Year Four: The Enterprise Experiment

Star Trek: Year Four - The Enterprise Experiment is a five part comics miniseries published by IDW Publishing beginning April 2008. The series is written by D.C. Fontana and Derek Chester with art by Gordon Purcell, and continues the voyages of the USS Enterprise after the events of the Year Four miniseries.

The series is a sequel to the episode "The Enterprise Incident", featuring Federation experimentation with the captured cloaking device and appearances from the Romulans and in later issues of the series the Klingons. Arex also appears in the series.

Introduction[edit | edit source]

Dorothy "D.C." Fontana, the writer from the original Star Trek TV series, is joined by partner Derek Chester (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) for The Enterprise Experiment, an all-new series set in the unexplored fourth year of the U.S.S. Enterprise's legendary five-year mission. The Enterprise Experiment is a sequel to the classic episode "The Enterprise Incident" - originally written by Fontana herself - where Kirk and Spock found themselves trapped on an Enterprise out of phase with space itself and facing a plot of revenge from the Romulans!

Issues[edit | edit source]

Title/number	Part 1	Part 2	Part 3	Part 4	Part 5
Writers	D.C. Fontana & Derek Chester
Penciller	Gordon Purcell
Inker(s)	Terry Pallot & Gordon Purcell	Terry Pallot		Drew Geraci, Jose Marzan Jr. & Tom Nguyen	Bob Almond, Tom Nguyen, Gordon Purcell & Bob Smith
Published	16 April 2008	29 May 2008	2 July 2008	30 July 2008	27 August 2008
Cover (Rob & Joe Sharp)

Covers[edit | edit source]

With the exception of the first issue, which had three covers, this series only had one cover design per issue.

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Appendices[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
Future series	Assignment: Earth II • Year Five • Too Long a Sacrifice

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
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
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) • 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]

Year Four: The Enterprise Experiment article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
Year Four: The Enterprise Experiment page at the Star Trek Comics Checklist