Intelligence Gathering

Star Trek: The Next Generation - Intelligence Gathering was a comic miniseries published by IDW Publishing in 2008. The series was written by Scott and David Tipton with art by David Messina, the same team who previously worked on the miniseries Klingons: Blood Will Tell and the Alien Spotlights issues about the Gorn and Orions.

Introduction[edit | edit source]

One year ago IDW's Star Trek comics line launched with Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Space Between, a series of six stand-alone issues. Now, prepare for the latest voyage of the Enterprise as the creative team that brought you Klingons: Blood Will Tell tackles an all-new Star Trek: TNG mini-series.

Overview[edit | edit source]

The miniseries was first announced in IDW’s behind-the-scenes book Focus on... Star Trek, tentatively titled House Call. A later interview confirmed the new title and reduction of issues from the originally announced six down to five.

The series was a sequential story in five parts, with an on-going mystery which was solved in the final issues. The series was set bewtween The Next Phase and The Inner Light towards the end of the fifth season of the TNG television series. Each issue also told its own largely stand alone story which the writers used to explore the relationships and roles of main TNG characters.

Issues[edit | edit source]

Title	Valued Intelligence	A Matter of Dates	Chasing Shadows	Matters of the Mind	Disgrace
Number	1	2	3	4	5
Writers	Scott & David Tipton
Artist	David Messina
Published	16 January 2008	13 February 2008	26 March 2008	23 April 2008	29 May 2008
Cover A (David Messina)
Cover B (Joe Corroney)					-
RI Corroney cover					-

All but the final issue of this series were available in three covers. Two covers were distributed in equally wide availability, one each by David Messina and Joe Corroney. The third cover for each issue was a more limited availability retail incentive cover featuring Corroney's cover artwork without titles. The final issue in the series had just one cover, by David Messina.

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German translation[edit | edit source]

For the German release of this series the title was changed to Tor Zur Apokalypse, which translates to Gateway to the Apocalypse, as the original English title did not have the same meaning once translated. The German omnibus, available in paperback or hardcover, published by Cross Cult featured new art by David Messina.^[1]

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Connections[edit | edit source]

IDW Publishing miniseries
Completed series	The Space Between • Klingons: Blood Will Tell • Year Four • Alien Spotlight • Intelligence Gathering • Turnaround • The Enterprise Experiment • Assignment: Earth • Mirror Images • Romulans: The Hollow Crown • The Last Generation • Countdown • Alien Spotlight II • Crew • Mission's End • The Wrath of Khan • Spock: Reflections • Nero • Romulans: Schism • Ghosts • Fool's Gold • Star Trek Movie Adaptation • Leonard McCoy, Frontier Doctor • Burden of Knowledge • Countdown to Darkness • Captain's Log • Khan: Ruling in Hell • Infestation • Star Trek—Legion of Super-Heroes • Assimilation² • Hive • Khan • Strange New Worlds • New Visions • Harlan Ellison's The City on the Edge of Forever • The Primate Directive • The Spectrum War • Starfleet Academy • Manifest Destiny • Star Trek • Stranger Worlds • Waypoint • Mirror Broken • Boldly Go • Through the Mirror • The Light of Kahless • Succession • Terra Incognita • Star Trek vs. Transformers • The Q Conflict • Aftermath • Picard: Countdown • Too Long a Sacrifice • Seven's Reckoning
Future series	Assignment: Earth II • Year Five • The Mirror War

IDW Publishing omnibuses
IDW miniseries	The Space Between • Klingons: Blood Will Tell • Year Four • Alien Spotlight • Intelligence Gathering • Turnaround • The Enterprise Experiment • Assignment: Earth • Mirror Images • Romulans: The Hollow Crown • The Last Generation • Countdown • Alien Spotlight II • Crew • Mission's End • The Wrath of Khan • Spock: Reflections • Nero • Romulans: Schism • Ghosts • Fool's Gold • Star Trek Movie Adaptation • Leonard McCoy, Frontier Doctor • Burden of Knowledge • Countdown to Darkness • Captain's Log • Khan: Ruling in Hell • Infestation • Star Trek—Legion of Super-Heroes • Assimilation² • Hive • Khan • Strange New Worlds • New Visions • Harlan Ellison's The City on the Edge of Forever • The Primate Directive • The Spectrum War • Starfleet Academy • Manifest Destiny • Stranger Worlds • Waypoint • Mirror Broken • Through the Mirror • The Light of Kahless • Succession • Terra Incognita • Star Trek vs. Transformers • The Q Conflict • Aftermath • Picard: Countdown • Too Long a Sacrifice
IDW collections	The John Byrne Collection • 100-Page Spectacular (2011 • 2012 • Winter 2012) • The New Adventures (Volume 1 • Volume 2 • Volume 3 • Volume 4 • Volume 5) • The Missions Continue • Mirror Universe Collection
Archive material	Star Trek Archives (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 • Star Trek Omnibus (Volume 1 • Volume 2 • The Original Series • Movie Omnibus • TNG Omnibus) • Motion Picture Trilogy • 100-Page Spectacular (Summer 2012 • Gold Key) • Newspaper Comics (Volume 1 • Volume 2) • The Stardate Collection (Volume 1 • Volume 2) • Gold Key Archives (Volume 1 • Volume 2 • Volume 3 • Volume 4 • Volume 5) • Classic UK Comics (Volume 1 • Volume 2 • Volume 3)

External links[edit | edit source]

Intelligence Gathering article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
Interview with Scott and David Tipton at NEWSaRAMA.com.
Intelligence Gathering page at the Star Trek Comics Checklist