This and That

A few little updates from various things Trek:

The second Starfleet Academy book is now titled The Edge, rather than the earlier working title The Competitive Edge. The Simon and Schuster website now also confirms Amazon's recent listings of a third and fourth book in the series in by Rudy Josephs in April and Rick Barba in May next year.

Cross Cult have released an updated version of the cover artwork for their German language edition of A Stitch in Time. Looks like this:

As brought to my attention by Therin of Andor's blog, an Australian company, Wilkinson Publishing, has now started reprinting IDW Star Trek titles for release in the Australian market. They started a couple of weeks ago with TNG: Ghosts and Motion Picture Trilogy omnibuses, and with the first issue of Burden of Knowledge, and have now released the second issue of that series as well. Therin has a comparison of that second issue on his site. And a press release about this new arrangement can be found, here.

UPDATE: Having looked into Wilkinson a bit more, it seems they have release the Ghosts omnibus in hardcover! Nice.

Mark Rademaker has announced his plans for the Voyager Full Circle refit. The plan includes several updates to the hull, new warp nacelles and a new deflector. A full listing can be found on his blog.

And finally, Star Trek Online players can now play as an Excelsior class!

DST: Dilithium Collection

The Art Asylum blog has releases images of the latest two-pack figures from Diamond Select Toys, the Dilithium Collection, each themed on a TOS episode and available now apparently:

Spock and a Romulany-Kirk from "The Enterprise Incident"

Kirk and Spock from "Where No Man Has Gone Before" (complete with laser pistols!)

Kirk and the Gorn from "Arena"

More images on the Art Asylum blog.

New STO episodes

Cryptic have announced the details of their weekly Star Trek Online episodes, which star this week end with the first episode in Series 1: The Breen, which is described as follows: "Beginning in late August, Series 1 introduces a fan favorite: The Breen. A longtime enemy of the Klingon Empire, the Breen have grown even more aggressive and have taken particular interest in the planet Defera. It's up to you and your crew to determine what's brought the Breen to Defera and to save the Deferi people."

The three episodes are:

#1: Cold Call
Starfleet and the Klingon Empire both respond to call for aid after the Breen attack the planet Defera.

#2: Out in the Cold
While searching for a lost ship, the crew uncovers a plot to enslave the Deferi people.

#3: Cold Comfort
Breen slavers leave a ship and its crew crippled while they hunt for buried memories among the Deferi.

Here's one picture that accompanied the release, you can see more, and release dates, on the original report:

IDW November

Newsarama have released IDW's solicitations for November, which includes one whole Star Trek comic...

Khan: Ruling in Hell #2

What was once a paradise begins to crumble between Khan’s fingers. Following a planetary cataclysm, Khan must contend with the rapid deterioration of his formerly ripe and bountiful new home on Ceti Alpha V. In the face of dwindling resources and the beginnings of a revolt from within, Khan continues to hold out hope for rescue and the eventual salvation of his people. But for how long?

New prose covers and blurbs (updated)

A load of new covers and blurbs, exciting stuff from Simon and Schuster's online catalogue:

DTI: Watching the Clock

In a universe where history could be erased, two of the most disciplined, obsessive government employees face the existential uncertainty of it all.


In a universe where history could be wiped out at any moment by time warriors from the future, misused relics of ancient races, or accident-prone starships, unflappable Agents Lucsly and Dulmur are the Federation’s unsung anchors in a chaotic universe. But when a series of escalating temporal incursions threatens to open a new front of the history—spanning Temporal Cold War in the twenty-fourth century—Lucsly and Dulmur will need all their investigative skill and unbending determination to keep the present and the future from falling into the kind of chaos they really, really hate. 

Indistinguishable from Magic

In this all-new original novel, the crew of the U.S.S. Challenger, Geordi LaForge, and Scotty find that the past is always very much of the present, and that, as the truism goes, anything sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.


The most talented Starfleet engineers of two generations unite to solve a 200-yearold technological mystery that turns out to be only the beginning of a wider quest. With the support of Guinan and Nog, as well as the crew of the U.S.S. Challenger, Geordi LaForge and Montgomery Scott soon find themselves drawn into a larger, deadlier, and far more personal adventure. Helped by old friends and hindered by old enemies, their investigation will come to threaten everything they hold dear. 

UPDATE: Cover now posted by the author, David A. McIntee, on his blog:

The Delta Anomaly (Check out that nice use of the starfleet delta! Ans also note the lack of a Star Trek in the title.)

And from Cross Cult's Star Trek facebook page, the new Demons and Air and Darkness cover (Which you could mistake for a Voyager novel!), by Arndt Drechsler

UPDATE 2: Finished cover too:

Star Trek Mighty Wallets

StarTrek.com and Dynomighty Design have announced a new range of Star Trek Mighty Wallets, a brand of wallets using a tough paper-feeling material with rich graphics and a clever stitchless expandable origami design. The company are initially offering three designs, available now, two featuring artwork from classic Gold Key Star Trek comics and the third using what appears to be one of the new technical drawings from the forthcoming Haynes Enterprise Manual:

According to the StarTrek.com interview Dynomighty hope to release more designs later in the year, and explore the other Star Trek series. They also point out they would appreciate feedback to determine the nature of future products. More images can be seen on the Dynomighty Design website, and StarTrek.com.

Wizkids games preview

io9 have done a feature on two prototype games shown by Wizkids at the recent Gen Con. They are:

Fleet Captains, in which you command little model ships on missions determined by a deck of cards.

And Expeditions, in which you visit and planet and help it deal with a Klingon problem in a choose your own adventure style gameplay.

Expeditions will be out early next year at $49.99, Fleet Captains will follow later, price not yet known. More details and photos at io9.

Burden of Knowledge #3 preview

StarTrek.com have posted a four page preview from this week's third issue in the Burden of Knowledge series, this one titled "A Matter of Perspective". Here's one page:

 You can see the rest of the very los res preview at StarTrek.com.

Khan: Ruling in Hell preview

Chris Ryall has posted up a preview page from Khan: Ruling in Hell. Looks like this:He also posted up the first photo of the cuddly Khan retail incentive:

Project Full Circle update

Mark Rademaker has posted a couple of updates on his blog, detailing the progress on his project to model the Project Full Circle fleet. First up, the Aventine mark II model has been scraped (just as I was getting used to the new pointer design!), Rademaker is considered giving the two Full Circle Vesta class ships, using rebuilt version of the mark I model, different paint jobs to distinguish them from the Aventine and each other. He is also working on the Merian class, of which there are to be three in fleet, so presumably the three science vessels, like the recently previewed USS Planck.

Rademaker expects the rest of the fleet to progress in the new year after having worked on a refit design for Voyager, updating her escape pods and deflector, giving her new slipstream friendly longer nacelles, and otherwise bringing the design up to date.