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] The first TNG book was delayed and will now see publication in April 2009.
Publications
Title | Stories | Writers | Artists | Published | Cover |
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Star Trek: The Manga | |||||
Shinsei Shinsei | "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 | "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 M. Kurkoski Steven Cummings Don Hudson Nam Kim |
September 2007 | |
Uchu | "Art of War"
"Bandi" Prose excerpt from TOS - Infinity's Prism novella: A Less Perfect Union |
Wil WheatonDavid Gerrold | E.J. Su
Don Hudson Nate Wilson |
July 2008 | |
Ultimate Edition (omnibus) |
"Bandi" TBA |
David Gerrold Wil Wheaton |
Don Hudson TBA |
March 2009 | |
Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Manga | |||||
Boukenshin | "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 | |
TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBR |
Unpublished stories
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
Star Trek comics | ||
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By series | DSC • EV • TOS • TNG • DS9 • Voyager • SA | |
By publisher | Gold Key • Marvel • DC • Malibu • WildStorm • TokyoPop • IDW |
External links
- TOKYOPOP official website
- Tokyopop article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
- Star Trek Manga news reports: