New Comic Day: Star Trek: Defiant #20!

Star Trek: Defiant #20
The Stars of Home Part 4

The next issue of Star Trek: Defiant is here!

The planet Antara is under imminent threat from the Romulans, and Worf and his crew are all that stand in their way.

As always, you can check out the cover art, publisher's description, and links to purchase the digital edition from Amazon below!

Written by Christopher Cantwell

Art by Ángel Unzueta

Cover A by Ángel Unzueta

Purchase:

Digital (Kindle): Amazon.com | Amazon.ca | Amazon.co.uk

Official synopsis:

The Romulans are descending on Antara, and Worf must lead his militia to victory against the warship Ran'Kara. When the battle turns against the Antarans, Worf is forced into a duel with one of the best Romulan fighters ever seen: Maiek. Has the battle already been lost, or will Maiek finally meet the edge of Worf's bat'leth?

Variant covers (click to embiggen):

Cover B by Marcus To

Retailer Incentive cover by Declan Shalvey

Previous comic release: Star Trek #25

Next comic release: Star Trek: Lower Decks #1

Lower Decks: Warp Your Own Way - Out Today!

Star Trek: Lower Decks
Warp Your Own Way

Written by Ryan North
Art by Chris Fenoglio

This week sees the release of the first two episodes of Star Trek: Lower Decks' fifth season on Paramount+, but that's not the only Lower Decks goodness you can experience!

Today, an "interactive graphic novel" set aboard the U.S.S. Cerritos is released, featuring an adventure akin to the old "Choose Your Own Adventure" novels. Definitely a unique story for Star Trek, and one I'm interested in checking out.

Read below for the publisher's description and links to purchase from Amazon!

Publisher's description:

Warp into the action with Star Trek’s first-ever interactive original graphic novel!

Mariner just wants to have a normal day, but no matter what side of the bed she wakes up on, the world is ending. Literally. If she has coffee, Borg attack! If she has raktajino, cue the Romulan boarding party! And in each scenario, Mariner and her friends end up dead, sometimes the ship is destroyed—and the day starts all over again.

But by exploring the different paths, you, the reader, can discover things that Mariner can’t. There are inconsistencies that don’t make sense—putting aside the fact that Mariner’s choice of drink each morning shouldn’t affect which alien races attack the ship, other facts of her world seem to change too. Something is definitely off. It’s up to you to discover!

Purchase Star Trek: Lower Decks: Warp Your Own Way:

Trade Paperback: Amazon.com | Amazon.ca | Amazon.co.uk

E-book (Kindle): Amazon.com | Amazon.ca | Amazon.co.uk

Previous Release: Star Trek, Vol. 3: Glass and Bone

Next Release: Star Trek: Year Five Deluxe Edition - Book Two

 

New Comic Day! Star Trek #25

Star Trek #25
When the Walls Fell Part 1

It's a new story arc in issue #25 of the ongoing Star Trek flagship comic series!

Lore is wreaking havoc across reality, and Sisko and his crew are caught in the middle with an all-new story arc titled "When the Walls Fell"!

As always, you can check out the cover art, publisher's description, and links to purchase the digital edition from Amazon below.

Written by Collin Kelly & Jackson Lanzing

Art by Liana Kangas

Cover A by Ramon Rosanas

Purchase:

Digital (Kindle): Amazon.com | Amazon.ca | Amazon.co.uk

Official synopsis:

NEW ARC STARTS HERE! The android Lore has done the unthinkable: He has detonated the Orb of Destruction, unmaking the universe. After an extra-galactic tumble on the ensuing shockwave, the Theseus sinks into fluidic space. There, the crew melds in and out of a manifold of realities. Benjamin Sisko is against a godkiller once again, but this time it’s up to him alone to save reality itself!

Variant covers (click to embiggen):

Cover B by Liana Kangas

Retailer Incentive cover by Jake Bartok

Previous comic release: Star Trek #24 & Star Trek: Defiant #19

Next comic release: Star Trek: Defiant #20

Star Trek: Volume 3 is Out Today!

Star Trek, Volume 3:
Glass and Bone

Written by Collin Kelly & Jackson Lanzing

The third volume of the ongoing Star Trek flagship comic series from IDW is out today! Star Trek, Volume 3: Glass and Bone collects issues 13-18 of the series. The paperback and e-book editions are available from Amazon, but IDW has also released an exclusive hardcover edition on their website, so your collection can continue if you picked up the first two hardcovers!

