Check out these cool book covers that Doug Drexler created for Molly O’Brien’s bookshelf on Deep Space Nine. They are just plain adorable. I haven’t looked yet to see if you can spot these on the shelf during any of the episodes, but it is just cool to know that they exist. He should probably write the actual kids books and market these.
I’m one of these guys who can get really lost in books like this. I just love every little detail that you can learn about the world of Star Trek. As the name implies The Star Trek Encyclopedia, Revised and Expanded Edition: A Reference Guide to the Future is an updated edition with even more “stuff”.
Michael and Denise Okuda literally cover every moment from the four Star Trek series and eight films. Every planet ever visited, every food ingested, every outfit worn, and every featured character. You would be hard pressed to find much that is missing from these books. As far as I’m concerned this is a must for your Sci-Fi library.
We just got news about some new US Star Trek postage stamps and now we are learning that both Palau and Guyana have just released sets of Deep Space Nine stamp designs for those regions. The Palau stamps all focus on the ships of DS9. A set of six features various ships from the series, arranged on the sheet as if they were all flying around the station. They also have a single panoramic format stamp featuring the USS Defiant, that was released separately. Those regions are so lucky. These are really cool and a bit more thought out than what we are getting in the US. They are super colorful and jump off the sheets.
The stamps in Guyana focus on the characters. Their panoramic stamp features Jadzia Dax and Benjamin Sisko, while they also offer a set of six individual character stamps. Maybe a friend in the area will mail me some.
The Star Trek: Ships Of The Line Posters Book is sure to scratch your itch. You know the one I’m talking about. When you just need to lay your eyes on that sweet eye-candy that is Star trek vessels and admire all of their curves and flowy lines. This is the nerd version of a pin-up calendar for guys like me.
The Enterprise and most of the other ships are just so lovely and I have had a love affair with them all of my life. These posters are perfect for framing or just admiring in the book. It’s the kind of book that comes off my shelf regularly so I can fall in love all over again.
The Perth Mint has some new additions to their Star Trek coin collection with the release of their third captain and ship set, this time featuring Benjamin Sisko and DS9, with an extra coin featuring Spock. The Spock does not have a companion ship coin. It keeps the same overall style, but where the other captain coins have a representation of their ship, Spock is pictured with the Vulcan IDIC symbol.
The regular captain and ship series continues with Captain Sisko and Deep Space 9. These coins are always beautiful. It’s too bad that the US doesn’t have currency like this. I find them quite logical.
ANOVOS is well known for their Star Trek uniform replicas, but you may not know that they also offer a variety of accessories. They are ready to introduce a bunch of cool new products including phaser rifle replicas and phaser replicas, even a tricorder replica.
These prop replicas focus on Deep Space Nine, First Contact, and Nemesis. They all have the detail and quality you would expect from the company.
Beam down to your next location in style with this stunning Star Trek TNG/DS9 Latex Uniform Dress, which will show off all of your curves. This sexy dress features accurate uniform details and a back zipper for easy dressing.
It’s available in any color combo so you can dress like any character you want. Oh how I would have loved to see Deanna Troi wearing this uniform. Get it for $250 from Etsy. Totally worth it.
Costumesupercenter created this cool Star Trek infographic that shows the Star Trek uniforms throughout the various TV series and movies. They forgot the Man-Skirt or Skant from The Next Generation premiere Encounter At Farpoint.
It is a handy infographic for those who can’t decide on a Halloween or comic-con costume. I think my favorites have always been the 1960’s uniforms and Kirk and crew’s movie uniforms. The Next Generation uniforms are cool too, if you don’t mind doing the Picard Maneuver.
