Summary
Warning: contains spoilers forStar Trek Annual 2024!
If you read only oneStar Trekcomic this year, make itStar Trek Annual 2024.As IDW’s Eisner-nominated line ofStar Trekcomics closes out their second year, big things remain on the horizon. The creative teams have strongly implied another major event is coming, on par withDay of Blood. While details remain mum at this point,Star Trek Annual 2024, may end up being a pivotal issue.
Star Trek Annual 2024was written by the regularStar Trekteam of Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly. They are joined for this issue by artist Rachael Stott. During the recently-concluded Tzenkethi story arc, chronicled in “Glass and Bone,” Data took leave of Starfleet. Data sees something that spooked him badly, and, realizing Starfleet would only hinder his search, leaves the organization he once called home.
In this issue, he returns, teaming up with his best friend Geordi La Forgeas well as Chief Miles O’Briento find Lore, whose plans threaten all reality.
IDW Stepped Up theStar TrekComics Game in 2022
Star Trek Annual 2024Is the Perfect Example of the GreatTrekComics IDW Publishes
TheStar Trekcomics license has been held by IDW since 2006, making them the publisher to have it the longest. In that time, IDW had produced qualityStar Trekcomics. However, in 2022, they raised the game significantly for futureTrekcomics, launching two new titles that, when read together, tell a grand and epic story with characters from nearly every incarnation of the franchise. Yet beyond being an Easter Egg-loaded fan service, IDW’sStar Trektitles tap into that sense of wonder and awe that makesTrekso popular.
All of Data’s quirks and idiosyncrasies are also on display inStar Trek Annual 2024,and indeed they help drive the story to its horrifying finish.
IDW’s relaunchedStar Trekline has set itself apart from previous attempts by embracing the “wide-screen” style of storytelling that has become a hallmark of the comics' scene, and that is on display inStar Trek Annual 2024.Not only does it mark the entrance of La Forge and O’Brien into the massive, overarching story the books are telling, but also offers a follow-up to one ofDeep Space Nine’smost heart-breaking episodes. All of Data’s quirks and idiosyncrasies are also on display inStar Trek Annual 2024,and indeed they help drive the story to its horrifying finish.
TheStar TrekCreative Teams Have Hinted At Big Things to Come
In various interviews withScreenRantand other publications, theStar Trekcreative teams have hinted at another major event in 2025, andStar Trek Annual 2024might well be the beginning of whatever is coming. Both Lore and Kahless,Day of Blood’sprimary antagonists, are still at large, planning their revenge on Sisko and the Federation. Furthermore,the nefarious Section 31 has plansof their own, and hints of those begin to form as well inStar Trek Annual 2024. The best of IDW’sStar Trekline is yet to come, andAnnual 2024is where it all begins.
