Star Trek Magazine – July 2019

20 Coverart

forTheOfficial

Guidetothe

Animated

Series.

21 Interior

spread

showingthe

processof

StarTrek:

TheAnimated

Seriesfrom

scriptto

screen.

Whilethefarfuturefateofthe

U.S.S.Discovery remains to be

seenfollowing the events of Star

Trek:Discovery’s Season 2 fi nale,

theimmediate fates of Spock,

Pike,andthe other characters left

behindin the 23rd Century are

exploredin an IDW miniseries.

Beginning in August, the

three-issueStar Trek: Discovery –

Aftermathis written by Discovery

andStarTrek: Picard writer Kirsten

BeyerwithMike Johnson, and art

byTonyShasteen. According to

IDW,thestory begins when Spock

discovershis adoptive sister Michael

Burnham’spersonal log, and “ begins

tounravelthe story of Burnham’s

journeyfrom orphan to Starfl eet

officer– andthesecrethistoryof

the Red Angel as well. But as he

confronts the secrets of Burnham’s

past, he’ll also have to grapple with

his own.” As Spock deals with the

loss of his sister, “Captain Pike makes

an offer to the Klingons. But will

the enemies of Chancellor L’Rell

ignite a new war instead?”

Meanwhile, IDW’s ongoing Star

Trek: Year Five series continues in

August and September, as writer

Jody Houser and artist Silvia

Califano take over the title with

issue #5. Their story concerns the

discovery of a mysterious device

known as the Truth Artifact – an item

that soon has the crew of the U.S.S.

Enterprise at each other’s throats.

This fall,forthefirsttime,StarTrek:
The AnimatedSerieswillreceive
theillustratedbooktreatment,ina
160-pagehardcoverexploringevery
aspectofthe1970sTVshow.
WrittenbyAaronHarveyand
RichSchepis,StarTrek:The Official
Guideto theAnimatedSeriesdigs
intothemakingoftheacclaimed
animation,unearthingbehind-the-
scenesproductiondocumentsand
never-before-seenart.Documenting
theprocessoftheshowfromscript
toscreen,thebookexamineseach
episodeindepth,andboastscopious
images,fromlittle-seensketches,to
characterguides,toanimationcels.In
addition,accordingtothepublisher,
thebook“includesa Databank
encyclopediaofnewandreturning
characters,ships,andplanets,as
wellas trivia,bloopers,andTAS’s
connectionstootherStarTrekshows.”
StarTrek:The OfficialGuideto
theAnimatedSeriesis publishedby
WeldonOwenonSeptember3.

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HARDCOVERHARDCOVER

AFTERAFTER THETHE DISCODISCO

AnimatedSeriesspotlightedinnewbook

Comicbook miniseries centers on Spock

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