior staff’s safety to confirm, a weird planet to escape, and an alien race that wishes to learn more about mentorship…through a battle royale! Enter Jadzia Dax, Montgomery Scott, Kathyrn Janeway, T’Pol, and Jean-Luc Picard as the mentors and the Lower Deckers as the mentees. May the best student live.
Preview of “Star Trek: Defiant #19”
Here’s a preview of Star Trek: Defiant #19 by Christopher Cantwell which is due to be released this Wednesday on September 25, 2024 at your local comic shop and digital retailers:
Preview of “Star Trek #24”
Here’s a preview of Star Trek #24 by Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing which is due to be released this Wednesday on September 25, 2024 at your local comic shop and digital retailers:
New Star Trek Book: “Star Trek: Lore War #1”
Star Trek: Lore War #1 by has been added to the Star Trek Book Club!
The book is currently scheduled to be published on March 26, 2025
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Happy 2024 Birthday to Peter David!
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Happy birthday to Peter David!
Peter David was born in New Jersey, and raised in Pennsylvania. David originally tried to work in Journalism but finally got a job at Marvel Comics as Asst. Direct Sales Manager. He wrote some “fill in” comics for Spider-man and eventually got to the point where he was the regular writer for several titles. David has had over fifty novels published, including numerous appearances on the New York Times Bestsellers List. His greatest fame comes from the Star Trek novels, where he is the most popular writer of the series, with Imzadi being one of the best selling Star Trek novels of all time. David is also co-creator and author of the bestselling New Frontier series for Pocket Books and has also had short stories appear in such collections as Shock Rock, Shock Rock II and Otherwere, as well as Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine and the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. David had an award-winning twelve-year run on The Incredible Hulk, and he has also worked on such popular titles as Supergirl, Young Justice, Soulsearchers and Company, Aquaman, Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2099, X-Factor, Star Trek, Wolverine, The Phantom, Sachs & Violens and many others. He has also written comic book-related novels, such as The Hulk: What Savage Beast, and co-edited the Ultimate Hulk short story collection. His opinion column “But I Digress” has been running in the industry trade newspaper The Comic Buyers Guide for nearly a decade, and in that time has been the paper’s consistently most popular feature and was also collected into a trade paperback edition. Peter is the co-creator, with popular science fiction icon Bill Mumy of the Cable Ace Award-nominated science fiction series Space Cases, which ran for two seasons on Nickelodeon. He has also written several scripts for the Hugo Award winning TV series Babylon 5, and the sequel series Crusade, as well as the animated series Roswell. David has also written several films for Full Moon Entertainment and co-produced two of them, including two installments in the popular Trancers series as well as the science fiction western spoof Oblivion, which won the Gold Award at the 1994 Houston International Film Festival for best Theatrical Feature Film, Fantasy/Horror category. David has won many other awards including the Haxtur Award 1996 in Spain, Best Comic script; OZCon 1995 award in Australia, Favorite International Writer; Comic Buyers Guide 1995 Fan Awards, Favorite writer; Wizard Fan Award Winner 1993; Golden Duck Award for Young Adult Series for Starfleet Academy, 1994; UK Comic Art Award, 1993; and the Will Eisner Comic Industry Award, 1993.
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RIP Star Trek: Explorer?
Several trusted sources on Facebook are lamenting the end of Star Trek: Explorer and while there’s no official word yet, they’re in the know enough to trust what they’re saying. It’s sad that this iteration of the Trek magazines never found it’s footing. I was personally never happy that it was only coming out every few months instead of monthly, as it made for a situation where I didn’t know if I should be expecting it or not.
Happy 2024 Birthday to Jerry Oltion!
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Happy birthday to Jerry Oltion!
Jerry Oltion lives in Eugene, Oregon. He is married to fellow Star Trek author Kathy Oltion.
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Happy 2024 Birthday to Magdalene Visaggio!
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Happy birthday to Magdalene Visaggio!
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Christopher Sequeira Interview With StarTrekBookClub.com
This week’s guest is Christopher Sequeira, author of 2023’s “Holo-Ween” mini series that just had it’s TPB collection released along with a gorgeous hardcover collected edition that was exclusive to the IDW webstore. I just got my copy in the mail this week!
We touch on his experiences with writing and publishing other comics, both as an independent author and as the editor in chief of IPI Comics, which currently has some pretty cool Sherlock and Lovecraft content coming out and even has a Human Fly series, which I was only familiar with as a Marvel comic, but there’s a cool back history to the character that he clues me in to.
