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Published Feb 15, 2023

The U.S.S. Enterprise Faces Familiar Terrors in Star Trek: The Motion Picture — Echoes

Marc Guggenheim takes the helm with new comic book miniseries, pitting Star Trek’s seasoned crew against deadly doppelgängers!

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IDW is excited to announce that acclaimed screenwriter, producer, and comic book writer Marc Guggenheim (CW’s television series Arrow and DC’s Legends of Tomorrow , Star Wars: Han Solo & Chewbacca ) will assume the captain’s chair for an all-new, five-issue comic book series, STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE — ECHOES , set immediately after the events of the momentous 1979 film .

Star Trek: The Motion Picture — Echoes #1 Cover A by Jake Bartok

Featuring spectacular artwork by Oleg Chudakov and colors by DC Alonso , ECHOES pits the venerated Admiral James T. Kirk and his crew against enemies both terrifying and shockingly familiar! When a space anomaly thrusts a criminal mastermind — pursued by a very determined pilot on a mission — into our universe, the Enterprise must stop them from unintentionally starting a war with the Romulans and unleashing a superweapon of foreign technology into the system. But things get infinitely more complicated when these newcomers to our reality remove their helmets, revealing that they’re doppelgängers of our beloved heroes!

“Despite watching the occasional fragment of a Star Trek episode here and there with my father, my true introduction was going to see Star Trek: The Motion Picture with my grandparents — I was entranced. I’m thrilled that IDW and Paramount Global have allowed me to revisit that time period, which was so impactful to me and my love of Star Trek ,” says Guggenheim. “Almost all Trek stories are told from the point of view of the Enterprise crew, but I was interested in telling a story from the perspective of an outsider as a means of recapturing how it felt for me when I first saw Star Trek: The Motion Picture .”

Star Trek: The Motion Picture — Echoes #1 Cover B by Oleg Chudakov

“What does it mean to draw this new Star Trek adventure? It’s like revisiting my childhood, but at the same time learning something new. It’s amazing!” says Chudakov.

“When everything in life feels like it’s moving too fast towards the future, it’s always important to step back and revisit where it all came from. And that’s exactly what we’re doing with this comic focusing on the Star Trek: The Motion Picture time frame ,” says series editor Heather Antos . “No one knows more about this period in Trek history than Guggenheim, we’ve learned…and we could think of no one better suited to take Kirk and his crew on this wild adventure. Paired with Chudakov’s energetic, character-driven inks, this is one mission that the crew of the Enterprise soon won’t forget. Oh, and did we mention that there are possible easter eggs to some of our other Trek books, too?”

Arriving in stores this May, STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE — ECHOES #1 will be available with multiple cover variants for retailers and fans to enjoy, including Cover A by Jake Bartok, Cover B by series artist Oleg Chudakov, and retailer incentive variants by Luke Sparrow and Rod Reis .

Star Trek: The Motion Picture — Echoes #1 Retailer Incentive Variant by Luke Sparrow

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Series » Published by Paramount Pictures . Started in 2001 - 2005.

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Star Trek: Enterprise (ENT) focuses on the 22nd century adventures of Captain Jonathan Archer aboard the Enterprise NX-01 during the early days of interstellar travel. The NX designation indicates that this Enterprise is an experimental prototype; Archer’s ship is Earth’s first vessel designed for long-range exploration of the galaxy. Prior to the development of warp engines that could reach a velocity of warp 5, missions of this nature were impossible. At warp 2, only a handful of inhabited planets were within a year’s travel from Earth. But at warp 5, that number increases to ten thousand planets! It is Archer’s job to visit as many of those worlds as he can. At 190 meters long, the NX-01 is a bit smaller than Kirk’s Enterprise, and carries a crew complement of just eighty-three men and women, all human, with the exception of the Vulcan science officer and the Denobulan doctor. Unlike the starships of the four other Star Trek series, this Enterprise doesn’t have deflector shields or phasers, but it does come equipped with a phase cannon and a rudimentary transporter that functions efficiently most of the time.

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The Forgotten

April 28, 2004

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Episode #316

Doctor's Orders

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September 26, 2001

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A friendly reminder regarding spoilers ! At present the expanded Trek universe is in a period of major upheaval with the finale of Picard and the continuations of Discovery , Lower Decks , Prodigy and Strange New Worlds , the advent of new eras in Star Trek Online gaming , as well as other post-56th Anniversary publications such as the new ongoing IDW comic . Therefore, please be courteous to other users who may not be aware of current developments by using the {{ spoiler }}, {{ spoilers }} or {{ majorspoiler }} tags when adding new information from sources less than six months old . Also, please do not include details in the summary bar when editing pages and do not anticipate making additions relating to sources not yet in release. ' Thank You

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0718 is Starfleet 's first and only humanoid mainframe interface. From his station he can monitor the trillions of data-paths that are executed on the USS Enterprise every second. He is the brain of the organism that is the Enterprise and the safety of all aboard depends on his vigilance. In his off-hours, he enjoys touring the botanical lab, studying the complex pathways present in organic life. For life is a concept as limitless as space itself. As the Enterprise discovered two years, twenty-seven days, forty-three minutes and seven seconds ago...

2259, the Enterprise has discovered a perfect black spheroid of unknown composition. Though the object is immune to all sensor scans, Spock agrees with Kirk 's theory that the object was intentionally designed. An away team beams down where Pavel Chekov is amazed to find the planet is "breathing" via drawing in solar radiation from its star. All of a sudden, static begins interfering with communications but Uhura is able to identify a repeating signal amidst the noise. The instant the lines are cleared, Kirk orders them beamed back to the ship, fearing the planet is "waking up".

In the science lab, Spock has summoned Chekov to discuss a most curious development. The central computer has quarantined the data uploaded from Spock's tricorder . Though this protocol is standard in the event of data being uploaded from a foreign source, a tricorder is hardly a foreign source. Chekov has no answer but holds off uploading his own data. Spock then pays a visit to engineering in the hopes that Montgomery Scott may have answers. Scott however has no answers, his only solution is to attack his computer to try and get it working again. Unimpressed as ever, Keenser directs their attention to a nearby display. The malfunctions are spreading across the Enterprise .

On the bridge, Kirk and Uhura discuss the mysterious signal the latter has been picking up. Though it could be a natural phenomena, Chekov is particularly excited at the thought of a sentient planet. Unexpectedly the Enterprise goes to red alert , raising its shields and prepping its weapons before red alert deactivates just as suddenly. A warp core breach is then detected prompting the computer to begin a saucer separation which pauses halfway through. As Scott attempts to reconnect the two hulls, his console electrifies him. Kirk orders Spock to bring the engineer to sickbay before running down to meet him.

In sickbay, Leonard McCoy lays down Scott before he ushers Kirk and Spock to a surgery bay that has locked itself down and begun pumping synthetic tissue and carbon filaments into a regeneration unit. As the trio discuss possible solutions, a synthetic lifeform exits the unit. He greets the three and declares that he is the Enterprise .

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  • TOS movie : Star Trek Into Darkness - The origin of Science Officer 0718 is depicted. It is also set shortly before the events of the movie.
  • TOS comic : " Countdown to Darkness " - follows after the encounter with Capt. April .
  • TOS movie : The Motion Picture - This is loosely based on The Motion Picture. It features a humanoid created by the ship.

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  • I, Enterprise!, Part 1 article at Memory Alpha , the wiki for canon Star Trek .
  • It's Enterprise vs. Enterprise in "I, Enterprise" at StarTrek.com , the official Star Trek website
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Interview: ‘Star Trek’ Comic Writers Preview Sisko’s Return To Lead All-Star Team On A Mission From Gods

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| October 22, 2022 | By: Joe Andosca 14 comments so far

IDW is about to kick off a new ongoing Star Trek comic series that will see the return of Deep Space Nine’s Benjamin Sisko. The new series is written by Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing, the leads behind IDW’s Star Trek: Year Five series, with art by Ramon Rosanas (Marvel’s Star Wars , Ant-Man ) and a wide collection of artists for additional covers. This ambitious new title promises a “bold new direction in Star Trek comics” and IDW is so enthused with it, they have already announced a spin-off series led by Worf , coming in early 2023.  

Set in the time between the end of DS9 and Star Trek: Nemesis , the new ongoing Star Trek series promises to bring in characters from across the franchise. Sisko’s mission upon returning from the wormhole is to stop someone who is “killing the gods.” Starfleet gives him a new ship—the USS Theseus—and his crew includes new characters and familiar faces like Dr. Beverly Crusher and Data.

TrekMovie spoke to authors Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing about the title to better understand what is in store.

