On the planet Xanthos, ordinary men and woman have started mutating into bizarre new creatures with extraordinary powers. Dispatched to cope with the crisis, the "Starship Enterprise" receives some unexpected visitors from another reality and era: the X-Men.

"Star Trek: Voyager's" most popular episode featured the holodeck adventures of Captain Proton, his faithful secretary Constance Goodheart, and ace reporter Buster Kincaid. Now that space-age melodrama is brought to vivid life in a format that faithfully reproduces the look and style 1940s pulp magazines.

GARTH OF IZAR: The legend of Captain Garth, the hero of Axanar, has spread throughout the Federation. His exploits are required reading at Starfleet Academy -- where he became a hero of a future legend, James T. Kirk... GARTH OF IZAR: Brutal injuries sustained on Antos IV forced the native Antosians to heal him by means of giving him their natural shape-changing abilities. But the cure proved worse than the disease, as Garth was driven insane... GARTH OF IZAR: His madness apparently cured at the rehab colony on Elba II, Captain Garth has returned to service to mediate a crisis on Antos IV, with the aid of Captain Kirk and the Starship Enterprise. But has Garth truly put his insanity behind him, or will he renew his plans for conquest -- starting with the Antosians?

Captain Jean-Luc Picard has long enjoyed playing the part of Dixon Hill, a hard-boiled private eye straight out of American pulpfiction. His holographic excursions into 1940s San Francisco, a colorful world of gunplay and gangsters, provide a welcome diversion from his hefty responsibilities as a Starfleet captain. But not this time. The Starship Enterprise' has lost power and control, its own momentum carrying it ever deeper into a dangerous zone of warped space and time. And the only way out is hidden somewhere in the mean streets and back alleys of old Frisco. But so is a cold-blooded murderer.... Now Dixon Hill, alias Jean-Luc Picard, must get to the bottom of a tangled mystery that threatens the lives of everyone aboard the Enterprise !

This new anthology of\short stories by various authors follows on the success of 2007's MIRROR UNIVERSE trade paperbacks, featuring a dozen new twisted tales from the OTHER Star Trek universe, a sinister yet eerily familiar world where history took a different turn, featuring the brutal, amoral, alternate versions of Star Trek's heroes.