Star Trek: Discovery debuted on television in 2017, and it wasn’t long before IDW offered spinoff tales, including the miniseries The Light of Kahless and Succession, and the one-shot Discovery Annual. The publisher then released a third miniseries, Aftermath, as well as another one-shot, Captain Saru. This week, we’ll examine how both titles provided prequels, […]
(no image available) Happy birthday to Edward Gross! Edward Gross is an author and journalist. Gross is the (co-)author of several unauthorized Star Trek reference books. His first Trek work was as a contributing free-lance writer for Starlog Press, the former O’Quinn Studios, for whom he started working from 1986 onward, submitting numerous articles. His […]
(Photo © David Mack) Happy birthday to David Mack! David Mack is the award-winning and The New York Times bestselling author of 38 novels and numerous short works of science-fiction, fantasy, and adventure, including the Star Trek Destiny and Cold Equations trilogies. Mack’s writing credits span television (for episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), […]
A new preview for Tim Sheridan‘s “Star Trek: Lower Decks #7” has been added!
Peter Morwood, 68, died on May 9, 2025 in Ireland. Morwood was a prolific fantasy author, and married to writer (and frequent co-author) Diane Duane for nearly 40 years; she survives him.
(no image available) Happy birthday to Ty Templeton! Ty Templeton is a comic book writer from Canada. His career began in the mid-1980s when he wrote and drew Stig’s Inferno for Vortex Comics. That led to further work with DC Comics on titles such as Justice League of America, Superman, and Batman. He then authored […]
The Department of Temporal Investigation has found 20 books printed during this week in the past. Click here to take a look into the past!
The Enterprise’s five-year mission under Captain James T. Kirk was cut short after three seasons and seventy-nine episodes. Following the cancelation of Star Trek: The Original Series, viewers gained two seasons more with The Animated Series, but at only twenty-two episodes, those stories were hardly enough to account for years four and five. The two […]
(no image available) Happy birthday to John J. Ordover! John J. Ordover is a former editor at Pocket Books, and for many years he was responsible for overseeing the company’s line of Star Trek books. He is partially responsible for the “rebirth” of Star Trek fiction in the 1990s, being the driving force behind series-bending […]
The Department of Temporal Investigation has found 44 books printed during this week in the past. Click here to take a look into the past!
Let’s start things off right by examining a comic strip you might not even have known existed. It was published in Germany’s Bild+Funk magazine, and I’ve translated it into English so that you don’t have to. It’s a fair bet that most fans have never heard of it. In fact, I only found out about […]
(Author Larry Niven at Utopiales 2010 (France), photo by Ceridwen.) Happy birthday to Larry Niven! Laurence van Cott Niven is an American science fiction writer who wrote the Animated Series episode “The Slaver Weapon” and co-authored the Star Trek comic strip story arc “The Wristwatch Plantation”. Niven is best known as the creator of the […]
Shastrix.com has added a new review for Keith Sharee‘s “Star Trek: The Next Generation: 11 Gulliver’s Fugitives”.
() Happy birthday to Kate Mulgrew! Kate Mulgrew is an actress who is best known for playing Captain Kathryn Janeway on Star Trek: Voyager. Before stepping into the role of a Starfleet captain, her claim to fame was playing Mary Ryan on the ABC soap opera Ryan’s Hope. Since then, she has been part of […]
Out today: “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Toward The Night“, by James Swallow. A thrilling new novel based on the Paramount+ TV series Star Trek: Strange New Worlds! While patrolling the borders of the Klingon Empire, Captain Christopher Pike and the crew of the USS Enterprise detect a series of subspace echoes from a planet […]