Making an Avengers for Star Trek

The idea for this series actually predates Kelly and Lanzing’s work on Year Five to their first pitch to IDW—where the longtime fans arrived with Stellar Cartography maps and their own personal Star Trek figures—presenting an idea set in the TNG movie era that featured Jean-Luc Picard as the main character, but the project got shelved after CBS decided to launch Star Trek: Picard . Even as they moved on to work on the TOS -era Year Five series, the pair kept thinking about “returning back to TNG , Deep Space Nine , and Voyager , and specifically in that era after Voyager returns and just before Nemesis , where everyone is around and you do something as long as you put all the toys back in the box,” says Lanzing.

Given another chance to pitch after Year Five wrapped up, they dusted off their maps and figures and pitched what became a new Star Trek series which could span the different eras, as described by Lanzing:

We started talking about how we could take that same energy of using a character from TNG , a character from DS9 , a character from Voyager ,  a character with legacy calls to Enterprise , a character with future legacy calls to Discovery , characters that let us touch old Star Trek and new Star Trek from Lower Decks to TOS across the board. What would it look like for us to take that Star Trek and launch it as a single book? Treat the Star Trek Universe like the Marvel Universe and put together the Avengers.

The pair makes it clear they want to stick to the Prime Universe and have no plans to do any time travel. The series is not limited to a given number of issues, their only real limitation being the setting. Kelly explains:

The limit in this book, truthfully, has to do with the period in which it’s being in which it’s taking place. So as long as the book only takes place within that year and a half [before Nemesis ] it can be 50 issues, 100 issues… We’re able to flex the timeline to tell as many stories as you want within that space… It’s one of the cool things that comics gets to do in general. Time in comics is such a fun thing. How much time passes between a panel, how much time passes between an issue, these are mutable things that allow us all to work at that time.

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Star Trek #1 cover A by Ramon Rosanas

Fulfilling Sisko’s promise to return… but with “wormhole withdrawal”

Having Benjamin Sisko lead this new series was personal for these writers. Lanzing reveals Sisko is his favorite captain and DS9’s exploration of religion helped him “reconcile what it meant to live inside of religious societies but have pluralist scientific and rationalist beliefs.” He sees the conflict that Sisko represents as being a core Star Trek story that he wants to continue to explore in this new series. And the writers also feel they are fulfilling a promise, as Lanzing explains:

I think it’s always been really clear that when Sisko went into the wormhole, Avery Brooks famously made them add the line about “I’ll be back,” because he didn’t want to abandon his son. He really felt like that was like a bad look for the first black Starfleet captain to be like, “Oh, I’m going to just leave my son.” So when he made that point, it always felt like at some point, you need to show that. You need to get back to that moment.

Kelly adds:

He is the one captain with unfinished business very much. And like that was something that we really wanted to unpack. Janeway is getting her second run in Prodigy , which is wonderful and great; it’s time for Sisko to get some get that love. And he still has so much story to tell, and we absolutely need to unpack it.

The series has Sisko returning with a mission given to him by the Prophets. While joining the Prophets made Sisko a god, having an omnipotent character doesn’t make for good storytelling. Kelly explains how they deal with this in the Star Trek series:

The story is going to start with him coming back from the wormhole. And The Prophets have a specific task for him. And what you’ll slowly discover is it is a human task. He needs to very specifically approach this not as a god but as a man, which is why they’ve sent their Emissary. So narratively it’s going to work. But yes, you cannot have a god-level character at the center of your book.

Lanzing calls this process “wormhole withdrawal,” explaining how it informs Sisko’s arc:

From the minute that he exits to the wormhole, Sisko starts to lose godhood. And every minute that passes, his omniscience is fading. And as that withdrawal extends, and goes farther and farther, you’re going to see a Sisko become more and more human, to his own frustration. And that’s a big part of why we picked him as the protagonist as it is an exciting journey to take a character on. “I reached full apotheosis. I reached Nirvana. And now to save the galaxy, that has been taken from me. And I have to instead find my own way of living forward and engage with my humanity again.”

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Star Trek #1 cover B by Declan Shalvey

Assembling Sisko’s crew and connecting to new Star Trek

Benjamin Sisko will not be alone on this journey. The comic series includes many familiar faces, including Jean-Luc Picard, who has some oversight over the mission. Sisko is given a new ship, the USS Theseus, which has a connection going back to the Star Trek: Year Five series . Lanzing describes the ship and mission:

The Theseus is not the flagship of the fleet. The Theseus is a weird hodgepodge ragtag science experiments of a ship that Starfleet effectively hands to Sisko because they need to give him something to complete his mission, but they’re really not sure that they understand his mission or totally like working for The Prophets in this way. Like, this is not a Starfleet mission. This is a mission from The Prophets and Starfleet is just enabling Sisko to do it.

Kelly describes Sisko’s crew:

The objective here is not ‘Sisko and His Amazing Friends.’ The objective here is a Star Trek crew that works as well as the TNG crew or the Deep Space Nine crew or the Voyager crew or the TOS crew. They just happen to be made up of characters from a bunch of other series and some new characters as well.

Data is the ship’s first officer. Beverly Crusher is the ship’s doctor, who is also keeping an eye on Sisko for Starfleet, who isn’t sure what to make of him. There are other legacy characters on board as well, including Tom Paris as the helmsman. There are some new characters, including Lilly Sato the communications officer, who is a half-Andorian descendant of Hoshi Sato from Star Trek: Enterprise , and she struggles to meet those high expectations.  And T’Lir, a non-binary Vulcan science officer.

With multiple current original Star Trek shows on Paramount+ set in or around the same era, it is important for the comic book team to ensure they remain consistent. Kelly explains, “We know what’s going on, and we are kept abreast so that everything fits together in one good continuity.” This will include incorporating characters from the new shows as well. As an example, Lanzing explains how this works with Lower Decks :

We’re talking to [ Lower Decks showrunner] Mike [McMahan] quite a bit, he’s been an invaluable resource in terms of helping us understand how to connect certain things that we’re doing to Lower Decks , and that’s going to be a little bit clearer as we move forward. We’re really distinct because we’re playing in such a different tone than Lower Decks . This book is pretty serious. It’s pretty epic-oriented. It’s a little psychedelic. But I think the thing that’s fun about it is that when we do get to take in any character from Lower Decks , seeing them within a serious context is going to be really fun because it brings out very different things.

Kelly also made it clear that even with all of these connections, nostalgia isn’t the goal of the new comic:

We really don’t want this to be kind of a nostalgia redux. We all love so much of this world, and you want to visit everywhere, but Star Trek isn’t about looking backwards. It’s about looking forwards and discovering what’s new and over the horizon. So it’s really important for us to create new stuff as well.

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Star Trek #1 Cover D by Rachel Scott

Giving all fans a reason to read the comics

While Star Trek comics have been around almost as long as the franchise itself, not all fans read them. But as noted before, IDW feels this new series can break through. Lanzing talked about how he feels the new Star Trek comics can be a gateway for fans to get into the comics:

If you’re a big Star Trek fan, if you love Star Trek , if you are reading TrekMovie.com, then most likely, you’re going to be interested in the kind of stories that are being told in the Star Trek comic book. These stories are—as far as we can keep them—fully canon. They’re going to reflect ideally to the shows and back to the comics. We’re going to be doing something here on a longer-term basis that ideally feels vital and feels specific and feels like a worthy follow up to some of the greatest television shows of all time, we hope. And if the medium is what’s stopping you from getting in on those stories, you just haven’t found how good the medium can be. Star Trek at this point is just a huge and diverse line of not just series or timelines, but characters. And getting to use any and all of them in a big mix and match grab-bag Avengers book is a dream come true for us as creators, and certainly would be a dream come true for us as Star Trek fans. So I really hope that the fans dig in, find that character that they’re really excited about, and start to follow that story.

Kelly is a bit more direct, simply saying:

If you’re a Trek fan, and you see a cover that has Sisko, Data, and Beverly Crusher on it, how can you not get excited? Get on board!

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Star Trek #3 cover A by Ramon Rosanas

Star Trek launches on October 27th

Star Trek issue #1 was will be released by IDW on Wednesday, October 27. You can order individual copies at TFAW . Or pick up individual  digital editions at Amazon/comiXology .

Keep up with all the Star Trek comics news, previews and reviews in  TrekMovie’s comics category .

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If I missed it, I’ll apologize, but I’d be curious if this has Avery Brooks blessing? Or was he even consulted?

Why would they need his blessing? Why would he need to be consulted? That’s not how licensing works. If you’re referring to the use of his likeness, he has allowed that since the show was on the air, which is why Sisko has appeared on many book covers and in many comics. This is just the latest licensed property to feature the character, which is owned by CBS, not Avery Brooks. So I’m not sure I understand the question. Avery Brooks has no say at all in what happens to Sisko.

