Una Chin-Riley is the poster girl for Starfleet: smart, driven, and dedicated. She’s a by-the-book student, not afraid to ask questions and to quote the manual when she thinks something is being done incorrectly.  And like all really good students, she’s also active in extra-curricular activities.  She’s often the lead in the Academy-produced opera and Continue reading

STAR TREK WEEK In 2024, investigative reporter Melinda Silver tries to track down whatever happened to Gillian Taylor, an influential marine biologist who walked away from a great job at Sausalito’s Cetacean Institute, never to be heard from again. Slowly, Melinda begins to put together a picture of the people she had been with – people Continue reading

STAR TREK WEEK There was a time that I read every Star Trek novel as soon as they were published.  Until the mid-1980’s, these all featured Captain Kirk, Spock, and the rest of the crew from the original series and with only two or three a year, it was easy to keep up with the Continue reading

STAR TREK WEEK In 1977, when this book was first published, we Star Trek fans were still hungry for anything we could get that was Star Trek related. We had the original series, and we’d already seen the animated series come and go but we were only just starting to get the books (this was only the fourth Star Trek novel Continue reading