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Happy Black History Month! Star Trek has long been a pioneer in portraying minorities in positive and prominent roles on television. Remember, the original series featured television's first interracial kiss between William Shatner and Nichelle Nichols. Join us in celebrating the diversity that Star Trek has brought into all our lives and the progress toward the dream of a hopeful future for all mankind that it has helped inspire in us all.

It's February Sweeps and although the buzz on Star Trek: Enterprise's prospects for a fourth season on UPN haven't exactly been glowing, we can at least be thankful that a Star Trek series is here to greet us for the 18th February in a row! Voyager fans have another reason to cheer, as this month marks the arrival of that series on DVD.

This month we'll wrap up big news headlines over the last four weeks and Jackie Bundy has provided all the latest news from the world of Trek publishing with her Star Trek In Print column. We've selected another winner of a Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season Five DVD Set this month, so don't forget to check the Prize Winners listing to see if you're the lucky winner.

As we embark on what could be the last months of new Star Trek on television, let me thank everyone who has supported TrekWeb since 1996 and assure you that whether the show goes on or not, TrekWeb won't be going anywhere (if we can help it)!

Peace and long life,

Steve Krutzler, Editor

Jan 22 - IDOL Wallups Competition Incl. ENT's "Proving Ground" and SMALLVILLE - Ratings for ENTERPRISE in January weren't anything to cheer about.

Jan 27- "Damage" Report: 19th Episode Kicks Off Action-Packed Final Six, Plus Finale May 19 (SPOILERS) - The ship takes a hit in first of the last six new episodes of the year, to begin airing April 21st

Jan 27 - STAR TREK VI Collector's Edition DVD Beams Down to Mostly Positive Reviews Today - The final TREK movie featuring the original cast arrived last month on DVD.

Jan 27 - Enterprise Warping Back in Time Again--UPN Moving TREK Prequel Back An Hour to 9 PM - UPN puts March/April repeats on an hour later.

Jan 29 - Paramount Licenses Reprints of Original Gold Key TREK Comics, First Volume Due in March - Old school comics are new again starting next month.

Jan 29- Cinescape: Paramount TV Exec Hart May Be Contemplating Removal of Rick Berman -Source - Rumors start running rampant.

Feb 3 - Patrick Stewart: Mankind Not Ready For the Final Frontier, Manned Missions Too Costly - 'Picard' actor not too hot on space travel or sci-fi despite years in space.

Feb 5 - Marc Berman: ENT Officially a "Loser" as Show Can't Find Winning "Stratagem" for Ratings - Ratings continue to stagnate.

Feb 6 - Fan Enthusiasm Seeks to Curb Cancellation Worries With Second Hollywood Reporter Ad - Many fans are always campaigning for ENTERPRISE's future.

Feb 8 - Archer Tries to Disuade Xindi Leaders in "The Forgotten" - Production Report (SPOILERS) - XIndi arc gets more complicated as the season finale draws near.

Feb 10 - Ronald D. Moore's BATTLESTAR GALACTICA Launches on Sci-Fi With 13-Episode Committment - Celebrated TREK writer/producer gets new show.

Feb 12 - ENT Gets "Harbinger" of Hope as Overnights, Fast Nationals Track Up; Plus T'Pol's Butt Censored? Nowhere to go butt up.

Feb 12 - UPN Breaks Silence on Future of STAR TREK Prequel, Schedule Could Fly With or Without ENT - Les Moonves apparently not an ENTERPRISE fan.

Feb 13 - "The Council" Center Stage in Upcoming 22nd Episode - First Plot Details (SPOILERS) - More spoils from spoiler-land.

Feb 16 - TV Guide's Roush: ENT All Trekked Out, "Mercy Killing" May Be Needed to Save Franchise - TV bible comes out and says it: cancel TREK.

Feb 17 - Spike TV Launching ST:DS9 With Marathon in April, Show Taking Over TNG Timeslot - DEEP SPACE NINE arrives on cable in two months.

Feb 18 - "E²" Production Report Mum on Details For Mike Sussman's Latest Brain-Teasing Script - Two Enterprises? They're not telling (and neither are we).

Feb 18 - Cinescape Scooper: Scott Bakula Involved in Devising ENT Future Sans Rick Berman - Live, from rumor-ville...

Articles

Jan 24 - STAR TREK VI: TUC Blasts Onto Collector's Edition DVD Tuesday, But is it To Be, or Not To Be? - Last original movie goes out with style.

Feb 13 - Will STAR TREK: VOYAGER on DVD Settle the Controversy About the Show? Probably Not, But Take the Voyage Anyway - VOYAGER will generate just as many admirers as detractors as it embarks on its maiden voyage yet again.


Book Reviews

Jan 20 - Peter David Culminates NEW FRONTIER With Successful STONE AND ANVIL - He likes it!

