Now that we’re roughly a year away from Star Trek’s fiftieth anniversary, it should be no surprise that there are a slew of new Trek related items popping up out of the woodwork. Certainly, that’s what driving the influx of new Trek uniforms (that I noted yesterday), and the release of Star Trek 3 in July 2016. It will probably also result in an increase in Trek related toys and replicas - something that I’m really looking forward to seeing.
Then there are the books. In a good year, there are probably a half-dozen new Trek books released, but 2015 has two that seem very interesting:
In September, Paula Block and Terry Erdmann will publish their Star Trek Costumes: Five Decades of Fashion from the Final Frontier (Insight, 2015). No info on it yet, but it looks like it’s about 200 pages and will hit the shelves at about $60.
This seems to be much like Brandon Alinger’s (excellent) Star Wars Costumes: The Original Trilogy (Chronicle, 2014) that was published last autumn. If so, then it will be an interesting look at original costumes and their construction. I just hope that the photos are clean, clear, and big.
At the same time, David Goodman will publish The Autobiography of James T. Kirk (Titan, 2015). No hard info on this one other than being nearly 300 pages and running about $25. Goodman was the author of Star Trek Federation: The First 150 Years (Titan, 2013), a nice, if not always canonical look at the political development of the Federation we all know and love.
I’m borderline on this one because I’m not a fan of James Kirk. Oh, I know that the fascination with Kirk is one of the reasons we have Trek today, but he always struck me as a one-note character - the frat boy who does something outrageous but is too charming to really punish. But it’ll be interesting to see how Goodman deals with this, so maybe I’ll give it a chance.
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