Happy 2024 Birthday to Daffyd ab Hugh!
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Happy birthday to Daffyd ab Hugh!
Dafydd ab Hugh, born David Friedman in Los Angeles, is a US science fiction author who wrote several Star Trek books. He is the child of a secular Jewish father and a Welsh-descended mother who converted to Judaism on marriage. The name “Dafydd ab Hugh” is Welsh for “David son of Hugh”, and is now his legal name.
During the 1980s, he served in the United States Navy training to be a Radar Intercept Officer, hoping to eventually become an astronaut, but left the Navy sometime in the late-1980s to pursue a career of writing. Ab Hugh also co-wrote four novels associated with the game Doom, with libertarian science fiction author Brad Linaweaver and published some unrelated short fiction stories. His most notable work “The Coon Rolled Down and Ruptured His Larinks, A Squeezed Novel by Mr. Skunk”, was nominated for the Hugo Award and Nebula Award.
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New Star Trek Book: “The Art of Star Trek: Lower Decks”
The Art of Star Trek: Lower Decks by Megan Treviño has been added to the Star Trek Book Club! There’s no official cover yet, so keep an eye on the book page for updates!
Get a behind-the-scenes look at the art of this fan-favorite series!
Climb aboard the U.S.S. Cerritos with its crew in this special look at the art of the critically acclaimed animated series. With special sections focusing on characters, ships, backgrounds, and scenery, you’ll know the lower decks better than the crew!
Also included will be interviews with members of the art team, who provide special insights into the making of the series and the art process.
The book is currently scheduled to be published on July 8, 2025
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Preview of “Star Trek: Defiant #20”
Here’s a preview of Star Trek: Defiant #20 by Christopher Cantwell which is due to be released this Wednesday on October 23, 2024 at your local comic shop and digital retailers:
Happy 2024 Birthday to Carmen Carter!
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Happy birthday to Carmen Carter!
Carmen Carter is a Star Trek novelist. She began writing fantasy and science fiction in 1984. Her first Star Trek novel, Dreams of the Raven was published in 1987, and since then she authored three Next Generation novels.
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“Star Trek: Voyager: The Nanotech War” Review by Trek.fm
Trek.fm has added a new review for Steven Piziks‘s “Star Trek: Voyager: The Nanotech War”:
In this episode of Literary Treks hosts Casey Pettitt and Jonathan Koan talk about The Nanotech War. We discuss the book not being numbered, first impression, first contact, B’Elanna and Seven’s arcs, putting everything back in the box, wrapping up with our ratings and final thoughts.
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Happy 2024 Birthday to Ryan North!
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Happy birthday to Ryan North!
Ryan North’s recent work includes the non-fiction books How To Take Over The World and How To Invent Everything, the semi-fictional graphic novel adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five, and the so-far-fictional Fantastic Four series for Marvel. He’s an internationally-recognized multiple-New-York-Times-bestselling author whose work has been translated into 16 different languages, and as a linguist, he’s very happy about that. He lives in Toronto, where he once messed up walking his dog so badly it made the news.
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Star Trek Murder Mystery and Escape Room Games
While this isn’t a full length book, I’m going to assume there’s going to be narrative elements that would attract the TrekLit audience.
Happy 2024 Birthday to Mary Scott-Wiecek!
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Happy birthday to Mary Scott-Wiecek!
Mary Scott-Wiecek is a Star Trek author. She lives in Ohio, and is sometimes credited elsewhere as Mary Wiecek. Grand Prize winner in the Strange New Worlds V competition. She lives in Ohio.
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Robert Petkoff Interview With StarTrekBookClub.com
This conversation is my first branch out from talking to Star Trek authors, this week I spoke to Robert Petkoff! He’s narrated over 30 Trek books and has done dozens upon dozens of audio books not related to Trek. You may notice his glorious mustache that he has in place for a role that he’s playing in a production of Moulin Rouge.
Our conversation starts with a talk about the work he does that’s outside of audio book narration, though he does mention that he just wrapped up his work on narrating Una McCormick’s upcoming book Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Asylum. He talks about his “on the road” setup for when he’s doing duration with some good information for those of you that are audio nerds.
