Introduction to the New Star Trek Comic
IDW Publishing is debuting a new limited-run Star Trek comic, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – The Seeds of Salvation, written by Strange New Worlds season 4 scribe Robbie Thompson with art by Travis Mercer. An official preview of the first issue has been released for fans to check out ahead of the launch.
Plot Overview
Bored by routine assignments, Nurse Christine Chapel longs for a genuine mission. When she learns her former research partner Jinare is conducting work on the ocean world Poilant, Chapel jumps at the chance to return to what Starfleet does best: explore strange new worlds.
The Enterprise reaches Poilant only to find no response from Jinare or her team. Chapel, Una, Spock, La’An, and Scotty beam to the surface and discover an abandoned site with no sign of the missing scientists—just a lone robot called D6 that urges them to descend into the planet’s depths.
Encountering Cosmic Threats
Beneath the waves, the away team encounters far more than lost researchers. Ancient, monstrous life-forms and titanic behemoths lurk in the deep, introducing a cosmic, Lovecraf...