Check out the back cover blurb below, along with links to purchase the trade paperback and Kindle editions from Amazon. I will also provide a link to the hardcover on IDW's website below!

Trade Paperback cover

Hardcover edition, available exclusively on IDW's website

Publisher's description:

The third arc of the critically acclaimed Star Trek flagship comic series continues in paperback collection! Benjamin Sisko is called out of retirement to defeat the Tzenkethi Coalition!

Captain Benjamin Sisko’s quest to defeat the killer of gods is at an end, and the Prophets beckon him home to the Celestial Temple. He’s earned his rest, but he no longer wants to retire into godhood. So when Starfleet requests his help to stop a familiar foe, the Tzenkethi Coalition, from launching their fleet across the Alpha Quadrant, Sisko and the Theseus’ crew set out to once again save the galaxy. They team up with Operative Kingsnake (a.k.a. HARRY KIM), but the Tzenkethi leader has surprising allies of his own: the Romulans! There’s a reason this species of spiritually rich, lizard birds has twice defeated Starfleet in battle. They’re xenophobic, ruthless, and innovative...and confronting them on their home turf, a planet thought to be an organism itself, is a death sentence.

In this paperback follow up to Star Trek, Vol. 1: Godshock and Vol. 2: The Red Path, Volume 3 collects Star Trek issues #13–18 by writers Collin Kelly & Jackson Lanzing with artist Marcus To.

Purchase Star Trek, Vol. 3: Glass and Bone:

Trade Paperback: Amazon.com | Amazon.ca | Amazon.co.uk

E-book (Kindle): Amazon.com | Amazon.ca | Amazon.co.uk

Hardcover: IDWPublishing.com

Previous Release: Open a Channel: A Woman's Trek by Nana Visitor & Star Trek: Library Collection, Vol. 3

Next Release: Lower Decks: Warp Your Own Way

 

Nana Visitor's New Book Out Today! Plus: New IDW Library Collection

Another double Trek book release day today, one of which has been a long time coming! Out today is Nana Visitor's new book, along with a new IDW Library collection!

Star Trek:
Open a Channel:
A Woman's Trek

by Nana Visitor

I've been looking forward to this one for some time. Originally planned to be released under Eaglemoss's publishing imprint, this book was delayed for quite awhile due to the end of Eaglemoss as a company. Finally, it is now out and we can all appreciate Nana Visitor's hard work in putting this great book together! I've already read a bit of it, and I have to say that if you are at all a fan of Star Trek, this book belongs in your library!

Check out the back cover blurb below, along with links to purchase the hardcover and Kindle editions from Amazon!

Publisher's description:

Nana Visitor, Star Trek’s Kira Nerys, explores how the series has portrayed and influenced women. Interviews with the stars, writers, producers, and celebrity fans reveal the struggles and triumphs of women both behind and in front of the camera throughout the sixty-year history of Star Trek, and how they have mirrored the experiences of women everywhere.

Nana visitor, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’s Kira Nerys, explores how the series has portrayed and influenced women. Interviews—with the stars, writers, producers, and audience members from all walks of life, including a politician and an astronaut—highlight the struggles and triumphs of women both behind and in front of the camera throughout the sixty-year history of Star Trek, and how they have mirrored the experiences of women everywhere.

The groundbreaking casting of Nichelle Nichols as Lt. Uhura in 1966 was a paradigm shift for women and people of color. Pioneering is no picnic, and she planned to leave the show until none other than the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. contextualized her appearance in people’s living rooms across America as a way for people of color to know they were indeed an important part of the future.

Since then, each Star Trek show has both reflected the values of its time and imagined a future of equality. In her first book, Open a Channel: A Woman’s Trek, Nana Visitor sets out to discover both how Star Trek led the way for women, and how each show was trapped in its own era.

For Visitor, this is more than a book about Star Trek. It’s also about how society and the stories we tell have evolved in the last sixty years, and how the role of women has changed in that time.

STAR AUTHOR: Written by Star Trek: Deep Space Nine actor Nana Visitor, famous for playing Major Kira Nerys. This is both her story and her journey through the stories of other women involved with Star Trek from the 1960s to the 21st century.

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS: Features interviews with more than a dozen women who starred in Star Trek, including Kate Mulgrew, Sonequa Martin-Green, Terry Farrell, Gates McFadden, Denise Crosby, Tawny Newsome, and Jess Bush.

