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IDW Announces “Star Trek: Year Five”

By | January 21st, 2019
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Art by Greg Hildebrandt

At The Hollywood Reporter, IDW Publishing have announced “Star Trek: Year Five,” a new comic book series set during the final year of the USS Enterprise‘s five-year mission from the original Star Trek TV series.

The series will explore how the iconic crew of the Enterprise – Captain Kirk, Spock, Uhura, Bones, Scotty, Sulu and Chekov – felt when they were finally returning to Earth. It will have a rotating writing team consisting of Brandon Easton (“Transformers: Deviations”), Jody Houser (“Star Wars: Age of Republic”), Jim McCann (“Hawkeye: Blindspot”), and Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing (“Star Trek: Waypoint”). The latter two wrote the first arc of the series, which will be illustrated by Stephen Thompson (“Batman Beyond,” various Dark Horse “Star Wars” series).

The final year of Captain Kirk’s first five-year voyage has been depicted before in 1973’s Star Trek: The Animated Series, which picked up where the original series left off after its cancellation in 1969, as well as the 2009 IDW comic “Star Trek: Mission’s End” (written by Ty Templeton with art by Stephen Molnar), which depicted the Enterprise crew’s final adventure together before 1979’s Star Trek: The Motion Picture. “Year Five” is the latest IDW book starring the original crew, whose last ongoing, “Star Trek: Boldly Go,” concluded in March 2018 due to the current uncertainty over the rebooted film series’ future.

“Star Trek: Year Five” #1 will be released in April, and it will have a cover by Greg Hildebrandt, which marks the first official Star Trek work from the veteran artist. Hildebrandt declared in a statement he has been a Star Trek fan since 1966, and “admired the social, moral and political statements that were obvious in Gene Roddenberry’s plot lines… It was an honor to paint this cover art of the original cast. Having painted Trek before, it was a kick for me at 80 years old.”


Christopher Chiu-Tabet

Chris is the news manager of Multiversity Comics. A writer from London on the autistic spectrum, he enjoys tweeting and blogging on Medium about his favourite films, TV shows, books, music, and games, plus history and religion. He is Lebanese/Chinese, although he can't speak Cantonese or Arabic.

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