So I remember when this series was published and read two of the nine books. That took me about three years to do, I pushed my self to sit down and read them because it's ST and to me the story is great. But I fall asleep pretty easily when I'm just sitting there. Soooo I've been patiently waiting for this series to become a audiobook. I fear it won't happen tho and that sucks. Does anyone know if I'm just missing where the audiobooks are for this or maybe know of a way for something to read them to me.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_A_Time_to...#Novels

I start off my conversation with Una McCormack with a mutual admiration for time shenanigans, then we move on to talk about the audio adaptation of her upcoming book “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Asylum” and features “Una by Una”, which is a clever way of saying that this is the first time that Una McCormack has written a story specifically for Una Chin-Riley, the first officer of the Enterprise under Captain Pike. The story features multiple types of sentient alien cats, linguistic shenanigans, and a student production of The Mikado! It's official release date is November 5th, but many book stores already have it on their shelves.

We have a great conversation about the origins of the story and how it changed from the initial concept to what we’re about to read and how the various strikes effected the final outcome, then briefly talk about how fun it is to be writing a character that’s been named after you. Una says Una (the character) is an onion with a solid but complicated relationship with Pike and they rely on each other in a wonderful way.

We then talk about her work in the Doctor Who franchise and the fantastic audio series that has hundreds upon hundreds of entries from “Big Finish”, something that we both feel Trek could learn and benefit from.

I ask her about the Weird Universe book series, it was started by Eric Brown and she’s written two of the four books in the series. It has a cool concept that I think I’d like to eventually check out.

Una McCormack can be found at her website, Mastodon, and Twitter

Out now: "Star Trek: Year Five Deluxe Edition: Book 2" by Brandon Easton, Collin Kelly, Jackson Lanzing and published by IDW Publishing

Embark on the critically acclaimed final chapter of the U.S.S. Enterprise‘s five-year voyage. The crew left Earth four years ago. Since then, they’ve traveled to strange new worlds, defeated impossible foes, and made universe-changing decisions. But now, with the end in sight, they’ll have to face their biggest challenge yet. Step aboard the Enterprise with Kirk, Spock, Bones, Uhura, Sulu, Scotty, and Chekov as they begin the end of their original five-year mission and boldly go into an uncertain future. This deluxe hardcover edition collects issues #15-25 and the Star Trek: Year Five Valentine’s Day Special.

Hello everyone. I was looking for book recommendations. I'm a fan of TOS-Voyager. TNG and DS9 are my favorite series. The Borg and the Cardassians are my favorite antagonists. Is there any book series that focuses on a big battle with the Borg? What about series that crossover several different Trek series? And lastly just books in general you consider the best for each era TOS-Voyager.

Hello yall! How's it going? Delved into any good reads lately?

More of focus an adventure and exploration type or cater more towards thrillers and intrigue? Enjoy the space aspects and encounters or more a 'boots on the ground' ? Perhaps more mysterious circumstances and the unknown hold more sway?

Do you go for thematic books, finding something surreal or mysterious around Halloween? Perhaps uplifting and positive around the winter holidays in November/ December?

Jump around a lot between continuity and timelines or try to read in more chronological order? More a one off mission types of books or favor the trilogies, mini series and longer connected stories? Perhaps interweaving the other media like series, movies and comics into your schedule of reading traditional books (or ebooks of those books)?

Let us know how it's going and what you recommend (or not rec so much) below! Happy reading yall!

Melissa Crandall's Shell Game was a great read for this spooky season. Creepy abandoned station, dead Romulans and mystery with Bones at the lead!
The writer does a great job make you feel uneasy as the away team explores further into the station. There is an ascent up a turboshaft that is really well done and had me nervous!
A great read for Bones fans to anyone looking for a spooky Trek book.

https://youtu.be/9fPVt6pAaQs

Out now: "Star Trek: Defiant #20" by Christopher Cantwell with covers by Angel Unzueta, Declan Shalvey, Marcus To and published by IDW Publishing

The Romulans are descending on Antara, and Worf must lead his militia to victory against the warship Ran’Kara. When the battle turns against the Antarans, Worf is forced into a duel with one of the best Romulan fighters ever seen: Maiek. Has the battle already been lost, or will Maiek finally meet the edge of Worf’s bat’leth?

Out now: "Star Trek: Lower Decks – Warp Your Own Way" by Ryan North with a cover by Chris Fenoglio and published by IDW Publishing

Mariner just wants to have a normal day, but no matter what side of the bed she wakes up on, the world is ending. Literally. If she has coffee, Borg attack! If she has raktajino, cue the Romulan boarding party! And in each scenario, Mariner and her friends end up dead, sometimes the ship is destroyed—and the day starts all over again.

