Coming next from IDW comics?

[Therin of Andor]

Over a year ago now, I constructed a survey about the future direction of IDW Publishing's Star Trek titles. I can't believe it was soooo long ago.

I thought perhaps it was time for a new survey, since it seems there's yet another editor overseeing the ST lines at IDW.

I've left some options as write-in votes, in case I miss anything obvious. As far as we know, IDW still doesn't have a license for DS9, VOY or ENT stories, so if you want to see those, please do them as write-ins.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Write-in vote for "Alien Spotlights" on some of the TMP aliens (Christopher Bennett) - and more Andorians (of course) - by Heather Jarman?

And I'd love to see Andy Mangels sink his teeth into "Excelsior" and/or "Titan" comics. Also high hopes for the return of Abnett & Edgington (to complete "Early Voyages" storyline?) and more "New Frontier" comics from PAD.

 

[BillJ]

JJ Abrams 23rd Century timeline by the Wardilmore entity.

 

[Stevil2001]

More Alien Spotlight, as that was probably my favorite IDW series thus far. (Is volume 2 ever going to come out?)

I'd like to see some work in the five-year mission era, as I think that works best for TOS comics. The visual stylings lend themselves well to the comics medium.

Finishing Early Voyages doesn't seem like a very pointful move over a decade after the series ended.

I think Lance Parkin should write some Trek comics. Heck, I think Lance should just write some Star Trek anything.

 

[Therin of Andor]

JJ Abrams 23rd Century timeline by the Wardilmore entity.

To my horror I realised a few minutes ago that I should have added Dayton & Kevin. I'm glad someone's done a write-in for them! Thanks BillJ!

 

[Therin of Andor]

More Alien Spotlight, as that was probably my favorite IDW series thus far. (Is volume 2 ever going to come out?).

Just this week, "Alien Spotlight: Tribbles" arrived in stores, so the next omnibus is only about four issues/months off.

Finishing Early Voyages doesn't seem like a very pointful move over a decade after the series ended.

Except that IDW has announced a reprint omnibus of the old issues.

 

[BillJ]

JJ Abrams 23rd Century timeline by the Wardilmore entity.

To my horror I realised a few minutes ago that I should have added Dayton & Kevin. I'm glad someone's done a write-in for them! Thanks BillJ!

 

[nickyboy]

1. I would love more New Frontier, with the books now released years apart a New Frontier mini-series once a year would be great for my NF fix. Or PAD could contribute to the Alien Spotlight with an issue on the Xenixians or the Brikar or Hermats.

2. I would like to see both a Titan & a Vanguard series if only to see images of the characters. To see all the alien races on board Titan would be great, also I picture Titan as this colourfilled flamboyant kind of place from the sixties!

3. more adventures of Captain Data & other 24th century characters could be interesting.

4. More Alien spotlights would be great, these could also be used as maybe a testing ground for DS9 comics, with issues focusing on Cardassia, Trill & Bajor, if this prove successful it could compel IDW to pick up the DS9 licence.

5. Other Alien spotlights I would like to see would be: Q, Ferengi, Tholians, Betazoids, breen, Bolians, Elosians, Tellarites, Remans, So'na, El-Aurians.

6. Will the Year four series continue, I remember IDW saying they wanted to do 22 episodes like a full season??

7. IDW could do with moving away from the always doing 5 issue series. most of the series are fine at that length but if a series warrants additional issues do cut the meat out the story so as to cram it into 110 pages. I felt that the recent Last Generation series could have done with an extra issue for the series to flesh out a bit more of the story. I feel that some of the series suffer from this rigid adherence to 5 issues.

 

[Stevil2001]

More Alien Spotlight, as that was probably my favorite IDW series thus far. (Is volume 2 ever going to come out?).

Just this week, "Alien Spotlight: Tribbles" arrived in stores, so the next omnibus is only about four issues/months off.

Ah, I hadn't realized it had started up again. Though now that I think about it, the preview pages just came out, so of course it was on its way.

6. Will the Year four series continue, I remember IDW saying they wanted to do 22 episodes like a full season??

I think that was two editors back...

 

[Defcon]

I think that was two editors back...

I'm not that much into Comics, is it usual for editors in the comic book industry to be on the job for such a short time?

