DST update

Not done a toys update in a while, and lots of new things have been announced recently, so here's what's coming in the next few months from DST:

In the action figures line, the First Contact Data (with exposed circuitry) is finally being released, in November, exclusive to previews. All we need now is a new Borg Queen figure to hang out with Data and FC Picard...

The Wrath of Kahn line continues to expand, with a new two pack, with yet another Kirk figure! Accompanied by radiation poisoned dieing Spock. That's out early next year:

The minimates line also keeps going with a third wave of TOS figures, this set will include the following two packs:
-"Space Seed" Khan and dress uniform Kirk
-"Gladiator" Kirk and Kor the Klingon
-Ambassador Sarek and dress uniform Spock
-and limited edition "Spock’s Brain" SpockThe forth wave will reportedly consist of TNG characters.

In sculptures, the Star Trek: Icons collection comes to a conclusion with the Captain Archer bust:
And finally, after a year or two of re-issues of TOS phasers a brand new bit of Trek tech! A TOS communicator:

Which will include the following voice sound effects:
"Bridge here, Captain" -Uhura
"Scotty here, Captain" - Scotty
"Enterprise to Mr. Spock" - Kirk
"Transporter room, ready to beam up" - Kirk
"Spock here, Captain" - Spock
"Enterprise, this is Kirk" - Kirk
"Captain, shall I beam down an armed party?" – Spock

Conquest preview

Looksie, a video a preview for the next Trek game on the way "Conquest":

Looks a bit like a new version of one of the old Armada games to me (which is a good thing), I think the directional shields are a nice touch, very appropriate for a Trek game; "aft shields at 5%", very Trekish.

Alien Spotlight: Borg preview

IDW editor Andrew Steven Harris has posted some preview artwork for the Borg issue of the Alien Spotlight series (out in January). These are Sean Murphy's black and white versions, the final version will be coloured, but it's looking outstanding already:

There are three more pages, in higher res than normal previews, on IDW message boards, here.

IDW January

Care of Comics Continuum: IDWs comics coming in January next year, which are; Alien Spotlight #5: The Borg and the first issue of the next Tipton/Messina miniseries TNG: Intelligence Gathering. Also included are a couple of new cover releases (or re-release in the full colour version)

Alien Spotlight: The Borg

In the vast Star Trek universe, many diverse alien races abound, and now they finally get their due! Continuing a series of one-shots, each by a different creative team and featuring a different Star Trek alien race. Now, the spotlight shines on the Borg. The Enterprise must face its most deadly confrontation with the Borg -- drones from the future, when the Collective believes it has achieved perfection! Sean Murphy handles art and cover chores, while his Outer Orbit cohort Zach Howard provides a second cover for the issue.

Intelligence Gathering #1

From the creative team who brought you Klingons: Blood Will Tell! This issue begins an all-new five-part adventure for the Enterprise-D crew! The Enterprise is summoned to a Federation science station, designed to be the ultimate in data storage and information archiving. Data and Riker enter the outpost's gargantuan artificial intelligence system, which may have gained sentience and has begun behaving erratically, with orders to either repair or destroy it. On the Enterprise, meanwhile, Picard and the crew begin to realize that there may be more here than meets the eye...

The Borg story, apparently revised since the change in authorship from the originally announced Steve Niles to IDW's new Trek editor Andrew Steven Harris, sounds pretty interesting to me, should be interesting to compare these future Borg to One from Voyager's "Drone". Intelligence Gathering sounds like it could be interesting too, the fact it's from the Tiptons/Messina team makes my expectations of it much higher. Should be a good month.

Various updates

Ok, not posted in an age, so here's some of the stuff that's new in the last couple of weeks:

From TOS remastered comes another wonderful new matte painting, this one from the episode "Dagger of the Mind":From Star Trek online comes a new devlog entry, focusing on details of their previously previewed Vulcan designs and releasing this cool new doomsday machine design:
And in comics, a tease of a preview from the Orion Alien Spotlight issue, from the blog of Elena Cassagrande:

The Man Trap

StarTrek.com have updated their remastered comparison gallery with a great new establishing shot of M-113 from the forthcoming episode "The Man Trap".

Prose updates from Voyages of Imagination

Jeff Ayers has updated his Voyages of Imagination website with the cover for the forthcoming DS9 omnibus "These Haunted Seas", which features all new artwork by Cliff Nielsen, including the first ever depictions of Ruriko Tenmei and Shathrissia zh'Cheen :

He has also announced the titles of the Myriad Universes volumes and contributing authors, which are as follows:

-Infinity's Prism, featuring novels by Christopher L. Bennett, William Leisner and James Swallow.

-Echoes and Refractions, featuring novels by Keith R.A. DeCandido, Chris Roberson and Geoff Trowbridge.

IDW September previews

IDW have updates their previews page with five-page previews from Year Four #3 and Alien Spotlight: Gorn. You can find them here.

The preview includes the final covers for the issues, including these new retail incentive covers:Year Four #3 is out next week, the Gorn issue on October 10.

IDW December solicitations

IDW have announced their solicitations for December, including new covers for the Year Four issue:

Year Four Issue 6:
As Kirk and the crew investigate the disappearance of the USS Pasteur, a trail of debris leads the USS Enterprise to an automated facility on a lifeless, desert planet in the Gobi system. A landing party finds robotic nannies caring for a computer-controlled nursery of alien babies—which Dr. McCoy's analysis proves to be the final survivors of the planet's dead civilization. But when an ensign disappears, and clues of the Pasteur's fate uncover the facility's startling secret, the computer reveals it maternal instincts—using its awesome power to defend its children—endangering the Enterprise, and forcing Kirk and the landing party to fight for their lives.

Alien Spotlight: Orions:
“The female of the species is deadlier than the male"—a statement that was never more true than in the case of the Orion Animal Women, infamous from the very first episode of STAR TREK, "The Cage"! It's a fact Fleet Captain Christopher Pike will soon discover, as he's caught up in a web of intergalactic criminal intrigue. Can Pike trust the beautiful Orion slave girl—and can he trust himself around her?

The final Year Four doesn't sound hugely exciting to me, but Orions and Chris Pike, written by the Tiptons, that's something to look forward too!

Terok Nor cover art

Voyages of Imagination has released the combined artwork for the Terok Nor trilogy coming next year: