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2026 Novel Releases

Not necessarily, Pocket has relased a TNG, and a DS9 novel over the last few years, and IDW has been releasing TNG, DS9 and Voyager comics. They're in the midst of a Voyager: Homecoming comic, which is a new version of Voyager's return home that has nothing to do with the novel of the same name.
I haven't read that one, but I just finished rereading their last Voyager comic, Seven's Reckoning, which was really good. Their most recent DS9 comic, The Dog of War was absolutely fantastic, I especially recommend it if you're a dog person.
IDW has also been doing their own original series, like the crossover Star Trek (no subtitle) ongoing series and it's Defiant spinoff. The main series focused on Sisko, who returns from the wormhole and puts together a new crew consisting of himself, Worf, Data, Crusher, Paris, and Scotty. It then spun off into the Defiant series, which featured Worf, Ro Laren, Lore, Spock and I think Sela. I haven't read them, but they do have their fans.
They're also currently doing a Red Shirts series, which focuses on an original Orignal Series era Red Shirt officers on a dangerous mission involving spies. This one does get pretty gory at times, so if that isn't you're thing you might want to avoid it.
I noticed you didn't mention Lower Decks, and as a huge, HUGE fan of that series, I'd highly recommend the Lower Decks comics. The first miniseries, and the early issue by Ryan North are absolutely fanatastic, and the more recent issue by Tyler Sheridan haven't been quite as good, but definitely still worth reading. North also wrote the first ever "interactive graphic novel" for Trek, Lower Decks: Warp Your Own Way, which won the Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story, and it is absolutely amazing.
 
Not necessarily, Pocket has relased a TNG, and a DS9 novel over the last few years

Yeah, except it's Gallery Books now. Pocket Books is Simon & Schuster's mass market paperback imprint (indeed, it was the company that first introduced books of that size to the US market, hence the name), and Gallery Books is the trade paperback imprint. Since Trek books are all TPBs these days, that puts them under Gallery. (For that matter, as the company is currently organized, both Gallery Books and Pocket Books are imprints of the Gallery Publishing Group.)
 
Not necessarily, Pocket has relased a TNG, and a DS9 novel over the last few years, and IDW has been releasing TNG, DS9 and Voyager comics. They're in the midst of a Voyager: Homecoming comic, which is a new version of Voyager's return home that has nothing to do with the novel of the same name.
I haven't read that one, but I just finished rereading their last Voyager comic, Seven's Reckoning, which was really good. Their most recent DS9 comic, The Dog of War was absolutely fantastic, I especially recommend it if you're a dog person.
IDW has also been doing their own original series, like the crossover Star Trek (no subtitle) ongoing series and it's Defiant spinoff. The main series focused on Sisko, who returns from the wormhole and puts together a new crew consisting of himself, Worf, Data, Crusher, Paris, and Scotty. It then spun off into the Defiant series, which featured Worf, Ro Laren, Lore, Spock and I think Sela. I haven't read them, but they do have their fans.
They're also currently doing a Red Shirts series, which focuses on an original Orignal Series era Red Shirt officers on a dangerous mission involving spies. This one does get pretty gory at times, so if that isn't you're thing you might want to avoid it.
I noticed you didn't mention Lower Decks, and as a huge, HUGE fan of that series, I'd highly recommend the Lower Decks comics. The first miniseries, and the early issue by Ryan North are absolutely fanatastic, and the more recent issue by Tyler Sheridan haven't been quite as good, but definitely still worth reading. North also wrote the first ever "interactive graphic novel" for Trek, Lower Decks: Warp Your Own Way, which won the Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story, and it is absolutely amazing.
I can go for comics if they have good stories without current trends of doom-and-gloom, are well-drawn and the characters looks like they should look.

I'll probably avoid the Voyager ones since Kes won't be in them but the DS9 could be interesting. In that case I hope that garak will be in them, alive, well and not ruined.
 
Considering that Starfleet Academy is supposed to release in January, I wouldn't be surprised if there's a novel for it before year's end. It'd make sense, at the least, to see something related to the new series within the first year of release.

I realize it's probably more pipe dream than anything else, considering the way the general reception ended up, but I would actually be interested in some kind of tie-in with the 31 movie, if only because I think there were interesting elements in it that I'd like to see explored more somewhere in the franchise.
 
Something I really appreciate! :techman:

I suppose that it's about Kirk, Spock and the others, well what I consider as real TOS and not about NuTrek and invented characters from SNW and similar shows.

Thanks for the kind words, but, honestly, I think of it as having plenty of fun new toys to play with.

True story: Years ago, some irate fan vowed to boycott any Trek novels that treated DISCO as "canon." I immediately inserted a couple of gratuitous, throwaway references to DISCO into the TOS book I was working on at the time, because I wasn't about to be bullied by "canon" purists.

It's all "Star Trek" to me.
 
It's funny because these things move in cycles, of course. Nowadays, people complain if you throw a reference to Disco or SNW into your "proper" TNG or Enterprise novel... twenty-five years ago on this very forum, people were complaining when Dayton Ward had the temerity to name-drop Archer in In the Name of Honor.
 
It's funny because these things move in cycles, of course. Nowadays, people complain if you throw a reference to Disco or SNW into your "proper" TNG or Enterprise novel... twenty-five years ago on this very forum, people were complaining when Dayton Ward had the temerity to name-drop Archer in In the Name of Honor.

Yep, and people in 1979-82 were writing angry letters to magazines about how the movies weren't "real Trek" and should be ignored.

Before the movies, fans mostly just got angry at how bad season 3 was.
 
I realize it's probably more pipe dream than anything else, considering the way the general reception ended up, but I would actually be interested in some kind of tie-in with the 31 movie, if only because I think there were interesting elements in it that I'd like to see explored more somewhere in the franchise.

As much as I disliked the movie, I do tend to think it might have worked a lot better in the original format of a whole season of a show. So if they did a book, or series of books, where the gimmick was that they fleshed out the story to represent what was originally intended when it was supposed to be ~10 hours of show, I’d buy it/them.

As you say, though, probably not happening, as they wouldn’t want to take such a financial risk when the movie did so poorly.
 
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