Build your own IDW comic schedule

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  1. ryan123450

    ryan123450 Rear Admiral Rear Admiral

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    We used to do this kind of thing with the books for several years in a row, and I thought it might be fun to see what I would come up with for the comics.

    If you were the editor of the IDW Star Trek line, what would you publish? Here's what I think I'd do/ what I'd be excited to see. I figure on three comics per month. I also realistically put some Discovery comics in the mix, even though I personally wouldn't be very interested in them.

    January
    • TOS: Enterprise-A Ongoing, Issue One
    • Discovery Miniseries, Issue One
    • VOY: Post Endgame Miniseries, Issue One
    February
    • TOS: Enterprise-A Ongoing, Issue Two
    • Discovery Miniseries, Issue Two
    • VOY: Post Endgame Miniseries, Issue Two
    March
    • TOS: Enterprise-A Ongoing, Issue Three
    • Discovery Miniseries, Issue Three
    • VOY: Post Endgame Miniseries, Issue Three
    April
    • TOS: Enterprise-A Ongoing, Issue Four
    • Discovery Miniseries, Issue Four
    • VOY: Post Endgame Miniseries, Issue Four
    May
    • TOS: Enterprise-A Ongoing, Issue Five
    • Picard Annual
    • DS9: Ferengi Miniseries, Issue One
    June
    • TOS: Enterprise-A Ongoing, Issue Six
    • TNG: Mirror Universe Miniseries, Issue One
    • DS9: Ferengi Miniseries, Issue Two
    July
    • TOS: Enterprise-A Ongoing, Issue Seven
    • TNG: Mirror Universe Miniseries, Issue Two
    • DS9: Ferengi Miniseries, Issue Three
    August
    • TOS: Enterprise-A Ongoing, Issue Eight
    • TNG: Mirror Universe Miniseries, Issue Three
    • DS9: Ferengi Miniseries, Issue Four
    September
    • TOS: Enterprise-A Ongoing, Issue Nine
    • TNG: Mirror Universe Miniseries, Issue Four
    • Picard Miniseries, Issue One
    October
    • TOS: Enterprise-A Ongoing, Issue Ten
    • TNG: Mirror Universe Miniseries, Issue Five
    • Picard Miniseries, Issue Two
    November
    • TOS: Enterprise-A Ongoing, Issue Eleven
    • TNG: Mirror Universe Miniseries, Issue Six
    • Picard Miniseries, Issue Three
    December
    • TOS: Enterprise-A Ongoing, Issue Twelve
    • Discovery Annual
    • Picard Miniseries, Issue Four
    Surprising to me that one year just basically only let me cover the basics, given that I'd have one ongoing series. Looks like it would take two years as editor to really get into some more unique stuff.
     
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  2. dupersuper

    dupersuper Rear Admiral Rear Admiral

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    I don't know when they'd come out, but I'd definitely like as much variety as possible. Maybe bring back Waypoint for some anthology action. I'd want to try to get TOS original 5 year, second 5 year and movie era ongoing missions, TNG, DS9, Voyager, Enterprise, Discovery, Picard, Lower Decks...eventually Prodigy, Section 31 and Strange New Worlds...maybe New Frontier, SCE, Vanguard, New Earth, IKS Gorkon, Star Trek Online tie-ins, tie-ins to fan series like Continues, Odyssey, Renegades, Shield of Tomorrow and Clear Skies, stories set during the Eugenics War, WW3, the Temporal Wars, the T'Kon Empire, Bajoran Occupation, Romulan exodus from Vulcan, Klingon/H'urc War, 4 Years Way, Dominion War, Sphere Builders War...stories on new colonies and unseen ships/stations with new characters, in any era and on any world that good writers want to explore, featuring as many aliens, including as many non-humanoid aliens, as the lack of budget constraints and other such considerations make possible in comics.
     
  3. Jinn

    Jinn Mistress of the Chaotic Energies Rear Admiral

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    I'd love to live in the universe where Star Trek has enough audience appeal for so many series:luvlove:

    I'd start off with a two- or three-parter that shows the TOS crews life between TOS and TMP. Then transition that to an ongoing post-TMP ongoing.

    For Discovery, I think a "Burn fallout" mini-series would be cool.
    It could follow a Federation starship that wasn't at warp at the time and slowly realizes what happens. Then all the Federation worlds slowly leave and the Federation headquarter we see in Discovery gets build.

    For Picard. Captain Worf mini-series. It's right there. I don't know why they haven't done it yet.

    I'd also bring back Waypoints. It's a great way to have stories from all the shows that can't sustain their own ongoing. Maybe change the branding to something more recognizable like "Tales from the 24th century featuring [TNG logo] [DS9 logo] [VGR logo]"? But the 'Tales from the 24th century' part would be much smaller, akin to how Tales of Suspense featured Iron Man and Cap's names more prominently than the actual title of the magazine.

