STAR TREK 50th Anniversary - IDW September Solicitations due tomorrow?

[Danlav05]

The Star Trek Ongoing series ends in August but apparantly IDW are sticking with Star Trek. My guess is they called that an end point so they can have a bit of a 'ta-dah' moment with what follows.

Looking at ComicBookResources's site with the last few months' they should be released at somepoint on the third Wednesday of the month, so tomorrow.

What are people expecting/hoping for? M y wish would be a mini series involving all 5 TV crews.

 

[somebuddyX]

Crisis on Infinite Vulcans. Secret Eugenics Wars.

 

[Idran]

Unimatrix Zero Hour?

 

[Danlav05]

A complete reboot of the comics universe.

Then to celebrate the anniversary of this new universe before anyone can get comfortable later we do it again.

Then a year later we do it yet again

So on and so forth

 

[Christopher]

But seriously, it's common practice these days for comics series to periodically restart with a new #1 in order to boost sales and provide a new jumping-on point, often with a new creative team, or just to launch a new story arc from the same creative team. The paradigm these days seems to be "a series of limited series" rather than just continuing the numbering indefinitely. If anything, it's surprising IDW took this long to restart Ongoing with a new #1. I guess the 50th anniversary and the new movie provide a suitable opportunity to do that.

 

[GaryH]

I would actually love a post-Nemesis TNG series written by Peter David, who is as strong a comic book writer as he ever was. Seems like a no-brainer to me.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

I think it would be interesting to have a George Kirk's logs miniseries, where alt reality Jim is looking up his dad's adventures. The neat thing is it would show the time in between Enterprise and 2233.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

If anything, it's surprising IDW took this long to restart Ongoing with a new #1. I guess the 50th anniversary and the new movie provide a suitable opportunity to do that.

They renamed it "Star Trek: 5-Year Mission" with issue 41, "Behemoth, Part One". Dunno why they didn't begin numbering it again at that point.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Imagine a crossover with TNG and Person of Interest. The Borg seeking Samaritan and the Enterprise joining forces with Team Machine.

 

[Ovation]

Secret Eugenics Wars.

Didn't Greg Cox already write this story?

 

[Sto-Vo-Kory]

Looking at ComicBookResources's site with the last few months' they should be released at somepoint on the third Wednesday of the month, so tomorrow.

IDW's solicitations are usually released the week before the Previews catalogue is available for purchase (generally the last Wednesday of each month) so the online solicitations do tend to appear in the third week, but this month has five Wednesdays. As a result, the Previews catalogue won't be available until the 29th and IDW's solicitations likely won't be revealed until next week.

Still, I'm excited to see what they offer.

 

[Danlav05]

Daaah there's me being eager!

Ah well lol thanks for the tip

 

[somebuddyX]

Anything 50th anniversary related would be awesome.

 

[Trek Survivor]

I would actually love a post-Nemesis TNG series written by Peter David, who is as strong a comic book writer as he ever was. Seems like a no-brainer to me.

Definite YES to a post-Nemesis TNG series
Definite NO to Peter David writing it

 

[indianatrekker26]

i would like to see IDW get back to the prime universe, especially with this new TV series on the horizon.

 

[Christopher]

i would like to see IDW get back to the prime universe, especially with this new TV series on the horizon.

We don't yet know what universe the new series is set in, despite the inevitable rumormongering and conclusion-jumping on the Internet.

 

[Avro Arrow]

Regardless of the setting of the new show, I too would like to see more prime universe by IDW. It seems like it's been a really long time since the last one. (Not counting New Visions, of course.)

 

[Danlav05]

They did a load of TOS/TNG stuff - the TNG stuff seemed to have fizzed out, then the JJVerse and TOS now mostly JJVerse with a few bits of the Prime Universe here and there (.e. New Visions). I get that DS9 didn't sell as well, it seems the US has more of an appetite for TOS-based stuff/JJVerse.

Star Trek is a big universe there's so much they could do!

 

[The Wormhole]

Regardless of the setting of the new show, I too would like to see more prime universe by IDW. It seems like it's been a really long time since the last one. (Not counting New Visions, of course.)

Not counting New Visions or anytime the Prime Universe was visited in the Abrams Ongoing series, the last time we had anything connected to the Prime Universe from IDW was the TOS/Planet of the Apes crossover The Primate Directive, and even that takes place mostly in the PotA universe. Prior to that there was their adaptation of Harlan Ellison's original script for City on the Edge of Forever, though I'd be hesitant to call that Prime Universe since it's a re-telling of a TOS episode and they left in the stuff from the script that has since been superseded by canon (like humanity being in space longer than Vulcans). So I guess the last truly Prime Universe story from IDW was Braga's Hive series.

 

[Danlav05]

Not counting New Visions or anytime the Prime Universe was visited in the Abrams Ongoing series, the last time we had anything connected to the Prime Universe from IDW was the TOS/Planet of the Apes crossover The Primate Directive, and even that takes place mostly in the PotA universe. Prior to that there was their adaptation of Harlan Ellison's original script for City on the Edge of Forever, though I'd be hesitant to call that Prime Universe since it's a re-telling of a TOS episode and they left in the stuff from the script that has since been superseded by canon (like humanity being in space longer than Vulcans). So I guess the last truly Prime Universe story from IDW was Braga's Hive series.

Wow Hive was years ago!

COTEOF was very very different to the TV version so I'd be hesitant to call that canon; as for Ongoing we had an alt-future DS9 'crossover' (so not Prime - it was meant to be a possible JJFuture but they all wore the same heads"); Legacy of Spock had Prime Universe flashbacks from TOS and TNG, plus of course the final story 'Altered Encounters' looks like it has the two Enterprise crews from both universes meeting