We get into a long talk about Dracula, the history of the characters, the copyright shenanigans that have happened in the past and his involvement in a collection of Dracula stories that include some true stories. No joke!
We move onto Sherlock and how fantastic it is to be able to play in that universe and how all the stories he publishes with the great detective are written in a way that the stories would fit right into the original books.
We wrap up the call by talking about possible sequels to the Holo-ween series, of which I’m a huge proponent!
Maria Jose Tenuto on Sliceofscifi.com discussing “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan: The Making of the Classic Film”
(no image available)Maria Jose Tenuto was recently featured on Sliceofscifi.com to discuss Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan: The Making of the Classic Film:
We also talk a little bit about their previous book, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan: The Making of the Classic Film, which is a gorgeous coffee table book retrospective of the behind the scenes details of what went into making the classic Trek movie.
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“Star Trek Discovery: The Art of Glenn Hetrick’s Alchemy Studios” Review by Trekmovie.com
Trekmovie.com has added a new review for Joe Nazzaro‘s “Star Trek Discovery: The Art of Glenn Hetrick’s Alchemy Studios”:
What you expect from a big, glossy Star Trek art book is tons of glorious behind-the-scenes and on-set photographs of the amazing craft and artistry that goes into making your favorite science fiction franchise. And this impressive coffee table book has all that in spades. But what you don’t expect is a fascinating look into the logistics of actually producing the artwork at a scale and at a pace that is required for creating episodic television. And it’s gems like the quote above that, scattered throughout this volume, make this latest Trek art book from Titan as much fun to read as to look at.
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“Star Trek: The Next Generation: Before Dishonor” Review by Atboundarysedge.com
Atboundarysedge.com has added a new review for Peter David‘s “Star Trek: The Next Generation: Before Dishonor”:
Two weeks after reading Before Dishonor, I’m still torn on how I feel about it. On the one hand, it’s colossally stupid. On the other hand, it’s one of the most compulsively readable books to come out of the TNG relaunch.
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New Star Trek Book: “Intersectional Humanism and Star Trek: Discovery: Warping into a Connected Future”
Intersectional Humanism and Star Trek: Discovery: Warping into a Connected Future by Alyson R. Buckman has been added to the Star Trek Book Club!
Intersectional Humanism and Star Trek: Discovery focuses on the shift from the liberal humanism of the Star Trek franchise to the intersectional humanism of Star Trek: Discovery. Featuring a great deal of diversity both in front of and behind the camera, Discovery affirms the guiding principle of the franchise: infinite diversity in infinite combinations. Arguing that the focus of Discovery is a connection between a variety of beings and ways of being in the world, the author analyzes the relationships among humanoids and machines, animals, and between each other as well as the representation of trauma in the series. The author finds that, while there are reversions to some of the more problematic elements of liberal humanism over the course of the series, ultimately it forms connections that will progress humanity and deepen our relationship to each other and the world around us.
The book is currently scheduled to be published on October 15, 2024
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“Star Trek: The Next Generation: 49 The Q Continuum 3: Q-Strike” Review by Deepspacespines.com
Deepspacespines.com has added a new review for Greg Cox‘s “Star Trek: The Next Generation: 49 The Q Continuum 3: Q-Strike”:
In today’s episode, the Faal family comes down with a nasty case of silver eye, and Zero breaks out of galactic confinement as Q’s PowerPoint finally reaches its last slide. But it will take a blast of minty fresh breath to counter Zero’s hot air. Why is Picard so slow on the uptake? What kind of damage can writing too much Q do to your prose? And has my teaching career coincidentally prepared me for this moment? All this and more in Q-Strike, the book that’s on its way to get some head.
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“Star Trek: The Next Generation: 1 A Time To Be Born” Review by Atboundarysedge.com
Atboundarysedge.com has added a new review for John Vornholt‘s “Star Trek: The Next Generation: 1 A Time To Be Born”:
After The Next Generation finished, the adventures of Picard and his crew continued in a series of feature-length films. The first three released while Deep Space Nine and Voyager were still airing, but the final film, Nemesis, served as a capstone for an entire era of Trek storytelling. A few years later, the Enterprise crew returned in literary form to truly kick off the Litverse of novels. To pave the way for this new age, a series of nine books was commissioned. Set between Insurrection and Nemesis, these novels told the story of the breakup of the Enterprise crew in the run-up to their final on-screen mission. With one exception, this series comprised of a sequence of two-part adventures, and while it is very much a Next Generation story, it folded in enough of other series to simple bear the Star Trek banner.
