by Matt Sernaker, Editor-in-Chief
& Ryan Martin, Reporter

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IDW Publishing’s Star Trek comics continue to boldly explore new worlds and concepts, and we got to dive into some of the new titles with writers Christopher Cantwell (Star Trek: Defiant, Star Trek: Red Shirts), and the Hivemind of Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly (Star Trek, Star Trek: The Last Starship). The trio also discussed wrapping up their previous hit Star Trek saga (see The Lore War and Star Trek: Omega), and then gave us a glimpse into the future of their new titles.

Special thanks to our friends at IDW Publishing for arranging this interview. Star Trek: Red Shirts #1 is now available, and Star Trek: The Last Starship will be available later this year. Make sure you reach out to your local comic book store to request your copies.

Star Trek: Red Shirts – Official Synopsis
The start of an all-new heartrending Star Trek five-issue miniseries by writer Christopher Cantwell (Star Trek: Defiant) and artist Megan Levens (Star Trek), featuring Starfleet’s most intrepid and doomed crewmembers: red shirts. Now, finally, they get their own story.

Led by an experienced officer embedded on the snow-ridden planet Arkonia 89, the crew of the U.S.S. Warren has a small window in which to pin down spies seeking to steal classified secrets and keep Starfleet data out of their nefarious hands. They face threats not only from their faceless enemies but from the brutalizing elements and wildlife of a planet far from home. The red shirts’ lives and Starfleet’s sanctity are on the line… and no one is safe.

Star Trek: The Last Starship – Official Synopsis
The Federation has fallen. Hope is fading. One last starship remains to fight for the future… unless a resurrected James T. Kirk dooms it first.

Fresh off the run Screen Rant calls one of “the greatest eras in the history of Star Trek comics,” writers Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly along with rising star and artist Adrián Bonilla (Alkaios), now bring you a new mission the likes of which comics have never seen before.

For seven centuries, the United Federation of Planets brought together the entire Galaxy with peace, stability, enlightenment, and the promise of mutual protection. And then, in one terrible moment, it all crumbled in an event known as THE BURN, a Galaxy-wide disastrous event in which dilithium has gone inert, causing the detonation of every active warp core. The only ship remaining is a hack-and-slash Enterprise-Omega and its ragtag crew. Facing a true Wild West in space, the crew will need to make use of what few resources they have to uphold Starfleet’s mission of unity across the universe… and Captain Kirk will have to face a future without the Federation he loved so dearly…

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