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[Therin of Andor]

Star Trek: The Official Poster Collection by Ian McLean, on Flickr

It’s so rare these days to walk into a bookshop and see a new “Star Trek” book you had no idea was coming! “The Official Poster Collection” (Insight Editions, June 2018) contains 32 removable posters, including TOS publicity stills and artwork, selected episode posters by Juan Ortiz, and movie posters (although “First Contact” seems to be standing in for “Generations”).

 

[BillJ]

The Star Trek: Spaceflight Chronology by Stan & Fred Goldstein and @Rick Sternbach arrived today. Have always wanted this book and got this copy for $12 (plus $5 shipping) through an Amazon third-party seller.

It is in incredibly good shape for a near-40 year old book.

This has quickly become one of my favorite Trek books, ever. So much good stuff, it feels like an actual trip through the evolution of starships and ship-based technology.

I wished the shows had been this inventive in the evolution of the Star Trek universe.

 

[BillJ]

Picked up "Strangers from the Sky" and "The Wounded Sky" for my Kindle.

 

[Therin of Andor]

The magazine version of the hardcover is pretty!


"Discovery: Making of Season 1" magazine by Ian McLean, on Flickr

Also out this week: IDW's "TNG: Terra Incognita" #3; Titan's Star Trek Magazine #68; and IDW's trade omnibus of "TNG: Through the Mirror".


New Trek by Ian McLean, on Flickr

 

[Therin of Andor]

"Prometheus: The Root of All Rage" by Bernd Perplies & Christian Humberg by Ian McLean, on Flickr

I realised recently that I hadn't managed to secure Titan’s English translation of Book 2 of the German language novel trilogy, “Prometheus”! After collecting it from the bookshop last night, I noticed that the cast list (of this and the previous book) featured an Andorian crew member, Shantherin th'Talias - 24th century namesake of Shantherin th'Clane?

UPDATE: Bernd Perplies just told me that it was his German translation of "Paths of Disharmony" for CrossCult that led to a character in the "Prometheus" novel trilogy being named Shantherin th'Talias after the original Shantherin th'Clane. Squeeee!

 

[Reanok]

The second Prometheus book is a really good book. I really enjoyed it. I'm looking forward to getting book 3 The Heart of Chaos in November. I got the new Star Trek magazine I reallly enjoyed all the articles about the Mirror universe episodes Especially the Enterprise In a mirror darkly and building the Defiant set photos.

 

[Therin of Andor]

William Shatner's "Live Long and... What I Learned Along the Way" hardcover (St Martin's Press) cowritten with David Fisher, plus the 5-hour audio CD set, narrated by Shatner himself.


Live Long memoir by Ian McLean, on Flickr

 

[Therin of Andor]

New this week!

Four cover choices for Issue #1 of "Star Trek vs Transformers". Two covers join to create a diptych. (My comic shop didn't have a spare cover of the one used a few weeks ago by "Comic Shop News". Yet.)


IDW TAS vs Transformers by Ian McLean, on Flickr

I did not acquire the book below, but it might be of interest to notaphilists. Here is a book, in a slipcase, by the New Zealand Mint. (Legal tender on the island of Niue!) The book includes a silver bank note featuring Captain Kirk, plus a paragraph of text about him. It also has blank pages to add more character notes as they are released.


Silver Kirk note by Ian McLean, on Flickr


Silver Kirk note book by Ian McLean, on Flickr
https://www.nzmint.com/coin-collections/star-trek-original-series-captain-kirk-5g-silver-coin-note

A paperback version of the Picard biography also came out this week.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Sorry this post makes three-in-a-row in my thread, but new stuff came to Sydney this week:


Art of John Eaves and Stellar Cartography by Ian McLean, on Flickr

New this week: "Star Trek: The Art of John Eaves" by Joe Nazarro (Titan, Nov 2018), "Please Stand By" DVD (the Trek homage movie featuring "Into Darkness" star, Alice Eve, finally getting its Australian debut!) and the revised edition of "Star Trek: Stellar Cartography" by Larry Nemecek (Epic Ink, 2018).


Stellar Cartography inside by Ian McLean, on Flickr

 

[Reanok]

I got the new Star trek Tos 2019 calendar. I'm glad I finally found one at a local store.It's nice to have one again.

 

[Therin of Andor]

New this week: IDW's "Succession", an omnibus of the "Star Trek: Discovery" Mirror Universe comic mini-series and Annual #1 (origin of Stamets & Culber) by Kirsten Beyer & Mike Johnson; plus the expanded and updated trivia book, "Obsessed with Star Trek", by Chip Carter (Titan Books, 2018). 200 extra questions in trade paperback, of the 2011 hardcover! (Note: The original book had come with an electronic scoring module for readers to quiz themselves or compete against a friend.)


New Trek by Ian McLean, on Flickr

 

[Jinn]

IDW's "Succession", an omnibus of the "Star Trek: Discovery" Mirror Universe comic mini-series

It also includes the 2018 Discovery Annual

 

[Therin of Andor]

It also includes the 2018 Discovery Annual

Yep. Thanks. I was busy searching for details of the 2011 hardcover of the trivia book in the archives and got distracted.

I was a bit surprised that the hardcover predates this discussion thread!

 

[JD]

It also includes the 2018 Discovery Annual

Was that the one about Stamets and Culber?

 

[Jinn]

Was that the one about Stamets and Culber?

Yep, that's the one

 

[Therin of Andor]

Shipyards volume 1 by Ian McLean, on Flickr

This book comes with or without a model "Enterprise" from TOS.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Trek stuff by Ian McLean, on Flickr

New Trek stuff this week: “Designing Starships, Volume 1” (I have discovered this is a reprint of the 2016 Eaglemoss book, with a redesigned dustjacket and blurbs); “Star Trek: Epic Episodes” (Titan); IDW’s “Terra Incognita” comic #4; and a quirky one not actually a “Star Trek” book, “The Hunt for Vulcan” (Random House, 2015), about Albert Einstein’s thwarting of the belief in a theoretical extra planet.

Warped on Flickr

Mike McMahan is now working on "Star Trek: Lower Decks", the new animated series coming to CBS All Access.

 

[Christopher]

and a quirky one not actually a “Star Trek” book, “The Hunt for Vulcan” (Random House, 2015), about Albert Einstein’s thwarting of the belief in a theoretical extra planet.

In James Blish's adaptations of "Balance of Terror" in Star Trek 1 and "Tomorrow is Yesterday" in Star Trek 2, he specified for the readers' benefit that Mr. Spock's Vulcan was not the planet theorized to exist within the orbit of Mercury, but a namesake in another star system (which he specified as 40 Eridani in the TiY adaptation). The "real" Vulcan had been debunked decades before, but the idea had been used often enough in science fiction that Blish needed to clarify the matter for his genre-savvy readers. Indeed, the common use of that planet name in earlier SF is probably what inspired the creators of Star Trek (and Doctor Who: "The Planet of the Daleks") to name a planet Vulcan.

 

[JD]

I just got the e-book version of my next TNG book, Headlong Flight.

 

[Reanok]

Headlong flight is a really interesting TNG book JD. I liked the story it was a good book.