{"id":1179,"date":"2009-06-15T07:00:16","date_gmt":"2009-06-15T11:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/?p=1179"},"modified":"2009-06-15T00:16:57","modified_gmt":"2009-06-15T04:16:57","slug":"star-trek-new-frontier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2009\/06\/15\/star-trek-new-frontier\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Trek New Frontier"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Don’t know how I missed this, but a new Star Trek: New Frontier<\/em><\/a> novel by Peter David<\/a> was released back in April.\u00a0 I picked it up this weekend and can’t wait to read it!\u00a0 The new book is called Treason<\/em><\/a> and has been published in oversized softcover format, sometimes called trade paperback format (not to be confused with the comic book format with the same name).<\/p>\n

If you aren’t familiar with the Star Trek New Frontier<\/a><\/em> line, then you don’t know what you are missing.\u00a0 The idea behind it was to create a Star Trek book series with its own continuity and not one that is purely a reaction to the television shows. Peter David is the co-creator of the series and has been the author of nearly every story. There have been 17 novels, multiple crossovers, several short stories, and two comic books in the series.\u00a0 New Frontier<\/em> centers on the adventures of Captain Mackenzie Calhoun and his crew aboard the U.S.S. Excalibur.\u00a0 The stories are full of action, humor, solid characterization, and minor characters from Star Trek’s 40 year history.\u00a0 You should definitely check them out.<\/p>\n

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I also picked up a book from 2007 that I’ve been meaning to get, Star Trek Mirror Universe: Obsidian Alliances<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 There have been a handful of these Mirror Universe<\/em> anthologies.\u00a0 This particular one features a Voyager <\/em>story by Keith R. A. DeCandido, a Deep Space Nine<\/em> story by Sarah Shaw, and a New Frontier<\/em> story by Peter David.\u00a0 In the New Frontier<\/em> story we find out what happened to Mackenzie Calhoun in the Mirror Universe.<\/p>\n

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Finally, this weekend I also stumbled across my Captain Mackenzie Calhoun action figure that had been put away in a box.\u00a0 This 4.5 inch figure was produced by Playmates Toys<\/em> back in September 1998 as a special mail-away figure.\u00a0 They advertised it in the back of several Star Trek novels and the figure was only available via mail order through the Star Trek Communicator<\/em> fan club magazine.\u00a0 There were approximately 10,000 of these figures produced. To be honest, the figure doesn’t really look that good, but it is fully articulated and comes with the sword Calhoun used when fighting for Xenexian freedom. They attempted to make the figure highly-detailed, right down to Calhoun’s purple eyes and the scar on his cheek. Unfortunately, it just didn’t come out that great.\u00a0 Still, it’s kind of nice to have a figure of this lesser-known Star Trek badass.<\/p>\n

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