We talk about his process for narration, which includes some fun discussions on his he isn’t an impersonator, but that there are small changes that can be made for different characters that give a great indication about who’s saying what.
We have a discussion about how A.I. is super useful for current narrators, but has the capability to end the careers of upcoming narrators before they can even get started. Is there going to be a marketplace for human narrators when something like Amazon Kindle can do it automatically for us?
We also talk about narrating for TOS Kirk vs narrating for SNW Kirk.
Robert Petkoff can be found on his website, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.
Out Today: “Star Trek #25”
Out today: “Star Trek #25“, by Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing.
The android Lore has done the unthinkable: He has detonated the Orb of Destruction, unmaking the universe. After an extra-galactic tumble on the ensuing shockwave, the Theseus sinks into fluidic space. There, the crew melds in and out of a manifold of realities. Benjamin Sisko is against a godkiller once again, but this time it’s up to him alone to save reality itself!
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Out Today: “Star Trek, Vol. 3: Glass and Bone”
Out today: “Star Trek, Vol. 3: Glass and Bone“, by Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing.
The third arc of the critically acclaimed Star Trek flagship comic series continues in paperback collection! Benjamin Sisko is called out of retirement to defeat the Tzenkethi Coalition!
Captain Benjamin Sisko’s quest to defeat the killer of gods is at an end, and the Prophets beckon him home to the Celestial Temple. He’s earned his rest, but he no longer wants to retire into godhood. So when Starfleet requests his help to stop a familiar foe, the Tzenkethi Coalition, from launching their fleet across the Alpha Quadrant, Sisko and the Theseus’ crew set out to once again save the galaxy. They team up with Operative Kingsnake (a.k.a. HARRY KIM), but the Tzenkethi leader has surprising allies of his own: the Romulans! There’s a reason this species of spiritually rich, lizard birds has twice defeated Starfleet in battle. They’re xenophobic, ruthless, and innovative…and confronting them on their home turf, a planet thought to be an organism itself, is a death sentence.
In this paperback follow up to Star Trek, Vol. 1: Godshock and Vol. 2: The Red Path, Volume 3 collects Star Trek issues #13–18 by writers Collin Kelly & Jackson Lanzing with artist Marcus To.
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Preview of “Star Trek #25”
Here’s a preview of Star Trek #25 by Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing which is due to be released this Wednesday on October 16, 2024 at your local comic shop and digital retailers:
Happy 2024 Birthday to Bob Ingersoll!
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Happy birthday to Bob Ingersoll!
Robert “Bob” Ingersoll is a Star Trek writer from Ohio with Tony Isabella. He recently collaborated with Thom Zahler on “‘Til Death” in The Sky’s the Limit.
He is a lawyer by profession, and worked as an attorney in Cleveland, Ohio.
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Happy 2024 Birthday to Aaron Rosenberg!
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Happy birthday to Aaron Rosenberg!
AARON ROSENBERG is the award-winning, #1 bestselling author of the DuckBob humorous science fiction series and the Dread Remora space-opera series, and the co-author of the O.C.L.T. thriller series and the ReDeus modern-day fantasy series, among others. He’s written tie-in novels (including the PsiPhi winner Collective Hindsight for Star Trek: SCE, the Daemon Gates trilogy for Warhammer, Tides of Darkness and (with Christie Golden) the Scribe-nominated Beyond the Dark Portal for WarCraft, Hunt and Run for Stargate: Atlantis, and Substitution Method and The Road Less Traveled for Eureka), children’s books (including an original series, Pete and Penny’s Pizza Puzzles, and work for PowerPuff Girls and Transformers Animated), roleplaying games (including original games like Asylum and Spookshow, the Origins Award-winning Gamemastering Secrets, and sections of The Supernatural Roleplaying Game, Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, and The Deryni Roleplaying Game), young adult novels (including the #1 bestseller 42: The Jackie Robinson Story, the Scribe-winning Bandslam: The Novel and two books for iCarly), short stories, webcomics, essays, and educational books. He has ranged from mystery to speculative fiction to drama to comedy, always with the same intent—to tell a good story. Aaron lives in New York with his family. You can follow him online at gryphonrose.com, on Facebook at facebook.com/gryphonrose, and on Twitter @gryphonrose.