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Happy 2024 Birthday to Howard Weinstein!
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Happy birthday to Howard Weinstein!
Howard Weinstein is a noted science fiction author. In 1974, at age 19, he became the youngest person to ever write a script for Star Trek, selling “The Pirates of Orion” for use in Star Trek: The Animated Series. He has also written numerous Star Trek novels and comic books. He was credited with “thanks” on Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. Weinstein was interviewed by Lynne Stephens for the article “Howard Weinstein – Scribe to the “Power Hungry”” for The Official Star Trek: The Next Generation Magazine Vol. 8, pp. 22-25 and by Michael McAvennie for the article “Picard’s Options”, published in The Official Star Trek: The Next Generation Magazine Vol. 13, pp. 52-53.
Weinstein is also noted for dedication to fans, appearing at hundreds of conventions.
In December 2006, it was announced that Weinstein had written a script, “The Sky Above, the Mudd Below,” for Star Trek: New Voyages.
Other novels he has written include three in the V Series, East Coast Crisis (with A.C. Crispin), Prisoners and Pawns, and Path to Conquest. He has also written Puppy Kisses are Good for the Soul in 2001 and Mickey Mantle in 2003.
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Derek Tyler Attico on Trekmovie.com discussing “The Autobiography Of Benjamin Sisko”
()Derek Tyler Attico was recently featured on Trekmovie.com to discuss The Autobiography Of Benjamin Sisko:
The Autobiography of Benjamin Sisko is the latest of Titan’s series of Star Trek autobiographies. The author (credited in-universe as “editor”) of this fascinating take on the lead character of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine was Derek Tyler Attico. TrekMovie had a chance to speak to Attico about his journey to writing Sisko’s story, revealing how it’s a book that involved intensive imaginative work long before the first word was ever written.
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Happy 2024 Birthday to Christopher Sequeira!
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Happy birthday to Christopher Sequeira!
A Sydney-based Australian editor, writer and artist who works predominantly in the speculative fiction (horror, fantasy, science fiction, super-hero) and mystery realms.
His published work includes poetry, prose (especially short fiction), and comic-book scripts. Sequeira’s creator-owned work includes “Sherlock Holmes: Dark Detective” (with co-creators Dave Elsey and Philip Cornell), Pulse of Darkness, Rattlebone: The Pulp-Faced Detective and The Borderlander and SuperAustralians.
He has also written for American publishers, notably contributing a Dazzler story, “I’m Gonna Stake You, Sucka” in X-Men: Curse of the Mutants – X-Men vs. Vampires No. 1. This story also features a character, Sheba Sugarfangs, invented by Sequeira for Marvel Comics. 1n 2023 he wrote “Star Trek Holoween” for IDW.
In 2010 Sequeira released Pulse of Darkness: The Vampire Syndrome graphic novel, a 140-page graphic novel illustrated by Kurt Stone, and also featuring inkers and pin-up artists representing some of Australia’s best, including Mark Morte, Bryce J. Stevens, David ‘Hyperdave’ Richardson, Ashley Riddell, Gary Chaloner, W. Chew ‘Chewie’ Chan, Paul Abstruse, and Jan Scherpenhuizen.
He has self-published and published the works of others under the imprints of Opal Press Australia and Sequence Productions Pty Ltd. Sequeira has been a regular guest at comics and pop culture expos in Australia including Supanova Pop Culture Expo[2] and Armageddon.
Sequeira’s wedding ceremony in 1999 was covered on Australian national TV due to the celebrant and bridal party being dressed in costume, including Dracula, and Batman villains Penguin, Two-Face and Riddler.[citation needed] Sequeira lives with his wife and two children in Sydney.
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Happy 2024 Birthday to Walter Koenig!
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Happy birthday to Walter Koenig!
Walter Koenig is the actor that portrayed Pavel Chekov in Star Trek: The Original Series and in the first seven Star Trek movies.
He also wrote the comic Chekov’s Choice for DC Comics and has appeared as Chekov in several Star Trek video games.
Although he never reprised his role for the tightly budgeted TAS series, Koenig did serve as director for “The Infinite Vulcan”. The Retlaw plant, for example in the episode was his first name-spelled backwards.
