Trek Lit Reviews has a review up for “Star Trek: 81 Mudd In Your Eye“: Mudd in Your Eye is set during the Star Trek original 5-year mission, sometime after the episode “I, Mudd.” In this tale, the Enterprise finds itself traveling to a planetary system that has recently ended a centuries-long conflict. At the heart of this new and […]

Deep Space Spines has a review up for “Star Trek: Final Frontier“: This week, the longest Star Trek novel to date takes us once more back to the pre-TOS past to fill in some of the history of Daddy Kirk, a.k.a. George Samuel Kirk. He’s the first first officer of some new high-tech doodad called a … […]

Literary Treks has a review up for “Star Trek: The Next Generation: 4 A Time To Harvest“: In this episode of Literary Treks, hosts Dan Gunther and Bruce Gibson talk about A Time to Harvest by Dayton Ward & Kevin Dilmore, the fourth novel in the A Time To series. We discuss the situation so far, an ill-advised plan to […]

Deep Space Spines has a review up for “Star Trek: 37 Bloodthirst“: The last time J.M Dillard tried to mix Star Trek with horror, it didn’t turn out so hot. The idea scored some points for novelty, but the execution was lacking. But if at first you don’t succeed, so the saying try again, and in this case, […]

Literary Treks has a review up for “Star Trek: Enterprise: Surak’s Soul“: In this episode of Literary Treks, hosts Bruce Gibson and Dan Gunther are joined by Earl Grey‘s Justin Oser to discuss the Enterprise novel Surak’s Soul. We talk about medical mysteries, T’Pol’s dilemma, similarities to the Enterprise episode “The Seventh,” T’Pol’s youth on Vulcan, the mysterious Wanderer, and wrap up […]

Deep Space Spines has a review up for “Star Trek: The Next Generation: Encounter At Farpoint“: Ah, time to tuck in to yet another Star Trekadventure. I just love going on printed adventures with Kirk and Spock and all the rest. Just me and the NCC-1701, forever and ever. So what are they up to this […]

Deep Space Spines has a review up for “Star Trek: 38 The Idic Epidemic“: This week, a Vulcan science colony gets rocked by a plague that threatens to flush its reputation for diversity down the sonic toilet. But that’s not all: the local hydroelectric plant is short-staffed and falling apart, and if they don’t get […]

Trek Lit Reviews has a review up for “Star Trek: Preserver“: As the title of this novel suggests, the enigmatic “Preservers” are at the heart of the story. The implication in Preserver is that this species is responsible for galaxy-changing events and interference spanning billions of years. They may even be the same race of ancient humanoids […]

Literary Treks has a review up for “Star Trek: The Next Generation: 3 A Time To Sow“: Morale aboard the Enterprise has been dealt a serious blow. The incident at the Rashanar battle site has left a definite stain on the career of Jean-Luc Picard, and he and his crew can’t help but feel that their latest […]

Trek Lit Reviews has a review up for “Star Trek: 2 The Entropy Effect“: Published in June of 1981, The Entropy Effect has the distinction of being the first original novel in the Pocket Books line. The novelization of Star Trek: The Motion Picture by Gene Roddenberry had been released two years earlier, and Vonda N. McIntyre was chosen to write […]

Deep Space Spines has a review up for “Star Trek: 36 Worlds Apart Book 2: How Much for Just the Planet?“: How Much for Just the Planet? serves up blue orange juice and inflatable rubber starships straight out the gate and only gets weirder from there. If you’re looking for the wackiest, goofiest, zaniest, most out-there Star […]

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Literary Treks has a review up for “Star Trek: Discovery: Fear Itself“: In this episode of Literary Treks, hosts Dan Gunther and Bruce Gibson are joined by James Swallow, author of the new Discovery novel, Fear Itself. We discuss the process of writing the novel, getting inside Saru’s head, the various species involved in the story, Saru and Burnham’s […]

Some Kind of Star Trek has a review up for “The Autobiography of Jean-Luc Picard“: Goodman’s grasp of the lineage of the character is excellent and his knowledge of The Next Generation and Picard (of course) is exemplary. The influence of episodes such as Family and Tapestry are there from the beginning talking us through his early years at the Picard […]

Deep Space Spines has a review up for “Star Trek: 35 Rihannsu Book 2: The Romulan Way“: You ever get to a point with food where you’re just completely over it? Like, nothing you can imagine sounds less appealing than eating or looking at food or thinking about food? That’s where I was with Romulans […]

Deep Space Spines has a review up for “Star Trek: Strangers From The Sky“: Remember First Contact? Of course you do, it’s great. (At least, I recall that being the case. Not gonna lie, I’ll be kind of shook if it’s not when I revisit it.) Well, this week’s event novel is more like the supermarket […]

TrekCore has a review up for “Star Trek: Discovery: Fear Itself“: I have to be honest; it has taken me a few weeks to both finish the book — and to write this review — as I sought to savor the experience of the last novel on the publishing schedule for the foreseeable future. I […]

Literary Treks has a review up for “Star Trek: Prometheus: The Root of All Rage“: In this episode of Literary Treks, hosts Bruce Gibson and Dan Gunther discuss the second book in the Star Trek: Prometheus trilogy, The Root of All Rage. We talk about the delicate relationship between the Federation and the Klingon Empire, bigotry and hate, mistreatment […]

Trek Lit Reviews has a review up for “Star Trek: Prometheus: Fire With Fire“: “You have not experienced Star Trek until you have read it in the original German.” – Chancellor Angela Merkel, probably. I, unfortunately, do not read German. So when it was announced that an original Star Trek trilogy would be published in German by Cross Cult […]