This September marks Star Trek’s sixtieth anniversary. Paramount and IDW have introduced Star Trek: sixtieth Anniversary Particular, a supersized one-shot comedian e-book to be launched later this yr as a part of a year-long celebration of the favored sci-fi sequence. Plenty of screenwriters are concerned, together with David Gerrold, who labored on the unique TV sequence and penned the episode that introduced us the lovable little fluffy aliens generally known as Tribbles.
In accordance with The Hollywood Reporter, the sixtieth anniversary comedian shall be a 68-page anthology and shall be launched on September 2nd. Writers concerned within the venture embrace Miles Morales co-creator Brian Michael Bendis, Decrease Decks showrunner Mike McMahan, Squirrel Lady and Misplaced in Random screenwriter Ryan North, and comic and author Dana Gould.
However essentially the most fascinating particular person concerned on this epic comedian e-book is David Gerrold, one of many final surviving writers of the unique Star Trek sequence. His story entails Star Trek’s well-known con man, Harry Mudd.
“The rationale Star Trek is such a permanent a part of our tradition is as a result of the essence of Star Trek has all the time been not about discovering enemies to defeat, however about discovering allies and buddies in opposition to the huge darkness of house,” Gerrold instructed the outlet. Jerrold helped write three totally different TOS episodes, together with the well-known “The Bother with Tribbles.”
“It was an honor to be part of that authentic imaginative and prescient. It was an incredible alternative and I made a few of the finest buddies anybody may think about. The prospect to return to the Star Trek universe and write new tales, particularly tales that pay homage to the unique sequence, sure, it was an honor.”
Elsewhere on this huge characteristic, you will discover a one-page gag story for the Enterprise, a Scotty story by Gould, a Subsequent Technology period story about Beverly Crusher, a Starfleet Academy tie-in story, and a small preview of latest Star Trek comics to be printed by IDW sooner or later.