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Happy 2024 Birthday to Dan Abnett!
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Happy birthday to Dan Abnett!
Dan Abnett is an English comic book writer and novelist. He has been a frequent collaborator with fellow writer Andy Lanning, and is known for his work on books for both Marvel Comics, and their UK imprint, Marvel UK, since the 1990s, and also 2000 AD. He has also contributed to DC Comics titles, and his Warhammer Fantasy and Warhammer 40,000 novels and graphic novels for Games Workshop’s Black Library now run to several dozen titles and have sold over two million copies. In 2009 he released his first original fiction novels through Angry Robot books.
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“Star Trek: The Lost Era: Catalyst of Sorrows” Review by Trek.fm
Trek.fm has added a new review for Margaret Wander Bonanno‘s “Star Trek: The Lost Era: Catalyst of Sorrows”:
In this episode of Literary Treks hosts Casey Pettitt and Jonathan Koan talk about The Lost Era book, Catalyst of Shadows. We discuss an Uhura story, Crusher vs Pulaski, the rest of the cast, other characters, the mystery, trauma, flashbacks and timelines, plus our ratings and final thoughts.
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Ryan North Interview With StarTrekBookClub.com
This week’s conversation is with Ryan North, author of the current Fantastic Four series, Adventure Time comics, Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, Lower Decks (2022), Shaxs’ Best Day, and the upcoming Lower Decks: Warp Your Own Way and Lower Decks (2024). A slight disclaimer, I’ve actually been emailing Ryan for years and years, he ran an advertising system named “Project Wonderful” that was indeed wonderful and I loved it very much. It’s not around now though and that makes me sad.
Our conversation roams from his fantastic work on the first Lower Decks mini series, then moves to how to build a choose your own adventure type of story. Turns out that the upcoming Trek story isn’t his first attempt at this!
Back in 2018 he wrote “How To Invent Everything” and we talk about how frustrating it would be to time travel without knowing how anything actually works. He was so frustrated with this idea he went out and wrote a book that would let any stray traveler of time jump start the wheels of invention and get you back to the style of civilization that you were previously accustomed to. Some of that lead to what I personally call “hated knowledge” which is when you learn so much about something that’s broken that you hate knowing all that. For me it’s a carpet cleaner that I’ve taken apart 50 times and could fix in the dark. That kind of experience leads to learning how to take things apart and trouble shoot and is actually a good thing, but I still hate it. .
I ask him if he’d be able to write a lower decks literature book and his answer will shock you! (he said yes and it would be a blast to do)
We finish up our conversation by talking about Eaglemoss’s spaceship subscription program that we both got pulled into and I give one final plug for my fishtank that’s on twitch (and has a crashed 1701A in it).
Ryan North can be found at his website, Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, and Twitter.
Nana Visitor on Podcasters.spotify.com discussing “Star Trek: Open a Channel: A Woman’s Trek”
(no image available)Nana Visitor was recently featured on Podcasters.spotify.com to discuss Star Trek: Open a Channel: A Woman’s Trek:
With a remarkable career spanning over four decades, Nana Visitor has brought powerful, multifaceted female characters to life on both television and stage. Beyond her iconic roles, she champions women’s empowerment in media, a passion reflected in her debut book Star Trek: Open a Channel: A Woman’s Trek. This week, I am deeply honoured to welcome the extraordinary Nana Visitor.
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“Star Trek: Open a Channel: A Woman’s Trek” Review by Warpfactortrek.com
Warpfactortrek.com has added a new review for Nana Visitor‘s “Star Trek: Open a Channel: A Woman’s Trek”:
When I was asked to review Nana Visitor’s forthcoming book Open a Channel: The Women of Star Trek, I jumped at the chance. Not only did she play one of my favorite Star Trek characters (Major Kira in Deep Space Nine), but Nana herself is one of my favorite actors in the franchise and continues to captivate me with what she’s offered of herself since. This book is, in a word, impressive. It is a serious and detailed dive into every female character in every Star Trek series. But it’s so much more than an encyclopedic listing on the topic.
