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It’s summer, and Gotham City has cause for celebration. The last vestiges of The Joker’s toxic legacy have finally faded, just in time for the mayor to partner with retail magnate Max Shreck to stage a Fourth of July celebration for the ages. But not everyone is rejoicing. Batman’s eternal vigilance continues as threats from rival gangs and masked criminals escalate by the day. Meanwhile, on the streets, protests grow in opposition to the city’s lavish excesses.

The Joker is dead, but not forgotten. Gotham City is saved, but it is still not safe. By night, its new symbol of hope, Batman, continues his fight to protect the innocent and the powerless. By day, his alter ego, Bruce Wayne, wonders whether there may someday be a future beyond skulking the city’s rooftops or the cavernous halls of his stately manor alongside the ever-dutiful Alfred Pennyworth. But even after death, the Clown Prince of Crime’s imprint can be seen in more than just the pavement.

When an experimental shuttlecraft fails, Captain Christopher Pike suspects a mechanical malfunction—only to discover the very principles on which Starfleet bases its technology have simply stopped functioning. He and his crewmates are forced to abandon ship in a dangerous maneuver that scatters their party across the strangest new world they’ve ever encountered.

The Jedi have always traveled the stars, defending peace and justice across the galaxy. But the galaxy is changing, and the Jedi Order along with it. More and more, the Order finds itself focused on the future of the Republic, secluded on Coruscant, where the twelve members of the Jedi Council weigh crises on a galactic scale.

Starfleet was everything for Cristóbal Rios…until one horrible, inexplicable day when it all went wrong. Aimless and adrift, he grasps at a chance for a future as an independent freighter captain in an area betrayed by the Federation, the border region with the former Romulan Empire. His greatest desire: to be left alone. But solitude isn’t in the cards for the captain of La Sirena, who falls into debt to a roving gang of hoodlums from a planet whose society is based on Prohibition-era Earth.

For a thousand generations, the Jedi Knights brought peace and order to the Galactic Republic, aided by their connection to the mystical energy field known as the Force. But they were betrayed - and the entire galaxy has paid the price. It is the Age of the Empire. Now Emperor Palpatine, once Chancellor of the Republic and secretly a Sith follower of the dark side of the Force, has brought his own peace and order to the galaxy. Peace through brutal repression, and order through increasing control of his subjects’ lives.

Tatooine—a harsh desert world where farmers toil in the heat of two suns while trying to protect themselves and their loved ones from the marauding Tusken Raiders. A backwater planet on the edge of civilized space. And an unlikely place to find a Jedi Master in hiding, or an orphaned infant boy on whose tiny shoulders rests the future of a galaxy.

When Klingon commander Kruge died in combat against James T. Kirk on the Genesis planet back in 2285, he left behind a powerful house in disarray - and a series of ticking time bombs: the Phantom Wing, a secret squadron of advanced Birds-of-Prey; a cabal of loyal officers intent on securing his heritage; and young Korgh, his thwarted would-be heir, willing to wait a Klingon lifetime to enact his vengeance.

No one in the history of histories has lost more than Philippa Georgiou, ruler of the Terran Empire. Forced to take refuge in the Federation’s universe, she bides her time until Section 31, a rogue spy force within Starfleet, offers her a chance to work as their agent. She has no intention of serving under anyone else, of course; her only interest is escape. But when a young Trill, Emony Dax, discovers a powerful interstellar menace, Georgiou recognizes it as a superweapon that escaped her grasp in her own universe.

Hearing of the outbreak of hostilities between the United Federation of Planets and the Klingon Empire, Captain Christopher Pike attempts to bring the U.S.S. Enterprise home to join in the fight. But in the hellish nebula known as the Pergamum, the stalwart commander instead finds an epic battle of his own, pitting ancient enemies against one another - with not just the Enterprise, but her crew as the spoils of war.

Soon to be seen in Star Wars: The Last Jedi, welcome to the casino city of Canto Bight. A place where exotic aliens, captivating creatures, and other would-be high rollers are willing to risk everything to make their fortunes. Set across one fateful evening, these four original novellas explore the deception and danger of the lavish casino city.

