A new Star Trek comic series has finally been announced, with the first issue to hit stores this September. The new series will tie into the J.J. Abrams Star Trek reboot and the sequel, as well as adapting certain episodes from the original TV show. Super Hero Hype has the following to say...
IDW Publishing and CBS Consumer Products have announced a brand-new ongoing comic book series to be based on J.J. Abram's rebooted Star Trek universe. Teaming with the film's writer/producer Roberto Orci, the new monthly series will tie into both the 2009 film and the upcoming untitled sequel.
“Movies cost money. Lots and lots of money,” says Orci of the new series, “But comics give us unlimited budgets to take the crew of the Enterprise farther than they've ever been. Join us!”
The comic book series will re-adapt episodes of the original television series in the "rebooted" canon, beginning with the series' second pilot, "Where No Man Has Gone Before". That episode saw the U.S.S. Enterprise traveling to the edge of the galaxy, exposing two crewmembers to an energy field that causes them evolve into godlike beings. Fearing their increasing lack of humanity, Captain James T. Kirk decides that he must maroon them on a nearby planet before they become too powerful to stop. One of the afflicted crewmen is Helsman Gary Mitchell, a close personal friend to Kirk.
The new
Star Trek comic series will hit stores starting in September, later this year, while the currently untitled sequel to 2009's
Star Trek will hit theaters sometime in 2012!