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Mike
Johnson and Tony Shasteen's Star Trek Ongoing IDW title stopped going and ended in
August with #60 but the two creators have stayed with the characters on the new
series Star Trek: Boldly Go, which takes place after the events of this summers
film Star Trek Beyond. Johnson told IGN, "Boldly Go is going to be more of a
serialized story, less of the bottled episodes and more of an ongoing story, for
lack of a better word. We're getting away from the sort of paradigm of you roll
up to a planet, something weird happens, you get in trouble, you've got to solve
the problem. This is more throwing all of the characters into new situations.
They're not all going to be together. We're going to follow multiple threads of
the characters as they each encounter new situations. It's more the change in
the status quo is because of what happens in Beyond to our beloved Starship
Enterprise. So their five-year mission was rudely interrupted by the events of
the movie, and as we open Boldly Go, we're dealing with the fallout from that.
It's safe to say you're not going to see the Enterprise right away. We're going
to be introducing some new characters -- both Starfleet and otherwise -- that
Tony had the chance to design. We've never met these folks before. And Tony has,
as usual, done a brilliant job at not only bringing to life the characters as we
know them, but adding new things and building out this timeline, which is really
what the goal of the comics has always been." He went on to say that the villain
in the series was someone he always wanted to use but he isn’t Khan. |
