UPDATE: Read the transcript of this exciting event
here!
Read the latest Star Trek book, then chat with the authors!
- First Event: Tuesday, September 30 at 3:00 p.m. PDT/6:00 p.m. EDT
- Featured Book: "The Sundered: The Lost Era 2298”
- Guests: Authors Michael A. Martin and Andy Mangels
How to participate:
Get ready for a new chapter of Star Trek excitement with STARTREK.COM's Online Star Trek Book Club! On the last Tuesday of every month, gather online in our event chat room with special guests and other fans to discuss Star Trek titles. Our first event is taking place on Tuesday, September 30 at 3:00 p.m. PDT/6:00 p.m. EDT. It's the only official Online Star Trek Book Club on the Web and it's only at STARTREK.COM.
The Star Trek universe spans five television series, ten movies and an animated series, and that's just the tip of the iceberg. Hundreds of Star Trek books have been published over the decades, both fiction and non-fiction, making Star Trek not just a film and television phenomenon but a publishing one as well.
The Online Star Trek Book Club will be an area in STARTREK.COM's Community section dedicated to Star Trek book fans with a new book featured each month. The Club will provide online chat events with authors, fans and Star Trek celebrities, in-depth information about a given month's featured book including how to purchase the book online, plus a poll for fans to help us choose the next featured book.
The first featured book for the Online Star Trek Book Club will be "The Sundered: The Lost Era 2298” by Michael A. Martin and Andy Mangels. Martin and Mangels are also the authors of the Star Trek: The Next Generation entry in the Section 31 books, "Rogue," as well as the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine book "Mission Gamma Book Three: Cathedral."
"The Sundered: The Lost Era 2298" tells the tale of an adventure aboard the U.S.S. Excelsior, captained by Hikaru Sulu and featuring familiar Star Trek characters like Pavel Chekov, Janice Rand, Tuvok and Christine Chapel. Five years after the presumed death of James T. Kirk (see "Star Trek Generations"), the Excelsior crew find themselves in a dangerous adventure involving the Tholians and a mysterious new enemy, the Neyel.
The Club's first event will take place September 30 at 3:00 p.m. PDT/6:00 p.m. EDT, with an online chat with authors Martin and Mangels and Simon & Schuster Star Trek editor Marco Palmieri. Fans can log in and chat with the authors about the book and the Lost Era series. Fans can get ready for the event by purchasing a copy of "The Sundered: The Lost Era 2298" (also available in eBook form) and can also send advance questions to the guests now at bookclub@startrek.com.
In order to participate in the Online Star Trek Book Club, fans need to register. (Registration with STARTREK.COM is free and is required to join in chats and to post on the Star Trek Message Boards. Registered members are able to customize portions of the site, gain access to the STARTREK.COM and Paramount.com newsletters and more.) On days when Online Star Trek Book Club chat events take place, registered members can go directly to the event.
So get ready to engage a realm of Star Trek excitement where there are no commercials and the special effects are limited only by your imagination. Join us as the Online Star Trek Book Club explores strange new stories in the Star Trek universe, seeks out fellow Star Trek book fans and boldly goes into the limitless frontier of the printed page!
