IDW Publishing

This page lists the comics miniseries published by IDW Publishing.

See IDW Publishing release order for a listing of IDW comics in issue by issue publication order.

Miniseries

Early miniseries

IDW's first miniseries, which began in January 2007, was titled The Space Between, celebrating TNG's 20th anniversary with six issues set variously through TNG's TV seasons. The series was written by David Tischman and the series artist was Casey Maloney. The first five issues of the series told apparently stand alone stories, released out of chronological order. The epilogue in the fifth issue and the entire sixth issue then tied the entire series together. The omnibus of this series was released in September 2007.

Titles:	History Lesson	Captain's Pleasure	Strategy	Light of the Day	Space Seeds	An Inconvenient Truth
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IDW's second project, starting April 2007, was a TOS miniseries; Klingons: Blood Will Tell. The five issue series presents the Star Trek universe from the Klingon's point of view. A framing story set amongst the events of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country looks back at TOS episodes, creating interconnectivity between the episodes and adding a Klingon twist. The series was written by Scott and David Tipton with art by David Messina. The omnibus of this series was released in November 2007.

Titles:	Against Their Nature	Beneath the Skin	The Order of Things	Blood Reign O'er Me	Losses
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IDW's third project, Year Four, began in July 2007, which over six issues (plus a prologue in Focus on... Star Trek) told stories set in what would have been the fourth season of TOS. The series was written by David Tischman with art by several different artists. The omnibus of this series was released in March 2008.

Titles:	Focus on... Star Trek	Issue 1	Issue 2	Issue 3	Issue 4	Issue 5	Issue 6
Artists:	Leonard O'Grady	Steve Conley		Gordon Purcell	Rob & Joe Sharp	Steve Conley	Gordon Purcell
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In September 2007 another six part series, Alien Spotlight, started. Each comic in the series was a one-off TOS or TNG story focusing on a different alien species, with each issue written and illustrated by a different creative team. The ominbus for this series was published in May 2008.

Titles:	The Gorn	Vulcans	Andorians: The Old Ways	Orions	Borg	Romulans
Writers:	Scott & David Tipton	James Patrick	Paul D. Storrie	Scott & David Tipton	Andrew Steven Harris	John Byrne
Artists:	David Messina	Josep Maria Beroy	Leonard O'Grady	Elena Casagrande	Sean Murphy
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IDW's fifth project was a five part TNG miniseries titled Intelligence Gathering which told a five part sequential story, while each issue told it's own story focusing on one or two characters. The series was written by Scott and David Tipton with art by David Messina. The omnibus for this series was released in August 2008. ^[1]

Titles:	Valued Intelligence	A Matter of Dates	Chasing Shadows	Matters of the Mind	Disgrace
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Second Stage

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In March of 2008 IDW kicked off a new round of miniseries with the launch of the Second Stage, which signified a doubling in the number of comics being published and greater use of established and notable writers and artists.

The first title was a five-part New Frontier miniseries called Turnaround, written by Peter David with art by Stephen Thompson. The omnibus for the series will be released in October.

Titles:	Part I	Part II	Part III	Part IV	Part V
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The next Second Stage title began in April 2008. The Year Four saga continues in Year Four: The Enterprise Experiment, written by D.C. Fontana and Derek Chester with art by Gordon Purcell. The five part story arc will be sequel to the episode "The Enterprise Incident" featuring both the Romulans and Klingons. The omnibus for this series will be released in November

Titles:	Part 1	Part 2	Part 3	Part 4	Part 5
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The third Second Stage title was Assignment: Earth, written and illustrated by John Byrne and started in May 2008. The five Gary Seven stories bring to life the spin-off series that never was from the episode "Assignment: Earth". Each issue will take place a year apart from each other, starting in 1968. The omnibus for this series will be published in December 2008.

Titles:	Brighter Than a Thousand Suns	Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow	My Name is Legion	We Have Met The Enemy...	Too Many Presidents
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In June 2008 the fourth Second Stage title started. Mirror Images was be a five-part mirror universe series written by Scott and David Tipton with art by David Messina. The series depicted James T. Kirk's mirror counterpart's rise to captaincy of the ISS Enterprise over Christopher Pike's mirror counterpart.

Titles:	Issue 1	Issue 2	Issue 3	Issue 4	Issue 5
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Starting September was a two-part story from John Byrne. Romulans: The Hollow Crown was be a sequel to Byrne's Romulan issue of the Alien Spotlight series.

