Latest acquisition!

[Joanna McCoy-Kirk]

A friend of mine gave me a copy of the 1976 edition of Star Trek Concordance in very good condition. I owned a copy of this book when I was a teenager and wore it out over the years until I had to discard it because it was literally falling apart. The book I got today brings back a lot of good memories of discovering Trek.

 

[Christopher]

A friend of mine gave me a copy of the 1976 edition of Star Trek Concordance in very good condition. I owned a copy of this book when I was a teenager and wore it out over the years until I had to discard it because it was literally falling apart. The book I got today brings back a lot of good memories of discovering Trek.

I used up my original copy too. I managed to find a replacement of the same edition, which I still have. It's just not the Concordance without the spinny index thing in the front cover. (Plus the expanded edition in the '90s was pretty bad, with the lexicon reordered in a way that makes it really hard to search through.)

 

[Therin of Andor]

A huge pile these past few weeks! And I just heard that my Patrick Stewart autobiography has arrived in the bookshop, ready to collect!


IDW Defiant and Eaglemoss comic volumes by Ian McLean, on Flickr

"Star Trek: Defiant" Issue #7; and several later Eaglemoss comic hardcover volumes via eBay ("Voyager: Splashdown", Volume #124, "So Near the Touch", Volume #138, and "Mission: Muddled", Volume #139. (Each these Eaglemoss volumes include unseen materials that I really wanted to own).


Inside later Eaglemoss comic volumes by Ian McLean, on Flickr

"Voyager: Splashdown", Volume #124 includes the script and layouts of the lost Gold Key comic, "Trial by Fire", Issue #62";

"So Near the Touch", Volume #138 includes unseen materials from "Star Trek: Phase 3" and a story, "Reaping the Whirlwind";

and "Mission: Muddled", Volume #139 includes unseen materials from "Captain Sulu Adventures" and "Resolution".


New audio and IDW comics by Ian McLean, on Flickr

"A Stitch in Time" (Simon & Schuster Audio, 2023) by Andrew Robinson, an unabridged eBook of his Pocket Books novel (first published in 2000). From IDW, "Star Trek: Resurgence" trade omnibus; "Picard's Academy" issue #1; "The Motion Picture: Echoes" #5.


New Trek book arrivals by Ian McLean, on Flickr

Blank notebook (CBS, 2022) inspired by "The Many and the One" by Spock (as featured in "Star Trek: Picard"); and "Galloping Around the Cosmos: Memories of TV's Wagon Train to the Stars from Today's Grown-up Kids" (Becky Books, 2023) essays (including several TrekBBS identities) edited by Jim Beard.


"The Many and the One" by Spock, "Star Trek: Picard" by Ian McLean, on Flickr


New IDW Trek by Ian McLean, on Flickr

IDW's "Star Trek" Issue #12 and the "Day of Blood: Shax's Best Day" one-shot, featuring the "Lower Decks" character.


Modiphius TAS Supplemental Guide by Ian McLean, on Flickr

RPG guidebook (in PDF form) by Aaron Harvey, Jim Johnson, Fred Love & Aaron M. Pollyea. Celebrating 50th anniversary of Filmation's TAS.


IDW eComic TAS 50th anniversary by Ian McLean, on Flickr

"The Scheimer Barrier", (FREE!) e-comic issues celebrating the 50th anniversary of Filmation's TAS. (An exclusive hardcopy omnibus reprint is supposed to be distributed at New York Comic Con this year.)

While downloading the above TAS anniversary e-comic, I rediscovered the three volumes of "The Returned" e-Books (2015) by Peter David, long-forgotten on my phone app. (I had thought they were trapped on an old computer!) I must read them some time!


"New Frontier The Returned" eBooks 1-3 by Ian McLean, on Flickr

I also had not followed up "New Frontier: Rückkehr" (Cross Cult, 2022), the German-language hardcopy version of "The Returned", which I have just now ordered online, for completist purposes, of course. (Will there ever be an English-language edition?)

 

[Therin of Andor]

New Trek stuff by Ian McLean, on Flickr

Another big week: Titan's "Star Trek Explorer" magazine, Issue #8; "Gryffen: Galaxy's Most Wanted" #1 (Whatnot Publishing, 2023) with alternate homage cover art inspired by "Star Trek: The Motion Picture"; the hardcover autobiography, "Making It So: A Memoir" (Gallery, 2023) by Patrick Stewart; and three comics from IDW: "Strange New Worlds: The Scorpius Run" #2; Defiant" #8; and #1 of a weekly four-parter, "Holo-Ween".