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James Swallow Interview With StarTrekBookClub.com
This week’s conversation is with James Swallow who has an upcoming Trek novel coming out in 2025 titled “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Toward The Night“. We start the conversation by talking about that story, obviously he wasn’t able to go into too much detail due to not wanting to spoil the story, but I’ll say this much, I verified I had a preorder for it after talking to him!
We follow that up by talking about his comic book work and how much he’s love to have a chance to write some Trek books, an endeavor I would fully support. We move onto talking about his recent publishing experiences writing comics and the books that made his childhood, including the original Ghost Rider. I even get an answer about which version of the character is his favorite. The answer is obvious, but we have a cool discussion to get to that inevitable answer.
James is also an extremely accomplished Warhammer 40k author, with 20 books written in the franchise. I get to completely geek out with him about how cool it is to have such a long running series of books that were authored by so many talented authors.
Even with the dozens upon dozens of tie-in books that he’s written, he’s written several of his own stories, including the Marc Dane series and two stand alone stories that have absolutely nothing to do with each other, Dark Horizon and Airside, but if you check out the covers for them, you’ll see why I asked if there were connections due to the aeronautically themed covers. They’re truly not, but my question prompted a fun detour in the conversation to talking about airplanes for about half the interview. If you like airplanes, you’ll love it. If not…sorry? Just enjoy the joy of two nerds nerding out over a fun topic that I know much less than the he does. He does a great job of making me interested in both the books, so I’m going to likely end up reading them soon.
We move on from airplanes to talk about attending Shore-Leave, he’s gone to more shows than me, but we both agree it’s the best place to be if you enjoy Treklit.
Happy 2024 Birthday to Robert T. Jeschonek!
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Happy birthday to Robert T. Jeschonek!
Robert T. Jeschonek lives in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, and is a graduate of University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown. He writes in genres as diverse as horror and poetry, and for young adults, and a lot of his more recent material is e-published.
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“Star Trek: 85 My Brother’s Keeper Book 1: Republic” Review by Themindreels.com
Themindreels.com has added a new review for Michael Jan Friedman‘s “Star Trek: 85 My Brother’s Keeper Book 1: Republic”:
Launching with a couple of chapters reliving the climax of the iconic episode, Where No Man Has Gone Before, Micheal Jan Friedman’s first novel, in a three part series call My Brother’s Keeper, explores the early relationship of Lt. James T. Kirk, and Cadet Gary Mitchell when they first encounter each other at Starfleet Academy.
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Star Trek Books Coming In The Next 30 Days, as of September 10th, 2024
Fiction
By: Ryan North
October 15, 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 […]
Non-Fiction
By: Nana Visitor
October 1, 2024
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 […]
Magazines
October 9, 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!
Comics
By: Collin Kelly, Jackson Lanzing
September 25, 2024
Reality has literally begun collapsing around Captain Sisko and the U.S.S. Theseus crew as they race through space and, one by one, witness the gods be annihilated by the new godkiller! The detonation of a god-scale bomb at the Pleroma started a chain reaction beginning the unraveling of time and space. But the Theseus crew […]
By: Christopher Cantwell
September 25, 2024
Miles O’Brien and his trusty holo-helm set course for the planet Antara as Romulan forces prepare to besiege the population with Worf, B’Elanna, and Ro among them. A menacing Romulan blockade stands between him and his friends, but as he braces to brave the Romulans alone, matters are further complicated when an old friend—none other […]
By: D.C. Fontana, David Tischman, Derek Chester
October 1, 2024
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: 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 […]
Happy 2024 Birthday to Alex Kurtzman!
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Happy birthday to Alex Kurtzman!
Alex Kurtzman is a producer and screenwriter who co-wrote the script for and executive produced the film Star Trek, along with writing partner Roberto Orci. Kurtzman and Orci later produced and (along with Damon Lindelof) wrote the screenplay for the sequel, Star Trek Into Darkness. After parting ways with Orci, he did not return for Star Trek Beyond, but will be serving as executive producer through his production company Secret Hideout on the next Star Trek series, expected for a January 2017 release.
Kurtzman also consulted on the Star Trek video game.
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Out Today: “Space, the Feminist Frontier: Essays on Sex and Gender in Star Trek”
Out today: “Space, the Feminist Frontier: Essays on Sex and Gender in Star Trek“, by .
