{"id":33896,"date":"2014-05-09T11:42:25","date_gmt":"2014-05-09T18:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=33896"},"modified":"2014-05-09T11:42:25","modified_gmt":"2014-05-09T18:42:25","slug":"star-trek-seekers-cover-art-debuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2014\/05\/star-trek-seekers-cover-art-debuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Trek Seekers Cover Art Debuts"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Fans of the James Blish<\/strong> Star Trek<\/em> books from the late 1960s and early 1970s will enjoy the new art for the Star Trek Seekers<\/em> series of books.<\/p>\n

The covers feature art created by a Star Trek<\/em> fan, Rob Caswell<\/strong>, whose covers were the inspiration for the new series.<\/p>\n

Star Trek Seekers #1: Second Nature<\/em>, written by David Mack<\/strong>, will debut July 22. In this book, set in the late twenty-third century, “the Federation sends two starships, the scout Sagittarius and the cruiser Endeavour, to plumb the secrets of the vast region known as the Taurus Reach.<\/p>\n

“Drawn by mysterious energy readings to a lush green world, the crew of the Sagittarius finds the Tomol: a species whose members all commit ritual suicide just as they reach the cusp of adulthood.” But to stop this cycle of destruction, the Sagittarius must save themselves first.<\/p>\n

Star Trek Seekers #2: Point of Divergence<\/em> was written by Dayton Ward <\/strong>and Kevin Dilmore<\/strong>. Fans will find it in bookstores on August 26. In this second book in the Seekers series; one of the Tomol has broken with his people’s tradition of suicide upon maturity, “triggering a transformation into a new, powerful life-form. Answer\u00ading the distress call of the U.S.S. Sagittarius\u2014crashed and disabled on the planet following a fierce battle with Klingons\u2014Captain Atish Khatami and the crew of the Starship Endeavour must now attempt a rescue mission … even as they are locked in battle with the evolving, increasingly malevolent Tomol who, if allowed to escape their homeworld, pose an imminent threat to the entire galaxy!”<\/p>\n

Click on thumbnails for full-sized images.<\/p>\n

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Fans of the James Blish Star Trek books from the late 1960s and early 1970s…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2456],"tags":[7229,3477,2774,7226,3109],"class_list":["post-33896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-caswell","tag-dilmore","tag-mack","tag-star-trek-seekers","tag-ward"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T'Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"Books<\/a>","tag_info":"Books","comment_count":"2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33908,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33896\/revisions\/33908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}