Staff Picks (August): Star Trek — Boldly Go #1

Star Trek has always been part of my life. My father experienced the original show when he was younger and passed that experience on to me. Where he watched the original series I grew up with Star Trek: The Next Generation. I still vividly remember sitting on the couch with my dad, getting ready to watch the season 5 premier "Redemption II" in glorious standard definition.

Today Star Trek: The Next Generation is considered by many to be an iconic series. When it was first announced there were a lot of concerns about whether that series would ever get off the ground. How could you do a sequel to a popular TV series that had aired its last new episode decades past and with a whole new cast?

I think it was the success of Next Generation that really proved to a lot of people that the Star Trek brand not only still had legs but it could appeal to generations that were born after the original series was already in re-runs. Now with the rebooted movies, we are seeing things come full circle. New eyes are seeing these characters for the first time and now they have a massive library of movies, TV, and comics for the first time.

Star Trek: Boldy Go #1 from writer Mike Johnson (Star Trek/Green Lantern: The Spectrum War, JAN160395) and artist Tony Shasteen (Batman: Arkham Unhinged, NOV140307) will be required reading for new fans of the movies. Picking up right after the events of Star Trek Beyond. The adventure always continues. There are always new worlds to discover, new aliens to meet, and a brighter future for all of us in Gene Roddenberry’s universe.

—Matthew Demory

Publisher: IDW Publishing
Item Code: AUG160426
Release Date:  10/19/16
SRP: $3.99