 

[Kilana2]

The German editions of Enterprise - The Romulan War - Beneath the Raptor's Wing and

Rise of the Federation: A Choice of Futures.

The latter was highly recommended by Christopher. Now that I've done with watching Enterprise for the first time, I'm ready to go on with the books following the end of the show.

 

[BillJ]

Rise of the Federation: A Choice of Futures.

The latter was highly recommended by Christopher.

He wrote the book.

 

[Therin of Andor]

New Trek from IDW by Ian McLean, on Flickr

The new IDW comic mini-series, “Star Trek: Holo-ween” continues, with a new instalment each week of October! Christopher Sequeira's TNG sequel to the memorable TOS episode. (There are some great covers by Francesco Francavilla and Joe Eisma.and over the last few days, I have been regretting being frugal about the alternates. Rectified!) This is essentially a followup to WildStorm Comics' "Embrace the Wolf". (Redjac had also featured in DC's post-ST II comic, a two-parter entitled "Wolf on the Prowl" and "Wolf at the Door".)

So, here are covers for "Holo-ween" #2; the trade paperback omnibus collecting "Strange New Worlds: The Illyrian Enigma"; the unexpected "Day of Blood: Director's Cut" #1, following the creation of that comic crossover event; an alternate cover to "Star Trek" #12 that I decided I needed after all; and those alternate covers to "Holo-ween" #1 and #2.


New Trek stuff by Ian McLean, on Flickr

UPDATE: TAS Tarot deck of 22 episode cards from Filmation's "Star Trek: The Animated Series" (Telekiad, 2020); "New Frontier: Rückkehr" (Cross Cult, 2022) by Peter David, a German-language hardcopy version of "The Returned", previously only available in English as eBook volumes; and alternate covers for Issue #3 of IDW's comic mini-series, “Star Trek: Holo-ween” by Christopher Sequeira.

 

[Therin of Andor]

New Trek stuff by Ian McLean, on Flickr

Sadly, "Amazing Star Trek Cuisine for True Fan: 25+ Recipes That Remind You of the Star Trek Film Series" (2021, Amazon print-on-demand) is neither amazing nor reminiscent of Star Trek. Essentially, it is clickbait vanity publishing at its worst. Luckily, it wasn't very expensive. (What a missed opportunity, though. There is no text to put the recipes into any Star Trek, or even science fiction, perspective. No author puts their name to the book. One recipe is credited to "Delia", but there is no indication that she contributed anything else. There are photos of food but none of it resembles meals from the Star Trek movies. We saw characters eating weird, blue Klingon food in "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country", and a wedding banquet in "Star Trek Nemesis". What bit of this book is supposed to remind me of the Trek movies?)

The Tzenkethi feature in IDW's comic, "Star Trek" #13. One Tzenkethi features on an alternate cover. Also with alternate covers is Issue #4 of "The Next Generation" mini-series, "Holo-Ween".

"Boldly Stripped: A Trek-Inspired Photo Comic" (2023) is a Kickstarter-financed fanzine by cosplayer Hazel Honeysuckle and photographer Dangrrr. A graphic novel heavy on the photography, it is available in either hardcover (Klingon, pictured above) or trade paperback (below left), and in both lingerie and tasteful nude editions. A bonus Andorian nymphette is available as an enamelled pic. (There is also an all-white Aenar version of the pin.)


Andorians in new comics by Ian McLean, on Flickr

Above right: Issue #4 of "The Next Generation" mini-series, "Holo-Ween", features an Andorian cameo (pictured right) that writer Christopher Sequeira added to his script as a special surprise for me!

EDIT:
Below: New from Hallmark: benign and evil "Lower Decks" Badgey ornaments for 2023. And from IDW, "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: The Scorpius Run" Issue #3 of the comic mini-series.


New Trek by Ian McLean, on Flickr

 

[Therin of Andor]

Sorry for three-in-a-row, but even with fewer novels, the Trek stuff is still coming thick and fast these weeks, it seems.