For nearly 60 years, Star Trek has imagined humanity’s future while reflecting its present. Star Trek: The Original Series debuted with three male leads, but in the wake of a Trek renaissance that began with Star Trek: Discovery in 2017, additional series have explored the frontiers of representation, making the present moment ripe for new critical engagement and thoughtful reflection on the narratives that have shaped the journey thus far.
Using the lens of feminist criticism and theory, this collection of essays presents a diverse array of academic and fan scholars engaging with the past, present, and future of Star Trek. Contributors consider issues like Klingon marriage, Majel Barrett’s legacy, the Bechdel-Wallace test, LGBTQ+ representation, and more. They offer updated readings on legacy characters while also addressing wholly new characters like Michael Burnham, Beckett Mariner, and Adira Tal. Their essays provide some of the first critical examinations of the newest additions to the Trek franchise, including Picard, Strange New Worlds and Lower Decks.
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Adeena Mignogna Interview With StarTrekBookClub.com
I just had a fantastic conversation with Adeena Mignogna, who I met at Shore-Leave. She was a presenter doing a talk about space junk, which was interesting enough to hold my attention for an hour and exactly what I was looking for, but she ended the presentation by saying she was going to be in the author room later that night. I already had plans to stop by that room to pick up a bundle of comics and books and swung by her table, picking up a copy of Lunar Logic (which I’m now about 25% of the way through) and chatted with her for a few minutes.
Turns out she has not one, but TWO stories coming out in Star Trek: Explorer, the first of which should be out now, but I feel like I’ve been saying that for over a month at this point. What’s going on with Titan?!
Lunar Logic is just her most recent book, it’s a pleasant stand alone story of a group of robots on the moon, and she has a series of books in a “Robots Galaxy” series that has a follow up collection of books that she’s currently working on now.
She has a wonderful podcast named “The Big Scifi Podcast” that you should out if you’re into science and science fiction!
Our hour long conversation includes a sidebar about how she enjoys world building and stories set in the background of the Trek Universe, astronomy, how her work is aimed at adults but is safe for kids, and her writing process, which involves getting up at 5am. Yes, really.
I talk way too long about my love of IDW’s comic books, but I think I got my point across and I’m really hoping that she’ll check out some of my suggestions and let us know what she thinks!
Oh and in the last 30 seconds she throws it out there that she was able to get Bruce Horak to narrate the audio book version of Lunar Logic.
She has her very first Kickstarter for audiobook versions of her Robot Galaxy book series, It hasn’t officially launched yet, but it’d be real cool if you could click the ‘follow’ button it to help her along and you’ll be notified the moment it goes live.
Adeena can be found on her website, Amazon, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Youtube.
Star Trek Book Deals For September 2024
This month’s ebook deals have landed with 18 books on sale for $0.99 – $1.99 each, books that have never been on sale are in bold:
A great month for anyone wanting to catch up on Discovery’s adventures in print form or anyone that wants to relive the movies without having to turn on your tv!
Star Trek
Star Trek 17: Star Trek III: The Search For Spock
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
Star Trek: Discovery: Desperate Hours
Star Trek: Discovery: Die Standing
Star Trek: Discovery: Die Standing
Star Trek: Discovery: Drastic Measures
Star Trek: Discovery: Drastic Measures
Star Trek: Discovery: Drastic Measures
Star Trek: Discovery: Fear Itself
Star Trek: Discovery: Somewhere to Belong
Star Trek: Discovery: The Enterprise War
Star Trek: Discovery: The Way To The Stars
Star Trek: Generations
Star Trek: Into Darkness
Star Trek: Picard: Firewall
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Star Trek: VI The Undiscovered Country
Press Release: STAR TREK™:LORE WAR CROSSOVER EVENT ARRIVES MARCH 2025
LOS ANGELES, CA (September 4, 2024) – The single most devious mind in the universe has won. Commander Data’s evil brother, Lore, has used the Orb of Destruction to obliterate all of reality and remake it in his image while declaring himself its God. Now that Lore has claimed the ultimate victory, what happens next?
IDW Publishing is thrilled to announce LORE WAR, the compelling crossover event that has been planned since the STAR TREK line of comics relaunched two years ago with the Eisner-nominated milestone issue STAR TREK #400.
