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New this week:


New Trek stuff by Ian McLean, on Flickr

IDW "Star Trek" trade omnibuses for "Lore War" (top left) and "Shax's Worst & Best Day" (top right), plus the alternate cover for "The Last Starship" #4. Also received a few extra autographed trading cards.

Also, from the "Stalled Trek" team:

Stalled Trek: The Dumbsday Machine

The final episode of my trilogy of animated puppet parodies of classic Trek episodes is going up on YouTube on October 20! Stalled Trek: The Dumbsday Machine is obviously a parody of The Doomsday Machine and October 20 marks the anniversary of that episode's premiere date. Stalled Trek...

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New stuff! by Ian McLean, on Flickr

"The Filmation Music of Ray Ellis" CD (Retrograde Records, 2025), with soundtrack music for "Star Trek: The Animated Series", "Flash Gordon", "Jason of Star Command", "Shazam", "The Secrets of Isis" and "The New Adventures of Heckle & Jeckle".

Plus the long-awaited arrival of the Kickstarter project, "Black Mirror: USS Callister", a graphic novel (Twisted Comics, 2025) by Neil Gibson & Silvano Beltramo, based on the dark parody of "Star Trek" featured on the UK TV anthology series; plus collectable Callister insignia pin.

Also arrived: "Mirror, Mirror" anthology of short stories (Strange Particle Press, 2014) is the first collection of Jerome Bixby's science fiction in nearly fifty years, showcasing some of his best work. Features four stories made immortal by TV. Elements from two of these stories, "One-Way Street" and "Mirror, Mirror," were woven into the Hugo Award-winning "Star Trek" episode, which gave birth to the evil mirror universe populated by sinister facsimiles of Kirk, Spock and the crew of the USS Enterprise. Another, "Cargo to Callisto", became the basis for the "Star Trek" episode, "By Any Other Name". "It's a Good Life" won immortality as an episode of "The Twilight Zone". The anthology includes 11 other short stories and is edited and introduced by his son, screenwriter and producer Emerson Bixby.

From the Introduction by Emerson Bixby: "Dad and I also wrote a sequel to Dad's "Mirror, Mirror", which will hopefully be included in this book..." [It isn't, sigh.] "Taking place in TNG's time, "Broken Mirror" posed the question, what if Kirk and Scotty screwed up 70 years ago when they returned from the Mirror Universe? What if they left the door to both Universes open, and matter from each universe has been seeping into its opposite? What if a bearded Vulcan begins tracking down the original landing party in an attempt to prevent both universes' destruction? Roddenberry loved it, but at the time Shatner was misdirecting 'Trek V' and his fee for a five minute cameo just wasn't feasible. Bummer." [pp 11-12.]

 

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"The Filmation Music of Ray Ellis" CD (Retrograde Records, 2025), with soundtrack music for "Star Trek: The Animated Series", "Flash Gordon", "Jason of Star Command", "Shazam", "The Secrets of Isis" and "The New Adventures of Heckle & Jeckle".

Aaaaaaaaaaah!!!!!! Thank you for telling me this exists! I've ordered my copy. Flash Gordon is possibly my favorite Filmation score, and it's great news that the non-Trek scores come from actual master tapes (albeit mono) rather than being reconstructed from episode audio.

 

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The latest "Star Trek" comics from IDW: "Lower Decks" #16 and "Voyager: Homecoming" #5.


New IDW Trek comics by Ian McLean, on Flickr

 

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Got this gem for $3

 

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From IDW this week: "Star Trek: The Last Starship" #5.


New from IDW by Ian McLean, on Flickr