After months of speculation on the future of the long-delayed continuation of the Star Trek novel line, Simon & Schuster today finally revealed plans for new publications coming in 2019.

At their Star Trek books panel today at the Star Trek Las Vegas convention, Ed Schlesinger from Simon & Schuster, along with John van Citters from CBS Consumer Products, announced the next three Star Trek novels coming to print over the next six months.

In January, the Star Trek: Discovery novel series with the Sylvia Tilly-centric The Way to the Stars, written by Una McCormack. The fourth novel in the Discovery series centers on the young cadet-turned-officer’s backstory, leading to her time joining Starfleet.

Here’s the official synopsis, and cover art:

It’s not easy being sixteen, especially when everyone expects great things from Tilly. It’s even harder when her mother and father are Federation luminaries, not to mention pressing her to attend one of the best schools that the Federation has to offer.

Tilly wants to achieve great things — even though she hasn’t quite worked out how to do that or what it is she wants to do. But this year, everything will change for Tilly, as she about to embark upon the adventure of a lifetime — an adventure that will take her ever closer to the stars…

Following in March 2019 is the first Original Series story of the new year, The Antares Maelstrom from author Greg Cox, inspired by the reference to the stellar phenomenon by Khan in The Wrath of Khan.

Here’s the official synopsis:

Baldur-3 is an obscure planet just beyond the outer fringes of Federation space, until a group of struggling colonists discover vast quantities of the energy source pergium beneath the planet’s surface. An old-fashioned “gold rush” is now underway—a chaotic situation, as neighboring planets and space stations are vastly ill-equipped to deal with the flood of vessels and aliens competing to get to the planet in time to stake their claims.

Although Baldur-3 isn’t technically under Federation jurisdiction, Captain James T. Kirk and the crew of the Enterprise are soon diverted to deal with the crisis . . . one which lies on the other side of the dangerous area of space known as the Antares Maelstrom.

The final reveal of the day is April 2019’s Next Generation novel comes from Dayton Ward: Available Light, which follows up on the Federation after the public reveal of Section 31’s influence in Control. The story is expected to touch on subjects as far in the past as the assassination of Federation president Min Zife, from all the way back in the early-2000s A Time To… series.

Here’s the official synopsis:

As fallout from the exposure of the “Control” AI security program and the unchecked crimes of Section 31 spans the entire Alpha Quadrant and ultimately reaches the halls of Starfleet Command, the admiralty must decide what the consequences will be for their own… including Captain Jean-Luc Picard, who helped bring down a Federation president and violated the principles of his oath.

Meanwhile, deep in the unexplored section of space known as the Odyssean Pass, Picard and the Enterprise crew must put aside personal feelings on the matter and distant political concerns as they investigate the mystery a centuries-old massive spacecraft adrift in the void and under attack from marauders looking to claim the ship for themselves—and armed with weapons that are evenly matched with Starfleet’s finest…

As soon as cover art for these next two novels are revealed — and preorder links for all three books — we’ll make sure to bring them to you here!

Keep checking into TrekCore all week for the latest in news out of the STLV convention!