Cover A by Malachi Ward
Beginning in STAR TREK: LORE WAR #1 from acclaimed creators Collin Kelly, Jackson Lanzing, Christopher Cantwell, and Davide Tinto, the crossover event will include the STAR TREK flagship ongoing series, STAR TREK: DEFIANT, and special one-shot tie-in issues. “This is it. The moment we’ve been building to since the Theseus left spacedock and the Defiant was stolen,” remarked Lanzing. ”The ultimate STAR TREK comics crossover event – as the heroes and villains of the galaxy must band together to defend its very existence.”
“Since the line’s inception, our grander story in both titles has dealt with STAR TREK’s concept of godlike beings and the rejection of those godlike beings — order and entropy as it exists throughout the four quadrants of the galaxy,” added Cantwell. “Who pulls the strings and who dares to cut them? LORE WAR is quite literally the apotheosis of that shared theme, two years in the making.”
“The gods are dead, and only one mad android holds the reins of our universe. With absolute power comes absolute corruption… but does it come with absolute control?” stated Kelly. “Featuring the incredible art of Davide Tinto – a newcomer to the Trek world – we’re not settling for anything less than the most impressive and world-ending STAR TREK event that comics can contain.”
Group Editor Heather Antos is thrilled to have fans finally see what they’ve been planning since the very beginning of the relaunch. “It’s all been building to this moment. No, literally. From the original prelude in STAR TREK #400 two years ago the road map has always led to LORE WAR. When Collin, Jackson, and Christopher first embarked on this mission we asked the question ‘Can a man be both man and a god?’ Well now Lore is answering.”
STAR TREK: LORE WAR #1 boldly beams into shops on March 26, 2025, and the crossover features primary covers by artist Malachi Ward. Fans can pre-order from their local comic shop. STAR TREK #500, which features the prelude story, is on sale now.
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Out Today: “Star Trek #500”
Out today: “Star Trek #500“, by Christopher Cantwell and Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing.
Celebrate IDW’s 500th issue of Star Trek comics (and an early Star Trek Day!) with this landmark oversized anthology issue! This collection of five short stories spans through fan-favorite eras of the beloved franchise from Lower Decks to Strange New Worlds, legacy characters from The Next Generation and the original series, written and illustrated by Star Trek comics veterans and new voices alike. Plus, don’t miss out on the prelude to 2025’s big Star Trek and Defiant comic crossover event written by Jackson Lanzing, Collin Kelly, and Christopher Cantwell!
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Out Today: “Star Trek Discovery: The Art of Glenn Hetrick’s Alchemy Studios”
Out today: “Star Trek Discovery: The Art of Glenn Hetrick’s Alchemy Studios“, by Joe Nazzaro.
Star Trek: Discovery introduces Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green), captain of the U.S.S. Discovery, who leads the expedition seeking imaginative new worlds and new civilizations, while exploring the dramatic contemporary themes that have been a signature of the franchise since its inception in 1966.
This illustrated coffee-table book features the art and behind-the-scenes photography inside Alchemy Studios and interviews with Glenn and his team about the design and creation of the aliens and creatures from Seasons 1-5 of the hit-TV show. Star Trek: Discovery is available to stream now on Paramount+.
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Preview of “Star Trek #500”
Here’s a preview of Star Trek #500 by Christopher Cantwell and Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing which is due to be released this Wednesday on September 4, 2024 at your local comic shop and digital retailers:
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New Star Trek Comic Books Announced To Preorder! September 2024 Edition
IDW September 2024 Catalog
In its escape from the Delta Quadrant, the U.S.S. Theseus has landed in an unknown sector of space that appears safer-if not a hundred years younger-than their own. There, the crew receive a signal from an oncoming ship: the U.S.S. Enterprise.Captain James T. Kirk is hailing.
The two crews join together in the race against Lore’s wave of destruction, convinced there must be some countermeasure that will save their universes from complete annihilation. But will their combined bravery and brainpower be enough? Or is it already too late for both their timelines?
INTERVIEWS: STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS creator Mike McMahan and voice actor Gabrielle Ruiz. PLUS STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS cinematographer, Benji Bakshi.
STAR TREK: DISCOVERY: The best moments from the hit series!
AN ALL NEW STAR TREK: DISCOVERY STORY: Writer Keith R.A. Candido and
artist Mike Collins bring you a tale that explores AUGMENTED REALITY.
AND MORE!
Spock and Sela are trapped in the belly of the Romulan warbird Taredrix and General Revo’s coup. The three of them are the only living souls who know of the impending Romulan supernova. With Revo offering Sela the choice between death or a seat at the head of the empire itself, Spock will learn the answer to the question of what drives the universe ever forward: sheer willpower or blood?Meanwhile, it’s up to Worf, B’Elanna, and Ro to save the pastoral planet Antara from the hostile Romulans seeking to take it as their own.
