A New Series Starts Today! Star Trek: Red Shirts #1

Star Trek: Red Shirts #1

A gruesome new comic miniseries from IDW hits shelves today: Star Trek: Red Shirts #1 introduces us to a new crew of red-shirted security officers in the TOS era as they embark on a typically dangerous mission to prevent Federation secrets from falling into enemy hands!

Writer Christopher Cantwell returns to the Star Trek universe after his amazing run on Star Trek: Defiant. You'll definitely want to pick this one up today!

Check out the variant covers, publisher's description, and links to purchase the digital edition from Amazon below!

Written by Christopher Cantwell

Art by Megan Levens

Cover A by Chris Shehan

Purchase:

Digital (Kindle): Amazon.com | Amazon.ca | Amazon.co.uk

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.

Variant Covers (click to embiggen):

Cover B by J.J. Lendl

Retailer Incentive Cover by Declan Shalvey

Previous comic release: Star Trek: Lower Decks #9

Next comic release: Star Trek: Lower Decks #10

Inspired Enterprise: New Trek Non-Fiction Out Today!

Inspired Enterprise:
How NASA, the Smithsonian, and the Aerospace Community Helped Launch Star Trek

by Glen E. Swanson

Out today is a new book exploring the very beginnings of Star Trek and the U.S.S. Enterprise with a deep dive into the history of this storied starship. In Inspired Enterprise, former NASA chief historian Glen E. Swanson reveals the story behind Gene Roddenberry's efforts to make Star Trek as scientifically accurate as possible when he first set out to create the beloved science fiction show in the 1960s.

Check out the back-cover blurb and links to purchase from Amazon below!

Publisher's description:

Discover how NASA, the Smithsonian, and the aerospace community helped craft, legitimize, and popularize the beloved television show Star Trek.

Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry sought to create a work of science fiction that would immerse viewers not only through clever storylines and modern visual effects, but also by presenting the story in a scientific and technological context that felt believable. To this end, Roddenberry, a former WWII combat pilot, used his connections in the aerospace industry to seek out the latest and greatest technology.

This book, authored by Glen E. Swanson, former chief historian at the NASA Johnson Space Center, uncovers the story of how NASA, the Smithsonian, and the aerospace industry helped craft, legitimize, and popularize the beloved television show Star Trek. Further context is provided through the discussion of additional factors behind the success of the show, including merchandising and syndication.

Purchase Inspired Enterprise:

Hardcover: Amazon.com | Amazon.ca | Amazon.co.uk

E-Book (Kindle): Amazon.com | Amazon.ca | Amazon.co.uk

Previous Release: It Rhymes With Takei

Next Release: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Omnibus, Vol. 1

 

Tendi Faces the Ferengi in Lower Decks #9, Out Today!

Star Trek: Lower Decks #9

In this week's new issue of the Star Trek: Lower Decks ongoing comic, Tendi comes face-to-face with the consequences of her past choices as Ferengi loan sharks catch up with her!

Check out the variant covers, publisher's description, and links to purchase the digital edition from Amazon below!

Written by Tim Sheridan

Art by Vernon Smith

Cover A by Vernon Smith

Purchase:

Digital (Kindle): Amazon.com | Amazon.ca | Amazon.co.uk

Official synopsis:

On a mission to collect gormangander excrement, the U.S.S. Cerritos is attacked by a Ferengi warship! The Ferengi are hot on the tail of a debt dodger who owes them a fortune—D’Vana Tendi. But as a member of Starfleet, Tendi has no way to earn the money to pay them back, and if she tells her family in the Orion Syndicate, they’ll simply murder her to clear the account. One thing is for certain: If Tendi can’t devise a way to clear her ledger, the Lower Deckers are going to find themselves in deep sh*t, regardless of whether they find any gormaganders.

Variant Cover (click to embiggen):

Cover B by Jack Lawrence

Previous comic release: Star Trek: Omega

Next comic release: Star Trek: Red Shirts #1