Star Trek interviews on The D-Con Chamber

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Connor Trinneer and Dominic Keating have been expertly interviewing people from Star Trek — mostly actors, but occasionally people from behind the scenes. The D-Con Chamber is where people went to get decontaminated in Enterprise, the show they were on where they played Trip and Malcolm. They previously had a channel called Shuttlepod Show. Here’s […]

Star Trek: SNW — The Scorpius Run

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{4.5/5} “If our new crewman has taught us anything today… it is that logic without empathy is illogical.” Star Trek: Strange New Worlds — The Scorpius Run by Ryan Parrott & Mike Johnson, published in 2024 While in the region known as the Scorpion, Captain Pike and the Enterprise respond to a distress call. They […]

Tie-in books

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Here’s an update to this list. Novels Best of the best ENT: Rise of the Federation — Live by the Code by Christopher L. Bennett VOY: Full Circle by Kirsten Beyer VOY: A Pocket Full of Lies by Kirsten Beyer B5: The Passing of the Techno-Mages #1 — Casting Shadows by Jeanne Cavelos B5: The […]

Star Trek

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Here’s an update to this list. The Original Series Spock Must Die! by James Blish 1970 -> 2/5 The Entropy Effect by Vonda N. McIntyre 1981 -> 4.5/5 Yesterday’s Son by A. C. Crispin 1983 -> 4.5/5 The Wounded Sky by Diane Duane 1983 -> 4/5 The Final Reflection by John M. Ford 1984 -> […]

Best tie-in novels by year

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Here’s an update to this list.   Winner Runner Ups Year Author Title Author Title 2024 Greg Cox TOS: Lost to Eternity Dayton Ward TNG: Pliable Truths 2023 Derek Tyler Attico The Autobiography of Benjamin Sisko John Jackson Miller SNW: The High Country       Dayton Ward DISCO: Somewhere to Belong 2022     […]

Star Trek: Memory Prime

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{4.5/5} “Pathfinder Two enjoyed its communication with those voices, though it found them too slow and too limited to be considered a phenomenon of real intelligence. All of life was a game and the voices accounted for some of the high points, but that was as far as Two was inclined to take matters, unlike […]

Star Trek: The Captain’s Daughter

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{4.5/5} “But helmsman… steering the ship… looking straight ahead and seeing the stars clustered in front of you… that’s what I was really going out there for, Ling. For the stars. To go out there and lose myself in them.” Star Trek: The Captain’s Daughter by Peter David, published in 1995 Captain John Harriman aboard […]

Star Trek: TNG — The Sky’s the Limit

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{4.5/5} “As fear drives our hated and the building of our war machine, we consume the resources that could feed and clothe our people, we misuse the wisdom of our scientists and the labors of our industries, and we extinguish the light fromour dreams of the future. There is no strength in fear. Strength arises […]

Star Trek: TNG — The Devil’s Heart

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{4.5/5} “T’Sara had advised him to give up the stone, or at least to stop making use of its powers. Yet, so far he had only taken part in the dreams. Surely there was no harm in that? And perhaps the dreams could show him the way to safety.” Star Trek: The Next Generation — […]

Star Trek: TNG — Pliable Truths

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{4.5/5} “If every Bajoran presented themselves as a model inmate, the Cardassians would likely assume there must be illicit activity taking place. Better for the laborers to offer the occasional misdirection in the hopes of keeping their overseers distracted from those things that needed to remain concealed.” Star Trek: The Next Generation — Pliable Truths […]