July Star Trek Comics
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IDW Publishing has announced its July slate of Star Trek comics.
The comics will include Star Trek/Green Lantern #1, Star Trek #47 – Five-Year Mission, and Star Trek New Visions: 1971/4860.2.
Star Trek/Green Lantern #1 will begin a six-part crossover. In this issue, which will be called The Spectrum War, “the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise meets the Green Lantern Corps for the first time, with Kirk and Spock making a most unusual discovery on a lost world, in the process igniting events that will change the fate of empires.”
Written by Mike Johnson and illustrated by Angel Hernandez, Star Trek/Green Lantern #1 will run thirty-two pages in length and will cost $3.99. There will be variant covers.
Next up is Star Trek #47 – Five Year Mission. In this issue, the conclusion to The Tholian Webs finds “one crew member [making] the ultimate sacrifice in order to save the Enterprise.
Written by Mike Johnson, with art by Rachael Stott and a cover by Joe Corroney, Star Trek #47 will be thirty-two pages in length and will cost $3.99. There will be a subscription variant cover by Derek Charm.
The last July Trek comic will be Star Trek New Visions: 1971/4860.2. In this issue by John Byrne featuring photo manipulations, “Captain Kirk sets off on a solo mission that will take him two hundred years into his own past, but he won’t be alone for long, not with Gary Seven back in action.”
Forty-eight pages in length, Star Trek New Visions: 1971/4860.2 will sell for $7.99.
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1971 is 300 years in the past, not 200.
Ah, but there’s the rub. Twice in the original show did they reference the Star Trek timeline as being “about 200 yrs” in the future ( and I think that’s how it was put both times). Even the Wrath of Khan mentions it. What does Khan say, “I was a prince,…200 years ago.” I always considered this to be fact and it almost seemed to add some more optimism for how quickly we’d have such a positive future. Then it seems it got retconned at some point as 300 years. No one seems to make a big deal about it. I’ve never accepted it. I tend to believe Trek with Kirk and the gang is around the corner.
On another note….have been looking forward to Byrne’s new Gary Seven tale. And just in time for my birthday too.