Star Trek Library Collection, Vol. 3

by David Tischman, Steve Conley (artist), Gordon Purcell (artist)

Delve into the history of IDW’s Star Trek comics! Discover series you may have missed or revisit some old favorites in Year Four, Year Four—The Enterprise Experiment, and Alien Spotlight one-shots featuring Vulcans and the Gorn. The Star Trek Library Collection is a comprehensive line of books that will collect every Star Trek miniseries published by IDW! In Volume 3, read a selection of the Alien Spotlight one-shots and the entirety of the Star Year Four series. First, two series set during the fourth year of the U.S.S. Enterprise’s five-year mission! In Star Year Four the Enterprise encounters a strange series of planets, arranged to look like a strand of DNA floating through space. The crew can’t help but explore once Spock realizes that the desolate structure once supported more than 800 billion beings in the past. By David Tischman, Leonard O’Grady, Steve Conley, Gordon Purcell, and Joe & Rob Sharp. In a sequel to “The Enterprise Incident,” The Enterprise Experiment details the Federation’s experiments with a Romulan cloaking device, by D.C. Fontana, Derek Chester, and Gordon Purcell. Also collected are two one-shots featuring Vulcans and the Gorn! A Starfleet starship arrives at a planet on the brink of its own destruction. A once peaceful society is now savage and warlike linking itself to the turmoiled past of the Vulcans, by James Patrick and Josep Maria Beloy. Then, after their shuttlecraft crash-lands on an uncharted planet, Captain Terrell and Commander Chekov calculate that their odds of survival are somewhat decreased when they find themselves facing off against an army of Gorn warriors, by Scott & David Tipton and David Messina.

Genres: Comics, Star Trek, Graphic Novels

Kindle Edition

Published October 2, 2024

Reviews

[Aaron · Rating 4 out of 5]

This omnibus collection of comics focuses primarily on adventures with the original series cast. The first section presents a series of one-off adventures that take place during a fifth year of the original Enterprise's five-year mission. Then, there is a multi-issue story that is also set during the fifth year of the mission that reconnects the crew with a number of secondary charcters from teh television ship. Finally, there are two adventures that explore the intersection of humans with a particuarlly alien: Vulcans and the Gorn.

Overall, I really loved this. I thought the stories were strong. The illustrations styles worked for the storytelling. This is definitely worth a read by fans.