INSPIRING STORIES: Explore how Star Trek has influenced women in the real world, including soldiers, scientists, and even astronauts. For the book, author Nana Visitor visited ESA HQ and interviewed astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti while she was in orbit around Earth on the International Space Station.

PIONEERING SERIES: Following the humanistic tenets of creator Gene Roddenberry, Star Trek, throughout the decades, led the way in promoting diversity. Youths who grew up with Captain Janeway on Star Trek: Voyager, for example, not only learned to accept a woman as a leader but were also able to expand what they could imagine for themselves. The book makes clear how important storytelling is, and how the storytelling of Star Trek has had a profound effect on its audience.

Purchase Star Trek: Open a Channel: A Woman's Trek:

Hardcover: Amazon.com | Amazon.ca | Amazon.co.uk

E-book (Kindle): Amazon.com | Amazon.ca | Amazon.co.uk

Also out today is the third installment of IDW's Star Trek Library series, collecting the various Star Trek comic miniseries from the past few years:

Star Trek:
Library Collection, Vol. 3

The third Library Collection from IDW is out now, featuring several Alien Spotlight one-shots as well as the Star Trek: Year Four comic series. Enjoy the collection of stories by writers such as the legendary D.C. Fontana, comic writers Scott & David Tipton, and David Messina, among many others.

Check out the back cover blurb below, along with links to purchase the paperback and e-book from Amazon.

Publisher's description:

Delve into the history of IDW’s Star Trek comics! Discover series you may have missed or revisit some old favorites in Year Four, Year Four—The Enterprise Experiment, and Alien Spotlight one-shots featuring Vulcans and the Gorn.

The Star Trek Library Collection is a comprehensive line of books that will collect every Star Trek miniseries published by IDW! In Volume 3, read a selection of the Alien Spotlight one-shots and the entirety of the Star Trek: Year Four series.

First, two series set during the fourth year of the U.S.S. Enterprise’s five-year mission! In Star Trek: Year Four the Enterprise encounters a strange series of planets, arranged to look like a strand of DNA floating through space. The crew can’t help but explore once Spock realizes that the desolate structure once supported more than 800 billion beings in the past. By David Tischman, Leonard O’Grady, Steve Conley, Gordon Purcell, and Joe & Rob Sharp. In a sequel to “The Enterprise Incident,” The Enterprise Experiment details the Federation’s experiments with a Romulan cloaking device, by D.C. Fontana, Derek Chester, and Gordon Purcell.

Also collected are two one-shots featuring Vulcans and the Gorn! A Starfleet starship arrives at a planet on the brink of its own destruction. A once peaceful society is now savage and warlike linking itself to the turmoiled past of the Vulcans, by James Patrick and Josep Maria Beloy. Then, after their shuttlecraft crash-lands on an uncharted planet, Captain Terrell and Commander Chekov calculate that their odds of survival are somewhat decreased when they find themselves facing off against an army of Gorn warriors, by Scott & David Tipton and David Messina.

Purchase Star Trek Library Collection, Vol. 3:

Trade Paperback: Amazon.com | Amazon.ca | Amazon.co.uk

E-book (Kindle): Amazon.com | Amazon.ca | Amazon.co.uk

Previous Release: Picard: No Man's Land & Star Trek Vol. 2: The Red Path

Next Release: Star Trek: Vol. 3: Glass and Bone

 

New Trek Comics This Week: Star Trek & Star Trek: Defiant's Latest Issues

It's a double-dose of Star Trek comic goodness this week as both the ongoing Star Trek flagship series and Star Trek: Defiant have new issues out on newsstands! 

Star Trek #24
Pleroma Part 6

The Pleroma story arc comes to a close in issue #24 of Star Trek. 

All of time and space is in peril as Captain Sisko and the crew of the U.S.S. Theseus are all that stand in the way of total destruction!

As always, you can check out the cover art, publisher's description, and links to purchase the digital edition from Amazon below.

Written by Collin Kelly & Jackson Lanzing

Art by Megan Levens

Cover A by Megan Levens

Purchase:

Digital (Kindle): Amazon.com | Amazon.ca | Amazon.co.uk

Official synopsis:

Reality has literally begun collapsing around Captain Sisko and the U.S.S. Theseus crew as they race through space and, one by one, witness the gods be annihilated by the new godkiller! The detonation of a god-scale bomb at the Pleroma started a chain reaction beginning the unraveling of time and space. But the Theseus crew are Starfleet officers ready to step up to the plate and boldly take on the unknown, and their captain is a prophet ready to embrace his godhood for the sake of the universe…or else!

