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NEW BRITISH COMICS COLLECTIONS AVAIALBLE NOW... This is the first Dan Dare collection I've edited for Titan Books, comprising work by Frank Hampson, Frank Bellamy and Don Harley.
Superb World War 1 strip first published in Battle and another collection edited by me for Titan
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THE OFFICIAL SITE
• StarTrek.Com
This is an excellent, official news source
for Star Trek information with an incrfedible amount of information,
visuals and other goodies on past episodes, the actors, crew and more.
Highly recommended.
UNOFFICIAL NEWS SOURCES
• TrekMovie
Link: trekmovie.com
Currently (as of March 2007) the rising star in terms of Trek movie news
and more
• TrekToday
Updated daily this is a well laid designed news site
compiling information from all over the globe together with sources for
that information -- i.e. with links to the original newspapers publishing
the news, or other Trek web sites.
• TrekWeb
For some rerason this site always takes ages
to load on my Mac but it's worth the trip once you get there, although
the design is a bit cluttered.
And there's always... Planet
Riker
Absolutely serious news about Star Trek. Honestly.
MERCHANDISE
• Star
Trek Collectables
UK site.
STAR TREK REFERENCE SITES
• The Memory Alpha Wiki
Link: memory-alpha.org
Fully editable website with nearly 20,000 separate articles
covering all things Star Trek. The wiki is a collaborative project to create
the most definitive, accurate, and accessible information pertaining to
the show.
• The
Science of Star Trek
Concentrates on the main items of treknology -- teleoportation,
phasers etc.
• The
Material Demands of the Star Trek Universe
A 1996 article by Andre Bormanis -- now Story
Editor on Enterprise -- on the requirements needed to actually build
a 24th Century starship.
• Trek
Science
Is Star
Trek really a science show, or just a lot of
"gee, whiz" nonsensical Sci-Fi? David Allen Batchelor from
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center investigates.
• The
Physics of Star Trek
A Guide to the Physics governing the Star
Trek Series.
