Everybody’s favourite Klingon is placing collectively a “Star Trek” dream crew.
As a pivotal part of IDW Publishing’s efforts to construct out their increasing world of “Star Trek” comedian books beginning with a brand new flagship “Star Trek” sequence coming later this month, the primary daring enlargement of that initiative is streaking in direction of comedian retailers for a March 2023 premiere.
Written by Chris Cantwell (“Iron Man,” “Namor,” “Star Wars: Obi-Wan”) and injected with absorbing paintings from Ángel Unzueta (“Iron Man,” “Star Wars: Poe Dameron”), “Star Trek: Defiant” might be an ongoing sequence the place fan-favorite character Lieutenant Commander Worf recruits a hand-picked crew to cease an evil intergalactic risk.
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Here is the official IDW synopsis:
In “Defiant,” somebody is killing the gods … however whereas Benjamin Sisko and the united statesS. Theseus have been going through the threats within the increased cosmos, very actual casualties are rising on decrease floor. The true enemy is a person, not a god, and Worf of Home Martok has put collectively his personal crew aboard the united statesS. Defiant within the hopes of defeating the damaging messiah behind a genocidal cult. Pulling from all eras of “Star Trek” canon to create one thing wholly distinctive and surprising, “Star Trek: Defiant” unites among the strongest personalities within the franchise — together with Spock, B’Elanna, Lore, and extra—on a mission with little or no assure of success!
“Ever since I made my dad take me to my first “Star Trek” conference once I was ten, I’ve been ready for this second,” says Cantwell. “When Heather Antos, Jackson Lanzing, and Collin Kelly reached out to me about writing the primary e book to spin out of their flagship ‘Star Trek’ title, I needed the standard to match my huge wells of enthusiasm; I knew this e book wanted to be undeniably ‘Star Trek’ initially, but additionally one thing new and sophisticated that may have readers leaning ahead as they engaged with a extra surprising journey to the celebrities.
“Whereas the brand new ‘Star Trek’ e book carries ahead the grand custom of Starfleet’s saga of discovery and exploration, ‘Defiant’ instantly units out to interrupt the foundations of the Federation and go on a fugitive run from Starfleet with a solid of Trek’s greatest iconoclastic heroes and ne’er-do-wells, every of them straddling worlds of their identities and calibrations of their ethical compasses as they embark on a high-stakes galactic manhunt … the Prime Directive be damned.”
Spanish illustrator Ángel Unzueta admits his nice pleasure over becoming a member of the “Star Trek” universe and considers it an enormous problem, however one he’ll gladly undertake.
“It will likely be very thrilling to indicate how far our crew can go to save lots of the universe, what number of guidelines they’ll break simply to make issues proper, how badass these guys may be when in comparison with the extra clean-cut crew of the Theseus from the continued sequence,” says Unzueta. “Additionally, I am working with an excellent author, buddy, and companion from our Iron Man days, and with my favourite editor, who’s pushing me to the celebrities as soon as once more. I’m so excited and able to make this e book a brand new expertise for the Trek viewers!”
IDW’s “Star Trek: Defiant #1” drops into Earth orbit in March of 2023 accompanied by a lot of particular variant covers courtesy of sequence artist Ángel Unzueta, Malachi Ward, Declan Shalvey, David Aja, and Daniel Warren Johnson.
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