Hot off their Eisner nomination for Lower Decks tie-in Shax’s Best Day, stellar duo Ryan North and Derek Charm are kicking off a brand-new ongoing series that’s a big fun adventure on a big fun ship……wherein Dr. T’Ana saves the crew from a virulent, purple-boiled disease that is sure to- Wait, no, everyone’s cured pretty quickly, actually.
Okay…wherein Deep Space 2’s distress call is mysteriously cut off and the crew has to- Wait, nope, they just needed some help resetting their comms systems.
ALL RIGHT, WHEREIN Mariner gets so totally frustrated with the lack of thrills aboard the Cerritos that she drags her friends into a holodeck adventure that would definitely kill them in reality! Should totally provide them all with a sense of purpose and well-being, right?
Right.
Or at least it would have. If the U.S.S. Bonaventure hadn’t shown back up from the Delta Triangle to provide them with a real challenge. It’s time to explore a ghost ship, baby!
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In the aftermath of Kahless’ harrowing Day of Blood, Jake Sisko struggles to find his place in the universe now that his family has been reunited and his father, Benjamin Sisko, has once again saved the Galaxy. Meanwhile, Nog faces the challenges of being the first Ferengi in Starfleet and Alexander Rozhenko is recovering mentally and emotionally from his time as one of Kahless’ devout followers. Although his father, Worf, was able to break him away from the Red Path cult, Alexander is haunted by his actions during the bloody coup and is unsure of his ability to atone for the devastation he caused. Jake, Alexander, and Nog find their stories intertwined as they’re thrust into an alternate reality full of lessons that may be just what the doctor ordered!
Happy 2024 Birthday to Allyn Gibson!
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Happy birthday to Allyn Gibson!
Allyn Gibson: Writer of various and sundry things. Baltimore resident. Chicago Cubs fan. Amateur historian. Political junkie
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Happy 2024 Birthday to Scott Pearson!
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Happy birthday to Scott Pearson!
Scott Michael Pearson is a writer and an editor. He was first published in 1987 with “The Mailbox,” a short story about an elderly farming couple. In the years since, he has published a smattering of humor, poetry, short stories, and novellas. He contributed stories to the three ReDeus shared-world anthologies edited by Robert Greenberger and Aaron Rosenberg. His Lovecraft pastiche “The Squid that Came to Phil’s Basement” appeared in Space and Time Magazine. Scott has edited such books as Tales from a Tin Can: The USS Dale from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay, which received a starred review in Publishers Weekly, and Will to Murder: The True Story Behind the Crimes & Trials Surrounding the Glensheen Killings, which was featured on Dominick Dunne’s Power, Privilege, and Justice series on CourtTV.
As a freelancer, he has copyedited several Star Trek novels. He cohosts the Generations Geek podcast with his daughter, covering geeky movies, books, TV, and just about anything else that comes to mind. Guests have included Kevin Dilmore, Kevin Lauderdale, and Una McCormack. Scott lives near the banks of the mighty Mississippi River, fabled in story and song, in personable St. Paul, Minnesota, with his wife, Sandra, and daughter, Ella.
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Out Today: “Star Trek Adventures: Second Edition: Core Rulebook”
Out today: “Star Trek Adventures: Second Edition: Core Rulebook“, by .
The Star Trek Adventures roleplaying game takes you to the final frontier!
From the 21st through to the 32nd century, join Starfleet, the Klingon Empire, the Romulan Star Empire, and countless other civilizations, and journey across the Star Trek universe with your crew. Explore strange new worlds, encounter fantastical alien life-forms, and engage in dramatic adventures in a detailed and immersive Galaxy.
Tell your stories and unravel the mysteries of the unknown!
The 376-page, full-color, hardcover Star Trek Adventures Second Edition Core Rulebook contains:
A complete and updated version of the 2d20 System rules, designed for an authentic Star Trek experience.
An extensive primer on Star Trek, including details on a range of societies, worlds, species, and the scientific concepts that underpin this timeless universe.
14 player character species to choose from, including Andorian, Cardassian, Klingon, Orion, and Vulcan.
Guidelines for both novice and experienced gamemasters, offering advice on challenging your players with dramatic and thoughtful gameplay, unique to the Star Trek universe.