New Trek arrivals by Ian McLean, on Flickr

A New York Comic Con exclusive hardcopy of IDW's "The Scheimer Barrier", which was originally distributed as four free digital comic instalments to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Filmation's TAS. Also from IDW, a beautiful alternate cover of Hugh the Borg on "Defiant" Issue #9; and Issue #2 of "Picard's Academy". Also arrived: the DVD of the animated fan film parody, "Stalled Trek: Amutt Time".

 

[Kilana2]

Rise of the Federation - Uncertain Logic (Zweifelhafte Logik) + Live by the Code (Prinzipientreue)

TOS - Harm's Way

 

[Therin of Andor]

IDW hardcovers for Star Trek comics by Ian McLean, on Flickr

Out this week: IDW’s "Star Trek: Year Five" comics, which lead up to "The Motion Picture" have already been collected in four trade paperback omnibuses. Now they are getting two volumes of deluxe hardcover collections. I had not thought I would need these, but the first one (Issues #1-14) is out - and it was hard to pass up.

The Worf-led "Star Trek: Defiant" has its first reprint omnibus (Issues #1-5) but this one has gone to hardcover first!

 

[Therin of Andor]

This week's goodies: Rittenhouse character sticker cards for "Strange New Worlds" and "Lower Decks"; Titan's "Star Trek Explorer" magazine, Issue #9; "Lower Decks: USS Cerritos Crew Handbook" by Chris Farnell (Titan, 2023); "The Autobiography of Benjamin Sisko: The Life of Starfleet's Legendary Captain and Emissary"" hardcover by Derek Tyler Attico (Titan, 2023); IDW's "Star Trek, Volume Two: The Red Path" the hardcover omnibus, plus "Star Trek" Issue #14 and "Strange New Worlds: The Scorpius Run" Issue #4; and "Star Trek: Picard, Season Three" DVD and Blu-ray sets.


New Trek stuff by Ian McLean, on Flickr

 

[Cyfa]

Oh! You have the Lower Decks: USS Cerritos Crew Handbook already!! Amazing!!! I can barely wait for my copy to arrive (probably not before Christmas now).

 

[Therin of Andor]

Oh! You have the Lower Decks: USS Cerritos Crew Handbook already!! Amazing!!! I can barely wait for my copy to arrive (probably not before Christmas now).

It turned up at Galaxy Bookshop (Australia) last week! I expected it would be a smaller-sized book, but it is about the size of the old Technical Manual and Medical Reference Manual. It is dated as an October release, but I believe it is due in many places this month.

 

[Cyfa]

It turned up at Galaxy Bookshop (Australia) last week! I expected it would be a smaller-sized book, but it is about the size of the old Technical Manual and Medical Reference Manual. It is dated as an October release, but I believe it is due in many places this month.

~ I'm glad to see it's on the larger side - bigger than a comic, but smaller than a magazine, judging by your photo. And, yes, when I ordered it all those months ago, it was slated for a mid-October release, so I was rather disappointed when it got bumped back a couple of months.
(Fortunately, a companion book for my joint favourite TV show with LDS - Ghosts (UK) - came out at the end of October, so I have something to tide me over until the USS Cerritos Crew Handbook arrives!)

 

[Cyfa]

It came! It came before Christmas!! Hooray for Royal Mail!!!

 

[drt]

Nice!

Mine came yesterday, but I'm impossible to shop for so it got confiscated to be a Christmas gift from my daughter, lol.

I also got the A Stitch in Time audiobook.

 

[Cyfa]

Mine came yesterday, but I'm impossible to shop for so it got confiscated to be a Christmas gift from my daughter, lol.

~ Not long to go now! I think it's awesome - well, so far. I'm almost halfway through - up to the chapter about the bridge. There are so many little notes and almost throw-away explanations that make a few bits & pieces of LDS make more sense. Things that you may not really have thought about, but once explained had me thinking "Oh, yeah!" (like why there are holodeck biofilters instead of the holodeck turning all that "waste" matter into energy or whatnot).
It also helps that Rutherford has a super sexy expression slapped across his face in the Engineering chapter that he's featured in!

 

[Therin of Andor]

New stuff by Ian McLean, on Flickr

Universe Publishing's "Star Trek" calendars for "Lower Decks" 2024 and "The Next Generation" 2024; Factory Entertainment's collectible admiral pin and Ilia Probe light-up sensor set, a new acrylic frame for my Rittenhouse uniform swatch cards; and the latest "Picard's Academy" comic, Issue #3, from IDW.

 

[Reanok]

I got the Ben Sisko autobiography book for Christmas.