Pocket Books Publisher

Name:	Pocket Books, Gallery Books
Date(s):	1939
Profit/Nonprofit:	for-profit
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Pocket Books is a division publishing imprint, a subsidiary of Simon & Schuster that primarily publishes paperback books. It is the imprint under which all current Star Trek mass-market paperback novels are published.

The phrase, Star Trek Lives! is primarily a fannish one, but at times has been co-opted for commercial, for-profit use. One example is this ad in the 2005 Shore Leave program book, urging fans to buy Pocket Book merchandise.

Acquired a license to publish Star Trek (all flavors) pro novels fiction in 1978, when Gulf+Western moved on creating a promotional tie-in for Star Trek: The Motion Picture. One of its best-known editors was John Ordover, until he left that job in 2003. The hardcover and trade paperback tie-in novels now carry the Gallery Books imprint.

Bantam Books and Ballantine/Del Rey Books previously had tie-in licenses:

[...] Paramount Pictures awarded the license to Pocket Books in 1979. [and] was not an exclusive license, as comics, technical publications and Star Trek: The Animated Series adaptations were published concurrently by Gold Key Comics and Ballantine Books.

Bantam continued to publish new novels until 1981, with Pocket Books refraining from issuing its own originals until after.

The Timescape connection, from a 1983 comment:

Those who may not have heard all the details concerning Pocket Book's scrapping of the Timescape Line--DON'T PANIC. The ST Line has not been scrapped. Although it is uncertain whether the novels will carry a new "line" name, or just say "Pocket", the ST books will continue, and from all indications , improve with quality. All fans who have read "Yesterday's Son" by Ann Crispin will agree that they (Pocket) are finally on the right track (or Trek, as the case may be). The future looks bright, especially with Jean Lorrah's "Vulcan Academy Murders" which promises to be one of the most popular ST novels ever.

Publications

See more in List of Star Trek TOS Pro Books with Fan Connections

• Strange New Worlds (1998 and 2016)

Novel series

• Star Trek (1979–present)
• Star Trek: The Original Series (1979–present)
• Star Trek Photostories (1980–1982)
• Star Trek: The Next Generation (1988–present)
• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993–present)
• Star Trek: Voyager (1995–present)
• Star Trek: Enterprise (2001–present)
• Star Trek: Starfleet Academy (1993–1998)
• Star Trek: New Frontier (1997–present)
• Star Trek: Starfleet Corps of Engineers (2000–present)
• Star Trek: Stargazer (2000–2004)
• Star Trek: Klingon Empire (2003–present)
• Star Trek: The Lost Era (2003–present)
• Star Trek: Titan (2005–present)
• Star Trek: Vanguard (2005–2012)
• Star Trek: Mirror Universe (2007–present)
• Alternate reality (2009–2020)
• Star Trek: Starfleet Academy (2010–2011)
• Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations (2011–present)
• Star Trek: Seekers (2014–2015)
• Star Trek: Discovery (2017-present)
• Star Trek: Picard (2020-present)
• Star Trek: Prodigy (2023-present)
• Strange New Worlds (2023-present)