Frontier Doctor #4 page

John Byrne has posted the first page from the fourth and final issue in the Frontier Doctor series. Looks like this:

Starfleet Academy Untitled #2, now with title!

The second of the young adult Starfleet Academy novels out this year, written by Rick Barba, has now been given a working title in Simon and Schuster’s digital catalogue: The Delta Anomaly

Although another anomaly seems to have formed, as the catalogue no longer lists Starfleet Academy Untitled #1!

UPDATE: What was formaly Starfleet Academy Untitled #1, by Rudy Josephs, seems to have become the second book in the series, as Simon and Schuster's main website now lists it for release in January 2011, and a working title of The Competitive Edge.

Thanks to Michael, the reader who pointed out the second title to me in the comment below!

Captain's Log: Jellico and Pike updates!

Keith R.A. DeCandido has posted some remarks on his Jellico Captain's Log issue; it will take place before Chain of Command, featuring Jellico's command of the USS Cairo, and "will please both people who think that Jellico was a pretty darned good captain and the ones who think he's a flaming asshole".

And it looks like Gordon Purcell is out of the picture for Captain's Log, as J.K. Woodward is doing both the Jellico and Pike issues! Between his blog and facebook he's posted several pages from both. Here's a couple from Jellico:And a cover and page from the Pike issue:You can see a lot more (of this incredible work!) on facebook and these blog posts: 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, which also shed some light on the processes Woodward used to create them.

Thanks to Unreality SF's Jens Deffner for pointing me towards much of this!

Frontier Doctor: Error preview

TrekMovie have posted a five-page preview for next week's second issue of the Frontier Doctor series, titled "Error". Here's one page:See the rest, here.

Captain's Logs

TrekMovie have announced the final selection of captains for IDW's Captain's Log series. They are:

-Pike (September), by Stuart Moore, with art by J. K. Woodward.
-Jellico (October/November), by Keith R. A. DeCandido, art by Gordon Purcell.
-Garrett (November/December) by Robert Greenberger, art by George Freeman

A nice mix of creators and captains I think (especially another Pike story), although disappointing to see we're still not getting a Titan comic! And notable that J.K. Woodward seems to have switched, from his previously announced work with KRAD on the Jellico issue to doing the Pike issue.

UPDATE: KRAD has commented on this very blog-post, and elsewhere, that TrekMovie have been misinformed and his Jellico issue is still being illustrated by J.K. Woodward. With the obvious assumption being that Gordon Purcell gets the Pike issue. Robert Greenberger has also noted on his blog that his Enterprise-C crew is derived from the novel Well of Souls, which gives me continuity pleasure.

UPDATE 2: Woodward is doing both the Pike and Jellico issues, see more, here.

Cover extravaganza

New covers, loads of them!

From David Mack's blog, is this new and final cover for Zero Sum Game:From the Simon and Schuster digital catalogue is this for Out of the Cacoon:From Joe Corroney's facebook page is this cover for Burden of Knowledge issue 3 (Andorians, yay!):And from Amazon.de are a whole bunch of new Cross Cult covers:UPDATE: Higher res version of the Stitch in Time cover on Cross Cult's facebook.

Thanks to my regular informant Jens Deffner (of Unreality SF) for the German cover tip.

Catastrophe: A new TOS novel!

Michael Schuster has announced on the TrekBBS that he and Steve Mollmann will be writing a new TOS novel for release in 2011. A Choice of Catastrophes will focus on McCoy as well as featuring the other regulars and a selection of new and familiar minor characters. The book will also feature "a strange new alien race, a survey mission gone awry, a dangerous space phenomenon, doctors, nurses, Scottish curses, [and] a specific number of Enterprise shuttles"

Star Trek Online updates

Cryptic have announced the details of their latest update "Season One Update One" which has been available for a few days. New features include a difficulty slider, allowing players to set the game to be more challenging, and an accompanying damage system for the harder levels of play. The game also adds auto-fire and new weapons. Plus new items in the C-store, the Dervish class variant, Maelstrom class:

And Pakleds as a playable species:

Cryptic have also set up several promotions. This coming weekend will be the first trial weekend, allowing players who have the game but not an active account to play again for the weekend and be tempted back. They have also added a referral scheme, and will soon launch a demo version of the game. And for rewarding players who have stuck at it they will be introducing veterans rewards. Full details, here.

StarTrek.com update on the way

CBS has released a press release announcing StarTrek.com will be relaunching in the coming months the redesigned site will "feature breaking news, rare interviews, a robust online community, online store and the official Star Trek database.

Designed to incorporate the very best of Star Trek content across the web, the site will showcase top fan sites and blogs including TrekMovie, TrekToday and TrekWeb. StarTrek.com is being designed by award-winning graphic design and content production web developer Funny Garbage."

The full press release can be found on TrekMovie, TrekWeb and TrekToday.

Captain's Log: Harriman preview

TrekMovie have posted a five-page-preview of this week's Captain's Log issue, featuring Captain Harriman of the Enterprise-B. Here's one page:See the rest, here.