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IDIC Humanist 🏳️‍🌈🖖 @medievaltrek.bsky.social · Nov 13

“Sometimes life itself is meaning enough.”

- Admiral Michael Burnham

#StarTrekDiscovery

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David Mack @davidmack.bsky.social · 2h

=OUT NOW!=

STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS
-RING OF FIRE-

available in hardcover, eBook, and unabridged digital audiobook formats wherever new books are sold

davidmack.pro/writing/ring...

SNW RING OF FIRE Cover Alt-Text for Bluesky

Book cover for STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS – RING OF FIRE by New York Times Bestselling Author David Mack.

Illustration has a purple-ish space starfield background; very prominent in the center is a black hole surrounded by a reddish-orange-yellow halo of gravitationally distorted light (the titular “ring of fire”). Ghosted and floating in front of this cosmic horror in a pyramid formation are Nurse Christine Chapel (Jess Bush), lower left; first officer Lieutenant Commander Una Chin-Riley (Rebecca Romijn), middle left; Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount), top center; science officer Lieutenant Spock (Ethan Peck), middle right; and security officer Lieutenant La'An Noonien-Singh, lower right, brandishing a phaser like the awesome badass she is. It’s a truly badass cover, thought it would have been nice if they’d made my name bigger, but whatever.

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IDIC Humanist 🏳️‍🌈🖖 @medievaltrek.bsky.social · 1h

I would love to help kill it in anyway possible.

IDIC Humanist 🏳️‍🌈🖖 @medievaltrek.bsky.social · 2h

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IDIC Humanist 🏳️‍🌈🖖 @medievaltrek.bsky.social · 3h

And they all are addicted to bigotry

IDIC Humanist 🏳️‍🌈🖖 @medievaltrek.bsky.social · 6h

Crap. The publication of Dayton Ward’s new Star Trek Picard To Defy Picard novel has been delayed until April 28. BUT we now have a description. Sounds epic, and I wonder if it’s connected with the First Splinter timeline.

2401: Just weeks after defeating a devastating joint attack by rogue Changelings and remnants of the Borg Collective, Starfleet and the Federation face a long period of recovery that requires replacing lost personnel and ships. While touring the U.S.S. Titan-A, which is just beginning an extensive repair-and-refit process that will take nearly a year to complete, newly promoted Captain Seven of Nine and her first officer, Commander Raffi Musiker, experience a bizarre temporal event which renders them both unconscious and sends Seven into a deep coma.

In the aftermath of this inexplicable attack, Admirals Jean-Luc Picard and Beverly Crusher are surprised by the appearance of Crusher’s son, Wesley. Now a Traveler capable of traversing through all of space and time, he warns them that forces he cannot identify are working to disrupt time for unknown and potentially catastrophic reasons. Reality as they know it is in jeopardy and, despite their initial best efforts, the effects are not contained but instead continue to escalate.

Picard, Crusher, and Musiker join Wesley in hunting through time to stop whoever or whatever seems hellbent on rewriting history. But what is their unknown adversary’s ultimate objective? Left unchecked, their efforts might well erase from existence those Picard and his friends hold most dear. What could justify attempting to defy fate itself?

IDIC Humanist 🏳️‍🌈🖖 @medievaltrek.bsky.social · 8h

Ugh. We need as much Tilly as possible.

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IDIC Humanist 🏳️‍🌈🖖 @medievaltrek.bsky.social · 18h

when you find someone on bluesky who loves star trek as much as you do

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IDIC Humanist 🏳️‍🌈🖖 @medievaltrek.bsky.social · 18h

Me too

IDIC Humanist 🏳️‍🌈🖖 @medievaltrek.bsky.social · 20h

Reading TNG Losing the Peace by William Leisner. The medieval historian in me appreciated that the Middle Ages are not being depicted as the Dark Ages. As a 21st century human, that this is becoming increasingly true made me sad. It s describing a refugee camp on Pacifica after Star Trek Destiny.