Why on Bajor would anyone ever need to do that for a comic book?

Exactly. There are close to a thousand Star Trek comic books, and more than 400 from IDW alone. If they didn’t need to consult the actors or get their blessing on the other 999, would they need to on this one? Plus, did they get blessings or consultations for this issue from Brent Spiner? Patrick Stewart? Robert Duncan McNeill? Gates McFadden? Cirroc Lofton? Of course not, since that’s not how licensing works. :)

Well, I suppose if we are all going to pretend that Patrick Stewart and Kate Mulgrew don’t have discussions on the creation of content for their respective characters, you all may have a point. However, we know those discussions occur, even if it is just a courtesy. For all the chatter about wanting to see Mr. Brooks back, and because he clearly is sensitive to proper and correct perceptions of Benjamin Sisko, anything that lessens the character reduces the likelihood of him returning. I’d not be so caviler about not wanting to have his input, as a fan of the character and Mr. Brooks work.

The objective here is not ‘Sisko and His Amazing Friends.’ The objective here is a Star Trek crew that works as well as the TNG crew or the Deep Space Nine crew or the Voyager crew or the TOS crew. They just happen to be made up of characters from a bunch of other series, and some new characters as well.

Someone’s heard the criticism of PIC. ;) But, in all seriousness, very good interview. I already had the series on preorder, but this has given me a little anticipation spike.

I know this is a tiny point, but cripes, yet another uniform variation? Just stop it! :-)

It’s true. And they are ALL really derivative of the TNG uniforms. Like, try something dramatically different, if you’re going with something different. I do like them putting the doctor in white though.

I don’t bother with Trek comics very much, but I might give this a try. The creators are kidding themselves if they think these are canon, however. But I’m not going to go down that road. When Trek fans start arguing about canon I invariably want to fire people out of one.

In my personal opinion, the idea of whether or not something is canon is meaningless. Fans (and this isn’t directed at you–it’s a generalization) spend far too much time obsessing over that, yet it doesn’t matter. (Mods: I say that with no gatekeeping intended. Fans are free of course to focus on canon if they wish to, and it doesn’t make them any less fans than those who don’t. I just personally think it misses the point.) That endless argument started in the 1990s, with the rise of the Internet. Before that, fans either enjoyed stories or they didn’t. All this obsession over whether or not things carry the “canon” label has, in my opinion, seriously hurt pretty much every fandom. Licensed stories are, by definition, not canon since TV and film writers are free to ignore them. Lanzing and Kelly are very good writers, but I wish Lanzing hadn’t perpetuated this pointless argument by falsely claiming the comics are canon. If Avery Brooks agreed to come back tomorrow, it’s a guarantee that his show would ignore this comic, just like PICARD ignored Countdown. That, by definition, means it’s not part of the imaginary pointlessness known as canon. What matters to me isn’t whether or not Countdown or Lanzing’s series are canon, but whether or not they’re good reads. Countdown is, and this looks like it will be too.

I’m excited to read this. But really, I just want to see Avery Brooks act again. His tenderness with Jake and the love he showed as a father gets me every damn time as a father myself

Read it. Hated it. Dislike this Avengers team up approach. I’ll wait for Sisko’s real return on TV. This doesn’t count.

was pleasantly surprised a certain TOS character appeared in this story

Cover 1 by Rachel Scott….that hand holding the Enterprise is not attached to Beverly…makes one wonder if Apollo will show up

5 Things Only Adults Notice In Star Trek: Enterprise

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From its almost universally hated theme song to its bare-bones, submarine-inspired ship energy, "Star Trek: Enterprise" tells one of the most fundamentally different stories in the Trek canon. Long before Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) spread Federation ideals through the galaxy and Jean-Luc Picard ( Patrick Stewart ) welcomed diplomats aboard his Space Hilton, the prototypical Enterprise NX-01 brought pre-Federation humanity to the stars — and what a wild ride it was.

Originally airing on the UPN network during the early 2000s around the same time as "Buffy: The Vampire Slayer," "Enterprise" was part of a lineup that was meant to appeal to a fairly young demographic. For viewers who were still pretty young during the show's first run, rewatching from the business end of adulthood can be pretty eye-opening. From a storyline that's meant to parallel real-world events to steamy "Star Trek" scenes that would make even Q blush, here are five things only adults notice when watching "Enterprise."

1. There's a reason fans call Enterprise Sexy Trek

Among the Trekkie community, "Enterprise" is frequently referred to as "Sexy Trek," which is saying something in a franchise brimming with spandex, holodeck hookups, and even a candle sex ghost. Every Trek from "The Original Series" onward has its share of thirst traps from Kirk and William T. Riker's (Jonathan Frakes) horny space diplomacy to the generous use of Dabo girl underboob at Quark's bar. But "Enterprise" is a master class in sculpting a plot around lust-inducing eye candy. 

While a millennial-era teenager might not have fully realized how gratuitously sexual "Enterprise" is, the salacious undertone can almost feel cringe-inducing at times when viewed through adult eyes. And nowhere is this more obvious than the ship's decon chamber, where the ship's hottest crewmates get to oil each other up while hanging out in their space undies after each mission.

One of the show's most unabashedly thirsty scenes is in "Xindi," when T'Pol (Jolene Blalock) strips away her top while directing Trip Tucker (Connor Trinneer) in the art of Vulcan neuropressure. "You can apply considerable pressure," she directs him while cupping her nacelles for modesty's sake. "Harder...harder...just like that," before gasping and then directing him to "Please disrobe" so she can return the favor. And then there's that moment in "Shockwave" when a sweaty Hoshi Sato (Linda Park) loses her shirt while jumping down from an air vent. "In a Mirror, Darkly" brings Sexy Trek to its logical conclusion by pairing some of the franchise's most revealing crop tops with unnecessary girl-on-girl fighting and a steady stream of horny dialogue.

2. Archer is incredibly unprofessional

Captain Jonathan Archer's (Scott Bakula) personality throughout "Enterprise" serves as a constant reminder of how far Starfleet progresses as the decades and centuries pass. In contrast with the refined professionalism of later captains like Kathryn Janeway (Kate Mulgrew), Benjamin Sisko (Avery Brooks), and Picard, Archer is fairly rough around the edges — which makes sense since he's literally writing the book on what it means to be a Starfleet leader. But a few rewatches in, his frequently unprofessional behavior can seem almost out of control at times, and it's hard to imagine Archer would make it far in the Picard-era Federation.

Rudeness, temperamental behavior, and an overall lack of respect for alien cultures are some of the hallmarks of Archer's early command. This serious lack of professionalism can be seen in the pilot episode "Broken Bow" as Archer appears before Starfleet Command and the Vulcan Council. When he is told the Vulcans want to delay the Enterprise launch, Archer immediately becomes disrespectful, mouthing off to the Klingons and his superiors before entering a medical treatment area without asking. When T'Pol calls humanity "volatile," he responds, "Volatile? You have no idea how much I'm restraining myself from knocking you on your a**." 

In "A Night in Sickbay," Archer angrily complains to members of his crew about having to "grovel" after offending the Kreetassians. He then negligently lets his dog Porthos urinate on the Kreetassan planet, leading to an interplanetary diplomatic crisis Archer stubbornly refuses to take responsibility for until he's forced to.

3. The Xindi storyline is meant to parallel 9/11

"Star Trek: Enterprise" aired just two weeks after the World Trade Center attack on September 11, 2001. Although younger audiences might not have caught it, the show's Xindi storyline drew heavy inspiration from this real-world terrorist act and its global impact. Beginning in the Season 2 finale, the Xindi storyline begins with a seemingly unprovoked devastating attack on the Earth from a previously unknown alien species ("The Expanse"). During the attack, an alien probe appears above the planet to carve out a 4,000-kilometer path of destruction running from Florida to Venezuela, killing 7 million victims and leaving the world stunned and horrified.

As Starfleet grapples with the fallout, Archer and his crew soon discover the attack was perpetrated by the Xindi, a race of aliens made up of five distinct species. It's later revealed that the attack was just a test run for a larger weapon meant to destroy the Earth ("Azati Prime"). Veteran Trek producer/director David Livingston confirmed the familiar story origin on the Season 3 video commentary, noting, "The Xindi were destroying parts of Earth. So, it was reflective of what was going on at the time." On Bob Saget's "Here For You" podcast, Scott Bakula later added, "Of course, our series was colored by 9/11 happening. We were shooting then and that eventually took over the direction of our show in terms of mirroring that event and casting it into the studio and painting it with the StarTrek brush."

