Star Trek Annual (volume 2) was an annually-published comic series, featuring the crew of the Enterprise-A and the crew of the predecessor ship NCC-1701 from Star Trek: The Original Series. The Star Trek Annual was published concurrently with the second series of TOS comics, and was released in six installments.
Summary[]
During the 1990s, DC Comics tended to carry themes across the annual releases. Although Star Trek was outside of DC's storyelling universe, the licensed TOS comic line did carry certain themes with the Star Trek: The Next Generation Annual.
Both #1 Annuals featured stories co-written by actors from the series, with George Takei's "So Near the Touch" released alongside John de Lancie's "The Gift".
The second Annuals, ("Starfleet Academy!" and "Thin Ice") both featured Starfleet Academy flashback stories, for James T. Kirk and William T. Riker, respectively. The third installments ("Homeworld" and TNG: "The Broken Moon!") both featured diplomatic intrigue with alien women in leadership roles, as well as fully rendered paintings for cover artwork. The fourth in the series both featured a protagonist being taken over by the story antagonist, with Spock being replicated by the colonizer in "To Walk the Night" and Jean-Luc Picard being briefly joined with the Dalor symbiont in TNG: "A House Divided". The fifth of each series had a dream storyline, with Janice Rand's dreams being broadcast by telepathic aliens in "The Dream Walkers" and dreams of Data taking form in TNG "Brother's Keeper".
The sixth installments finally included a literal crossover, the Convergence storyline where Devidian time travel had a team-up between the TOS crew of the Enterprise-A and the TNG crew of the Enterprise-D.
Issues[]
| Number | Writer(s) | Artist(s) | Published | Image |
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| #1: "So Near the Touch" | George Takei & Peter David (script) | Gray Morrow (finished art) | 1990 | 
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| #2 "Starfleet Academy!" | Peter David |
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1991 | 
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| #3 "Homeworld" | Howard Weinstein |
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1992 | 
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| #4 "To Walk the Night" | Michael Jan Friedman |
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1993 | 
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| #5 "The Dream Walkers" | Michael Jan Friedman | Carlos Garzon | 1994 | 
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| #6 Convergence #1: "Split Infinities" | Michael Jan Friedman & Howard Weinstein |
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1995 | 
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External links[]
- Star Trek Annual (DC second series) article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.