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Star Trek Books Coming In The Next 30 Days, as of October 8th, 2024
Fiction
By: Ryan North
October 23, 2024
Mariner just wants to have a normal day, but no matter what side of the bed she wakes up on, the world is ending. Literally. If she has coffee, Borg attack! If she has raktajino, cue the Romulan boarding party! And in each scenario, Mariner and her friends end up dead, sometimes the ship is […]
By: Una McCormack
November 5, 2024
When Una Chin-Riley and Christopher Pike meet at Starfleet Academy after one of his lectures, they immediately become friends. A stellar student, Una is the “poster girl” of her class, and Pike is determined to become a Starfleet captain with his own ship, rhetorically assembling his dream crew. As their friendship evolves, Pike also suspects […]
Non-Fiction
By: Glen Henderson
October 30, 2024
From Glen Henderson, the bestselling author of “All I Need To Know About Success I Learned From Star Trek,” comes his next deep dive into the soul of the greatest science fiction franchise of all time. At its core, Star Trek is a story about us – our successes, our struggles, our hopes and fears […]
Magazines
October 30, 2024
STAR TREK SECURITY SPECIAL- We celebrate the brave souls who’ve done more to keep Starfleet safe than any others! AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH JONATHAN FRAKES- Star Trek’s very own William Riker chats about his behind-the-scenes work as a director. THE KELVIN MOVIES- A definitive guide!
By: Chris Dows, Chris McAuley, David Mack, Greg Cox, Jake Black, Keith R.A. DeCandido, Michael Dismuke, Mike Collins, Peter Holmstrom, Rich Handley, Una McCormack, Walter Koenig
December 10, 2024
Explore the Star Trek universe in this anthology of 14 fully illustrated short stories collected for the first time and including an adventure written by Walter Koenig who played Pavel Chekov in the original classic series and seven feature films. This incredible collection features stories starring iconic characters from Star Trek series including Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek: The […]
Comics
By: Collin Kelly, Jackson Lanzing
October 15, 2024
The third arc of the critically acclaimed Star Trek flagship comic series continues in paperback collection! Benjamin Sisko is called out of retirement to defeat the Tzenkethi Coalition! Captain Benjamin Sisko’s quest to defeat the killer of gods is at an end, and the Prophets beckon him home to the Celestial Temple. He’s earned his […]
By: Collin Kelly, Jackson Lanzing
October 16, 2024
The android Lore has done the unthinkable: He has detonated the Orb of Destruction, unmaking the universe. After an extra-galactic tumble on the ensuing shockwave, the Theseus sinks into fluidic space. There, the crew melds in and out of a manifold of realities. Benjamin Sisko is against a godkiller once again, but this time it’s […]
By: Christopher Cantwell
October 23, 2024
The Romulans are descending on Antara, and Worf must lead his militia to victory against the warship Ran’Kara. When the battle turns against the Antarans, Worf is forced into a duel with one of the best Romulan fighters ever seen: Maiek. Has the battle already been lost, or will Maiek finally meet the edge of […]
By: Brandon Easton, Collin Kelly, Jackson Lanzing
October 30, 2024
Embark on the critically acclaimed final chapter of the U.S.S. Enterprise‘s five-year voyage. The crew left Earth four years ago. Since then, they’ve traveled to strange new worlds, defeated impossible foes, and made universe-changing decisions. But now, with the end in sight, they’ll have to face their biggest challenge yet. Step aboard the Enterprise with Kirk, Spock, Bones, […]
“Star Trek: Open a Channel: A Woman’s Trek” Review by Borg.com
Borg.com has added a new review for Nana Visitor‘s “Star Trek: Open a Channel: A Woman’s Trek”:
For literally decades trading card series have highlighted the diversity of the women characters in the Star Trek franchise via Women of Star Trek cards. The key champion of the subject has always been the groundbreaking Nichelle Nichols, who via speeches, books, and in-person events shared what it meant being the first woman of color in the main cast of a major TV series as Lieutenant Uhura. She would recount to anyone who asked her the conversation she had with Martin Luther King, Jr. when she considered leaving the series, and he encouraged her to stay–she had not yet realized the impact she had. But nobody has really looked at what it means to portray women in Star Trek, both behind the scenes as actors and writers, and in front as heroines, really exploring every aspect of the human condition.