4. The show recycles a lot of other Trek stories

Watch "Star Trek" long enough, and you might eventually start to realize that some of the plots feel awfully familiar. In a franchise with hundreds of episodes, it should hardly come as a surprise that tried-and-true sci-fi tropes keep showing up across Starfleet eras. But one of the more common criticisms of "Enterprise" is its writers' alleged overreliance on sliced, diced, but ultimately rehashed plots from other "Star Trek" series. Whether intentional or coincidental, many of the NX-01's adventures do seem to mirror other stories in the franchise pretty closely.

"Oasis," which starred eventual Borg Queen Annie Wersching and René Auberjonois (Odo on "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine"), finds the Enterprise crew exploring a supposedly haunted ship populated by hologram-generated illusions. The plot so closely resembled the "Deep Space Nine" episode "Shadowplay" that Auberjonois mentioned it to Bakula while on set. 

The episode "Dawn," which found Trip Tucker stranded with an alien he could not communicate with, is like a Wish.com copy of "The Next Generation" episode "Darmok," which in turn borrows heavily from the film "Enemy Mine." And "Vanishing Point," which features a terrified Hoshi believing that she's dematerializing after a transporter accident, is like a darker take on "The Next Generation" episode "The Next Phase." "Terra Nova" resembles the "Voyager" episode "Friendship One," and "Precious Cargo" marks the third use of "The Original Series" plot from "Elaan of Troyius," which showed up in the "Next Generation" episode "The Perfect Mate."

5. It has more character development than most Star Trek series

"Star Trek: Enterprise" might be something of an intergalactic hot mess — particularly in Season 1 when writers didn't seem to know what to do with some characters. But when taken as a whole, many fans have noticed this series presents some of the best character development in the "Star Trek" franchise. Nowhere is this more evident than with Archer, who grows from something of an anti-Vulcanist bigot with little respect for the serious historical implications of the crew's every interaction to a fully-formed diplomat with a commitment to creating a brighter future for humanity.

At the beginning of the show, T'Pol appears to be a stereotypical Vulcan — she seems to have little interest in being more than the Enterprise's space babysitter and frequently expresses a repressed disdain for humanity's food, habits, and even smells. As the series progresses, we see her grow, face personal demons, and form powerful friendships, particularly with Hoshi, Archer, and Trip. By the end, T'Pol has blossomed into a voice for interspecies cooperation who has come to deeply value her human counterparts.

Hoshi begins "Enterprise" as a brilliant linguist who is afraid of everything and struggles with severe anxiety. While aboard the Enterprise, she learns to rely on those around her for guidance and support and actively works on managing and overcoming her own mental health hurdles. Likewise, Trip matures both in his professional growth and his relationships with other characters, particularly with T'Pol, as seen when he puts her feelings before his own when faced with her arranged marriage to Koss ("Home"). Despite the show's rocky start, the crew's personal growth helps make "Enterprise" one of the most powerful character-driven stories in the "Star Trek" canon. 

Star Trek: Why Was the USS Enterprise Renamed?

The first Star Trek The Next Generation comic book was released almost 35 years ago. Why did the creators decide to rename the USS Enterprise?

In 1987, science fiction fans witnessed the return of Star Trek to their television screens. The setting, the era, the characters, and even the Enterprise were different, but Star Trek: The Next Generation (TNG) entrenched itself in the canon over the course of seven seasons. While it took time for some fans to acclimate to the changes and differences of this new crew, it was the beginning of a new history that continues to resonate with fans across a variety of mediums including comic books. DC Comics released the first comic adaptation in February 1988, thus marking next year as the 35th anniversary for Captain Picard and the Enterprise-D in comic books.

Cover artist Bill Sienkiewicz and penciller Pablo Marcos were the first creative team to officially translate the new Enterprise to the page . Fans already knew the classic Enterprise and its famous registry number NCC-1701, but the enormous, sleeker Galaxy-Class vessel of TNG boasted NCC-1701-D on its oval-shaped hull. This started to raise a variety of questions. Fans naturally wondered who was responsible for the new registry.

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Star Trek: The Next Generation Inherited the Enterprise

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The creators of the original Star Trek series always knew that the Enterprise was as much a character as the crew that helmed her. Originally the starship was going to be named the Yorktown, but Gene Roddenberry, fascinated by the story of the actual Enterprise sailing vessels, decided that he had "...always been proud of that ship and wanted to use the name,” as stated in a 1973 interview. The TOS Enterprise's NCC-1701 registry stemmed from several sources. NC was one of the international aircraft registration codes assigned to the United States. A second C was added as, at the time, Soviet aircraft used Cs in their designations. Matt Jefferies, who took over ship design when original art director Pato Guzman left, held the belief that a venture into space in this future would be a joint operation by the US and Russia.

So NCC became the Starfleet abbreviation for "Naval Construction Contract," comparable to United States Navy hull numbers. Jefferies rejected using numbers 3, 6, 8, and 9 as they would too easily confuse visually on screen and decided that the Enterprise would be the first vessel of Starfleet's 17th designed starship. Hence, 1701. The classic Making of Star Trek book by Stephen E. Whitfield and Gene Roddenberry, explains that USS was meant to be an abbreviation for United Space Ship and that the Enterprise is a member of the Starship-class, although licensed texts, on-screen graphics, props, and dialogue later retconned the ship to be a Constitution-class vessel.

So, when TNG premiered with its new starship, designers of the Galaxy-class starship Enterprise intended for the new vessel’s registry to be NCC-1701-7, according to one of the original pitch bibles for the series. It was pointed out that, at the conclusion of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home , the original crew’s new Enterprise had sported the registry NCC-1701-A. The 7 quickly morphed into a G to be consistent with this fact as, at the time, the show was planned on being set in the 25th century , 150 years after the Original Series. Then, a February 1987 revision to the Next Generation Writers' Manual specified TNG 's Enterprise would be referred to as the NCC-1701-D. After all, the 24th century had been chosen as the setting, 78 years after the original Star Trek .

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The Enterprise's Registry Number Set the Standard

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In the Star Trek Universe, the tradition of carrying on a ship’s legacy by adding a letter to the registry number, until recently, was exclusively linked to the Enterprise. It was mentioned in Terry J. Erdmann’s Star Trek Deep Space Nine Companion that Ron Moore wanted the new Defiant in the series finale of DS9 to be the NCC-74205-A (its predecessor being NX-74205), but the show's budget constraints didn’t allow a redo of the CGI visual effects shots. However, with the last two seasons of Star Trek: Discovery being set in the 32nd century, it’s quite clear the tradition has canonically grown beyond Enterprises, as that show and its comic book spin-offs have featured the Voyager NCC-74656-J and even Discovery herself sporting NCC-1031-A on her hull.

With seven seasons, one feature film, and well over 80 comic book appearances, the USS Enterprise-D easily beats out the original NCC-1701’s three seasons, the refit’s three films, the NCC-1701-A’s two full films (the cameo at the end of Star Trek IV included), and certainly the B, C, and even the E. The J hasn’t even been seen in a full shot, yet. The Enterrpsie-D, as of this writing, has become the longest running and most-viewed version of ships named Enterprise and even though she was destroyed in 2371, she set a standard and a tradition that writers, artists, and nitpicking fans, would be able to enjoy for generations to come.

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Star Trek: The 10 best Star Trek comics from Marvel, DC, IDW Publishing, and more

These are the voyages of the Star Trek cast and crew across multiple comic publishers and universes in the world of comics

Welcome to the world of Star Trek comics!

In 1966, Gene Roddenberry launched what he called 'Wagon Train to the Stars.' Although he sold the studio on the idea that Star Trek would be a Western in space, Roddenberry was more inspired by Gulliver's Travels. So he created an adventure series with something to say about political, philosophical, and social issues and shaped history. Not only did Star Trek champion and codify 'infinite diversity in infinite combinations,' it made science appealing. It even inspired numerous scientists to enter STEM and influenced fandoms far beyond its own. Slash fiction fans can thank Mr. Spock (Leonard Nimoy) and Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) from Star Trek: The Original Series (TOS) for legitimizing the idea of shipping with Diane Marchant's 1974 Kirk/Spock story 'A Fragment Out of Time.'

The original Stat Trek was canceled after three seasons. However, with the help of a loyal fan base (known as Trekkies or Trekkers) and a successful run in syndication, the franchise didn't die when the series first ended. Nearly two decades afterStar Trek: The Original Series entered syndication, Star Trek was the number one syndicated show on television in 1986 according to Nielsen. Just one year later, Star Trek: The Next Generation (TNG) debuted and lead a franchise revival that inspired more Trekkies for generations to come. However, with the series off the air for a long time between Star Trek: The Original Series's end and Star Trek: The Next Generation's beginning, Trekkies were hungry for more content starring the Enterprise crew, and beta canon and fanon (fan + canon = fanon) were born.

