The films and television shows of the Star Trek franchise are stories of diverse beings coming together to solve complex problems, but they’re also tales of vast scale and complex alien civilizations. Those last two elements can be tough to depict on screen, but they’re easy to render in the medium of comics, and they’re big parts of the current volume of IDW’s Star Trek series by writers Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing and their artistic collaborators. The writers are also using the series, which is set before the events of the 2002 film Star Trek: Nemesis, as a way to bring back classic Trek characters from a variety of shows.In the series’ first arc, Deep Space 9’s Captain Benjamin Sisko returned to command the U.S.S. Theseus with a crew of new and classic characters like Beverly Crusher and Data from The Next Generation, Tom Paris from Voyager, and Montgomery Scott from The Original Series. In the recent Day of Blood crossover, the crew of the Theseus teamed with the officers of the renegade U.S.S. Defiant to stop a fascist Klingon cult from conquering the galaxy, and in Issue #13, Kelly, Lanzing, and artist Marcus To sent the ship on a new mission that saw the first glimpses of the Tzenkethi Coalition. It also saw Tom Paris reunite with his best friend from Voyager, Harry Kim. CBR spoke with Lanzing and Kelly about the reunion, bringing the Tzenkethi to life, the action in the arc, and how much time readers will get with Captain Sisko and his crew. IDW also provided a sneak peek at pages from Star Trek #14.Jackson Lanzing: Precisely what you point out. They’re an incredible, unessayed part of the Star Trek canon with a fully baked-in backstory for Benjamin Sisko. We’ve heard about them several times but never actually seen them. We know that Sisko faced them, and we know that Robert Hewitt Wolfe always intended them to be lizard-esque dinosaur people, so Trek’s television budget was always going to be a limiting factor in realizing the Tzenkethi on-screen. This gave us an incredible opportunity to dive into that penciled corner and fill it with detail, color, and meaning.
The films and television shows of the Star Trek franchise are stories of diverse beings coming together to solve complex problems, but they’re also tales of vast scale and complex alien civilizations. Those last two elements can be tough to depict on screen, but they’re easy to render in the medium of comics, and they’re big parts of the current volume of IDW’s Star Trek series by writers Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing and their artistic collaborators. The writers are also using the series, which is set before the events of the 2002 film Star Trek: Nemesis, as a way to bring back classic Trek characters from a variety of shows.
In the series’ first arc, Deep Space 9′s Captain Benjamin Sisko returned to command the U.S.S. Theseus with a crew of new and classic characters like Beverly Crusher and Data from The Next Generation, Tom Paris from Voyager, and Montgomery Scott from The Original Series. In the recent Day of Blood crossover, the crew of the Theseus teamed with the officers of the renegade U.S.S. Defiant to stop a fascist Klingon cult from conquering the galaxy, and in Issue #13, Kelly, Lanzing, and artist Marcus To sent the ship on a new mission that saw the first glimpses of the Tzenkethi Coalition. It also saw Tom Paris reunite with his best friend from Voyager, Harry Kim. CBR spoke with Lanzing and Kelly about the reunion, bringing the Tzenkethi to life, the action in the arc, and how much time readers will get with Captain Sisko and his crew. IDW also provided a sneak peek at pages from Star Trek #14.
Jackson Lanzing: Precisely what you point out. They’re an incredible, unessayed part of the Star Trek canon with a fully baked-in backstory for Benjamin Sisko. We’ve heard about them several times but never actually seen them. We know that Sisko faced them, and we know that Robert Hewitt Wolfe always intended them to be lizard-esque dinosaur people, so Trek‘s television budget was always going to be a limiting factor in realizing the Tzenkethi on-screen. This gave us an incredible opportunity to dive into that penciled corner and fill it with detail, color, and meaning.
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