"Oh, my..." said Kadohata, giving voice to the horror and shock Byxthar had also sensed from her colleagues. "This looks like something out of the Dark Ages." Byxthar didn't know much Earth history, but guessed, from the evidence before her, that "the Dark Ages" referred to the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, a period of near-continuous small and large wars just prior to first contact by the Vulcans.

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IDIC Humanist 🏳️‍🌈🖖 @medievaltrek.bsky.social · 21h

No body. No death

IDIC Humanist 🏳️‍🌈🖖 @medievaltrek.bsky.social · 21h

I hope Tilly becomes his mentor for first year teachers. Oh how the tables have turned.

a dark room with the words alright on the bottom right

Alt: Stamets said alright I am very grumpy just absolutely irate and I need to be left alone

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IDIC Humanist 🏳️‍🌈🖖 @medievaltrek.bsky.social · 21h

Arrived home and the latest Star Trek book had been delivered. With 385 Trek books in my collection (most of them physical copies), I am running out of room especially with the other non-Trek books I have.

Book cover of David Mack’s SNW Rings of Fire featuring Pike, Lt Commander Una Riley-Chen, Spock, Nurse Christine Chapel, and Lt La'an Noonien-Singh.

IDIC Humanist 🏳️‍🌈🖖 @medievaltrek.bsky.social · 22h

Were you able to fulfill your dream of doing the same?

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IDIC Humanist 🏳️‍🌈🖖 @medievaltrek.bsky.social · 23h

Have we learned nothing from the 20th century? If we compromise the rights of one group for the sake of political expediency, we risk everything. I don’t want to replace Red MAGA with Blue MAGA. Not thanks. Trans rights are humans rights. No compromise.

IDIC Humanist 🏳️‍🌈🖖 @medievaltrek.bsky.social · 23h

Conservative men and men in general can be such weirdos about things. If someone likes something that’s not promoting harm, they need to mind their own business. Let people enjoy life.

IDIC Humanist 🏳️‍🌈🖖 @medievaltrek.bsky.social · 1d

Not sure where the alt text went: Michael Burnham high on truth drugs says damn.

IDIC Humanist 🏳️‍🌈🖖 @medievaltrek.bsky.social · 1d

Star Trek is about new worlds and civilizations but...

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IDIC Humanist 🏳️‍🌈🖖 @medievaltrek.bsky.social · 1d

I won’t vote for a fucking transphobe. Fuck transphobia.

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IDIC Humanist 🏳️‍🌈🖖 @medievaltrek.bsky.social · 1d

Happy New Star Trek Novel Day!

David Mack @davidmack.bsky.social · 1d

After many months of writing, editing, proofreading, and promotion, at long last I’ve released my latest book into the wild to fend for itself.

Say “hello” to my 39th published novel (my 32nd novel for Trek), Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Ring of Fire, now on sale!

davidmack.pro/writing/ring...

David Mack - Ring of Fire

Captain Christopher Pike and the crew of the Enterprise come to the aid of a civilian research station whose secret mission is threatened by murder and sabotage.

davidmack.pro

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IDIC Humanist 🏳️‍🌈🖖 @medievaltrek.bsky.social · 1d

I think I have learned that again. Hopefully it will stick this time.

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Numero Una @unanails1701.bsky.social · 1d

The new David Mack #StarTrekSNW novel has been released.

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IDIC Humanist 🏳️‍🌈🖖 @medievaltrek.bsky.social · 1d

It’s so depressing to see how widespread populist nationalism is spreading across the world.

IDIC Humanist 🏳️‍🌈🖖 @medievaltrek.bsky.social · 1d

My argument was also in the comments on a post from a local news station. Stephen Miller who apparently used to work in my city mentioned how no one in my city would resist ICE, and the local bigots took it as the highest compliment.

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IDIC Humanist 🏳️‍🌈🖖 @medievaltrek.bsky.social · 1d

RIP Spock Two. 😢

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IDIC Humanist 🏳️‍🌈🖖 @medievaltrek.bsky.social · 1d

I usually don’t, but for some reason today I irrationally thought facts could change a bigot’s mind. I should delete my Facebook account.