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STAR TREK comic franchise holder IDW Publishing have promised to push their engines to Warp nine with the latest release line-up titled “Star Trek: Second Stage“.

Building on its first year of Star Trek storytelling - breaking the warp barrier with titles like Star Trek: Year Four, the hit mini-series Klingons: Blood Will Tell and the fan-favourite Alien Spotlight one-shot series - IDW will be showcasing some of the top Star Trek storytellers in comics through four new opening series.

Beaming up to pen the new series is writer and novelist Peter David along with legendary comic artist John Byrne along with IDW’s new rising stars Scott and David Tipton and the grand dame of Star Trek writing, D.C. Fontana.

“We’re incredibly proud of the work that we produced in our first year of Star Trek publishing, and the quality of those titles has really allowed us to recruit some of the best Star Trek storytellers from across several different mediums,” says IDW Publisher and Editor-in-Chief Chris Ryall. “In the first year, we took the IDW starship on its shakedown cruise. For 2008, we’re taking the storytelling beyond the Final Frontier.”

New series Star Trek: New Frontier will be the first of the Second Stage titles to hit the shelves in March and begins with the story “Turnaround” from Peter David. A prototype time ship has vanished - stolen by Starfleet Admiral Edward Jellico. Only Captain MacKenzie Calhoun and the crew of the Excalibur have a hope of finding him before the ship is used to disrupt the space-time continuum.

Star Trek: Year Four will continue in April with the story The Enterprise Experiment from veteran writer D.C. Fontana who began her career as Gene Roddenberry’s assistant during The Original Series and went on to write some of the most memorable episodes for Star Trek including Encounter at Farpoint - the pilot which launched Star Trek: The Next Generation. She also contributed to the Star Trek animated series as well as Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. As she extends her literary legacy to comic books we see the Federation attempting to adapt the cloaking device to Starfleet ships - with disastrous consequences for Kirk and Spock; trapped out of phase with space itself. Meanwhile Romulan forces close in on the starship intent on claiming revenge for their stolen technology taken in The Original Series episode “The Enterprise Incident“.

May will see the spin-off that never was come to life in Star Trek: Assignment Earth - continuing the story of Gary Seven from The Original Series episode of the same name. The story, written and drawn by John Byrne, will tell the tale of the interstellar time traveller as they covertly confront threats to the past so they can save Star Trek’s future.

Beards are back and bad in June with Star Trek: Mirror Images. Two stories run from IDW Editor-in-Chief Chris Ryall and the brothers behind Klingons: Blood Will Tell, Scott and David Tipton. Twin tails are told by Ryall and the Tiptons. Mirror James Kirk’s rise to power as he plots to unseat Captain Christopher Pike and we find out the stories of mirror universe McCoy, Scotty and Uhura. A second Mirror Images series is slated for the second half of 2008 and will spotlight the crew of Star Trek: The Next Generation.

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