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The current coronavirus pandemic in Canada and the wider world has made me think of a few things. One of these is the apparently overlooked story "So Near the Touch", the story in the first annual of the second DC Comics run of Star Trek comics published in July 1990. Co-written by George Takei...

I know that I am not alone in reading, in the particular intensity of the exchanges between Seven of Nine and Bjayzl in "Stardust City Rag", hints of a past intimate relationship. It would have been nice, to be sure, if they had come out and said what they were hinting at; but then, they were...

As I mentioned before on my blog, starting in the late 1980s and continuing into the mid-1990s, I bought Star Trek tie-in novels consistently. I bought only the tie-in novels of shows actively running. I stopped buying Star Trek: The Next Generation novels at #37 or so, while with Deep Space...

One of the major events occurring during Destiny's Borg invasion of the Federation and neighbours was the last-minute sparing, by Erika Hernandez, of five major worlds from obliteration. These worlds--Vulcan, Andor, Rigel IV, Q'onoS, and Coridan Prime--were hit hard, with tens if not hundreds of...

Via Una McCormack's Facebook page I came across a link at The Paris Review to an article in The Guardian by one Damien Walter about the franchise novel. No mention of Star Trek fiction, alas. FYI.

Reading Tower of Babel, I made a connection in my head when I came to a mention of Kaferia, homeworld to Tau Cetian insectoids. I've been a longstanding fan of the 1980s RPG 2300AD, set in the year of the title in a human civilization that recovered from global war to starflight and...

So. in A Ceremony of Losses, wherein Bashir gets access to the entire Shedai meta-genome, Sarina Douglas warns him that if Section 31 suspects that the meta-genome might get out it will not only kill anyone who might possibly have accessed the data, it would also probably commit genocide against...

Re-reading The Crimson Shadow, one of the many small things that pop out for me is the character of Lieutenant Aneta Šmrhová. She has a nice bit of development in this novel, especially in her exchanges with Worf and Dygan: passionate, focused, willing to bend the rules. I like her. There's...

The Last Generation, an entry in the Myriad Universes line scripted by Andrew Steven Harris and illustrated by Gordon Purcell, stands out for a few reasons. For starters, it's the only graphic novel entry in the Myriad Universes series, the only one published by IDW instead of Pocket, and--so...

I was paging through my copy of the classic ]Star Trek Spaceflight Chronology when I found, in the space for 2109, a description of the Battle of Cheron wherein Federation squadrons crushingly defeated the Romulans. This was noteworthy to me since the first mention of the Battle of Cheron on...

Two issues that came up in February's Dark Mirror discussion thread related to Commander Hwiii ih'iie-uUlak!ha', more commonly Hwiii, a delphine physicist. A Googling revealed an entry for the character at the ErrantryWiki. The article goes on to mention that Duane wrote Hwiii into Dark...

I've gotten an advance copy of the new novel by Karen Lord, The Best of All Possible Worlds. The novel isn't set in the Star Trek universe, but it's very close, a sort of mashup of Star Trek with Ursula K. Le Guin's Ekumen, one where the galaxy is home to multiple human subspecies of which...

I first encountered British-American science fiction writer James Blish through his involvement in Trek, specifically through his TOS novelizations. One Christmas when I was very young, I got for a present Bantam Books' 1991 three-volume republication of his novelizations, one thick paperback...

There's not much more about Olivia Woods to be found than what's listed in Memory Alpha and Memory Beta or in the back of her novels, and her name hasn't come up in the recent discussions I've taken part in. I find this a bit mysterious. I quite enjoyed both her novels: the flipbook Fearful...

I recently posted a review at my blog of the Star Trek Spaceflight Chronology, drawing from this 2011 discussion thread. It made me wondering about some of its legacies. As KingDaniel noted at the time, the Spaceflight Chronology had a considerable influence on the loose Pocket Books novel...

One thing that came up in the discussion thread on Dark Mirror that I started up yesterday was the topic of multiple sapient species existing on a single world. (Cetaceans came up initially, but as the discussion progressed all sorts of reasonably intelligent, communicative, even tool-using...

Diane Duane's 1993 Dark Mirror is one of the select Trek novels to have its own Wikipedia article. That speaks to the high quality of this novel, the first to take a look at (a) Mirror Universe in the 24th century. Dark Mirror is set largely in the mirror universe of the original series, where...

The Cold Equations series has gone into more detail about the divisions inside the Typhon Pact. Next year's Fall series, taking in crews from all the different series as the galaxy reacts to a barbarous act allegedly commtted by the Pact, may see the pact shatter. Broadly speaking, there seem...

The recently reanimated thread about the 1980s novel continuity, ancestral in spirit and in detail to the current one, made me wonder. What elements of the old continuity have made it into the current one? The best example I can think of is the Rihannsu, Diane Duane's depiction of Romulan...

I raise the question evidenced in the title because it's been said repeatedly in the criticism of Fallen Gods that Martin's solo work falls below the standards he set in his former collaboration with Mangels. I'm not clear, though, as to how exactly Mangels/Martin and Martin solo actually...