The Trek Continues

More true-life adventures from a rocket scientist, Star Trek writer, and seeker of the extraordinary

Chester l. Richards has lived a life that sounds like pure fiction - except every wild adventure is real. In his newest memoir, The Trek Continues, Chester flashes back to a room crackling with electricity. It's the night The Tholian Web first aired, when he and co-writer Judy Burns see their words come to life on the Starship Enterprise.

From there he's flipped under his raft into raging rapids in Ethiopia, comes face to jaw with a crocodile, a deadly scorpion closes in on his foot, angry baboons rain missiles down from a cliff, back in California, he's hanging on in a plane about to fall from the sky.

Richards also takes readers on adventures in rocketry and aerospace breakthroughs, into the company of remarkable people who changed our world, and unlikely friendships.

In "Kittens," Chester and his two cats reflect about life, love and loss. The irrepressible spirit of Sarah, his dear late wife, and muse, permeates the discussion, and stories in The Trek Continues.

For readers drawn to science, space exploration, adventure, and lives lived wide awake, The Trek Continues expands the world Chester L. Richards began in his award-winning From The Potato to Star Trek and Beyond.