Out today is another Behind The Scenes and Making Of book, titled “Star Trek Designing Starships Volume 2: Voyager and Beyond”, by Ben Robinson and Marcus Reily . Here’s the book’s synopsis: Explore the behind the scenes process to reveal the thinking – and the artwork – behind the creation of the most iconic ships in Star Trek’s […]
Out today is the fourth Star Trek: Discovery book, titled “Star Trek: Discovery: The Way To The Stars”, by Una McCormack. Here’s the book’s synopsis: It’s not easy being sixteen, especially when everyone expects great things from Tilly. It’s even harder when her mother and father are Federation luminaries, not to mention pressing her to attend […]
Continuing Mission recently interviewed Marco Rafala: The masterminds at Modiphius only want to deliver the best of the best to its players. Anyone who has picked up any of the Star Trek Adventure supplements has been wowed by the great setups that lead to wonderful storytelling. I was able to corner author Marco Rafalà as he was offloading […]
Literary Treks recently featured Michael Jan Friedman: In this episode of Literary Treks, special correspondent Brandon Shea-Mutala catches up with Michael Jan Friedman at the Northeast Trek Con in Albany. They discuss Friedman’s start in writing, how he got involved in writing Star Trek novels, the Star Trek: The Next Generation / X-Men crossover, his experience in writing Star Trek comics, the Star Trek: […]
Blaine L. Pardoe has a review up for Modiphius‘s “Star Trek Adventures: Beta Quadrant Sourcebook“: Like the original rules book, this one is chock-full of sidebar material designed to fill in gaps in the Star Trek universe or provide adventure hooks. While I like the concept, the sidebars in this book are not as good […]
Deep Space Spines has a review up for Julia Ecklar‘s “Star Trek: 47 The Kobayashi Maru“: This week, when most of the senior officers wait in a busted shuttlecraft for the sweet embrace of death, they decide to pass the time by telling tales out of school. Kirk can’t accept failure, Chekov goes lone wolf, Sulu […]
Trek Core has a review up for Bernd Perplies and Christian Humberg‘s “Star Trek: Prometheus: In the Heart of Chaos“: With the ability to now reflect on the complete story and characters of the Prometheus trilogy, I find it to be underwhelming and largely forgettable. I enjoyed the second book the most of the three, and the final book In […]
motionpicturescomics.com has a review up for Greg Cox‘s “Star Trek: The Rings of Time“: The novel is set in two eras. In 2020, the U.S.S. Lewis & Clark, commanded by Colonel Shaun Christopher, is on a mission to Saturn. But Colonel Christopher and his crew are surprised to discover that the rings of Saturn are not behaving as […]
What is in the Command Division Supplemental Rule Book?
Trek Core has a review up for Joe Nazzaro‘s “Star Trek: The Art of John Eaves“: The Art of John Eaves is another excellent addition to the growing list of Star Trek reference books released in the last few years by Titan Books. The oversize, hard-cover coffee table book is 208 pages long and contains literally thousands of images […]
Trek Today has a review up for M. Keith Booker‘s “Star Trek: A Cultural History“: Covering all of the series, but with a very heavy emphasis on the original series, readers get to see how Star Trek fit into the world of the 1960s and beyond; comparing it to other television shows airing during that time, as well […]
StarTrek.com interviewed Ben Robinson back in 2010 and I’m just now getting around to reading it: The long-awaited U.S.S. Enterprise Owners’ Workshop Manual is just about here. We’ve been teasing it for a while, first with news about its upcoming publication and then with a conversation with Derek Smith, editor at the Book Division of Haynes Publishing. […]
Deep Space Spines has a review up for Michael Jan Friedman‘s “Star Trek: The Next Generation: 9 A Call To Darkness“: This week, Picard yet again vetoes Riker’s call on not joining the away team, and gets his brain wiped for his trouble. While he and a few other senior officers make uncredited cameos in […]
Literary Treks has a review up for Bernd Perplies and Christian Humberg‘s “Star Trek: Prometheus: In the Heart of Chaos“: In this episode of Literary Treks, hosts Dan Gunther and Bruce Gibson are joined by Star Trek: Prometheus author Christian Humberg to talk about the final book in the Prometheus trilogy: In the Heart of Chaos, co-written with fellow author Bernd Perplies. We […]
Here it is, much delayed: my review of James Swallow’s Star Trek: Discovery: Fear Itself! Literary Treks 234: The Seed that Never Gets any Water
My first look at the rather impressive Star Trek Adventures RPG Core rule book.
Trek Lit Reviews has a review up for Robert Greenberger‘s “Star Trek: The Next Generation: 6 A Time To Hate“: Sometimes, all of the options to solve a particular situation are bad, and the person making the decision must choose the lesser of two evils. This is the dilemma facing Captain Picard and the crew […]
Deep Space Spines has added a review for J.M. Dillard‘s “Star Trek: The Lost Years“: This week, the Enterprise returns home from its successful five-year tour of the galaxy. They’ve played a lot of legendary shows and sold a ton of merch, and now they’re ready to live off the royalties. But there’s another rock […]
I’ve own the domain since September of 2003, but have not had the ability, nor the willpower to really make much of it. There was a time where it was just a list of books, then I tried posting Star Trek images, but that didn’t make much sense considering the url. I didn’t want to […]
Trek Today has a review up for Joe Nazzaro ‘s “Star Trek: The Art of John Eaves“: One of the more interesting things to me was Eaves’ explaining why he made certain shapes for various items, and on what he based those ships and props. A few of the various inspirations were horseshoes, Catholic Church architecture, […]
