See Why Star Trek: The Last Starship Is the Must-Read Sci-Fi Comic of 2025

It's harmless to accidental that Star Trek: The Last Starship is the astir anticipated caller Trek comic successful caller memory. Not lone is it the latest task from Star Trek: Lore War masterminds Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing, it features the resurrection of arguably the astir iconic starship skipper of them all, James T. Kirk.

With Star Trek: The Last Starship #1 nearing release, IGN tin exclusively debut a caller acceptable of lettered pages from this issue. Get a person look successful the slideshow assemblage below:

The Last Starship is written by Kelly and Lanzing and illustrated by Adrián Bonilla, with colors by Heather Moore. The bid is acceptable successful a mostly uncharted epoch of the Trek timeline, taking spot centuries aft the clip of Captain Kirk and the Enterprise. The bid unfolds instantly aft The Burn, the devastating lawsuit archetypal revealed successful Star Trek Discovery that involves the demolition of each progressive warp halfway successful the galaxy. With trillions dormant and the Federation connected its past legs, it falls connected the lone surviving Starfleet starship to support the occurrence burning.

It's into this bleak caller epoch that Captain Kirk makes his return, conscionable erstwhile the Federation needs him the most. IDW besides precocious revealed that the Borg volition origin heavy into the caller series, which can't beryllium bully for the survivors.

“This is america penning our fears,” Lanzing precocious told IGN. “This is astir what it's similar to unrecorded successful a nine that is falling apart, wherever injustice seems to beryllium winning implicit justness each day, and erstwhile everyone successful that nine is being challenged to unrecorded up to the ideals that they thought were inherent, that they thought were endemic. That communicative I tin springiness to anybody. You don't request to beryllium a Star Trek fan. You conscionable request to look extracurricular your model and beryllium looking for a communicative that talks astir what's going connected each implicit the satellite close now.”

We tin vouch for Lanzing's comments. We precocious had the accidental to work the archetypal contented of The Last Starship, and it so reads precise overmuch similar a Star Trek comic for the uncertain and foreboding clime of 2025. It's besides a cleanable gateway into the Trek comics, focusing connected a caller epoch and formed of characters and requiring lone a basal familiarity with the Trek franchise arsenic a whole. If you're astatine each funny astir the series, we highly urge giving the archetypal contented a try.

Star Trek: The Last Starship #1 volition beryllium released connected September 24, 2025.

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