Is it logical to believe in ghosts? For most of our favorite Star Trek characters, I imagine the answer would be no. Starfleet officers are scientists, and it’s part of the job not to believe anything without proof. On the…
From the publisher: A thrilling prequel adventure based on the acclaimed TV series Star Trek: Picard! Two years after the USS Voyager’s return from the Delta Quadrant, Seven of Nine finds herself rejected for a position in Starfleet…and instead finds a new…
Star Trek Picard’s Academy: Commit No Mistakes explores a hitherto unexplored time in Picard’s life – the years he attended Starfleet Academy. Ambitiously, it attempts to bridge the childhood trauma presented in Star Trek: Picard Season 2 and the established…
“To everyone who is reclaiming their story and speaking their truth,” says the author’s dedication in The Autobiography of Benjamin Sisko, and it’s a strikingly apt one. Several other Star Trek autobiographies show the “author” entrusting their story to a…
Have you ever read an original novel and thought: Hey, that sounds like fanfiction – and meant it as a genuine compliment? If so, you may have been reading a little too much fanfiction (or not enough). Either way, this…
One of the most fascinating things about Star Trek is how prescient it can be when it comes to technology. One era’s science fiction becomes another’s science fact, often in surprising ways. The Star Trek: Voyager episode “Author, Author”,…
Star Trek premiered during the civil rights era and often pushed the envelope by showing a future where people of different ethnicities and members of different species joined together to explore space. At a time when roles for people of…
Is there any book less likely as a candidate for a Vulcan-run book club than A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens? I can just imagine T’Pol’s unimpressed poker face. She would find his work moralistic, emotionally overwrought, and problematic in…