But by exploring the different paths, you, the reader, can discover things that Mariner can’t. There are inconsistencies that don’t make sense—putting aside the fact that Mariner’s choice of drink each morning shouldn’t affect which alien races attack the ship, other facts of her world seem to change too. Something is definitely off. It’s up to you to discover!

Hey yall! Where have yall journeyed in the galaxy this week?

Routine missions around the Alpha quadrant or traveling through a time warp?

Diplomatic exchanges in the Beta quadrant or Cloak and dagger expeditions in the Neutral Zone?

Fighting the Dominion in the Gamma quadrant or discovering new races in the Delta quadrant?

Hope you're not stuck in the mirrorverse! Or maybe it's a fun ride over there?

Let us know how it's going and where you may end up next week! Happy reading yall!

This conversation is my first branch out from talking to Star Trek authors, this week I spoke to Robert Petkoff! He’s narrated over 30 Trek books and has done dozens upon dozens of audio books not related to Trek. You may notice his glorious mustache that he has in place for a role that he’s playing in a production of Moulin Rouge.

Our conversation starts with a talk about the work he does that’s outside of audio book narration, though he does mention that he just wrapped up his work on narrating Una McCormick’s upcoming book Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Asylum. He talks about his “on the road” setup for when he’s doing duration with some good information for those of you that are audio nerds.

We talk about his process for narration, which includes some fun discussions on his he isn’t an impersonator, but that there are small changes that can be made for different characters that give a great indication about who’s saying what.

We have a discussion about how A.I. is super useful for current narrators, but has the capability to end the careers of upcoming narrators before they can even get started. Is there going to be a marketplace for human narrators when something like Amazon Kindle can do it automatically for us?

We also talk about narrating for TOS Kirk vs narrating for SNW Kirk.

Robert Petkoff can be found on his website, Instagram, and Twitter.

So, I have had a collecting itch to get my hands on the 48 issues of Star Trek: The Magazine that ran from 1999 to 2003. I am mainly interested in the "in universe" content such as the technical readouts that were pulled from the Star Trek Fact Files and also the "Starfleet Technical Database", written by Rick Sternbach. I suspect the interviews with actors and details on the production of the shows has probably not aged well.

However, after going through a laborious process of getting a complete set of Star Trek Fact Files last year, I am wondering if there is enough of the in-fiction content in the magazines to even make them a worthwhile read. Do the Fact Files basically cover the same ground?

Any thoughts?

Out now: "Star Trek #25" by Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing with covers by Jake Bartok, Liana Kangas, Ramon Rosanas and published by IDW Publishing

The android Lore has done the unthinkable: He has detonated the Orb of Destruction, unmaking the universe. After an extra-galactic tumble on the ensuing shockwave, the Theseus sinks into fluidic space. There, the crew melds in and out of a manifold of realities. Benjamin Sisko is against a godkiller once again, but this time it’s up to him alone to save reality itself!

This was a re read for me as I never finished the book two years ago when I read it. And it wasn’t as good as the first time around. But it was leagues better than a Time to be Born, the last Vornholt book I read which was start up terrible.

I always appreciate when things from TOS are picked up and followed in the TNG/DS9/VOY era and it makes it feel very interconnected and part of a larger universe. Besides the novelizations of the TOS movies, we don’t know what happened to Carol Marcus, post SFS. So, I liked how the book followed up on that and told us what happened to Carol in the intervening years. The Genesis wave concept is genuinely an interesting concept but it feels like a tired premise at this point. How many world ending and galaxy ending events have the various crews faced? Calling this bigger than the Dominon War is just tiring. This urge for trying to up the ante from previous crisises is a tired premise for me.

Anyway, this was still a decent book and again the Genesis Wave is an interesting concept and seeing how the various planets are affected is straight up out of a horror movie. The whole Geordi/ Leah dynamic and revisiting that felt un needed and its turf we’ve already explored. Geordi thinking about love instead of the crisis in front of him and dealing with a woman who just lost her husband even if she didn’t love him, made me roll my eyes.

6.5/10

This one was recommended to me as a good spooky book and it was great! I had a great time reading this one as it felt like the author was in the spooky season mood as well.

Diane Carey is one of my favorite writers and she does really nailed the mood in this one. Also Sisko is such a bad ass and it comes through here well.