The Klingon Empire stands on the precipice. In the wake of violence from the cult known as the Unsung, paranoia threatens to break Chancellor Martok's regime. Klingons increasingly call for a stronger hand to take control...one that Lord Korgh, master manipulator, is only too willing to offer.

The Klingon-Federation alliance is in peril as never before. Lord Korgh has seized control of the House of Kruge, executing a plot 100 years in the making. The Klingon cult known as the Unsung rampages across the stars, striking from the shadows in their cloaked Birds-of-Prey. And the mysterious figure known as Buxtus Cross launches a scheme that will transform the Klingon Empire forever.

Als Captain Christopher Pike vom Ausbruch der Feindseligkeiten zwischen der Vereinigten Föderation der Planeten und dem Klingonischen Reich hört, versucht er, die U.S.S. Enterprise nach Hause zu bringen und sich dem Kampf anzuschließen. Doch in dem höllischen Pergamon-Nebel findet der unerschütterliche Kommandant einen ganz eigenen epischen Kampf vor, bei dem sich uralte Feinde miteinander messen - und nicht nur die Enterprise wird zur Kriegsbeute, sondern auch ihre Besatzung.

Die Sternenflotte war alles für Cristóbal Rios - bis zu einem schrecklichen, unerklärlichen Tag, an dem alles schiefging. Ziellos und orientierungslos ergreift er die Chance auf eine Zukunft als unabhängiger Frachterkapitän in einem von der Föderation verratenen Gebiet, der Grenzregion zum ehemaligen Romulanischen Imperium. Sein größter Wunsch: in Ruhe gelassen zu werden.

Der kürzlich zum Admiral beförderte William Riker und die Mannschaft der U.S.S. Titan werden nach Garadius IV beordert. Der Planet ist Riker nur zu gut von einer misslungenen Friedensmission zu Zeiten, als er noch der Erste Offizier der U.S.S. Enterprise war, bekannt. Doch dieses Mal findet er eine mysteriöse neue Situation vor: Eine der Kriegsparteien ist schlicht verschwunden.

Das Klingonische Reich steht am Abgrund. Im Nachhall der Gewalt des Unbesungenen-Kults droht Paranoia Kanzler Martoks Regierung zu entzweien. Immer lauter wird der Ruf der Klingonen nach einer stärkeren Hand, die Kontrolle zu übernehmen und der meisterhafte Ränkeschmied, Lord Korgh, ist nur zu gerne bereit, diesem Ruf zu folgen. Aber mittlerweile haben sich auch andere Mächte in Bewegung gesetzt. Mit Hilfe eines hinterlistigen Agenten verbünden sich die Feinde des Reichs im Verborgenen, um die Situation zu ihrem Vorteil zu nutzen.

Eine neue, epische Trilogie, die ihren Anfang während dem Film mit der Originalbesatzung - "Auf der Suche nach Mr. Spock" - nimmt, und sich bis in "The Next Generation" erstreckt! In dieser ein Jahrhundert umspannenden Trilogie ist Rache wirklich ein Gericht, das am besten kalt serviert wird. Die Allianz zwischen den Klingonen und der Föderation steht auf Messers Schneide. Die Unbesungenen, ein klingonischer Kult, wüten durch die Galaxis, schlagen im Schutz ihrer getarnten Bird-of-Preys zu.

Als 2285 der klingonische Commander Kruge im Kampf gegen James T. Kirk auf dem Genesis-Planeten fiel, stürzte das ein mächtiges Haus ins Chaos - und es blieben einige tickende Zeitbomben zurück: Das Phantomgeschwader, eine geheime Einheit fortschrittlicher Bird-of-Preys; eine verschworene Gruppe loyaler Offiziere, die sein Erbe bewahren wollten; und der junge Korgh, sein abgesetzter Erbe, der bereit war, ein ganzes klingonisches Leben lang auf seine Vergeltung zu warten.

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