Although those were actually two separate projects. The TNG/X-Men crossover was a novel, but the TOS/X-Men crossover was a comic book.

Someone beat us to the punch: http://www.blastr.com/2016-3-16/meet…

And I’d forgotten about Judy Burns and Joyce Muskat . .. .

As Sonja in RISE OF THE LYCAN? Yes.

Trust me, Urban has plenty to do in BEYOND—and comes close to stealing the whole movie.

There’s also that nice, quiet moment in STAR TREK III where McCoy privately confesses to the comatose Spock that he couldn’t bear to lose him again . ...

My rule of thumb is to only plug my books if they’re actually relevant to the topic at hand—and to make sure that I’m taking part in the discussion and not JUST hyping my books. I like to think that most of my posts, here and elsewhere, are not just self-promotional in nature.

And, gee, what could a Batwoman photo…

Wow, that was my very first Trek book (co-written with John Gregory Betancount) way back in 1995. Great to hear that people are still enjoying it, more than twenty years later!

That seems like such a long time ago . . ..

Amen. And this is also so in the movies, where Bones can always be counted on to add a touch of humanity and humor to even the tensest scenes. Besides just providing a contrast to Kirk and Spock, he also kept STAR TREK grounded, injecting a medicinal dose of down-to-Earthiness whenever things threatened to get too…

Honestly, I’m not sure Trek fandom is necessarily more (or less) inclusive than other branches of SF and Fantasy fandom. Yes, you have reactionary elements as in other other areas of the genre, especially as geek culture branches out and becomes more mainstream, provoking an ugly backlash from some benighted folks who…

I don’t know. People complained that the Vulcans in ENTERPRISE weren’t Vulcan enough, but I never saw that. Go back and watch TOS: the Vulcans were never supposed to be role models, and they were NEVER as unemotional as they liked to pretend they were. T’Pring plotted to get Spock or Kirk killed just to get out of an…

Yep. He was trying to be even more Vulcan than the full Vulcans.

That was sublime.

Bottom line: STAR TREK is one of the few science fiction franchises that is set in a future that you would actually want to live in.

Beyond that, I want to take a moment to acknowledge the social aspect of STAR TREK fandom as well. I can’t count the number of friends and colleague and acquaintances I’ve met through…

This is the fifth. :)

I think Dance joined the franchise in #4, since they were running low on Vampire elders at that point. :)

Trust me, the UNDERWORLD movies have a devoted fan base. For awhile there, I was getting more fan mail for my UNDERWORLD novelizations than for even the STAR TREK stuff. (And UW folks were always great to work with; they even invited me to the red-carpet premiere of the first movie, at the famous Chinese Theater in…

Lightninglouie: the “pirate” book you’re remembering is surely BLACK FIRE by Sonni Cooper.

Ford also won the World Fantasy Award for his novel THE DRAGON WAITING back in the day. He was a very talented guy.

Let it be noted that John M. Ford also wrote one of the best Klingon novels, THE FINAL REFLECTION, back in the pre-TNG era.

Thanks. We were excited to find out that the trilogy was being done in audio as well—and worked closely with the audio people to get all the alien names and terminology pronounced the same way! :)