The story kept me interested and the High Gul's character was very well done. Also first time I have read the word shillyshally in a book. Love it.

https://youtu.be/tu-1lA8VVM8

Hello, I was wondering if the novelizations by James Blish are worth reading at all. I picked up the first one today and the novelizations of the episodes are a little too short for my liking. Are they worth reading?

Has anyone read the Star Trek: Legacies trilogy (Captain to Captain, Best Defense, and Purgatory’s Key)? According to the Star Trek novels Wikipedia page, beginning with 2013’s Allegiance in Exile most novels have a shared continuity. The Legacies books came out in 2016, so it’s unclear to me if they are a part of that continuity or if they stand on their own. I’m assuming the latter, but I wanted to check with you all first. Does anyone have a clear answer on that?

This was a great book and easily one of the best DS9 novels out there! I felt like if they ever wanted to make a movie based on DS9, it should have been this. It would be an odd choice to focus on Quark and Rom, but this book feels very cinematic.

Here, we see Quark lose everything as the Grand Nagus is refusing to sell one of the Orbs to the Bajorans. In response, the Bajoran government bars all Ferengi from Bajoran space but Quark and Rom don’t leave in time. They end up in an internment camp, inspired by George Takei’s experience as a Japanese-American in WW2. Ah yes, the comedic side character goes through a traumatic experience. Typical character development for any comedic side character.

This book very much felt like an encore for DS9 if I had to compare it to anything. I always sort of considered the Millennium trilogy by the Reeves to be that. But this is a second one. It starts off slow and George is known to write his books like this. But when it finally takes off, it takes off. The plot was good, the pacing was good and it was surprisingly very dark for a book involving Ferengi.

8/10.

PS: I really wish this book didn’t share a title with such a cursed thing on the internet

Hey yall! Where have yall journeyed yo lately,

Exotic locations, but dangerous flora?

Harsh environments including aggressive fauna?

Spatial anomalies with unexplainable side effects?

Hunting rogue ships with tricks up their sleeves?

Navigating politics and intrigue or perhaps a good Ole fashioned brawl?

A bit of interspecies conflict or perhaps bringing down tensions?

Let us know where your adventures take you and if we should join you on the journey or maybe take a different path. Happy reading yall!

I saw that TNG Ghosts #1 ebook is on sale at Barnes and Noble and they kind of sound fanfic-y. Are they any good?

This week’s conversation is with Ryan North, author of the current Fantastic Four series, Adventure Time comics, Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, Lower Decks (2022), Shaxs’ Best Day, and the upcoming Lower Decks: Warp Your Own Way and Lower Decks (2024). A slight disclaimer, I’ve actually been emailing Ryan for years and years, he ran an advertising system named “Project Wonderful” that was indeed wonderful and I loved it very much. It’s not around now though and that makes me sad.

Our conversation roams from his fantastic work on the first Lower Decks mini series, then moves to how to build a choose your own adventure type of story. Turns out that the upcoming Trek story isn’t his first attempt at this!

Back in 2018 he wrote “How To Invent Everything” and we talk about how frustrating it would be to time travel without knowing how anything actually works. He was so frustrated with this idea he went out and wrote a book that would let any stray traveler of time jump start the wheels of invention and get you back to the style of civilization that you were previously accustomed to. Some of that lead to what I personally call “hated knowledge” which is when you learn so much about something that’s broken that you hate knowing all that. For me it’s a carpet cleaner that I’ve taken apart 50 times and could fix in the dark. That kind of experience leads to learning how to take things apart and trouble shoot and is actually a good thing, but I still hate it. .

I ask him if he’d be able to write a lower decks literature book and his answer will shock you! (he said yes and it would be a blast to do)

We finish up our conversation by talking about Eaglemoss’s spaceship subscription program that we both got pulled into and I give one final plug for my fishtank that’s on twitch (and has a crashed 1701A in it).

Ryan North can be found at his website, Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, and Twitter.

https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/2025-novel-releases.316913/page-2

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1668095890

https://www.amazon.ca/dp/1668095890

An Amazon listing has appeared for a Star Trek: Strange New Worlds hardcover novel scheduled for release Tuesday 26 August 2025 for the cost of C$39. Author David Mack has indicated the title Heaven's Vault is a placeholder which will be changed for the finalized release. No other details are available yet, and Simon & Schuster's website does not yet list this book.