Variant covers (click to embiggen):

Cover B by Malachi Ward

Retailer Incentive cover by J.J. Lendl

Also out this week: Star Trek: Defiant #19!

Star Trek: Defiant #19
The Stars of Home Part 3

In this week's issue of Star Trek: Defiant, a few familiar faces show up as the crew of the Defiant deal with the unfolding situations on Antara and Romulus!

Below you will find the cover art, publisher's description, and links to purchase the digital edition from Amazon.

Written by Christopher Cantwell

Art by Ángel Unzueta

Cover A by Ángel Unzueta

Purchase:

Digital (Kindle): Amazon.com | Amazon.ca | Amazon.co.uk

Official synopsis:

Miles O'Brien and his trusty holo-helm set course for the planet Antara as Romulan forces prepare to besiege the population with Worf, B'Elanna, and Ro among them. A menacing Romulan blockade stands between him and his friends, but as he braces to brave the Romulans alone, matters are further complicated when an old friend – none other than Dr. Julian Bashir – delivers an urgent message from Section 31. Meanwhile, on Romulus, Commander Sela and Spock uncover a dark secret that General Revo is willing to kill to keep secret!

Variant covers (click to embiggen):

Cover B by Justin Mason

Retailer Incentive cover by Declan Shalvey

Previous comic release: Star Trek Issue 500

Next comic release: Star Trek #25

New Releases: Picard - No Man's Land & Star Trek Vol. 2: The Red Path

Two new book releases today: a paperback adaptation of the Star Trek: Picard: No Man's Land audio drama by Kirsten Beyer and Mike Johnson, as well as the re-release of Star Trek: Volume 2: The Red Path in paperback format! First up: No Man's Land!

Star Trek: Picard
No Man's Land

by Kirsten Beyer & Mike Johnson

The paperback adaptation of 2022's Star Trek: Picard audio drama, No Man's Land, officially hits shelves today, although it has already been spied in the wild. 

Check out the back cover blurb below, along with links to purchase the trade paperback edition from Amazon!

Publisher's description:

Star Trek: No Man’s Land picks up right after the action-packed season one conclusion of Star Trek: Picard. While Raffi and Seven of Nine are enjoying some much-needed R&R in Raffi’s remote hideaway, their downtime is interrupted by an urgent cry for help: a distant, beleaguered planet has enlisted the Fenris Rangers to save an embattled evacuation effort. As Raffi and Seven team up to rescue a mysteriously ageless professor whose infinity-shaped talisman has placed him in the deadly sights of a vicious Romulan warlord, they take tentative steps to explore the attraction depicted in the final moments of Picard season one. Based on the hit audio original, fans can now read this riveting script with fan-favorite characters.

Purchase Star Trek: Picard: No Man's Land:

Trade Paperback: Amazon.com | Amazon.ca | Amazon.co.uk

Star Trek Vol. 2
The Red Path

Written by Collin Kelly & Jackson Lanzing

Another re-release is out today, in this case the trade paperback edition of the second arc in the ongoing Star Trek comic series from IDW. The Red Path collects issues 7-10 of the current ongoing flagship Star Trek comic series as well as the 2023 Star Trek Annual. This collection was previously released as a hardcover, and is now available in the less-expensive trade paperback edition.

Check out the back cover blurb below, along with links to purchase from Amazon.

Publisher's description:

The second arc of the critically acclaimed Star Trek flagship comic series continues with Benjamin Sisko’s quest to stop celestial genocide! Now available in gorgeous softcover format with new cover.

Sisko returns to Deep Space 9, and it’s the family reunion we’ve all been waiting for—or is it? As Sisko reckons with the sins of his past, the Theseus travels to a mysterious corner of Cardassian space to uncover the secrets of the Prophets…and learn how far the Red Path have infiltrated the galaxy!

In the follow up to Star Trek, Vol. 1: Godshock, Volume 2 collects Star Trek issues #7–10 and the 2023 Star Trek Annual by writers Collin Kelly & Jackson Lanzing (Star Trek: Year Five) with artists Mike Feehan and Rachael Stott.

Purchase Star Trek Vol. 2: The Red Path:

Trade Paperback: Amazon.com | Amazon.ca | Amazon.co.uk

Previous Release: Star Trek: Vol. 1: Godshock

Next Release: Open a Channel: A Woman's Trek