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Happy 2024 Birthday to David Dvorkin!
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Happy birthday to David Dvorkin!
David Dvorkin is an English-born science fiction and horror novelist. He earned a BA in mathematics and physics from Indiana University as well as an MS in mathematics from the University of Houston. He is the father of Daniel Dvorkin, another Star Trek author.
Although born in England, Dvorkin has lived in the USA for many decades. He is a computer programmer, and has worked for NASA, where he was involved in “navigation error analysis” for both the Apollo and Viking programs. He has also written a non-fiction book on the potential of solar energy in the renewables market. He currently lives in Denver, Colorado.
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Rich Handley Interview With StarTrekBookClub.com
Today’s interview is with Rich Handley, author of many Trek magazine columns, editor of the Eaglemoss comic book collection, and owner of every printed Star Trek comic known to mankind, you’ll even see his collection over his shoulders! Star Trek isn’t his own passion, with a ton of work in Planet of the Apes, Star Wars, and other franchises.
We talk about how great the Eaglemoss work product was, how easily I was sucked into the subscription model because of the spine art, and we have some pretty fun show and tell in which we show off our coolest or most recent comic purchases.
Rich can be found on his website, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. He runs the Star Trek Comics Weekly Facebook group that I’m an avid poster and commenter in, so swing by if you’re into Trek comics and want to chat!
Happy 2024 Birthday to Diane Carey!
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Happy birthday to Diane Carey!
Diane Lydia Carey-Brodeur is an author from Flint, Michigan with over forty novels written in total in her career, which stretches back to the late 1970s. Best known for co-creating Star Trek: New Earth with John J. Ordover, she is one of the most prolific Star Trek authors, with over thirty novels to her name.
She currently resides in Owosso, Michigan with her husband, fellow Trek novelist, Greg Brodeur. Her primary work is owning and managing Falconbane Historic Events and Weddings, but she has also taught English and Business Communications for one of the local schools, Baker College.
Outside of her writing and work, her hobbies include playing the bagpipes, working on historic sailing ships, and motorcycling. She and her family also spend much time rescuing dogs and cats and finding new homes for them.
She also uses the pen names Lydia Gregory and D.L. Carey.
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“Star Trek: Open a Channel: A Woman’s Trek” Review by Trekmovie.com
Trekmovie.com has added a new review for Nana Visitor‘s “Star Trek: Open a Channel: A Woman’s Trek”:
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’s Nana Visitor’s expansive new book exploring the female characters and experiences of women who worked on Star Trek in front of and behind the camera is out today. This is going to sound odd, but it’s almost a disservice that this is a coffee table-style book. It’s large and heavy with glossy pages, and while the beauty treatment is deserved, it’s almost a contradiction to the type of book it actually is. This is a book to be read cover to cover, then referenced and quoted over and over again—and maybe even carried around with you.
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Star Trek Book Deals For October 2024
This month’s ebook deals have landed with 11 books on sale for $1.99 each, books that have never been on sale are in bold:
Welcome to Spocktober, which brings scary news that the $0.99 price point is no longer among us!
Star Trek: 11 Yesterday’s Son
Star Trek: 2 The Entropy Effect
Star Trek: 20 The Vulcan Academy Murders
Star Trek: 38 The Idic Epidemic
Star Trek: 39 The Yesterday Saga Book 2: Time For Yesterday
Star Trek: 49 The Pandora Principle
Star Trek: Picard: The Last Best Hope
Star Trek: Spock’s World
Star Trek: The Next Generation: 1 Ghost Ship
Star Trek: The Original Series: Child of Two Worlds
Star Trek: Troublesome Minds
Happy 2024 Birthday to Michael Dismuke!
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Happy birthday to Michael Dismuke!
