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“...'till fire purge all things new”: Year Four # 1
It is, if you'll pardon the phrase, eminently logical that one of IDW's first projects upon acquiring the license would be Star Trek: Year Four, a miniseries set in the uncertain missing period between...
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“Sooner or later you're gonna have to choose whose side you're on.”:...
An obvious thing for a series like Star Trek: Year Four to do would be to take some of Star Trek's familiar motifs and refine them a bit. It doesn't necessarily have to “update” them for “a modern...
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“ET phone home!”: Year Four # 3
There's reconstructionist, there's nostalgic, and then there's just plain retrograde. Guess which one we're talking about this time.While investigating the sudden radio silence from colony PH-11, the...
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“It's showtime!”: Year Four # 4
If any television show were to take four months to get off the ground, chances are likely that it wouldn't see out its first season. That is an unacceptably long time to force an audience to wait for...
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“The future is now, thanks to SCIENCE!”: Year Four # 5
It is said our visions of the future tell us the most about the present. In the case of Star Trek, the futurism it imagines is oftentimes most revealing about what the loudest voice in its fandom...
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“Mars ain't the kind of place to raise a kid.”: Year Four # 6
This isn't quite the end of Star Trek: Year Four: There's a follow-up series that went out under this banner and, of course, IDW's later “Year Five” series Star Trek: Final Mission (which are, spoiler...
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“Persistence of Memory”: The Enterprise Experiment # 1
It's such a perfect idea one wonders why it wasn't done sooner. D.C. Fontana was the script editor for the lion's share of the Original Series and had worked on the show since the beginning. She penned...
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“Is that what we have become?” The Enterprise Experiment # 2
We open on a flashback explaining how the Romulan Commander managed to escape “processing” in “The Enterprise Incident”. It seems she was involved in some form of prisoner exchange that was part of...
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“Confessions of a King”: The Enterprise Experiment # 3
Commander Kor is not happy. He sits soliloquizing on the bridge of his battlecruiser reflecting on his humiliating defeat the the hands of the Organians and the Federation three years ago, a defeat...
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“Dream not of today.”: The Enterprise Incident # 4
</I am now convinced I am being haunted by Margaret Armen. I keep running into her just after I think I'm finally rid of having to square away her influence for good. All that said, she has indeed...
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“But it wasn't any use. Nobody came.”: The Enterprise Incident # 5
Connected to the Preserver interface device, Spock relives an encounter with his father on Vulcan where they both exhibit a manner of tension over Spock's decision to stay in Starfleet instead of...
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