Star Trek Comics Weekly #143: IDW Publishing, 2019–2020

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, […]

Star Trek Comics Weekly #143: IDW Publishing, 2019–2020

Happy 2025 Birthday to Edward Gross!

(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 […]

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Happy 2025 Birthday to David Mack!

(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), […]

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Star Trek Comics Weekly #142 – Rich Handley

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 […]

Star Trek Comics Weekly #142 – Rich Handley

Star Trek Comics Weekly #141 – Rich Handley

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 […]

Star Trek Comics Weekly #141 – Rich Handley

Happy 2025 Birthday to Larry Niven!

(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 […]

Happy 2025 Birthday to Larry Niven!