Happy 2025 Birthday to George Takei!

(Photo by Super Festivals – https://www.flickr.com/photos/superfestivals/49133218828) Happy birthday to George Takei! George Takei is an actor who is most famous for portraying Hikaru Sulu in Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek: The Animated Series and its spin-off movies. He reprised the role in a guest appearance for the Star Trek: Voyager episode “Flashback”. In […]

Happy 2025 Birthday to George Takei!

BOOK REVIEW: Star Trek: New Frontier, by Peter David

Amid all of this, Peter David’s New Frontier remains something special. It’s protagonist, Mackenzie Calhoun, is an original literary character. Joining him on the U.S.S Excalibur are a collection of very minor Next Generation characters like Robin Lefler, Doctor Selar, and Elizabeth Shelby, but also more characters from David’s own imagination. A few familiar antagonists […]

BOOK REVIEW: Star Trek: New Frontier, by Peter David

Why Do We Segregate Tie-In Fiction?

If you go into a bookshop and look for the science fiction, chances are you’ll notice a few things. Firstly, it’s often tucked away somewhere. Secondly, the science fiction and the fantasy will probably share shelf space. Horror will probably nearby, lurking in the shadows. In this same, magical and wondrous nook of books, you…

Why Do We Segregate Tie-In Fiction?