Trek Off

By Robert Jeschonek

Captain Picard, Commander Riker, and Lieutenant Data made history on the bridge of the Enterprise in Star Trek: The Next Generation...but what about the crewmen of the lower decks? Captain Sisko, Commander Worf, and the crew of Deep Space Nine were posted on a space station...so how did time travel become such a big part of their greatest adventures? And what was the key to the Starship Voyager getting home safe and sound from the Delta Quadrant?  Is Captain Kathryn Janeway the greatest of all Star Trek captains because of her decisive command style? Find the answers to these questions and more in Trek Off!  In this collection of short essays, award-winning Star Trek writer Robert Jeschonek explores the worlds of Trek, from The Next Generation to Voyager.  Join him on a journey through time and space in a search for the secrets of the Trek universe. This volume, a tribute to the greatest science fiction epic of our age, includes four essays:  "Lower Decks," "Past Tense," "Final Authority," and "To Boldly Go Where No Comic Book Has Gone Before:  10 Star Trek Comic Book Lost Treasures."  These essays are collected here for the first time. Robert Jeschonek knows his Trek.  He won the national grand prize in the Strange New Worlds writing contest.  He is one of a handful of authors chosen to write stories in the Star Trek: New Frontier universe.  His latest Trek fiction appears in Star Trek Corps of Engineers: Out of the Cocoon.  Now he invites you to ponder some of the cool questions of Trek, explore some exciting lost comic book treasures, and boldly follow in the footsteps of the legion of Trek fans who have gone before.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Robert Jeschonek
• Release date: Nov 9, 2018
• ISBN: 9781452319292

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Trek Off!

TREK OFF!

ESSAYS ON TREK

ROBERT JESCHONEK

Blastoff Books

TREK OFF!

Copyright © 2023 by Robert Jeschonek

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Cover Art Copyright © 2023 by Ben Baldwin

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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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CONTENTS

Also by Robert Jeschonek

To Boldly Go Where No Comic Has Gone Before!

The Next Generation: Big Guns vs. Lower Deckers

Deep Space Nine: Past Tense

Voyager: Woman in Charge

About the Author

Special Preview: Universal Language

ALSO BY ROBERT JESCHONEK

A Grain from a Balance: A Trek Screenplay

Sticks and Stones: A Trek Novel

Trek Fail

Trek This

Trek You

Vendetta: A Trek Screenplay

TO BOLDLY GO WHERE NO COMIC HAS GONE BEFORE!

10 STAR TREK COMIC BOOK LOST TREASURES

Since its beginning as a television series in 1966, Star Trek has grown into a phenomenon. This science fiction adventure has been translated into nearly every medium including novels, feature films, animation...and comic books. In fact, Trek comics have been produced since the original TV series aired. Gold Key, Marvel, Malibu, DC, and IDW have all tried their hands at creating Trek comics with varying degrees of success.

Throughout its various four-color incarnations, Star Trek has inspired some downright horrendous stories--but it has been the wellspring of some excellent graphic fiction as well. The following list summarizes what I consider to be 10 of the best Trek stories ever published in comic book form.

This list has been drawn from Trek comics released by Gold Key, Marvel, and DC. Though these three publishers are represented, I've given the majority of slots of my Top Ten to DC's Trek series; I've done this simply because l feel that the DC stories listed here deserve their high rankings.

l) Retrospect— Star Trek Annual #3, l988, DC Comics—by Peter David, Curt Swan, and Ricardo Villagran

There are no bells or whistles in this story, no interplanetary menaces or

mysterious alien races...but it stands as one of the finest Star Trek tales l've ever read. This piece is a character study of Montgomery Scott. an insightful portrait of his life and his relationship with his one true love (and no, it's not the U.S.S. Enterprise).

As the story opens, Kirk and McCoy find a drunk and downcast Scotty draining bottles of scotch in his cabin; the Chief Engineer confesses than he's mourning his wife, Glynnis, who passed away recently in a shuttle accident (an accident which