Layne Morgan — Author (2)
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy—Lost Contact #1 [Book] Goodreads
author: Layne Morgan / Coralí Espuña (Illustrator) publishing house: IDW 2026 - 4
Join us for a brand-new adventure featuring cadets from Starfleet Academy, streaming January 2026!

Caleb, Genesis, Jay-Den, Kyle, and Tarima are all students of Starfleet Academy, the illustrious school responsible for the Federation’s best. One day, they dream to serve as great leaders on board ships of their own, to study the cultural intricacies of sentient life amongst the Galaxy, or to go where no person has explored before. But today, their mission is simply to execute a survey simulation on a low-oxygen, lifeless planet. Or at least, it seems simple…until a huge storm cuts off their contact with their teachers aboard the Athena, and something impossible an alien. Now, they’ll have to work together and use everything they’ve learned in class about first contact to make it off the planet alive!
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy—Lost Contact #2 [Book] Goodreads
author: Layne Morgan / Coralí Espuña publishing house: IDW 2026 - 5
A massive transvectous ozone storm has hit S’Eekay II, stranding Jay-Den, Genesis, Tarima, and Kyle away from their teachers aboard the Athena! What was meant to be a routine survey simulation on an abandoned planet has turned An unknown life-form’s hunting them, they’re trapped in a mysterious force field preventing them from beaming out, and to make matters worse, the cadets have completely lost their ability to speak to one another…not that they were doing great at working together beforehand. Luckily, Genesis has a plan to get them out. Only no one is listening to her. And if the cadets all don’t grow into their Starfleet shoes fast, their first mission will become their last.