In Star Trek, events taking place within the live-action episodes and movies are official canon or alpha canon, while other official content is mostly up for debate. The beta canon includes most of the official Star Trek novels, video games, and comic lines. But as the Star Trek TV revival continues to take Trekkies to strange new worlds, production writers have started to include details from beta canon stories. Star Trek: Prodigy introduced Rok-Tahk, a Brikarian (first appeared in the Star Trek: The Next Generation - Starfleet Academy novel, Worf's First Adventure), and chimerium (the legally controlled material used in Klingon cloaking devices first appeared in Starfleet Corps of Engineers and The Next Generation books), and both beta canon and fanon influenced the Kobayashi Maru sequence.

Beta canon is the key to boldly exploring exciting new Star Trek stories. Whether you're eager for more information about your favorite character or on the hunt for new adventures, some of the franchise's best stories are given life in the panels of a comic book. But it's easy to feel overwhelmed. Since Gold Key Comics published the first Star Trek comic book in 1967, although it couldn't use storylines from the series, thousands more Star Trek comics over multiple series have been published. Since it can be hard to know where to begin, we list the ten best storylines to get you started below.

Star Trek: The Next Generation – Mirror Broken

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Space... The Final Frontier. These are the voyages of the ISS Enterprise-D and its captain, Mirror Picard. Its continuing mission: to conquer strange new worlds, to enslave new life and new civilizations all for the Terran Empire! IDW Publishing's Star Trek: The Next Generation: Mirror Broken by Scott and David Tipton, J.K. Woodward, Charlie Kirchoff, and Carlos Nieto takes you into the other dimension where all of your favorite TNG heroes have grown up to value what the publisher describes as their "worst instincts and potentials" (just wait until you see Wesley Crusher's hair).

In the Mirror Universe, officers are valued for their brutality, cruelty, and cunning, not their kindness. However, that's what makes the Mirror Universe so appealing, the chance to see our Star Trek's greatest heroes wrestle with facing off against the worst versions of themselves, which forces them to confront their own demons.

Since the The Next Generation crew never went to the perennial fan-favorite Mirror Universe onscreen, the Mirror Picard versus Picard showdown in the comics is exciting to see. And that's only just the beginning; the Mirror Saga continued with Star Trek: The Mirror War.

Star Trek: The Original Series – Debt of Honor

Debt of Honor by Chris Claremont, Adam Hughes, Karl Story, Tom McCraw, and Robert M. Pinaha was initially published in 1992 when DC still had the Star Trek license. Nearly 30 years later, it was re-released at IDW, introducing it to a whole new generation of Trekkies.

The Star Trek OGN picks up after the Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home with Kirk and Gillian, the whale biologist from the film. Now living in the 23rd century, Gillian is adapting to life in the future. However, leaving her century is more challenging than expected (even the textiles don't feel right on her skin), but luckily Kirk is there to help her through. But Kirk and Gillian's vacation to check on the whales they brought to the future is only a ruse, and Kirk quickly finds himself aboard the Enterprise on a mission alongside the Klingons and Romulans.

Debt of Honor sends Kirk on a mission that leaves him thinking about his past. Interwoven throughout the story are flashbacks to the ups and downs of Kirk's career, providing excellent insight into the franchise's first captain, who is haunted by the destruction of the Enterprise and death of his son in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock.

Star Trek: Discovery – Adventures in the 32nd Century

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IDW's Star Trek: Discovery – Adventures in the 32nd Century by Mike Johnson, Angel Hernandez, J.D. Mettler, and Neil Uyetake is a four-issue Discovery (DISCO) miniseries featuring Grudge the Cat, Lieutenant Keyla Detmer, Science Officer Linus, and Adira Tal. Each character gets a spotlight issue, giving us a deeper understanding of the psychology and backgrounds of DISCO's less featured characters.

The series contains many highlights like the first issue, which is a flashback tale told from Queen Grudge's perspective. It delves into the monarch's relationship with Cleveland Booker. We learn how Booker found his Queen and what she loves about him in return. And yesh, it's the tasty treats! Booker always gives his Queen the 32nd Century version of Fancy Feast. Afte all, she is too good for replicator food, not like that pathetic Spot.

But this miniseries gets a special shout-out for its second issue about Adira Tal and Gray's history together. Trans fans are desperate for more representation on screen and in comics, and the storyline gets the couple's dynamic perfectly. How do you like them apples?

Star Trek: Voyager – Seven's Reckoning

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Seven's Reckoning by Dave Baker, Angel Hernandez, Ronda Pattison, and Neil Uyetake is a four-issue series during Voyager's fourth season. The series explores Seven's struggle to find her individuality and humanity, leading to hysterical exchanges about humanity's propensity for distracting outbursts between the ex-Borg and Tuvok. Most importantly, Seven learns about how stories reflect a society's cultures and values, which can either encourage our individuality or enslave us.

As an ex-Borg, Seven of Nine provided the Voyager writers with endless opportunities to use her as humanity's foil. The comics are no different, and Seven's Reckoning delivers on this theme. Plus, I'm as subtle about how much I like Baker's writing as Beckett Mariner is about her crush on Jen the Andorian. But seriously, the Eisner-nominated creator's work (not to mention all the other talent) on this Voyager run is worth the price of a collection alone.

Star Trek: The Original Series – Star Trek #24 and #25

DC Comics held the license to publish Star Trek stories from 1984 to 1996. DC's main title was Star Trek, published in two series (the first one is set after Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and the second after Star Trek V: The Final Frontier), comprising 136 issues, nine annuals, and several special issues. DC's Star Trek harnesses the full force of Trek mythology (and was the first publisher to do so), with characters from all over the universe making appearances.

The Star Trek run not only included stories featuring characters from The Original Series, Star Trek: The Animated Series (like the Edosian Arex and Caitian M'Ress), and the franchise films, but it also introduced new ones like Ensign William Bearclaw, Ensign Nancy Bryce, Dr. Chu-Sa, Lt. Commander Maria Morelli, Ensign Elizabeth Sherwood, and the Klingons Konom and Bernie.

Sometimes the stories in DC Comics era are straight-up sequels to storylines started in the films or TV shows. But the series shines when it introduces new ideas to the Star Trek canon.

In Star Trek #24 and #25, 'Double Blind,' by Diane Duane, Tom Sutton, Michele Wolfman, Agustin Mas, and Ricardo Villagran, the Enterprise crew is tricked into helping a lobster-like species and a domestic cat-like species (no, not the Caitians or Kizinti). Ultimately, Kirk comes up with a typical solution for him that requires ignoring the Prime Directive to end the long feud between the two species based on mutual misunderstanding and fear. Who doesn't love Captain Kirk being a Captain Kirk?

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy

Following approximately six months behind the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's (DS9) continuity, Marvel Presents Paramount Comics' Star Trek: Starfleet Academy series follows the Omega Squad. It features Deep Space Nine's Nog and his Academy classmates, a new group of cadets that we meet in Prime Directive, Starfleet Academy's first issue, by Chris Cooper, Chris Renaud, Andy Lanning, Jim Novak, and Kevin Somers. The comic book series also has cameo appearances from characters on the TV shows like Groundskeeper Boothby from the The Next Generation episode 'The First Duty' and Red Squad from the Deep Space Nine episodes such as 'Valiant.'

Strange New Worlds' Captain Christopher Pike even appears in Starfleet Academy when Nog and Omega Squad wind up on Talos IV to save the Talosians from the Jem'Hadar in Star Trek: Starfleet Academy #9. The story builds on 'The Cage' and 'The Menagerie Part I and Part II,' 100 years in the past on the Star Trek timeline. Pike explains to the cadets that Starfleet has since declared Talos IV off-limits because of the dangers of Talosian mind control (which unfortunately don't work so well on angry Jem'Hadar).

Star Trek: Early Voyages and Starfleet Academy were the two most popular series published by Marvel during its stint publishing Star Trek comics. However, it is great to see more of Nog as a cadet. And today, Starfleet Academy is more relevant than ever with Paramount+'s announcement that they are developing a Starfleet Academy TV series.

Star Trek: Voyager

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The USS Voyager crew appeared for the first time ever in their own comic book series in 1996, published by Marvel Presents Paramounts Comics. The 15-issue series by Laurie Sutton, Jesus Redondo, Matt Webb, John Kalisz, and Chris Eliopoulos (and periodically some guest creators) covers a lot of narrative ground, following the USS Voyager crew from Voyage season two through season four.