 

[Christopher]

I think that was two editors back...

I'm not that much into Comics, is it usual for editors in the comic book industry to be on the job for such a short time?

No, but it's not unprecedented either. I recall DC's Trek comics going through a succession of editors fairly quickly between the time Bob Greenberger left and the time Margaret Clark took over. Sometimes things come up, people's careers veer in unexpected directions, and gigs don't last as long as they were expected to.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

Finishing Early Voyages doesn't seem like a very pointful move over a decade after the series ended.

Agreed. I can see reason to publishing the plot synopsis for the final part(s) of the unfinished storyline in the IDW collection. (No, I'm not saying that's going to happen. I'd very much doubt that would happen, to be honest. But there's good reason for it.) But to publish a couple of new issues? Now? It's not going to happen.

I think Lance Parkin should write some Trek comics. Heck, I think Lance should just write some Star Trek anything.

Does Parkin have any interest in Trek? I'd love to see Parkin do something Star Trek-related, but at the same time I wonder if Star Trek would play to his strengths as a writer.

I'd like to see David McIntee work with IDW on a Trek project.

 

[Stevil2001]

Parkin is interested in Trek as a reader, if nothing else. He's commented on things like the Titan series (see his "acceptance speech" on Unreality SF, for example), and a quick look at his LibraryThing shows he owns a bunch of the books.

Lance doesn't really have any non-Who work (except for Emmerdale tie-ins), so it's hard for me to judge how he'd work in another milieu.

 

[PaulSimpson]

Parkin is interested in Trek as a reader, if nothing else. He's commented on things like the Titan series (see his "acceptance speech" on Unreality SF, for example), and a quick look at his LibraryThing shows he owns a bunch of the books.

Lance doesn't really have any non-Who work (except for Emmerdale tie-ins), so it's hard for me to judge how he'd work in another milieu.

Lance was a very enthusiastic contributor to the Voyager issue of STM and will definitely be reappearing in the magazine in future.

 

[Steve Roby]

Lance also co-wrote this unofficial episode guide a few years back:

 

[DS9forever]

Deep Space Nine. Surely, the fact that the aforementioned Bajorans, Trills and Cardassians were introduced in TNG means they could be featured without a DS9 license? Why exactly does IDW not have a license to DS9?

 

[William Leisner]

Deep Space Nine. Surely, the fact that the aforementioned Bajorans, Trills and Cardassians were introduced in TNG means they could be featured without a DS9 license? Why exactly does IDW not have a license to DS9?

Because it would cost more $$$ to pick up DS9 in additin to TOS and TNG.

Only one choice for me: the comics need to revive the Corps of Engineers series. BRING BACK GOLD AND GOMEZ!!

 

[Christopher]

Surely, the fact that the aforementioned Bajorans, Trills and Cardassians were introduced in TNG means they could be featured without a DS9 license?

Their species could, but individuals created for DS9 such as Kira, Dax, and Garak could not be featured (except maybe as nonspeaking cameos, like the one-panel appearance of Dr. Phlox in the first issue of Blood Will Tell). And species created for DS9, such as Jem'Hadar, Vorta, or Changelings, could not be used either.

 

[Stevil2001]

The rules here don't seem to be super-rigid-- The Space Between contain a couple ENT references, and Intelligence Gathering featured the Rigellians off ENT. I'd assume there's some sort of logic I'm just not privy to.

 

[Andrew Harris]

The rules here don't seem to be super-rigid-- The Space Between contain a couple ENT references, and Intelligence Gathering featured the Rigellians off ENT. I'd assume there's some sort of logic I'm just not privy to.

It's really CBS/Paramount's discretion. IDW could conceivably do spotlights on the Ferengi, Cardassians, etc., because those races appeared first in TNG; but (unless CBS/Paramount was particularly generous about it) the stories would need to be limited to their TNG elements, and not incorporate material from DS9.

For example, Janeway was able to make an appearance in the Borg spotlight that I wrote specifically because CBS/Paramount felt that she was used in the same way, and in the same time-frame, as her appearance in the TNG film. The Doctor makes a cameo in Last Generation pretty much the same way.

That said, CBS/Paramount actually has been quite generous and easy to work with, but ultimately it'd be up to them.