Rich Handley is an author and editor who has worked on numerous Star Trek comic collections and archive publications, as well as multiple books and magazines, since 1999. He has also written original TAS short stories for Star Trek Explorer.

Biography[]

Handley was the assistant editor of the UK comic strips and US comic strips collections, under IDW's Dean Mullaney. These five hardcover books were the first complete republication of the stories from early on in Star Trek history. Notably, it was under Handley's purview as assistant editor that the various unnamed stories were finally given titles. The strips were scanned from Handley's complete collection of both runs, and he also wrote all supplementary materials for each book, which he later did again when Eaglemoss reprinted the strips a second time.

Handley has continued with comic archive work, writing introductions and taking on editorial duties on the Eaglemoss Graphic Novel Collection, reprinting the majority of Star Trek's fifty-plus years of comic history. After editing and writing introductions in many graphic novel collections, "Star Trek 400th Issue" was Rich Handley's Star Trek comic issue writing debut, providing an essay for the publication. Handley has also been a columnist and reporter for Star Trek Communicator magazine, a columnist and short fiction writer for Titan's Star Trek Explorer magazine, and a consultant on GIT Corp.'s Star Trek comic strip DVD-ROM sets. He is widely viewed as a preeminent Star Trek comics expert.

In addition, Handley was the co-editor of Women Take the Conn: An Unauthorized Star Trek Essay Collection By Women Writers, from Becky Books (2024), and a contributing writer to ST reference: New Life and New Civilizations: Exploring Star Trek Comics (Sequart, 2014), Galloping Around the Cosmos: Memories of TV’s Wagon Train to the Stars from Today’s Grown-Up Kids (Becky Books, 2023), Adventures RPG module: Shackleton Expanse Campaign Guide (Modiphius, 2021), and four Star Trek-centric volumes of ATB Publishing's Outside In book line.

A character, Handley, was named after Rich Handley, appearing in The Primate Directive, the Star Trek comic crossover with Planet of the Apes. Handley has also contributed writing or done editorial work on a number of Planet of the Apes publications.

Star Trek bibliography[]

Short stories[]

• "Forewarned and Three-Armed" (Star Trek: Explorer, January 2024)
• "Cat and Mouse" (Star Trek: Explorer, April 2024)
• "The Needs of the Many" (Star Trek: Explorer, November 2024)

Appendices[]

External link[]

• Rich Handley article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.