2026 Novel Releases

[Ronald Held]

3 novels a year seems way too little.

 

[Greg Cox]

The novel itself is most certainly legit. The only thing questionable is the release date, I wouldn't be too surprised if it were delayed a month or two. After all, SNW Ring of Fire, the upcoming TOS Identity Theft and Picard To Defy Fate have all had their release dates postponed by a month or two from the date that was originally announced, so a delay with this novel wouldn't be unprecedented.

I suspect some of those delays stem, at least in part, from Margaret Clark's sudden illness and death, which, understandably and tragically, disrupted the publication process.

 

[Mike Doyle]

@JD The Garak Book being referred to is ST: Picard: Second Self

 

[The Wormhole]

Found a listing for a somewhat unconventional Star Trek book. Once Upon a Stardate: Star Trek Fairy Tales currently due July 21 2026:

Transport yourself across the galaxy with this collection of illustrated Star Trek adventures, adapted from classic fairy tales and narrated by Lieutenant Commander Data.

Once Upon a Stardate collects beloved fairy tales from around our world, retold within the Star Trek universe. Familiar stories such as "Pinocchio," "The Emperor's New Clothes," and "Hansel and Gretel" take on new meaning as Data writes futuristic Starfleet-inspired versions of old Earth classics in an attempt to understand, and convey to the next generation, humanity’s lasting connection to storytelling.

Data reimagines stories from his adventures, as well as from Starfleet records, to create his own versions of:

• The Three Little Pigs: La’An, Chapel, and Ortegas defend the U.S.S. Enterprise while the other senior officers are on an away mission
• Rip Van Winkle: Scotty is trapped in a transporter pattern for decades and rematerializes on a different U.S.S. Enterprise than the one he knew
• Jack and the Beanstalk: Wesley Crusher attempts to outwit Q in order to share high-tech seeds with a struggling community
• The Pied Piper: Garak helps a Cardassian outpost deal with an infestation of tribbles
• And many more!

Each of these eighteen tales features characters, locations, and events from across all 60 years of Star Trek and are brought to life with original full-color illustrations. The tales are supplemented by fourteen shorter fables that share wisdom from some of Starfleet’s best-known captains: Kirk, Picard, Sisko, Janeway, Archer, Pike, and Burnham.

 

[TheUsualSuspect]

Once Upon a Stardate sounds like a wacky idea, but if it's done well, it could be quite fun and interesting. I guess we'll find out next summer.

 

[Smiley]

Robb Pearlman also helped create the Where's Waldo-like Search for Spock book, which I only learned existed today.

 

[JD]

That could be a lot of fun. I've never heard of Ten Speed Press, I'm assuming this is an official licensed release, and not just a fan thing?

 

[Extrocomp]

What's the point of the stories being written by Data? I've never liked the trope of fiction within fiction.

 

[Avro Arrow]

That could be a lot of fun. I've never heard of Ten Speed Press, I'm assuming this is an official licensed release, and not just a fan thing?

Ten Speed Press has been around a while, but it seems that they have primarily focused on cookbooks and business books. They're currently owned by Random House, so I would assume they would be smart enough to have their ducks in a row legally-speaking.

Robb Pearlman seems to have written a number of these kinds of books for different publishers (Cedar Mill Press, Insight Editions, Running Press, Little, Brown Books, etc), so maybe the licenses for these types of books are non-exclusive or case-by-case basis or something?

 

[JD]

Ok, good to know thanks.

 

[Enterprise1701]

I remember when Bernd Perplies and Christian Humberg landed the rare and apparently never-will-happen-again opportunity to write the German-original Star Trek: Prometheus trilogy for the 50th anniversary. What a glorious time that was! Alas.

 

[ryan123450]

Blurb for DS9: The Peacemakers-

It’s five years since the end of the Dominion War. Jake Sisko is back on Earth after a long journey round the Gamma Quadrant, finishing up his book about what life is like out there after the collapse of the Dominion. It looks like Jake has a great life—travel, success, and a writing career that’s going from strength to strength.

The only problem is—everyone wants a piece of Jake Sisko. Whether it’s Starfleet Intelligence, full of questions about his trip through the wormhole, or the Bajoran people, anxious to be close to the son of their departed Emissary, Jake is struggling to carve out space for himself.