As the first series in a long line of great Voyager content in beta canon, the Paramount run starring Captain Janeway and her crew deserves a special spot in your short box. After all, she is the first female captain to star in her own series!

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Paramount Comics picked up Star Trek: Deep Space Nine in 1996, and the series ran until 1998. Although the Deep Space Nine series takes place during the show's fourth and fifth seasons—connecting it to Nog and the Star Trek: Starfleet Academy series — it continues stories from earlier seasons, as well. The best Star Trek comics allow creators to return to their favorite stories from the TV shows. And Deep SPace Nine does just that, with Lwaxana Troi, who already has a penchant for showing up when you least expect it.

On DS9, Lwaxana Troi made several memorable guest appearances in the series, with her first being 'The Forsaken,' in which the daughter of the Fifth House of Betazed, the holder of the Sacred Chalice of Rixx, and heir to the Holy Rings of Betazed gets a huge middle-school-sized crush on Odo. Unfortunately for the Constable (who does not understand the concepts the solids call 'love' yet), he is trapped in an elevator episode and a fantastic storyline ensues. The Lwaxana and Odo story is picked up again in the season three episode 'Fascination.' And then again, in Paramount Comics.

When the Holy Rings of Betazed of Surprise shows up in issue ten by Andy Mangels, Michael Martin, Terry Pallot, Al Milgrom, John Kalisz, and Chris Eliopoulos, she upends the whole promenade for her 'Wedding of Doom.' Not only does this series do a good job of bringing you into the wacky wartime world of Deeep Space Nine, it also delivers small lines that the most ardent Trekkie will love. Garak and the Doctor have a similar exchange to the one in Star Trek VI: Undiscovered Country, with Garak asking the Doctor if he's read Shakespeare in the Cardassian.

Star Trek: The Next Generation/X-Men

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Star Trek: The Next Generation/X-Men: Planet X by Michael Jan Friedman is the answer to franchise fatigue, am I right? Whether you're a Trekkie or a True Believer, thinking about Sir Patrick Stewart's Captain Picard meeting Sir Partick Stewart's Professor Charles Xavier just seems like a good time. So, of course, the eponymous crossover novel starring the X-Men and TNG bridge crew made the New York Times bestseller's list when it came out, leading to a follow-up Marvel Comics one-shot.

Yes, Planet X goes there (re: the two men's likeness), which is pretty impressive considering Friedman wrote the book in 1998. Picard even comments on the similarities between him and Professor X during a holodeck simulation, "As the doctor had warned him, he and the professor bore a passing resemblance."

With the success of Planet X, the two men finally had a chance to meet in the panels of a comic book. While Planet X took place in the Star Trek Universe, Star Trek: The Next Generation/X-Men: Second Contact by Dan Abnett, Ian Edington, Cary Nord, Scott Koblish, Liquid! and Chris Eliopoulos takes place on Earth in the '90s, where the crew of the Enterprise-E must locate Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters. Always the ladies' man, Jean-Luc hits it off with Storm.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

No, this isn't an adaptation of the Paramount+ series. This happened years before, in comic books.

"Gary Mitchell was an ant, and I am a lion!" Created by John Byrne in 2013, the comic book Strange New Worlds uses imagery from The Original Series to tell the untold sequel to the second pilot, 'Where No Man Has Gone Before.' Yes, that means this Star Trek photonovel is all about the USS. Enterprise crew returning to Delta Vega, and Captain Kirk must confront his past demons Gary Mitchell.

The Strange New Worlds photonovel is essential reading if you love the Star Trek: Lower Decks episode 'Second Contact.' It's not the only comic to return to Delta Vega. But it's the only Gary Mitchell comic to use Gary Lockwood's likeness to explore the character's God-like abilities. Initially planned as a one-shot, SNW did well enough to lead to Byrne's ongoing photonovel series Star Trek: New Visions. The photonovels are perfect if you are craving new stories with the The Original Series bridge crew, mainly because Byrne uses images from the series to tell the stories.

Watch the Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 2 panel with Rebecca Romijn, Ethan Peck, Celia Rose Gooding, and Melissa Navia .

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Star Trek: The Enterprise Logs

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Star Trek: The Enterprise Logs (later re-released as Star Trek: The Key Collection ) was series of books collecting the Gold Key Star Trek comic books in trade paperback form.

The original version of the Enterprise Logs series ran four volumes and reprinted the first 38 monthly issues of the 61-issue run of that comic series.

The newer Key Collection from Checker Books reprints the first four volumes with new covers, and printed two further issues.

In 2014, IDW Publishing began printing the Star Trek: Gold Key Archives series.

  • Enterprise Log 1 (reprinted as Key Collection volume 1 by Checker Books)
  • Enterprise Log 2 (reprinted as Key Collection volume 2 by Checker Books)
  • Enterprise Log 3 (similar re-release as Key Collection volume 3 by Checker Books)
  • Enterprise Log 4 (similar re-release as Key Collection volume 4 by Checker Books)
  • Key Collection volume 5 (by Checker Books)
  • Key Collection volume 6 (by Checker Books)

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  • The Key Collection at Memory Beta , the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
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Airship Enterprise Comics

Airship Enterprise is a comic series by Brian Denham. Follow the steampunk adventures of the crew of Airship Enterprise as they fight sky pirates, aliens, and other strange lifeforms in the stratosphere above a doomed world. Originally presented in Steampunk Tales #1-3, followed by a four-issue full color mini-series. The four-part story arc was collected in a Signature Edition Hardcover, funded by a Kickstarter project, and a trade paperback.

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‘Star Trek: Enterprise’ Was Doomed To Fail From the Start

A unique entry in the Star Trek franchise faced its own Kobayashi Maru.

The Big Picture

  • Star Trek: Enterprise explored a time period before the Federation, showcasing early space exploration by humans in the Star Trek universe.
  • Despite a bumpy start with controversial changes like a non-instrumental theme song, the show gained traction in its later seasons with new storylines.
  • Star Trek: Enterprise's cancellation after 4 seasons was attributed to a variety of factors, including low viewership amid franchise fatigue.

September 2001 brought a new Star Trek series to television, which followed the adventures of the crew aboard the first starship Enterprise , led by Captain Jonathan Archer ( Scott Bakula ). Appropriately titled Star Trek: Enterprise , the series explores the time period before the founding of the Federation. It was a refreshing take for the Star Trek franchise, spotlighting an era that had not been present on screen to any large degree, even including Star Trek: First Contact which takes place long before Star Trek: Enterprise .

However, the fresh take on the Star Trek franchise didn't help, and Star Trek: Enterprise was cancelled after only four seasons . While there wasn't a single reason for its cancellation, it could be argued that the series had engaged in its own Kobayashi Maru simulation due to its own ambitions. With that in mind, beam aboard as we look at the ill-fated voyage of Star Trek: Enterprise .

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A century before Captain Kirk's five-year mission, Jonathan Archer captains the United Earth ship Enterprise during the early years of Starfleet, leading up to the Earth-Romulan War and the formation of the Federation.

'Star Trek: Enterprise' Tried to Be Different

Star Trek: Enterprise introduces the first iteration of the famed starship, designation NX-01 , 100 years prior to Star Trek: The Original Series . This Enterprise lacks the bells and whistles that its kin are outfitted with, like grappler cables instead of a tractor beam, and missiles instead of particle weapons. The starship is the first vessel capable of warp five, and its crew the first deep space explorers in Starfleet . What we learn is that the Vulcans, who first made contact with humanity in the aforementioned Star Trek: First Contact , have been slow in introducing even more advanced technology, fearing that humans are not prepared. Without the help of the Vulcans, human space exploration has progressed slowly, something that doesn't sit well with test pilot Jonathan Archer, described as a "dedicated and bold captain with a dash of space-cowboy flair" with a curious hint of prejudice toward Vulcans. Joining Archer is Commander Trip Tucker ( Connor Trinneer ) and Sub-commander T'Pol ( Jolene Blalock ). The series, as a whole, went from documenting first encounters with Star Trek mainstays Klingons and Andorians to laying the groundwork for what would eventually become the Federation.

For a series that aimed to dramatize the events that would be the genesis of all the franchise entries to follow on the timeline, Star Trek: Enterprise didn't exactly endear itself to Trekkers off the bat . For the first two seasons, the series broke from tradition by dropping the Star Trek prefix, and was simply titled Enterprise . The series also declined to use an instrumental theme, a long-time staple of the franchise that began with the iconic theremin-heavy opening of the original series . Instead, the Diane Warren -penned power ballad "Faith of the Heart," sung by Russell Watson , played over the opening credits. That decision was greeted with vitriol by the Star Trek fanbase , with one online petition saying, ”We wish to express our unmitigated disgust with the theme song that has been selected for the new ‘Enterprise’ series. It is not fit to be scraped off the bottom of a Klingon’s boot.”

