Tokyopop

Tokyopop are a manga publishing company who became the first company to acquire the rights to publish Star Trek manga, in 2004.

Overview

Tokyopop have produced several anthologies of Star Trek manga stories starting in 2006 with Shinsei Shinsei. The first two books contained five manga stories and a prose short story from a recently released anthology by Pocket Books, with Pocket printing a manga story in the respective anthology to cross promote both companies products. The third book featured four, slightly longer, manga stories and an extra from a recent Pocket anthology of short novels.

Tokyopop originally planed their first book to be collection of tales in the Star Trek: The Next Generation era but at the bequest of Paramount they chose to develop a Star Trek: The Original Series book instead, to be released for The Original Series' 40th Anniversary.^[1] After publishing their third TOS manga book the company announced plans for two TNG anthologies in late 2008 and early 2009.^[2] One TNG book was printed in April 2009.

Publications

Title	Stories	Writers	Artists	Published	Cover
Star Trek: The Manga
Shinsei Shinsei (New Life, New Star)	"Side Effects" "Anything But Alone" "'Til Death" "Oban" "Orphans"	Chris Dows Joshua Ortega Mike W. Barr Jim Alexander Rob Tokar	Makoto Nakatsuka Gregory Giovanni Johnson Jeong Mo Yang Michael J. Shelfer E.J. Su	September 2006
Kakan ni Shinkou (To Boldly Go)	"Cura Te Ipsum" "Communications Breakdown" "Forging Alliances" "The Scaean Gate" "The Trial"	Wil Wheaton Christine Boylan Paul Benjamin Diane Duane Mike Wellman	E.J. Su Bettina Kurkoski Steven Cummings Don Hudson Nam Kim	September 2007
Uchu (Universe)	"Art of War" "Bandi" "The Humanitarian" "Inalienable Rights" Prose excerpt from TOS - Infinity's Prism novella: A Less Perfect Union	Wil Wheaton David Gerrold Luis Reyes Nathaniel Bowden	E.J. Su Don Hudson Nate Wilson Heidi Arnhold	July 2008
Ultimate Edition (omnibus)	"Side Effects" "Forging Alliances" "Art of War" "Orphans" "Communications Breakdown" "The Humanitarian" "'Til Death" "Bandi" 28-page preview of TNG Sensation	Chris Dows Paul Benjamin Wil Wheaton Rob Tokar Christine Boylan Luis Reyes Mike W. Barr David Gerrold Diane Duane	Makoto Nakatsuka Steven Cummings E.J. Su E.J. Su Bettina Kurkoski Nate Wilson Jeong Mo Yang Don Hudson Chrissy Delk	March 2009
Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Manga
Boukenshin (Adventurous Spirit)	"Changeling" "Sensation" "The Picardian Knot" "Loyalty"	David Gerrold Diane Duane Christine Boylan F.J. DeSanto	E.J. Su Chrissy Delk Don Hudson Bettina Kurkoski	April 2009

Unpublished stories

Klingon concept art by Shin-Ichi Hiromoto from TNG manga "Skin Deep"

Romulan concept art by Shin-Ichi Hiromoto from TNG manga "Skin Deep"

Details on the stories for Tokyopop's early TNG manga book were announced before they decided to publish a TOS book instead. It is not yet known if any of these stories will be revived in a future TNG book:

• A "creepy space spider story" by Mike Barr
• A "holodeck story with Worf in Feudal Japan" by Jake Forbes
• A "Q story where he’s split into three personalities" by Chris Dows
• Skin Deep - a "Klingon battle story" by Jim Alexander
• A Mirror Universe tale by Mark Paniccia

Appendices

External links

• TOKYOPOP official website
• Tokyopop article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
• Star Trek Manga news reports:
  • Early license announcement and TNG manga plans (2004)
  • TOS manga announcement (2006)
  • Reviews and future Star Trek manga plans (2008)