Star Trek Explorer: A Year to the Day That I Saw Myself Die and Other Stories

Explore the Star Trek universe in this anthology of 14 fully illustrated short stories collected for the first time and including an adventure written by Walter Koenig who played Pavel Chekov in the original classic series and seven feature films.

This incredible collection features stories starring iconic characters from Star Trek series including Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Voyager, and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. For the first time ever, the book will collect stories including characters from Star Trek: Discovery, Star Trek: The Animated Series, and Star Trek: Picard!

Stories include:

“Chekov’s Challenge” by Walter Koenig and Chris McAuley
“Jack of Diamonds” by Una McCormack
“The Trouble with Jones” by Greg Cox
“Sundering” by David Mack
“The Kellidian Kidnapping” by Keith R. A. Candido
“A Dish Served Cold” by Chris Dows
“Working Miracles” by Jake Black
“Forewarned and Three-Armed” by Rich Handley
“Academy Acquisition” by Jake Black
“A Year to the Day I Saw Myself Die” by Michael Collins
“See and Seen” by Peter Holmstrom
“Lost and Founder” by David Mack
“Work Worth Doing” by Keith R. A. Candido
“Confirmation Bias” by Michael Dismuke

An actor and screenwriter Walter Koenig started his professional acting career in the mid-1960s and quickly rose to prominence for his supporting role as Ensign Pavel Chekov in Star Trek: The Original Series . His script for the Star Trek: The Animated Series episode, “The Infinite Vulcan” made him the first cast member to write a Star Trek story for television. He went on to reprise this role in all six original-cast Star Trek films, and later voiced President Anton Chekov in Star Trek: Picard. 

Una McCormack is best known as the author of numerous tie-in novels based on the TV series Star Trek and Doctor Who. She is the author of The Baba Yaga and The Star of the Sea, part of the Weird Space series.

Greg Cox has written numerous Star Trek novels, including The Eugenics Wars, The Q Continuum, Assignment: Eternity, and The Black Shore. His first Khan novel, The Eugenics Wars: Volume One, was voted best sci-fi book of the year by the readers of Dreamwatch magazine.

David Mack co-wrote the fourth-season Deep Space Nine episode “Starship Down.” Another story he pitched was bought three years later as the basis for the seventh-season episode “It’s Only a Paper Moon.”

Keith R. A. DeCandido has written novels for the Star Trek, Alien, Supernatural, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer franchises among others, as well as Farscape comic books. He has also written novels based on Marvel’s Spider-Man and wrote the novelization for the film Serenity.