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What Happened to the 'Madame Web' Director's Star Trek Movie?

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Star Trek: Enterprise started strong , attracting 12.5 million viewers on its UPN debut on Sept. 26, 2001 . The first two seasons were largely comprised of stand-alone episodes, which Jolene Blalock assessed as boring, ignored basic tenets of the franchise's choronology, and pushed revealing costumes over character development. It resulted in a lack of engagement from viewers, and by the end of Season 1, half the audience had jumped ship, and by the end of Season 2, only a third of the original viewers were still on board.

In the hopes of stopping the bleeding, producers changed gears for its third season, added the Star Trek prefix, and introduced a single, yearlong storyline that saw the ship's crew up against the Xindi, a malevolent alien race. Manny Coto , the man behind Odyssey 5 , was made co-executive producer and made an immediate impact, with episodes that fans and TV insiders hailed as, finally, up to Star Trek snuff. As per the previously cited New York Times , the improvements didn't help, and viewers continued to abandon ship. By Season 4 , show runners had pretty much thrown in the towel. "When it was time to start the writing for Season 4," Coto said, "we were mostly gearing episodes towards people who knew the 'Star Trek' universe. We were not worried so much about people who didn't. They were gone anyway." And on May 13, 2005, UPN pulled the plug and cancelled Star Trek: Enterprise .

'Star Trek: Enterprise's Fate Was Sealed

Captain Jonathan Archer (Scott Bakula) stands in a hallway on the USS Enterprise

Low viewership would be the obvious answer as to why Star Trek: Enterprise got the axe, but far from the only reason . There was legitimate Star Trek fatigue, with Star Trek: Enterprise as the last of a continual run of Star Trek as a TV series that had started back in 1988 with Star Trek: The Next Generation . The franchise also took a heavy hit at the box office, with 2002's Star Trek: Nemesis a major disappointment , for much the same reason. Airing on a fringe station like UPN was another factor that played against the series, with a total viewership well below the big networks .

The series did have its fans, however, and certainly deserved a better sendoff than the series finale "These Are the Voyages..." The episode was fashioned as a "lost episode" of Star Trek: TNG , circa Season 7 episode "The Pegasus." In the much-maligned finale, Commander Riker (Frakes) uses the holodeck to solve his problems by viewing the final mission of Captain Archer and crew aboard the NX-01 Enterprise . In a nutshell, all the 22nd century scenes with the cast of Enterprise are all holodeck simulations, turning the characters that fans devoted four seasons to into guest stars on their own show, in favor of two actual guest stars from TNG ( Marina Sirtis ' Troi also appears) who are the primary focus. It was a slap in the face to a cast that tried their damnedest for four years to make Star Trek: Enterprise worthy of the Trek franchise. Scott Bakula was so angered over the story that he got confrontational with writer-producer Brannon Braga . While Star Trek: Enterprise will never be hailed as a Trekker favorite, it stands as one of the few times that the Star Trek franchise has tried something unique and fresh. For that reason alone, it deserves to be celebrated.

Star Trek: Enterprise is available to stream on Paramount+ in the U.S.

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5 Star Trek: Enterprise episodes from season 2 you NEED to watch

The star trek: enterprise series had a number of really good episodes that i feel kind of get missed because of the stigma that it wasn't the best of the star trek series..

I 'm back again to share some episodes from the second Season of Enterprise and why I feel they're well worth going out of your way to watch. In case you missed my article on Season 1, it can be found here . As I had previously stated, I'm a big fan of Scott Bakula and a lot of his work, so when Enterprise was announced, immediately I was interested!

Though the series wasn't the best received, I do believe there are some very good episodes that deserve to be viewed that are quite entertaining for a number of reasons. For me, I like the episodes where a lot of the groundwork is laid to explain how we got to where we know that Starfleet goes. How we came up with the Prime Directive, etc.

So in continuing my look back to Enterprise, I present to you the five episodes from Season 2 of Enterprise that I find myself going back to watch the most. Enjoy!

S1:E26-S2:E1: Shockwave (Parts I & II): Tragedy strikes when the Enterprise Crew stops to visit a mining colony and the away team accidentally ignites the planet's atmosphere, incinerating the entire colony.

I know what you're going to say...I'm cheating, this is a column on Season 2 and here I am, promoting an episode from Season 1, but since it's a 2-parter and you really need to see the first part!

In another pair of episodes centering around the Temporal Cold War, it's revealed that a cloaked Suliban vessel planted a device on the shuttlepod that Captain Archer and his away team were on their way down to the surface in. This device is what set the atmosphere of the planet ablaze, and with the help of Cewman Daniels from the future, Captain Archer and his crew are able to solve the mystery, but not before Starfleet decides to scrub their whole mission.

However, when the Suliban come to take Archer prisoner in retaliation for infiltrating their ship to find proof of Enterprise's innocence, Crewman Daniels pulls the Captain from his time into the future, which has catastrophic results to the entire timeline. Archer's absence from his own timeline erases the United Federation of Planets altogether, and Crewman Daniels & Captain Archer must work together to find a way to send the Captain back to his time without the use of any 31ˢᵗ Century technology.

S2:E2: Carbon Creek: While having dinner one night in the Captain's dining room, T'Pol entertains Captain Archer & Commander Tucker with a story of the first meeting between Humans & Vulcans that didn't occur in Boseman, Montana!

This one strays from the "laying the groundwork" that I typically like to include here, but when Archer & Tucker congratulate T'Pol on her 1-year Anniversary since joining the Enterprise crew, Archer brings up a 5-day leave she had taken while stationed in Sausalito to a small mining town in Pennsylvania.

T'Pol explains how she went to check out the place of first contact between Humans & Vulcans when a Vulcan scout ship containing her Great Grandmother had crash landed in Pennsylvania in the 1950s while observing the launch of Earth's first satellite, Sputnik 1. She tells the story of how with their ship destroyed, their communications system compromised & their emergency rations running low, how the Vulcans needed to disguise themselves to blend in with the townsfolk.

It's a fun story that shows the Vulcans misunderstanding social queues like when a group of guys are listening to a baseball game on the radio while the Vulcans believe it to be a type of combat, or when one of the Vulcans is nicknamed "Mo" after the member of the Three Stooges because of his hair style. Trip Tucker even quips: "Two Vulcans stroll into a bar, hustle a few games of pool and walk out with an armload of TV dinners. Sounds like an old episode of The Twilight Zone!"

S2:E8: The Communicator: After an away mission to a planet of a pre-warp civilization, it's discovered that Malcolm returned to the ship without his communicator. So Captain Archer & Lieutenant Reed must return to the surface to retrieve the advanced technology before it's found.

When the Captain and Malcolm return to the surface, not only do they find that the communicator has been found, they're also taken into custody and questioned by the local military. Unfortunately, after some brute force is used in questioning, their disguises become apparent as their blood color does not match the blood of the inhabiting species.

When they're taken in for full biological scans, it becomes even more apparent that they're not from around there. As their phase pistols and communicators are further investigated, and Hoshi is able to intercept radio communications from the surface indicating that the away team is set to be executed, the Enterprise crew begin to put together a rescue plan.

Another great episode of as I like to call it, "laying the groundwork" for what can go wrong on an away mission to a less-technologically developed world and the consequences it can have since the military personnel Archer & Reed dealt with believed them to be genetically-engineered spies from a rival alliance.

S2:E13: Dawn: While testing an autopilot upgrade on a shuttlepod, Commander Tucker comes under fire and is forced to crash land on a desolate moon & must make friends with his assailant with no universal translator in order to be rescued.

Stranded alone on a desolate moon, Trip must make peace with the alien who fired upon his shuttlepod who is also stranded on the moon. Unfortunately, he has no universal translator, so that could pose a bit of a problem.

Much like the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, The Enemy, when Geordi is trapped on a hostile planet only with a Romulan, Trip must make peace with the Arkonian, Zho'Kaan - from a species the Vulcans have had little to no luck in making peace with over the last century. Because as T'Pol explains to Captain Archer following Trip's retrieval, "The encounter was less volatile than I expected. You managed to establish better relations in a single day than the Vulcans have in a century." Which, if you're keeping score...is one of the few times when we fared better in first contact than the Vulcans.

S2:E15: Cease Fire: Captain Archer receives orders from Starfleet Command that his presence was requested to help to negotiate a cease fire between the Andorians & the Vulcans.