    It's the 20th anniversary of Enterprise this year, so something Enterprise seems also appropriate. From what I gather it's hard to get Bakula to allow usage of his face in comics, so my pitch would be doing a Romulan War mini-series where Archer is already promoted to admiral and then go with Captain T'Pol or something. The mini-series would rely on the novels' assumption that "These Are the Voyages" was set in 2155, not about the Federation founding and partly inaccurate. I wouldn't feature Trip though. You have to save something for the sequel:devil:

    Schedule

    • January
      • Year Five #19
      • Discovery: The Burn #1
      • Waypoint '21 #1
    • February
      • Year Five #20
      • Discovery: The Burn #2
      • Waypoint '21 #2
    • March
      • Year Five #21
      • Discovery: The Burn #3
      • Waypoint '21 #3
    • April
      • Year Five #22
      • Discovery: The Burn #4
      • Waypoint '21 #4
    • May
      • TOS: The Lost Years #1
      • Discovery: The Burn #5
      • Waypoint '21 #5
    • June
      • TOS: The Lost Years #2
      • Picard: Captain Worf #1
      • Waypoint '21 #6
    • July
      • TOS: The Lost Years #3
      • Picard: Captain Worf #2
      • Waypoint '21 #7
    • August
      • TOS: The New Adventures #1
      • Picard: Captain Worf #3
      • Waypoint '21 #8
    • September
      • TOS: The New Adventures #2
      • ENT: The Romulan War #1
      • Waypoint '21 #9
    • October
      • TOS: The New Adventures #3
      • ENT: The Romulan War #2
      • Waypoint '21 #10
    • November
      • TOS: The New Adventures #4
      • ENT: The Romulan War #3
      • Waypoint '21 #11
    • December
      • TOS: The New Adventures #5
      • ENT: The Romulan War #4
      • Waypoint '21 #12
     
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  4. ryan123450

    ryan123450 Rear Admiral Rear Admiral

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    Love all your ideas @Jinn. I think your Lost Years idea may be happening after Year Five finishes, or at least that’s the rumor.
     
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  5. Leto_II

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    ^ Was recently privately speculating about a "Burn"-era storyline of some type myself, whether it be some flashbacks during a "present day" DSC miniseries (or maybe onscreen), or something else entirely. I imagine the TV show might eventually show us something from a firsthand Starfleet-perspective sooner or later, but I've been hankering for a close-up look for months now.

    And yeah, Ryan -- I'd kill for some type of new Enterprise-A era project, preferably longer-form, but at this point I'll take whatever I can get.
     
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  6. Jinn

    Jinn Mistress of the Chaotic Energies Rear Admiral

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    Fingers crossed! In my dreamworld the post-TMP comics would also include an adaption of Ex Machina (although I don't even know if they can legally do that...) and then continue from there.
     
  7. JD

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    As long as CBS is OK with it, I'm pretty sure they could do book adaptations.
    As for my schedule I'm gonna stick with the OP's 3 books a month:
    January
    • TOS Post-TMP #8 (Year Five ends in May, so this would assume they go right into their next series)
    • Voyager miniseries #1
    • Enterprise miniseries #1
    February
    • TOS #9
    • Voy #2
    • Ent #2
    March
    • TOS #10
    • Voy #3
    • Ent #3
    April
    • TOS #11
    • Voy #4
    • Ent #4
    May
    • TOS #12
    • TNG movie era miniseries #1
    • VOY #5
    June
    • TOS #13
    • TNG #2
    • Discovery #1
    July
    • TOS #14
    • TNG #3
    • Disco #2
    August
    • TOS #15
    • TNG #4
    • Disco #3
    September
    • TOS #16
    • Lower Decks #1
    • Disco #4
    October
    • TOS #17
    • LD #2
    • Disco #5
    November
    • TOS #18
    • LD #3
    • Waypoint #1
    December
    • TOS #19
    • DS9 #1
    • Way #2
     
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  8. mastadge

    mastadge Lieutenant Commander Red Shirt

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    - New Frontier ongoing series by PAD
    - New ongoing series threading through the TNG/DS9/VOY era. Sort of like the Marvels/X-Men: Grand Design/Spider-Man: Life Story style that moves through the big story of that era with more of an emphasis on the unfolding big picture.
    - Some sort of anthology series that lets different teams play in different eras with different crews.
     
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  9. JD

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    That last one is exactly what we got with Waypoint.
     
  10. dstyer

    dstyer Commander Red Shirt

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    Bring Back Byrne!

    at least a one-shot...
     
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