Year Four: The Enterprise Experiment

Star Trek: Year Four - The Enterprise Experiment is a five part comics miniseries published by IDW Publishing from April to August 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.

Description[]

Dorothy "D.C." Fontana, the writer from the original Star Trek TV series, as well as The Animated Series, Star Trek: The Next Generation, and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, is joined by partner Derek Chester (Star Trek: Legacy) for The Enterprise Experiment, an all-new series set in the unexplored fourth year of the USS Enterprise's legendary five-year mission.

The Enterprise Experiment — a sequel to The Enterprise Incident, the classic Star Trek episode written by Fontana — finds Kirk and Spock trapped on an Enterprise out of phase with space itself and facing a plot of revenge from the Romulans!

Issues[]

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)

Appendices[]

Covers[]

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

Connections[]

IDW Publishing miniseries
TOS	Klingons: Blood Will Tell • Year Four • The Enterprise Experiment • Assignment: Earth • Mirror Images • Romulans: The Hollow Crown • Crew • Mission's End • The Wrath of Khan • Romulans: Schism • Leonard McCoy, Frontier Doctor • Burden of Knowledge • Khan: Ruling in Hell • Infestation • Star Trek—Legion of Super-Heroes • Harlan Ellison's The City on the Edge of Forever • The Primate Directive • Star Trek vs. Transformers • The Motion Picture: Echoes
TOS	Star Trek (2009) tie-in:	Countdown • Spock: Reflections • Nero • The Official Motion Picture Adaptation • Countdown to Darkness • Khan • Starfleet Academy • The Spectrum War • Manifest Destiny • Stranger Worlds
TNG	The Space Between • Intelligence Gathering • The Last Generation • Ghosts • Assimilation² • Hive • Deviations • Mirror Broken • Through the Mirror • Terra Incognita • The Mirror War • Warriors of the Mirror War • Holo-Ween
DS9	Fool's Gold • Too Long a Sacrifice • The Dog of War
VOY	Seven's Reckoning
DSC	The Light of Kahless • Succession • Aftermath • Adventures in the 32nd Century
PIC	Picard: Countdown • Stargazer
LD	Lower Decks
SNW	The Illyrian Enigma • The Scorpius Run
Other	Turnaround • Alien Spotlight • Alien Spotlight II • Captain's Log • Waypoint • The Q Conflict • Aliens • Resurgence • Defiant • Picard's Academy • Sons of Star Trek

IDW Publishing omnibuses
IDW collections	IDW Ongoing (1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 • 6 • 7 • 8 • 9 • 10 • 11 • 12 • 13) • Romulans: Pawns of War • 100-Page Spectacular (2011 • 2012 • Winter 2012) • The John Byrne Collection • New Visions (1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 • 6 • 7 • 8 • The Hollow Man and Other Stories) • The New Adventures (1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5) • Countdown Collection (1 • 2) • Boldly Go (1 • 2 • IDIC) • The Missions Continue • Year Five (Odyssey's End • The Wine-Dark Deep • Weaker Than Man • Experienced in Loss • Deluxe Edition, Volume 1) • Mirror Universe Collection • Library Collection (1 • 2 • 3) • Star Trek (IDW 2022) (Godshock • The Red Path • Day of Blood • Glass and Bone) • Defiant (1 • Another Piece of the Action)
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 • TNG Omnibus) • Motion Picture Trilogy • 100-Page Spectacular (Summer 2012 • Gold Key) • Newspaper Comics (1 • 2) • The Stardate Collection (1 • 2) • Gold Key Archives (1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5) • Classic UK Comics (1 • 2 • 3) • Best of Picard • The Mirror Universe Saga

Graphic Novel Collection
Volumes
	ST	1 • 22 • 60 • 67 • 102 • 109 • 111 • 112 • 118 • 120 • 130
	TOS	2 • 4 • 9 • 10 • 13 • 15 • 18 • 19 • 20 • 23 • 24 • 26 • 29 • 30 • 31 • 34 • 39 • 41 • 44 • 46 • 49 • 51 • 52 • 53 • 54 • 57 • 61 • 64 • 68 • 72 • 75 • 78 • 83 • 84 • 89 • 90 • 93 • 100 • 101 • 103 • 104 • 105 • 108 • 110 • 115 • 121 • 122 • 125 • 127 • 129 • 134 • 138 • 139
	TOS	Kelvin timeline	6 • 7 • 12 • 14 • 17 • 25 • 36 • 40 • 45 • 48 • 56 • 63 • 71 • 77 • 81 • 87 • 92 • 95
	TNG	3 • 5 • 11 • 16 • 27 • 32 • 33 • 42 • 50 • 58 • 65 • 66 • 69 • 73 • 76 • 79 • 82 • 85 • 88 • 91 • 94 • 96 • 97 • 98 • 99 • 113 • 119 • 128 • 132 • 135 • 136 • 140
	DS9	28 • 35 • 37 • 43 • 47 • 55 • 59 • 62 • 70 • 74 • 80 • 86 • 106 • 114 • 116 • 123 • 126
	VOY	21 • 38 • 124 • 131
	SA	IDW (8) • Marvel (107 • 117 • 133 • 137)
Extras		Special Editions (1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 • 6) • Premium Photonovels (1 • 2 • 3 • 4)

External links[]

Star Trek: 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

Memory Beta, non-canon Star Trek Wiki