While battling the Vulcans in a territorial dispute, Commander Shran sends word through the Vulcan High Command, requesting the help of Captain Jonathan Archer to attempt to resolove this dispute. Upon receiving word of the request, Enterprise changes course to see how they can help.

Once contact is made with Commander Shran, Archer returns to Enterprise to escort Ambassador Soval down to the planet. Unfortunately, their shuttlepod comes under fire and are forced down in the middle of battle. It's here in this negotiations that Archer comes to the conclusion that maybe humanity was truly ready to become a bigger part of the interstellar community.

For me, the best interraction comes at the end of the episode when Ambassador Soval states, "Captain, your presence here has not been...overly meddlesome." To which, Shran comments, "I think he likes you, pink skin," which Captain Archer responds with, "I wouldn't go that far."

There are a number of other good episodes from Season 2 that were hard to keep off of this list, my honorable mentions include: "A Night In Sickbay", "Singularity", "Future Tense", "Cogenitor" & "First Flight"

This article was originally published on redshirtsalwaysdie.com as 5 Star Trek: Enterprise episodes from season 2 you NEED to watch .

5 Star Trek: Enterprise episodes from season 2 you NEED to watch

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Every starship enterprise saucer separation in star trek & why.

As seen in TNG, some versions of Star Trek's Enterprise can conduct a saucer separation to gain a tactical advantage or flee emergency situations.

  • Saucer separation was a tactical maneuver used in extreme circumstances to protect innocent lives on the USS Enterprise.
  • Only the USS Enterprise-D from Star Trek's prime timeline has conducted a saucer separation, despite early consideration in production.
  • The Kelvin timeline's USS Enterprise conducted a saucer separation in Star Trek Beyond, but it was too late to make a difference.

In extreme circumstances, Star Trek 's starship Enterprise can carry out a saucer separation for both tactical and emergency purposes. The Enterprise's first saucer separation maneuver was seen in the Star Trek: The Next Generation pilot, "Encounter at Farpoint", and though used sparingly, it wouldn't be the last time that Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) gave such a command. While the TNG version of the starship Enterprise was the first to use the saucer separation, Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) and Chief Engineer Montgomery Scott (James Doohan) theorized a similar "nacelle removal" maneuver was possible in the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "The Apple".

During a saucer separation, a full-evacuation of non-essential personnel would be conducted as the senior staff made their way to the battle bridge, located in the starship's drive section. Once preparations were complete, the docking clamps would retract, separating the saucer section from the ship's primary hull. The concept of a saucer separation in Star Trek had been under consideration since early production on the abandoned Star Trek: Planet of the Titans movie . However, to date, the USS Enterprise-D is the only ship from Star Trek 's prime timeline to conduct a saucer separation, but the Kelvin Timeline's USS Enterprise had similar abilities.

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After a less than cordial first meeting with Q (John de Lancie), the crew of the USS Enterprise-D attempted to outrun the cosmic trickster by fleeing his forcefield. Q's forcefield gave chase, which forced Picard to order a saucer separation to protect the innocent lives of the many civilians aboard the Enterprise . Picard put Lt. Worf (Michael Dorn) in charge of the saucer section until the crisis was over. Despite trying to outrun Q from the Enterprise-D's stardrive section from the battle bridge, Picard and his senior staff soon found themselves in Q's courtroom.

After Q agrees to let Picard prove that human beings are not savages, the two halves of the starship Enterprise are reunited in orbit above the planet Deneb IV. The remainder of the Star Trek: The Next Generation cast are introduced at Farpoint Station, too. One of Picard's first orders to his number one, Commander William T. Riker (Jonathan Frakes) is to conduct a manual docking of the Enterprise's stardrive and saucer sections .

Saucer separation was planned to be a regular feature in Star Trek: The Next Generation , but was abandoned due to the costs involved, and the fact that the process of separating the Enterprise's saucer section slowed down the story.

4 Geordi Ordered A Saucer Separation Above Minos

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In Star Trek: The Next Generation season 1, episode 20, "Heart of Glory", two Klingon warriors plotted to hijack the Enterprise by conducting an illegal saucer section. They were foiled in their plans by Lt. Worf, who chose his Starfleet colleagues over his fellow Klingons. In the following episode, "The Arsenal of Freedom", the Enterprise did conduct a saucer separation, ordered by Lt. Geordi La Forge. Geordi was placed in temporary command of the Enterprise while Picard and Riker's away team were pinned down by an automated weapons system on the planet Minos .

The Enterprise's chief engineer, Lt. Commander Logan (Vyto Ruginis) objected to Geordi's plan to stay and rescue the away team, and tried to pull rank. Geordi stood his ground and reminded Logan that only Picard or Riker could relieve him of command. Later, when preparations for the saucer separation were underway, Geordi ordered Logan to take command of the saucer, and pilot it to Starbase 103. After Picard, Riker, and the away team were rescued, the Enterprise captain allowed Geordi to remain in command until he had reconnected the stardrive with the saucer section.

Geordi would later replace Logan as Chief Engineer of the starship Enterprise from Star Trek: The Next Generation season 2 onward.

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3 riker used a saucer separation to rescue picard, star trek: the next generation, season 4, episode 1, "the best of both worlds, part ii".

The USS Enterprise-D carried out a saucer separation during the epic Star Trek: The Next Generation two-parter, "The Best of Both Worlds" . Commander Elizabeth Shelby (Elizabeth Dennehy) suggested to Captain Picard and Commander Riker that a saucer separation could create a significant distraction in encounters with the Borg Collective. Riker opposed the strategy because he felt that it would take away valuable resources during a battle, namely the power used by the saucer's impulse engines. However, Riker and Shelby later had cause to revisit this strategy once Picard was captured by the Borg.

Riker knew that Locutus of Borg would retain the tactical information held in Picard's brain, so he used it to the Enterprise's advantage. Riker ordered the USS Enterprise-D to engage the Borg Cube, and initiated a saucer separation. Picard's knowledge of the saucer separation maneuver meant that the Borg directly engaged the stardrive section and ignored the saucer for long enough that it could launch a shuttle craft which contained a rescue team. The distraction enabled Lt. Commander Data (Brent Spiner) and Lt. Worf to beam aboard the cube and capture Locutus, giving Starfleet a huge tactical advantage.

2 Escaping A Catastrophic Warp Core Breach In The Enterprise-D's Saucer

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There were a handful of attempted saucer separations between "The Best of Both Worlds" and the end of Star Trek: The Next Generation , but they were abandoned due to their dangerous implications. The Enterprise-D's next saucer separation was also its last, as it was necessitated by a catastrophic warp core breach in the stardrive section . In Star Trek Generations , the Enterprise was ambushed by the Duras sisters in the Veridian system, causing severe damage to the ship, resulting in a coolant leak in the warp containment system. With the drive section compromised, Commander Riker ordered a full evacuation of personnel to the Enterprise's saucer section.

The starship Enterprise's saucer section made it to relative safety before the stardrive section exploded. However, the shockwave of the explosion knocked the saucer out of orbit, sending what was left of the Enterprise-D hurtling toward the surface of Veridian III. The crew made a crash landing, but the damage to the Enterprise's saucer was so extensive that the Star Trek: The Next Generation crew needed a new starship by the end of Star Trek Generations .

The destruction of the USS Enterprise-D in Star Trek Generations is the opposite to what Gene Roddenberry wanted in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock . The Star Trek creator believed that the Enterprise's saucer should have been destroyed, rather than the whole ship.

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1 saucer separation during krall's attack on the enterprise, star trek beyond.

The idea of Kirk's Enterprise having the ability to separate the saucer was first mooted by legendary Star Wars designer Ralph McQuarrie for the abandoned movie, Star Trek: Planet of the Titans . However, it wouldn't become a reality until 2016's Star Trek Beyond , when Chris Pine's Captain Kirk ordered a saucer separation maneuver while under attack from Krall (Idris Elba) and his swarm ships. The Enterprise was devastated by the onslaught, losing the warp nacelles and the majority of its secondary hull. In a desperate attempt to restore power to the impulse engines, Kirk tried to initiate a saucer separation but was interrupted by Krall.

Lt. Nyota Uhura (Zoe Saldana) finished the sequence for Kirk, and separated the saucer from what was left of the Enterprise's hull. However, much like the USS Enterprise-D in Star Trek Generations , it was completed too late to make any difference. With the starship Enterprise's saucer caught in the gravitational pull of the planet Altamid, it crashed on to the surface, damaged beyond repair. The saucer separation and Enterprise crash landing was a thrilling start to Chris Pine's third, and to date, last Star Trek movie.

At the time of writing, all episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation and the movie Star Trek Beyond are available to stream on Paramount+, while Star Trek Generations is available on Max.

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