menuBarBack
Beam Up News | Join | Your Account
Home
Advanced Search
boxBottom
News Tribblets
boxBottom
Stardates Calendar
News Story

Features

Press Release for Star Trek Year Four Comic Book

Features

By GustavoLeao / 18:12, 29 April 2007 / General Star Trek

Official Press Release

THE FIVE-YEAR MISSION OF THE U.S.S. ENTERPRISETM CONTINUES.


IDW Publishing & CBS Consumer Products Brings Back the Original Cast in
Star Trek®: Year Four.


San Diego, CA
(April 26, 2007)-"Space... the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. Her five-year mission..." continues here! With that phrase-the beginning of one of the most iconic monologues to ever be spoken on a TV series-Star Trek was launched into the pop culture lexicon forever. And while that five-year mission might have only lasted three seasons on television, IDW Publishing and CBS Consumer Products are proud to announce plans to continue the five-year mission of the U.S.S. Enterprise. With the launch of the July-bound Star Trek: Year Four #1, IDW Publishing returns the iconic cast of the original series to comic books in a series that presents all-new adventures that capture the true spirit of the original series for long-time fans and new readers alike.


Star Trek: Year Four
is written by Star Trek: The Next Generation®: The Space Between writer David Tischman and features the IDW debut of artist Steve Conley (Astounding Space Thrills). The series will follow The Next Generation format of presenting an entire "episode" in every issue. The debut issue begins an all-new exploration for the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise when they discover the Strand-a multi-planet construct of a dead civilization. There they find a brilliant scientist who's obsessed with the Strand's technology. Kirk uncovers the scientist's secret, triggering a revolt amongst his genetic creations, and forcing Kirk to make a hard decision and push the U.S.S. Enterprise into the crossfire.


"I had a tremendous time working on Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Space Between," states writer Tischman, "but Star Trek: Year Four is my Kobiyashi Maru. Kirk, Spock, and McCoy are the holy trinity of science fiction, and writing for these characters is like drinking tranya at the best Orion lounge in the Quadrant."


"David Tischman has done an amazing job of capturing the feel for the original series," declares his artist, Conley, whose cover art will emulate the style presented by the "60s-era Gold Key Star Trek covers. "David's scripts call for some wonderful sequences and he clearly wasn't hampered by thoughts of production costs. I just hope I can do those scenes justice."


Star Trek: Year Four
(Diamond Order Code MAY07 3530) #1, the first full-color, 32-page issue of a six-issue miniseries, debuts in July 2007, and features a cover by Steve Conley and a variant cover by Klingons cover artist Joe Corroney.




TM, ® & © 2007 CBS Studios Inc. All Rights Reserved. STAR TREK and related marks are trademarks of CBS Studios Inc.


ABOUT IDW PUBLISHING


IDW PUBLISHING is a division of Idea and Design Works, LLC, a revolutionary creative service company with a wide range of clients. Among their best-selling titles are Hasbro's THE TRANSFORMERS; Fox's ANGEL, Konami's METAL GEAR SOLID, and FALLEN ANGEL. IDW's 30 DAYS OF NIGHT film is in development and will be released by Sony Pictures in October 2007. IDW has films in development at Dimension Films and Paramount Pictures, as well.


ABOUT CBS CONSUMER PRODUCTS


CBS Consumer Products, a unit of CBS Entertainment, manages worldwide licensing and merchandising for a diverse slate of television brands and series from CBS, CBS Paramount Network Television and CBS Television Distribution, as well as from the company's extensive library of titles. Additionally, the group oversees the CBS Retail Store and online sales of programming merchandise. For more information, visit http://www.cbs.com/.



More Top StoriesComments
Nov 22Exclusive Digital Content Now Available With New Star Trek Movie on iTunes
0
Nov 22Star Trek Online MMORPG Producer Talks Space Combat and Away Missions0
Nov 21Faran Tahir on His 10 Minutes as Captain Robau in J.J. Abrams Star Trek Movie2
Nov 21J.J. Abrams, Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman on Shatner and Nimoy7
Nov 21Roberto Orci on the Status of the Star Trek XII Script and the Possibility of Producing a New Star Trek TV Series15
Story Archives...Browse:   

Talkback

3 comments Post New | Help
View:

RE: The comics are back | Report this post to moderator
By: GustavoLeao (Odo's file, contact, web site) @ 10:19:32 on Apr 30, 2007

Personally I'm all for a Early Voyages and Starfleet Academy revival. And Peter David are in talks with IDW for a Star Trek New Frontier mini-series. Boy, I cant wait.

Gustavo

--------

TrekWeb.com Supervising Editor

gl2000@uol.com.br

Reply
Reply
Quote
Quote
Parent
Parent
Talkback Top
Top
RE: The comics are back by Sam Cogley @ 14:11:06 on Apr 30
Promenade










TrekWeb Merchants
Amazon.com
Amazon.co.uk
Amazon.ca
Amazon.de
Barnes & Noble

Get Firefox!
Privacy Policy | About Us | Legal Notice | Contact Us | | Get Firefox!
© 1996-2009 TrekWeb.com and Steve Krutzler. All rights reserved.