Could aliens have green blood? Why so Ferengis have such big ears? Is Commander Data really alive? What Star Trek fan hasn’t pondered such weighty questions as these? Now, two noted scientists provide all the answers as they explore the sometimes fanciful, always fascinating, biological issues raised by Star Trek’s various incarnations. Entertaining, insightful, and […]
Go where you’ve never gone before… deep into the micro-universe inside your personal computer. The crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise leads you and 24th Century Starfleet Academy students on a fascinating journey through the interior of a 20th century PC. Probe the mystery of how a PC turns electricity into data that it can process, […]
William Shatner – Captain James Kirk The two names are practically synonymous. But what is the true story behind the man who made the character a legend? How did the sudden popularity and fame of the late 60’s television series affect the life, family and career of the man-behind-the-myth and how will the much publicized […]
Biographies of Chekov, Kirk, McCoy, Scott, Spock, Sulu, and Uhura, including excerpts from official records, citations, commendations, letters, historical documents, ship’s logs, novels, autobiographies, news accounts, and other sources.
Traces the life and career of the actor who gained fame as Star Trek’s “Mr. Spock” and chronicles his acting successes and his later ventures into directing films.
Gene Roddenberry was both a man and a creative genius, a good friend and an often hardheaded opponent. He knew what he wanted and pursued his vision with almost ruthless single-mindedness. He made friends and enemies, always with large gestures. Even those whose careers he made viewed him with mixed feelings; those who he fought […]
In A Look At The Stars meet the actors who took you where no one had gone before. It offers a fascinating glimpse of your favourite “Star Trek” actors, including William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Nichelle Nichols, Deforest Kelley and Walter Koenig.
Actor, singer, author, hair club poster child-William Shatner is all these things and more. So what if he’s never won an Emmy, his singing isn’t really singing, his books are ghostwritten for him, and his hairpieces are the subjects of widespread ridicule? To Trekkers and loyal fans alike, he is The Supreme Being. From Star […]
When Captain Janeway’s crew face the prospect of starving to death in an alien prison camp, they share with each other the unlikely paths that led them to the U.S.S. Voyager in the first place.
Perfectly capturing the wry sensibility and sarcastic wit of his popular on-screen character, Robert “The Hologram Doctor” Picardo delivers a tongue-in-cheek guide to life in the digital universe. THE HOLOGRAM’S HANDBOOK is precisely the book for which Voyager fans have been waiting — whether they realise it or not. Written by Robert Picardo in the […]
The Devil’s Heart is a legendary object of unsurpassed power and mystery. Worlds that believe in magic consider it Darkness’s mightiest talisman; and worlds of science consider it a lost artifact of some ancient and forgotten race. Some say the Heart enables its possessor to control people’s minds and to amass wealth enough for a […]
Seven years ago, Captain Jean-Luc Picard first faced the judgment of the Q Continuum — a race of beings with God-like powers over time and space who presumed to gauge humanity’s fitness to exist in the galaxy. Seven years ago they suspended judgment, but now a decision has been reached: The human race will be […]
In all of his travels Captain Jean-Luc Picard has never faced an opponent more powerful than Q, a being from another continuum that Picard encountered on his very first mission as Captain of the “Starship Enterprise” TM. In the years since, Q has returned again and again to harass Picard and his crew. Sometimes dangerous, […]
“Revenge is a dish best served cold.” — Klingon proverb For many years, Klingons have been the premier warriors in the galaxy. Regarded across known space with fear and awe, few beings understand the true depth and greatness of the Klingon culture. “Four thousand throats may be cut in one night by a running man.” […]
The enigmatic entity known as Q remains one of the great mysteries in the universe. Now actor John de Lancie, who has played Q on television for more than a decade, joins Peter David, the bestselling author of such acclained novels as “Q-in-Law” and “Q-Squared,” to send Q on an unforgettable cosmic odyssey told from […]
In the wake of the events of “Star Trek: Titan”, in Book One: “Taking Wings”, relations between the Federation, The Klingon Empire and the Romulans remain fragile. Refugees are requesting asylum within the Federation, requiring delicate negotiations whose outcome could prove as deadly as any starship combat. As public opinion about the continued tenability of […]
A clever, page-turning thriller in which the world of the Starship Enterprise and the holodeck world of 1940s San Francisco entertwine. “It was raining in the city by the bay. A hard rain. Hard enough to wash the slime out of the streets and back into the holes they crawled out of…” In the hardboiled […]
After the end of the EnterpriseTM’s five-year mission, Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock, and Dr. McCoy struggle to establish new lives apart from each other and the starship. The newly-promoted Admiral Kirk is placed in charge of a specially-created Starfleet division and attempts to defuse a critical hostage situation; Mr. Spock, who, in the midst of […]
Tells the fan-requested story of the foundation of Starfleet! Earth Command defeated the Romulans with the help of other races across the galaxy, and the Neutral Zone was established. Out of that necessary and uneasy collaboration came the United Federation of Planets and its combined forces, Satrfleet. But the close quarters of a starship among […]
In the Star Trek feature film GENERATIONS, engineer Montgomery Scott was on board the Enterprise-B when Captain James T. Kirk was lost in the course of a mission to save the lives of dozens of refugees – among them an enigmatic woman called Guinan. One year later Scott is propelled seventy-five years into the future […]
