Unexpected Honor

Either I missed something, or nobody on TrekBBS had mentioned that there is an original short story, derived from the "Star Trek Online" game events and characters, in Titan's recent "Star Trek Magazine", no 40, Summer 2012.

Captain Va'kel Shon.

Author Christine Thompson continues storylines from "Star Trek Online" and features the handover of the Enterprise captaincy from Data (IDW's "Countdown" comic mini-series), now in his professor role from "All Good Things..." episode of "The Next Generation", to the Andorian, Shon, for the launch of the Enterprise-F. Also clarified is the fate of the B-4 ("Nemesis").

Data's debut (again, or B-4?)

Great excitement this week, with the release of issue #1 of "Countdown", a four-issue prelude to JJ Abrams' "Star Trek" movie.



Thanks IDW! Looking great. An explanation to the mystery should be here B-4 we know it!?

Update: Ah, the uniform matches with screenshots from the upcoming Star Trek Online!

See you in Dreamland

Youtube has a peek into the making of Brent Spiner's new "Dreamland" CD - a unique combination of old time radio, musical theatre and film noir. A sort of "audio film".
You can buy it at www.therealbrentspiner.com.

Pre-order: $US 19.95
Autographed version: $US 24.95
Personalized version: $US 29.95

This looks great! I've just pre-ordered my copy. It's been a long, long time since "Old Yellow Eyes is Back".

Brent Spiner, of course, played Data on "Star Trek: The Next Generation". And various members of the Soong family of scientists and androids in guest roles across the Star Trek franchise.