Michael Dismuke writes various supplements for the Star Trek Adventures line of tabletop roleplaying games. He reverse engineers the television shows and movies into amazing gameplay. Writing new adventures and developing modules for fantastic fun and exploration makes him tick. He is also a fiction writer published in Star Trek Explorer magazine, premiering in issue #11 with a story featuring Seven of Nine and Captain Liam Shaw. He is also the writer and creator of Gamemasters, a manga graphic novel featuring kids whose powers are based on the popular gags and games children love.
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Out Today: “Star Trek Library Collection, Vol. 3”
Out today: “Star Trek Library Collection, Vol. 3“, by D.C. Fontana and David Tischman and Derek Chester.
Delve into the history of IDW’s Star Trek comics! Discover series you may have missed or revisit some old favorites in Year Four, Year Four—The Enterprise Experiment, and Alien Spotlight one-shots featuring Vulcans and the Gorn.
The Star Trek Library Collection is a comprehensive line of books that will collect every Star Trek miniseries published by IDW! In Volume 3, read a selection of the Alien Spotlight one-shots and the entirety of the Star Trek: Year Four series.
First, two series set during the fourth year of the U.S.S. Enterprise’s five-year mission! In Star Trek: Year Four the Enterprise encounters a strange series of planets, arranged to look like a strand of DNA floating through space. The crew can’t help but explore once Spock realizes that the desolate structure once supported more than 800 billion beings in the past. By David Tischman, Leonard O’Grady, Steve Conley, Gordon Purcell, and Joe & Rob Sharp. In a sequel to “The Enterprise Incident,” The Enterprise Experiment details the Federation’s experiments with a Romulan cloaking device, by D.C. Fontana, Derek Chester, and Gordon Purcell.
Also collected are two one-shots featuring Vulcans and the Gorn! A Starfleet starship arrives at a planet on the brink of its own destruction. A once peaceful society is now savage and warlike linking itself to the turmoiled past of the Vulcans, by James Patrick and Josep Maria Beloy. Then, after their shuttlecraft crash-lands on an uncharted planet, Captain Terrell and Commander Chekov calculate that their odds of survival are somewhat decreased when they find themselves facing off against an army of Gorn warriors, by Scott & David Tipton and David Messina.
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Out Today: “Star Trek: Open a Channel: A Woman’s Trek”
Out today: “Star Trek: Open a Channel: A Woman’s Trek“, by Nana Visitor.
Nana Visitor, Star Trek’s Kira Nerys, explores how the series has portrayed and influenced women. Interviews with the stars, writers, producers, and celebrity fans reveal the struggles and triumphs of women both behind and in front of the camera throughout the sixty-year history of Star Trek, and how they have mirrored the experiences of women everywhere.
The groundbreaking casting of Nichelle Nichols as Lt. Uhura in 1966 took women and people of color into a newly-imagined future. But it was the 1960s and she had to do it in a miniskirt.
Since then, each Star Trek show has both re?ected the values of its time and imagined a more future in which all genders were equal. In her first book, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine star Nana Visitor sets out to discover both how Star Trek led the way for women, and how it was trapped in its own era.
For Visitor, this is more than a book about Star Trek. It’s about how society and the stories we tell have evolved in the last 60 years, and how the role of women has changed in that time.
STAR AUTHOR: Written by Star Trek actor Nana Visitor, famous for playing Major Kira Nerys. This is both her story and her journey through the stories of other women involved with Star Trek from the 1960s to the 21st century.
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS: Features interviews with almost every woman who has starred in Star Trek, including Kate Mulgrew, Terry Farrell, Denise Crosby, Mary Wiseman, and Rebecca Romijn.
INSPIRING STORIES: Explore how Star Trek has influenced women in the real world, including soldiers, scientists, and even astronauts. In one remarkable episode, author Nana Visitor interviewed astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti while she was in orbit around Earth on the International Space Station.
PIONEERING SERIES: Star Trek has often taken a leading role in promoting women on both sides of the camera. It had women writers when they were rare, and it introduced female captain Kathryn Janeway in Star Trek: Voyager in 1995.
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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.
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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!