Game statistics and graphics for 15 playable starship classes, including Federation, Klingon, and Romulan vessels.
Dozens of non-player characters, starships, and creatures to populate your missions, including Federation, Klingon, Cardassian, and Dominion.
Historical excerpts, personal logs, and intercepted communications provide fresh perspectives and insights from across the Galaxy.
Created by an expert Star Trek development team, including a diverse mix of experienced and new artists, designers, editors, and writers.
These are the voyages of your ship, your crew. Live it together.
TM & © 2024 CBS Studios Inc. © 2024 Paramount Pictures Corp. STAR TREK and related marks and logos are trademarks of CBS Studios Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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Happy 2024 Birthday to Mark Garland!
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Happy birthday to Mark Garland!
US author who began to publish work of genre interest with “Zen-Coding” for Nova Express in 1989, most of his later short fiction appearing as by Mark A Garland.
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Out Today: “Star Trek Video Games”
Out today: “Star Trek Video Games“, by Mat Bradley-Tschirgi.
Star Trek video games have been around almost as long as Star Trek itself. From humble beginnings as an unofficial text-based game playable on mainframe computers to modern multi-million dollar spectacles, Star Trek video games span the history of gaming itself.
In Star Trek Video Games: An Unofficial Guide to the Final Frontier, author Mat Bradley-Tschirgi dives into notable Star Trek games across a variety of genres in his fun, humorous style with loads of aplomb. Whether they are based on the live-action or animated TV series, movies, or crossover scenarios, dozens of games (some memorable, some not so memorable) are covered in rich detail with proper historical context along the way.
Aside from its sometimes snarky text, this book features over 100 color photos showing off the wide variety of Star Trek video games covered within. There’s also interviews with game designers, writers, producers, and gaming journalists on select titles offering a behind the scenes look or color commentary on such fan favorites as Star Trek: Starfleet Command, Star Trek: Judgment Rites, Star Trek: Legacy, Star Trek: Resurgence, and more!
Relive memories of playing Star Trek games on Mac, PCs, consoles, handhelds, and mobile phones or discover new favorites to add to your collection. Whether you’ve played all the Star Trek games or are curious as to what the world of Trek gaming holds, Star Trek Video Games: An Unofficial Guide to the Final Frontier will make a fun addition to your home library.
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Michael Dismuke Interview With StarTrekBookClub.com
This week’s interview is with Michael Dismuke who has his first Star Trek fiction printed in Star Trek Explorer #11 and is going to be included in the upcoming compilation Star Trek Explorer: A Year to the Day That I Saw Myself Die and Other Stories due out on October 1, 2024. It’s not his first writing effort though, with plenty of other content already out there for you to enjoy, specifically on Continuing Mission.
The conversation runs about an hour and we discuss his Continuing Conversation podcast that covers all things STA and recent had a three part series with a play through of a mission with some familiar faces. We shared our mutual appreciation for good clean stories that don’t have to rely on violence or extreme content and touched on how the unseen is scarier than showing everything on the screen, regardless of how great the graphics are.
His next Trek work is a starter pack that was just announced, you’ll be able to find it on the Modiphius website soon enough. I’m not at all familiar with how to play STA, so this feels like something that will be right up my alley.
You can find Michael Dismuke on his website, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Youtube.
Happy 2024 Birthday to Barbara Hambly!
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Happy birthday to Barbara Hambly!
Barbara Hambly is a fantasy author, drawn to the genre after reading The Wizard of Oz at an early age. She has written for Star Trek, Star Wars, and Beauty and the Beast, as well as her own original stories. She lives in California with her dogs, cats, and lizards.
Born in San Diego, California, she earned a masters in Medieval History at the University of California in 1975 and studying in Bordeaux, France. She works in various other genres including mystery/detective fiction and horror. She was married to the late George Alec Effinger, a science fiction writer.
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Out Today: “Star Trek: Defiant #18”
Out today: “Star Trek: Defiant #18“, by Christopher Cantwell.
With Spock rotting in a Romulan cell aboard Sela’s ship, the rest of the Defiant crew readies the farmers of Antara for an invasion by General Revo and his relentless Romulan army. This leaves Worf, B’Elanna, and Ro with two crewmates down, and despite how hopeful the planet’s population is, what are three failed Starfleet officers and lowly resistance fighters to a heavily armed and technologically advanced Romulan strike team?
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