Jan 28 - Bill Williams Lowers the Gavel on THE CASE OF THE COLONIST'S CORPSE - He likes it not.

Reviews Ex Deus

Jan 23 - Deus Unabashedly Impressed? "Proving Ground" a Success Indeed

Feb 6 - ENT Developing "Stratagem" for Creative Success as Deus Likes Second in a Row

Feb 12 - "Harbinger" ? Let's Hope Not, Says Deus , Ripping Episode as Sleaze-Fest - Two out of three ain't bad.

Feb 19 - John Billingsley 's 'Phlox' Needs New "Doctor's Orders" , Says Deus of "Average" Episode - Phlox episode fails to impress.

Written by Jacqueline Bundy

*New Releases*  

The A Time to… series of Next Generation novels begins approximately a year before the events of Star Trek: Nemesis and attempts to address some of the questions raised by that movie while at the same time telling five unique stories over the course of nine novels that involve the TNG crew. The first of those mass-market paperback novels, A Time to be Born by John Vornholt hits bookstores this month.

While patrolling the Rashanar Sector, the site of one of the Dominion Wars largest and costliest battles, the Enterprise-E crew becomes caught up in a maelstrom of events beyond their control that threatens to end Picard's career. The first half of a two-part story ( A Time to Die by the same author is due in March), A Time to be Born gets the ball rolling adequately enough and takes the first steps towards answering many of those questions. It certainly leaves you wanting to know what happens next. An excerpt from the novel is available at http://www.psiphi.org/cgi/upc-db/excerpt/0743467655.html

Also new this month is part two of the Starfleet Corps eBook title The Demon by Loren L. Coleman and Randall N. Bills. This is a really excellent story, pure Science Fiction with great character development and the first trek offering by this well respected writing duo. Both parts of The Demon are available for download in all three eBook formats.

The mass-market paperback reprint of Captain's Peril by William Shatner and Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens is now available. Originally released as a hardback in 2002 Bill Williams review of this title is available at http://trekweb.com/stories.php?aid=chV/uOtEGNBuA

Another Shatner reprint is also available, this one a non-fiction title; the trade paperback edition of I'm Working on That: A Trek from Science Fiction to Science Fact co-authored by Chip Walter. E xamining the connection between the science fiction universe of Star Trek and our current understanding of science fact Shatner and Walters toured the country to find out what Star Trek inventions are likely to pop into reality in the near future. To look for answers they visited some of the premier think tanks and universities in the US posing questions to several leading researchers. Using Star Trek episodes as a light-hearted guide numerous areas of Star Trek science and technology are examined in t his unique title that is both surprisingly readable and entirely fascinating.

*Book News*

Greg Cox's upcoming novel To Reign in Hell , tentatively scheduled for 2005, has been given a subtitle: "The Lost Years of Khan Noonien Singh".

The back cover copy of Volume One of The Worlds of Deep Space Nine is now available at http://www.psiphi.org/cgi/upc-db/worlds-of-ds9.html

Authors Dayton Ward and Kevin Dilmore will be joining Christie Golden as guests at the Starland Convention in Denver, Colorado April 16-18, 2004. More information can be found at http://www.starland.com/

As usual the annual fan run Shore Leave Convention has announced an impressive lineup of Star Trek authors as being among the guests. Among those attending the convention July 9-11 th in Baltimore, Maryland will be: Greg Cox, Ann Crispin, Peter David, Keith DeCandido, Kevin Dilmore, Mike Friedman, Dave Galanter, Bob Greenberger, Heather Jarman, Kevin Killiany, Jeffrey Lang, Kevin Lauderdale, David Mack, Terri Osborne, Marco Palmieri, S.D. Perry, Lawrence Schoen, Josepha Sherman, Susan Shwartz, Kevin G. Summers, Dayton Ward, Howard Weinstein and Susan Wright. Details at http://www.shore-leave.com/

*Recommended Reading*

Don't forget if you'd like to recommend a book for your fellow fans to read you can send your recommendations to bookrecommendations@yahoo.com . Please include your contact information as well as the title, author, a brief plot synopsis and a short statement about why you think others would enjoy the book.

We're continuing to give away FREE DVDs! One special newsletter member has won a free STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE Season Five DVD Gift Set this month! Valued at $99.99 USD, this 7-disc set contains some of the critically-acclaimed series's best episodes!

Congratulations Kelly Halsey ! E-mail us to claim your prize! We'll give away another DS9 season five DVD set in our next issue!

ENTERPRISE on UPN:

ENTERPRISE Mission Schedule | Logs by Season: 1 2 3
Episode Number	Title	Airdate
69	Hatchery	Feb 25, 2004
70	Azati Prime	Mar 03, 2004
71	Damage	Apr 21, 2004
72	The Forgotten	Apr 28, 2004
73	E²	May 05, 2004
74	The Council	May 12, 2004

ST:TNG on SpikeTV: