The Last Starship, Issue 1

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"The Last Starship, Issue 1" is a comic, the first issue of the Star Trek: The Last Starship series from IDW Publishing, released on 24 September 2025. This issue is written by Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing, drawn by Adrián Bonilla and colored by Heather Moore. Heather Antos is the group editor.

Description[]

Solicitation: The Federation has fallen. Hope is fading. One last starship remains to fight for the future…unless a resurrected James T. Kirk dooms it first. Fresh off the run Screen Rant calls one of "the greatest eras in the history of Star Trek comics," writers Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly along with rising star and artist Adrián Bonilla (Alkaios, Let Her Be Evil), now bring you a new mission the likes of which comics have never seen before. For seven centuries, the United Federation of Planets brought together the entire Galaxy with peace, stability, enlightenment, and the promise of mutual protection. And then, in one terrible moment, it all crumbled in an event known as THE BURN, a Galaxy-wide disastrous event in which dilithium has gone inert, causing the detonation of every active warp core. The only ship remaining is a hack-and-slash Enterprise-Omega and its ragtag crew. Facing a true Wild West in space, the crew will need to make use of what few resources they have to uphold Starfleet’s mission of unity across the universe…and Captain Kirk will have to face a future without the Federation he loved so dearly…

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Characters[]

Hagel Carter • Wowie Carter • Hana Kelis • Ha'shet, daughter of Qo'dah • Agnes Jurati • Katok • James T. Kirk • Delacourt Sato • Sekat • Silyk • Valqis • Vashnov • unnamed Gorn

Log entries: Anderton • Emily Tolson

Referenced only: K'Tolka • Delas Toril

Starships and vehicles[]

aircraft • USS Antaka • USS Bolivar • USS Brookfield • USS Enterprise • escape pod • Gorn starship (31st century) • USS K'Tang • USS Nog (Eisenberg-class) • USS Omega (Omega-class) • USS Reznor • USS Sagan • USS Theseus (Discovery-class) • torpedo

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Related media[]

Discovery season 3: Michael Burnham arrives in the 32nd century and first learns about, then investigates the cause of the Burn.
TNG movie: Generations: James T. Kirk goes missing in 2293 and is killed on Veridian III in 2371.
- Star Trek novels by William Shatner: Although The Last Starship describes Kirk's resurrection, there is no acknowledgment of his activities after his "initial" death and reawakening on Veridian III described in Shatner's novels.
- The brief cameo of Kirk's remains having been stored in the Daystrom complex in PIC season 3 is expanded on here.
Star Trek/Defiant: The Red Path assumed form under the leadership of Emperor Kahless to eliminate all lifeforms who called themselves gods and its remnants later pledged their support to Lore, though these holdouts were seemingly eliminated when their master detonated the Orb of Destruction in Pleroma.