Then there are the rumors Jake heard out in the Gamma Quadrant. Rumors about Starfleet, and his father, and their conduct during the war. Rumors which—if they turned out to be true—would rock the very foundations of Jake Sisko’s world…

Jake accepts an invitation to an arts festival on Cardassia Prime, hoping to get some distance between himself and his worries. But even here, the past won’t leave him alone. Starfleet Intelligence are still interested, and there are people on Cardassia, too, for whom Jake Sisko seems to offer unique opportunities to advance their agendas. Jake flees into the Cardassian desert, joining a tour of ancient archeological sites.

And then, when the party is isolated from the rest of the world, the murders begin…

Honestly doesn’t sound too interesting to me. I hope to be proven wrong.

 

[The Wormhole]

Sounds interesting to me, plus it will be interesting to get some insight into post-finale DS9 in what I'm presuming is continuity consistent with the modern shows.

 

[Reanok]

Wow! Both of these books I'm super excited about. especially a new DS9 novel with Jake Sisko. It's been forever since we had a new DS9 book featuring Jake Sisko taking place after the Dominion sounds intriguing.

 

[DGCatAniSiri]

Sounds interesting to me, plus it will be interesting to get some insight into post-finale DS9 in what I'm presuming is continuity consistent with the modern shows.

Agreed. Even seems to have the potential to at least shoutout the First Splinter timeline - Jake adventuring in the Gamma Quadrant could easily have a reference or two to Rising Son.

Five years after the Dominion War would be roughly around the same time as the Lower Decks episode that visited DS9. Granted, it sounds like the bulk of this will be spent with Jake on Cardassia, rather than DS9, but I would expect Jake would at least visit the station.

I do wonder if this will take the comics featuring both Jake and Captain Sisko into account, given Jake having a serious role there, so contributing to his post-DS9 development. It’s not been tradition for the comics and novels to be that connected, but we have seen more connective tissue between mediums in recent years.

 

[Extrocomp]

In What You Leave Behind, Sisko suggested he could be back in a year, but for some reason only the Novelverse made it happen. In IDW continuity, he came back after 3 years and in Star Trek Online continuity, it's been 36 years and he still hasn't come back.

And now the blurb of The Peacemakers says it's been 5 years since the end of the Dominion War and refers to Sisko as a "departed Emissary".

If I remember correctly, it was Avery Brooks who suggested the line about Sisko coming back in a year because he didn't want to fulfill the stereotype of a black man abandoning his pregnant girlfriend/wife.

 

[Christopher]

If I remember correctly, it was Avery Brooks who suggested the line about Sisko coming back in a year because he didn't want to fulfill the stereotype of a black man abandoning his pregnant girlfriend/wife.

Yes, though the line was actually "Maybe a year, maybe yesterday." There was uncertainty in how long it would take, but the intent was certainly not that he'd be gone long enough to miss seeing his new child grow up.

 

[FredH]

Yes, though the line was actually "Maybe a year, maybe yesterday." There was uncertainty in how long it would take, but the intent was certainly not that he'd be gone long enough to miss seeing his new child grow up.

Then again, if he came back “yesterday”, maybe that split off another timeline where there were two of him for a day and his family effectively never lost him, while in “our” timeline he never returns.

Of course I realize it’s just a line to hedge with, and being in the finale, it was never seriously meant for a followup anyway.

 

[Christopher]

Then again, if he came back “yesterday”, maybe that split off another timeline where there were two of him for a day and his family effectively never lost him, while in “our” timeline he never returns.

I think that he'd more likely follow Starfleet temporal displacement protocol and just lay low for a day so as not to disrupt causality. After all, what good does it do to return in one timeline if there's still a timeline where his daughter grows up without a father?

 

[FredH]

I think that he'd more likely follow Starfleet temporal displacement protocol and just lay low for a day so as not to disrupt causality. After all, what good does it do to return in one timeline if there's still a timeline where his daughter grows up without a father?

True. Though I remember getting the possibly-unsupported feeling during his last scene with Kassidy that, seeing things from a higher level as he was now, “our” linear time was a bit more blurred and dreamlike for him now, and he was saying that it might be a year or yesterday because he couldn’t actually specify exactly when he’d reappear.