By Captain Pyke | May 24, 2010 - 10:26 pm

Star Trek books are always a Trek Fan favorite and the releases this year will be no exception. In the list of upcoming releases we have some old fan favorites (including Star Trek: Vanguard & Star Trek: SCE sequeals) as well as some new publications. Heck, the long talked about Haynes manual for the USS Enterprise is on the way too. Check out below for the details.

Worlds of Star Trek Deep Space Nine, Volume Three. Within every federation and every empire, behind every hero and every villain, there are the worlds that define them. In the aftermath of Unity and in the daring tradition of Spock's World, The Final Reflection, and A Stitch in Time, the civilizations most closely tied to Star Trek: Deep Space Nine can now be experienced as never before...in tales both sweeping and intimate, reflective and prophetic, eerily familiar and utterly alien. Release date July 13.

Star Trek: Vanguard #3: Reap the Whirlwind. The mystery of the Taurus Reach is about to be revealed. Ancient secrets lie on the fourth planet of the Jinoteur system, and three great rivals are fighting to control it. The Federation and the Klingon Empire want to wield its power; the Tholian Assembly wants to bury it. But the threat stirring on that distant world is more dangerous than they realize. The Shedai, who ruled the Taurus Reach aeons ago, have risen from their ages of deathlike slumber -- to gather, marshal their strength, and take their revenge. Release date July 13.

Star Trek: SCE: Out of the Cocoon. When something in the galaxy needs to be fixed, tweaked, investigated, or repaired, the Federation sends in the best: the Starfleet Corps of Engineers. Traveling throughout the quadrant on the Sabre-class U.S.S. da Vinci, Captain David Gold, former Starship Enterprise™ engineer Commander Sonya Gomez, and the crack S.C.E. team solve the problems of the galaxy, one disaster at a time. Release date July 20th.

Star Trek 365, by Paula M. Block, "the definitive, authorized guide" to Star Trek, in hardcover, with never-before-seen images, newly commissioned photography, and rmastered stills (Abrams, September).

Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Zero Sum Game. A spy for the Typhon Pact—a new political rival of the Federation—steals the plans for Starfleet’s newest technological advance: the slipstream drive. To stop the Typhon Pact from unlocking the drive’s secrets, Starfleet Intelligence recruits a pair of genetically enhanced agents: Dr. Julian Bashir, of station Deep Space 9, and Sarina Douglas, a woman whose talents Bashir helped bring to fruition, and whom Bashir thinks of as his long-lost true love. Release date October 26.

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, a series for young aults "filled with romance and adventure" in paperback, hardcover, and e-book formats (Simon & Schuster, November).

U.S.S. Enterprise Manual, a user's guide complete with "cutaway drawings, technical illustrations and photographs along with comprehensive background information and specifications on the technology used on board the USS Enterprise" (Haynes Publishing, September).

(info source independent.co.uk & Simon & Schuster)