Earlier this year I inherited about 100 Star Trek books from my uncle. I've gone through and done up spreadsheet, so I have some kind of idea of what I have, but beyond that I'm a bit overwhelmed with figuring out where to start amongst all of them. I believe I've seen most of the shows, except maybe the OG series (dont worry, it's on my list to watch eventually!!), in case that plays into reading order for some reason.

I have books from: Star Trek, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, New Earth, New Frontier, as well as 1 from Challenger, and 3 from Voyager. I don't believe any set I of those is complete.

So, my biggest question here is: does it really matter where I start?

Edit: thank you all! I was getting the feeling that it didn't really matter that much, but I figured I'd check and make sure. You've all essentially confirmed that for me. Now I can't wait to get started!

I've finished reading the Pike era books, sans the Strange New worlds canon. I'm keeping my reading pre discovery and SNW for now.

For this "era" I have read the following:

Vulcan's Glory

The Children of Kings

Where Sea Meets Sky

Child of Two Worlds

Inception (not pike specific but was in this era)

And of course Burning Dreams

Has anyone else read these, and have thoughts?

Of the above books Vulcan's Glory and Child of Two Worlds are my favorite.

Now onto Captain's Oath and then Enterprise (the first adventure).

Am I missing anything, would anyone recommend the comics?

Hello everyone. I'm looking for Star Trek audio book recommendations for audible. TNG is my favorite crew but I'm a fan of original series-Voyager.

Hey yall! G'morning, G'afternoon, G'evening!

Where have yall journeyed to this week?

Investigation of mysteries in unknown space?

Tracking enemy ships through unknown phenomena?

Relaxing in the holodeck or taking a break on shore leave?

Navigating tricky cultural customs or disputes?

Escorting civilian passengers or ships through dangerous territory?

Making new friends in unexpected places?

Let us know how it goes in the Comments and what you're looking forward to next week! Happy reading yall!

Today’s interview is with Rich Handley, author of many Trek magazine columns, editor of the Eaglemoss comic book collection, and owner of every printed Star Trek comic known to mankind, you’ll even see his collection over his shoulders! Star Trek isn’t his own passion, with a ton of work in Planet of the Apes, Star Wars, and other franchises.

We talk about how great the Eaglemoss work product was, how easily I was sucked into the subscription model because of the spine art, and we have some pretty fun show and tell in which we show off our coolest or most recent comic purchases.

Rich can be found on his website, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. He runs the Star Trek Comics Weekly Facebook group that I’m an avid poster and commenter in, so swing by if you’re into Trek comics and want to chat!

I’m looking for an old TOS book that features giant, complex AI consciousnesses that solve the universe’s problems for fun and file away the solutions to be used if anyone happens to ask. Anybody remember this one? TIA!

Edit: It’s Memory Prime (with thanks to u/BewareTheSphere)

Out now: "Star Trek: Open a Channel: A Woman’s Trek" by Nana Visitor and published by Insight Editions.

Nana Visitor, Star Trek’s Kira Nerys, explores how the series has portrayed and influenced women. Interviews with the stars, writers, producers, and celebrity fans reveal the struggles and triumphs of women both behind and in front of the camera throughout the sixty-year history of Star Trek, and how they have mirrored the experiences of women everywhere.

The groundbreaking casting of Nichelle Nichols as Lt. Uhura in 1966 took women and people of color into a newly-imagined future. But it was the 1960s and she had to do it in a miniskirt.

Since then, each Star Trek show has both re?ected the values of its time and imagined a more future in which all genders were equal. In her first book, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine star Nana Visitor sets out to discover both how Star Trek led the way for women, and how it was trapped in its own era.

For Visitor, this is more than a book about Star Trek. It’s about how society and the stories we tell have evolved in the last 60 years, and how the role of women has changed in that time.

STAR AUTHOR: Written by Star Trek actor Nana Visitor, famous for playing Major Kira Nerys. This is both her story and her journey through the stories of other women involved with Star Trek from the 1960s to the 21st century.

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS: Features interviews with almost every woman who has starred in Star Trek, including Kate Mulgrew, Terry Farrell, Denise Crosby, Mary Wiseman, and Rebecca Romijn.

INSPIRING STORIES: Explore how Star Trek has influenced women in the real world, including soldiers, scientists, and even astronauts. In one remarkable episode, author Nana Visitor interviewed astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti while she was in orbit around Earth on the International Space Station.

PIONEERING SERIES: Star Trek has often taken a leading role in promoting women on both sides of the camera. It had women writers when they were rare, and it introduced female captain Kathryn Janeway in Star Trek: Voyager in 1995.