Star Trek by Bill Sienkiewicz

The Star Trek Book Reviewed!

The Star Trek Book – Strange New Worlds Boldly Explained
By DK Publishing, published June 2016
Written by Paul Ruditis and Sandford Galden-Stone
Edited by Simon Hugo
336 pages (which includes a comprehensive index and glossary)

“Celebrate 50 years of Star Trek with this comprehensive, authoritative guide. Covering all the TV series and movies, including the current movie continuity. The Star Trek Book explores one of the greatest science-fiction sagas of all time.”

I can’t begin to imagine the task it must have been to create this book. Trying to contain 50 years of Star Trek goodness to only 317 pages was a Herculean task. The writers state up front in the introduction that their goal was to provide “an entertaining overview of the franchise”. And to their credit, that’s exactly what they did.

The book is wonderfully dense, and not in a bad way. But rather in terms of the volume of information they managed to jam in between the covers. Neatly divided up into thematic section, The Star Trek Book breaking down its exploration of this universe into digestible parts. It’s quite clear that the authors have done their homework with crisp write-ups with lots of timelines and diagrams.

I really enjoyed that the book stayed in universe throughout, as if I was someone from the 24^th century reading about the Federation’s history of discovery. I was also impressed with the crew bios of all the show’s incarnations, which I thought might be a bit tedious at first, but proved to be a lot of fun.

If you enjoyed Star Trek Beyond and are looking to discover the Star Trek Universe, or if you’re a Star Trek fan who wants a refresher on what’s gone on in the last 50 years of Trek before the new TV show airs, The Star Trek Book should be your go-to reference!

Star Trek #1's Cover Re-Imagined

Pat’s reimagining of Marvel’s 1980 Star Trek #1 by Steve Leialoha

1979 - Marvel Super Special #15 - Star Trek The Motion Picture

From an interview with Marv Wolfman in Comics Feature #28 (1983):

"The Marvel problem was deadlines. I had to write the entire adaptation of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, which was 64 pages, in less than a month. And that was without knowing a lot of what was going on inside it because the first movie was so late in the working that we flew out to Doug Trumbull's and John Dykstar's studies in August and they had yet to design half the major things which would be in the movie which was being released in December. Also Marvel's deadlines were ridiculously tight because of the release dates. Dave Cockrum had to draw faster than I think he's ever had to draw in his life, and I had to write it faster."

1980 - From the Files of Starfleet Command

By Dave Cockrum.

1980 - JC Penny Christmas Toy Catalog

Grabbed these pics from JIMSMASH!! 

http://jimsmash.blogspot.ca/2012/12/jcpenny-christmas-catalog-1980.html

1980 - Frank Miller's Star Trek covers

Help J.K. Woodward recover from Hurricane Sandy

From Comic Book Resources:

Artist J.K. Woodward, who has worked on comics like Star Trek The Next Generation / Doctor Who: Assimilation2 and Fallen Angel with Peter David, lost his home and everything he owns because of Hurricane Sandy. If you’d like to help him out, he’s made it easy–he’s selling some wonderful prints and a bunch of his original art to “get us back on our feet.”

You can order his prints here.