Titles:	Issue 1	Issue 2
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Starting in November, was be a five part TNG/Myriad Universes series titled The Last Generation, the series by Andrew Steven Harris with art by Gordon Purcell will show an alternate timeline in which the Federation and Klingons went to war, with the Klingons eventually conquering Earth.

Titles:	Do Not Close Your Eyes	No Cure For That	What Happens Now	Inevitability	The End of History
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2009

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The first new miniseries starting in 2009 was be Countdown, a four-part tie-in prequel series to the new Star Trek movie. The series' story is by the film's writters Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci and was written by Tim Jones and Mike Johnson. The series was illustrated by David Messina. The omnibus for the series will be released promptly after the final issue in April in time for the release of the movie.

Titles:	Number One	Number Two	Number Three	Number Four
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Starting in March was Crew, a six part miniseries by John Byrne telling the story of Number One's early career in Starfleet, from cadet to serving on the Enterprise.

Titles:	Shakedown	The Bottle	Ghosts	Shadows of the Past	The Ends of Eternity
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A third series beginning in March was Mission's End. The five-part series written by Ty Templeton with art by Steve Molnar will tell the story of the final mission of the USS Enterprise on it's five-year mission under Captain Kirk.

Titles:	Issue 1	Issue 2	Issue 3	Issue 4	Issue 5
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In June and July IDW's first biweekly Star Trek series was published. The three issues made up a new comic adaptation of the film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (the only TOS film not to have been adapted into a comic). The adaptation was written by Andy Schmidt with art by Chee Yang Ong.

Titles:	Issue 1	Issue 2	Issue 3
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Starting in July was Spock: Reflections, a four-part series promoted as a prequel to the series Countdown. The series was written by Scott and David Tipton with art by David Messina.

Titles:	Issue 1	Issue 2	Issue 3	Issue 4
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In production

Starting in March was the second Alien Spotlight series. A five part series, which like the first series Alien Spotlight II consists of stand-alone stories by different creative teams.

Titles:	Tribbles	Klingons: Four Thousand Throats...	Romulans	Q	Cardassians
Writers:	Stuart Moore	Keith R.A. DeCandido	Ian Edginton	Scott Tipton	Andy Schmidt
Artists:	Mike Hawthorne	J.K. Woodward	Wagner Reis	Elena Casagrande	Augustin Padilla
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Starting in August was Nero, written by Tim Jones and Mike Johnson with art by David Messina (the same team behind Countdown), the series focuses on Nero, set amongst the events of the film Star Trek.

Titles:	Number One	Number Two	Number Three	Number Four
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In September a three-part series titled Romulans: Schism began. A further sequel to John Byrne's Romulan stories, the series will show the break up of the Klingon-Romulan alliance.

Titles:	Issue 1	Issue 2	Issue 3
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Forthcoming series

In November a new five-part TNG series will begin. Ghosts will be written by Zander Cannon with art by Javier Aranda.

Titles:	Issue 1	Issue 2	Issue 3	Issue 4	Issue 5
Covers:				TBR	TBR

In December IDW's first Star Trek: Deep Space Nine series will start. Fool's Gold will be written by Scott and David Tipton, with art by Fabio Mantovani.

Titles:	Issue 1	Issue 2	Issue 3	Issue 4	Issue 5
Covers:			TBR	TBR	TBR

Sulu, the first Captain to be featured in Captain's Log

In January 2010 a new anthology series will begin, Captain's Log will feature one-shots each focused on a different starship commander.

Also starting in early 2010 will be a six-part adapation of the film Star Trek. The series will be written by Tim Jones and Mike Johnson with art by David Messina.

Titles:	Number One	Number Two	Number Three	Number Four	Number Five	Number Six
Covers:	TBR	TBR	TBR	TBR	TBR	TBR

In March a new four-part series by John Byrne will begin. Leonard McCoy: Frontier Doctor will feature Doctor McCoy in a story set before Star Trek: The Motion Picture

Omnibuses

IDW miniseries

In addition to the release of individual issues IDW have also reprinted all their Star Trek comics in omnibus books - approximately three months after the release of the final issue of each miniseries.

The omnibuses contain all the issues of the miniseries, plus cover galleries to display all the available covers for the issues and some additional content that was printed with the original issues, such as behind the scenes development sketches.

Titles:	The Space Between	Klingons: Blood Will Tell	Year Four	Alien Spotlight	Intelligence Gathering
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Titles:	Turnaround	Year Four: The Enterprise Experiment	Assignment: Earth	Mirror Images	Countdown
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Titles:	The Last Generation	Countdown (hardcover)	Crew	Mission's End	Spock: Reflections
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Archives and Omnibus series

Starting from September 2008 IDW also began to publish omnibus books of older Star Trek comics from previous Star Trek comic book publishers. This started with a series called Star Trek Archives which collected four to eight assorted issues based on a theme.

