2006–2010 On November 9, 2006,
IDW Publishing announced that they had secured the publishing rights to
Star Trek from
CBS Consumer Products. IDW's first title,
Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Space Between, is a six-issue
limited series launched January 2007.
The Space Between is written by
David Tischman and drawn by Casey Maloney. This storyline was collected in trade paperback form in September 2007. The second series
Star Trek: Klingons: Blood Will Tell, launched in April, focusing on the
Klingons' point of view on various episodes from the original series - the first four issues based around "
Errand of Mercy", "
The Trouble with Tribbles", "
A Private Little War" and "
Day of the Dove", respectively, and features a framing story based around the events of
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. A third series started in July 2007, called
Star Trek: Year Four, continuing the five-year mission of Kirk's
Enterprise after the end of
Star Trek: The Original Series. A fourth series,
Alien Spotlight launched in September 2007, focusing on various alien races. 2008 saw the publication of the "Mirror Images" series, which tell the stories of
Mirror Universe Kirk's overthrow of Captain Christopher Pike, and of the alternates of the Enterprise-D crew. In the same year they published
Star Trek: Assignment: Earth, a mini-series that features the adventures of
Gary Seven from the Star Trek TOS episode
Assignment: Earth. In 2009, IDW began to publish their first
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine comic, the four-part ''Fool's Gold''. Also, in 2009, IDW published a prequel to the 2009 reboot/prequel film
Star Trek, entitled
Star Trek: Countdown. In 2009, IDW published
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, written by
Andy Schmidt and based on the
second Star Trek movie, and the only movie that has never been in comic form from the Original Crew. Other recent series include
Star Trek: Crew,
Star Trek: Romulans, Pawns of War and
Star Trek: Doctor McCoy, Frontier Doctor.
2011–2021 2009 film continuity In September 2011, IDW began publishing a new ongoing Star Trek series, set in the continuity of the
2009 Star Trek film. This series ran for 60 issues and concluded in 2016. In January 2013, IDW began publishing
Star Trek: Countdown to Darkness, a prequel to the film
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013). Later that year, in October, they began publishing
Star Trek: Khan, another tie-in, focusing on the film's antagonist
Khan Noonien Singh. A new ongoing, titled
Star Trek: Boldly Go, was launched in 2016 and continues with the status quo established by the film
Star Trek Beyond (2016). The series explored new situations such as "Kirk, McCoy, Sulu, and Chekov [transferring] over to the USS Endeavor, while Spock and Uhura settled on New Vulcan. Meanwhile, Scotty became an instructor at Starfleet Academy, with Jaylah as a student". The
Borg were a reoccurring villain in the series and the last arc dealt with "multiversal chaos" which brought "together the Enterprise crews from several different realities". The series ran for 18 issues and concluded in 2018. To coincide with the launch of
Star Trek: Discovery, IDW published a 4-issue prequel series in 2018 entitled "The Light of
Kahless," chronicling
T'Kuvma's backstory and rise to
Klingon warrior.
Star Trek: Discovery Annual #1 recounted the first meeting between Lt.
Paul Stamets and Dr. Culber – the first openly gay couple on
Star Trek. A new ongoing, titled
Star Trek: Year Five, was launched in 2019 and continues the story of the Kirk's
Enterprise from
Star Trek: Year Four.
The Hollywood Reporter commented that "the series will be written by a rotating team of talent, with a writer’s room made up of
Brandon Easton,
Jody Houser,
Jim McCann and the team of
Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing". Jared Mason Murray, for
Screen Rant, highlighted that the creative team "have rendered what feels like the most accurate spiritual continuation of the beloved sci-fi television show. [...]
Star Trek: Year Five is a worthy entry into the
Star Trek mythos and will finally make sense of years of continuity confusion".
Through the Mirror (2018), and
Terra Incognita (2018). These series focused on Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the ISS Enterprise.
Mirror Broken was included on
Screen Rant's 2022 "The 10 Best Star Trek Comics" list — the article states "one of the strengths of the miniseries is its ability to impart a lot of information in a digestible and fun-to-read manner. [...] Though the story isn't as fleshed out as other miniseries, it is still a fascinating glimpse into the mirror universe". A new limited series, entitled
Mirror War, was first published in 2021. It is a thirteen part continuation of the 2017–2018 Mirror Universe saga. It follows Picard's ongoing galactic conquest which draws the attention of the Klingon-Cardassian Alliance. It will also have several issues which follow individual members of the ISS Enterprise crew. The comic was followed by the spin-off comic
Star Trek: Defiant, where Worf leaves Sisko's crew and creates his own one. It is also a roster of characters from many series, including an aged
Spock from the original series. Unrelated to the plots of the aforementioned comics,
Star Trek: Holo-Ween (released near
Halloween 2023) is set in TNG era and shows a
holodeck malfunction that creates monsters. ''Star Trek: Picard's Academy
narrates the stories of a young Jean-Luc Picard back when he was a student, in stark contrast with the recent live-action series Star Trek: Picard that depicted an aged version of the character. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: The Scorpius Run
is a comic set in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds''. == Crossovers ==