Crew (comic)

Star Trek: Crew will be a six-part Star Trek: The Original Series prequel comics miniseries published by IDW Publishing in 2009. The series will be written and illustrated by John Byrne.

The series will serve as a biography for the character of Number One, showing much of her Starfleet career prior to serving as Christopher Pike's first officer on the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701). The earliest issue will show Number One as a cadet, as the series progresses she will move through various postings until eventually serving as a lieutenant along side the young Pike on the Enterprise under Captain Robert April.

The series began life as a proposal by Byrne to IDW for a single graphic novel which would have depicted the shakedown cruise of the Enterprise, crewed by cadets and captained by veteran, to work out the kinks before the proper crew came along. IDW and CBS liked the general idea, but IDW prefers to produce miniseries and CBS suggested incorporating more familiar characters. The miniseries evolved from those suggestions.