Star Trek: Vanguard: Declassified

The Taurus Reach: the source of a secret that has driven the great powers of the 23rd century to risk everything in the race to control it. Now four new adventures—previously untold tales of the past and present, with hints of what is yet to come—begin the next great phase in the Vanguard saga.W

A collection of four short stories! It’s a first for this franchise, but a welcome one:

“Almost Tomorrow” by Dayton Ward
Prequel to the main storyline, showing when and how several of the main characters met each other and started their relationships. It’s a good but brief story.

“Hard News” by Kevin Dilmore
Sorta prequel that shows that even the most hard boiled reporters can meet their match. I’m assuming this story is going to set up something bigger down the road, but if it doesn’t it’s still an ok story that feels a bit too tropey at times.

“The Ruins of Noble Men” by Marco Palmieri
A sequel story that pushed the franchise narrative forward, albeit very slowly and laboriously, essentially just reiterating where all the story elements were last left and affirming character’s stances on certain items, then ends with one of the main characters staring ponderously out a window.

“The Stars Look Down” by David Mack
The final story and it’s the best of them, but also the worst of them, in which a guy that was a fat lazy slob is transformed into man’s man, gets his woman, then loses his woman, which coincidentally is the same series of events that happened in the previous story too. I get it, people need to die, but boy howdy was the female interest reduced to a plot element and not much else. I’m still a fan of the story but it could have used some more thought on the optics of “fridging” another girlfriend in the same book.

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FALCON

cyberpunk ankle holster

Maybe NEXT year will be the year.

school boy avatar

Anne Hathaway

Deep Water [3840×2160]

Knock at the Cabin

Knock at the Cabin: Directed by M. Night Shyamalan. With Dave Bautista, Jonathan Groff, Rupert Grint, Ben Aldridge. While vacationing, a girl and her parents are taken hostage by armed strangers who demand that the family make a choice to avert the apocalypse.

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All dressed up and nowhere to go

MARINA CITY

Riverfall In Forest

Story of my life

flower building

MARIJUANA

tennis bikini ladies

magazine with an article about abortion laws in the US

Black Adam | Legacy

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A city of the future by Klaus Burgle, painted 1968

Nathalie Emmanuel

Positano City, Italy

Matanuska Glacier, AK [5765×3236] [OC]

Ana De Armas

that’s my secret cap

cock tower

Fruit Flies (dbot77, 2022)

New Star Trek Book: “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: The Illyrian Enigma #1”

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: The Illyrian Enigma #1 by Kirsten Beyer and Mike Johnson has been added to the Star Trek Book Club!

Journey to new reaches in this exclusive comic tie-in set between seasons one and two of fan-favorite Paramount+ series Strange New Worlds!With Una accused of unlawful genetic modification by Starfleet, Captain Pike sets out in search of evidence that could prove her innocence.From the mighty pens of Trek duo Kirsten Beyer and Mike Johnson (Picard-Stargazer, Discovery-Adventures in the 32nd Century, Light of Kahless, and more!) with art by Megan Levens (Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Star Trek: The Mirror War-Troi).

The book is currently scheduled to be published on December 21, 2022

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Pink Floyd [1440×3200]

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners [2880×6349]

SUN

Hell Rider (1892×4096)

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A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one

Red Moon (900×1600)

SEXY

TOY

I have a lot of headphones

Miranda Kerr

Star Trek S1E22 – Space Seed “It would be interesting, Captain, to return to that world in 100 years and learn what crop had sprung from the seed you planted today.”

Shay Mitchell

CONDOM

Sleeping Statues by Sam Carr

face

NORTHERN LIGHTS

Cover to Orc Island 4 by Lewis LaRosa

Peyton List

Kate Mara

Selena Gomez

In Karachi slums and skyscrapers are the norm