Titles:	Best of Peter David	Best of The Borg	Best of Gary Seven	Best of DS9	Best of Captain Kirk	Best of Alternate Universes	Best of Klingons
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Following on from the Archives series IDW also started to publish larger omnibuses of pre-IDW comics in a series dubbed "Star Trek Omnibus". IDW have announced three of these books to date: A collection of Marvel Comics' first Star Trek series (issues 4-18), the complete Early Voyages series, and a collection Star Trek movie comic adaptations (including the original Marvel issues 1-3 adaptation of The Motion Picture and IDW's new adaptation of The Wrath of Khan).

Titles:	First Marvel series	Early Voyages	Movie adaptations
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Possible future series

For the first three years of their license, IDW only purchased the rights to publish comics from the two most popular Trek series; The Original Series and The Next Generation. The company have the right of first refusal to the rest of franchise should they later decide to expand out from those two series, which they did so in taking on the license to publish tie-in comics for the new movie, Star Trek, and in late 2009 when they began to publish their first Deep Space Nine comics. The current licences include the full breadth of any series they opt into and its spin-offs, so IDW could and have published stories from more obscure angles on the series, such as the era of Captain Pike, and comics from the New Frontier series. ^[2]

During in his tenure as editor Andrew Steven Harris suggested the company planned to work on some sort of collaborative project with Pocket Books - the first hint of this collaboration was the The Last Generation miniseries, which was released under the Myriad Universes manner begun by Pocket. Harris and his successor Andrew Schmidt both also indicated an interest in Titan comics. However IDW's most recent editor, Scott Dunbier commented in the 2009 Comics International Star Trek Special that IDW had no plans at the time to build on Pocket Books' concepts, but did suggest there might be future tie-ins with Star Trek Online following the collaboration in Countdown.^[3][4]

Further TOS and TNG titles

John Byrne is developing several projects for IDW, all related to TOS, this includes a second series of Assignment: Earth comics. ^[5].

Building on the success of the new Star Trek movie and it's comic spin-off IDW have plans for several projects based around the film and Countdown. The Countdown writers Tim Jones and Mike Johnson have plans to write a prequel to Countdown showing how the TNG crew got to their new positions, and in particular how Data was restored. Additionally they would like to write a series following Countdown showing the continuing future of the TNG era. In the alternate reality of the new film they intend to produce a series leading into the next film in a similar function to Countdown. ^[6]

Unrealised concepts

Through a succession of editors some projects which have been hinted at by previous editors have yet to be realised. None of them have officially been announced as cancelled, but have remain unproduced for significant periods of time:

Following on from their first two Year Four miniseries' IDW had vague plans for two more Year Four miniseries, making a total of twenty-two issues over the four minis, equivalent to a full season of The Original Series. After that they planned to continue on to Year Five miniseries’. ^[7] IDW skipped ahead with this concept somewhat with the 2009 release of Mission's End, showing the finally year five mission.

Andrew Steven Harris also indicated IDW were developing an idea for a post-Nemesis TNG series, working with an unspecified individual who has previously worked on Star Trek projects form Marvel and DC comics. Harris suggested the series would start in early 2009; that period did see the start of Countdown a part-TNG series set many years after Nemesis. ^[8]

When Mirror Images was first announced it was also suggested that there would be a TNG mirror universe series to follow. However that series was pushed back in favour of the Myriad Universe miniseries The Last Generation.

Announced in Focus on... Star Trek another project that never surfaced was Probability Factor, a six issue miniseries, three issue TOS and three TNG. The series was to tell "What if?" stories exploring episodes that might have been is some factor had changed. The episodes choose for the alternate universe treatment were to be selected by and voted for by fans. However since its initial announcement no further news on the series has been announced, while other new miniseries (including a different alternate timeline story - The Last Generation) have gone ahead.

Voyager and Enterprise

On Voyager comics Andrew Steven Harris has stated they are currently unlikely to happen any time soon if at all. Enterprise comics have a similar, if not worse, Dan Taylor noted likeness approvals for Scott Bakula/Jonathan Archer are problematic^[9]. Enterprise, being the series with the smallest fanbase, would also make such a venture risky, ie. developing comics on a series that may be less commercially successful. ^[10]

Appendices

External links

• IDW Publishing's website.
• IDW Publishing article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.