We’ve got a couple of new Star Trek merchandise announcements to share with you as we head into the weekend, from a long-awaited book to new huggable bears for the young folks in your life.
 

Factory Entertainment has revealed a pair of new products tied to the annual San Diego Comic Con convention in July. First up is a Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan themed keychain set, with Ceti Eel, broken Starfleet badge, and film logo charms; the keychain also comes paired with a USS Reliant pin. The Wrath of Khan set is priced at $22 USD and is available for preorder with an anticipated mid-July ship date.

The company is also issuing packets of Klingon-themed “Fandages,” a set of 25 bandages designed with five different patters reminiscent of the warrior race — from the Klingon language to the weapons carried by members of the Klingon Defense Force. The Klingon “Fandages” are available for $8 per pack, also expect to ship in mid-July.

Fansets has taken a trip into the Kelvin Timeline, expanding their line of Star Trek uniform badges to include the gold and silver-colored Starfleet deltas seen in the trio of Chris Pine-led films.

Available in both magnetic and pin-backed versions, both silver (from Star Trek ’09 and Star Trek Into Darkness) and gold (from Star Trek Beyond) deltas retail at $22.95 each.

Titan Books has announced Star Trek: Lower Decks — USS Cerritos Crew Handbook by author Chris Farnell for release this fall; the book is described as “a funny and illuminating guide to life on the U.S.S. Cerritos through the eyes of the beloved lower deckers themselves.”

The official synopsis:

Join the crew of the U.S.S. Cerritos as they seek out new life and travel where people may, or may not, have been before!

 

Based on the hit Paramount+ animated series Star Trek: Lower Decks, Mariner, Boimler and all their friends offer advice and insider knowledge to new crewmembers. This hilarious and informative handbook will help you come to grips with the ship, your duties, and your fellow lower deckers, especially as they’ve generously left comments throughout.

This hardcover will be released on October 17 and is available for preorder now.

First announced in September 2021, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine star Nana Visitor’s book A Woman’s Trek was originally set to be published through Eaglemoss/Hero Collector before that company collapsed in 2022.

Now, Star Trek: Open a Channel — A Woman’s Trek has been scheduled for release next spring through publisher Insight Editions.

Here’s the official synopsis:

Nana Visitor, Star Trek’s Kira Nerys, explores how the series has portrayed and influenced women. Interviews with the stars, writers, producers, and celebrity fans reveal the struggles and triumphs of women both behind and in front of the camera throughout the sixty-year history of Star Trek, and how they have mirrored the experiences of women everywhere. The groundbreaking casting of Nichelle Nichols as Lt. Uhura in 1966 took women and people of color into a newly-imagined future. But it was the 1960s and she had to do it in a miniskirt.

 

Since then, each Star Trek show has both reflected the values of its time and imagined a more future in which all genders were equal. In her first book, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine star Nana Visitor sets out to discover both how Star Trek led the way for women, and how it was trapped in its own era. For Visitor, this is more than a book about Star Trek. It’s about how society and the stories we tell have evolved in the last 60 years, and how the role of women has changed in that time.

 

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS: Features interviews with almost every woman who has starred in Star Trek, including Kate Mulgrew, Terry Farrell, Denise Crosby, Mary Wiseman, and Rebecca Romijn.

 

INSPIRING STORIES: Explore how Star Trek has influenced women in the real world, including soldiers, scientists, and even astronauts. In one remarkable episode, author Nana Visitor interviewed astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti while she was in orbit around Earth on the International Space Station.

 

PIONEERING SERIES: Star Trek has often taken a leading role in promoting women on both sides of the camera. It had women writers when they were rare, and it introduced female captain Kathryn Janeway in Star Trek: Voyager in 1995.

A Woman’s Trek will be released on March 13, 2024, and can be preordered today.

The next Star Trek: Picard novel will focus on Seven of Nine’s journey from Voyager crewmate to Fenris Ranger outlaw, as author David Mack pens Star Trek: Picard — Firewall for release next year.

Here’s the official synopsis:

Two years after the USS Voyager’s return from the Delta Quadrant, Seven of Nine finds herself rejected for a position in Starfleet…and instead finds a new home with the interstellar rogue law enforcement corps known as the Fenris Rangers.

 

The Rangers seem like an ideal fit for Seven—but to embrace this new destiny, she must leave behind all she’s ever known, and risk losing the most important thing in her life: her friendship with Admiral Kathryn Janeway.

Firewall is the first Star Trek novel on 2024’s publishing schedule. It will be released on February 27 and can be preordered now.

Finally, Build-a-Bear Workshop has unveiled a new bear themed for the Star Trek Universe. The red, gold, and blue ‘Nebula Bear’ is available for purchase alone, or enthusiasts can pair the stuffed animal with either Original Series or Next Generation command uniforms (complete of course with period-appropriate plush phaser).

All online exclusives, the Star Trek ‘Nebula Bear’ itself is available for $29 USD, and the TOS uniform and phaser or TNG uniform and phaser can be purchased for an additional $29 each. For an additional cost, you can purchase an Original Series bundle (adding black boots and a fuzzy Tribble) for $76.50, or a Next Generation bundle (adding just boots) for $66.

Keep checking back to TrekCore for the latest in Star Trek merchandise news!