Coming soon from Star Trek Online

Cryptic Studios have released a "state of the game" report for Star Trek Online, mostly covering technical things of MMO terminology that goes right over my head. But the proper Trek bit I care about is hints of things to come, after the first update coming soon (presumably the very Borgy one announced not so long ago) they list the following as plans for the next 6-12 months:

-Who are the Undine and what drives them?
-How can they better exploit the Genesis System to create even more compelling content?
-Where can they boldly go next? Where shall they take exploratory missions, as there's so much potential there?
-Which faction should be playable next? Romulan? Cardassian? Pakled? Dominion? Horta?
-Ship interiors, more bridges, crew quarters, First Officers, and Fleet advancement...

UPDATE: Talking of the first update, massively has a run down fo the first few. Lots of Borg, and a few augments!

New Starfleet Academy and New Frontier

The Simon and Schuster website has been updated with some new listings: The next New Frontier book will apparently be Resolutions, in January 2011. And in November this year we can expect two books by Rudy Josephs of a new Starfleet Academy series, described as "A new Starfleet Academy series for teens--filled with romance and adventure!"

The big question for me is; who's Academy? My first thought was that this was a nifty way to cash in on the new movie's young Trekkies, who will be eager to know more of the Academy days of the Kirk and co they know (and saw in the Academy) from said movie. Of course the recent new movie novel cancellations somewhat throws that out, but; the Academy days in the alternate reality are perhaps a safer playground for new material than stories set after the movie itself (and thus could be less likely to clash with the next film)... Another issue with this theory is the series page for these new books describes: "The voyages of the classic Enterprise, featuring Kirk, Spock, McCoy from the first TV series and the first six movies, set in the 23rd century." However that page also lists William Shatner's Academy novel, so could be out of date... Who knows? Not I!

New movie badges!

Qmx have started selling nifty little badge pins based on the new movie insignias, like this one:They have all the other departments too, check them out! According to TrekMovie Qmx also have plans for a model of the Enterprise, a phaser and little statues.

Movie Adaptation #1 preview

io9 has posted a five-page preview of this week's first issue of the Movie Adaptation comic. Here's a page with the Kelvin looking cool:You can see the rest, here, which include a deleted scene, owww! (And can we have a Kelvin series IDW, or book Pocket? Pleeeease)

Latest Aventine

Mark Rademaker has posted a video showing the first stages of his Mark II version of the Vesta class USS Aventine, looks like this:

Destiny, looking as epic as it should (in German)

Defcon Treklit has posted a draft cover for Cross Cult's German edition of Gods of Night, the first book in the Destiny trilogy:

Now that's more like it! I loved Destiny, but found the covers rather underwhelming for the biggest Star Trek novel event ever! Good job with the epicness Cross Cult!

UPDATE: From the Cross Cult Star Trek facebook group, the artist is Martin Frei.

Ghosts #4 preview

TrekMovie have posted a five-page preview of Ghosts issue four, here's one:See the rest, here.

Movie Adaptation #4 cover

David Messina has posted a higher resolution version of his cover for the forth issue of the movie adaptation comic on his blog:
On the original post you can also see two more versions at different stages of development.

K-7 box art

The Round Two blog has been updated with the posting of a new box art for this year's re-release of the AMT K-7 model kit. Looks like this:

Spock's German Relfection

Cross Cult's Star Trek novels facebook page has posted two new covers by David Messina for the German editions (paperback and hardcover) of Spock: Reflections, which they seem to be titling simply "Spock"