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IDW - Star Trek: Lower Decks Monthly |
After earning a prestigious Eisner nomination for their work on STAR TREK: DAY OF BLOOD - SHAXS" BEST DAY, writer Ryan North and artist Derek Charm reunite to kick-off this can"t-miss comic ride featuring the beloved characters from the hit animated series.
This is a dream opportunity for the award-winning writer. "LOWER DECKS is my favorite STAR TREK, and I have seen every single STAR TREK there is to see, except for one episode I will never reveal," commented North. "This raises the obvious question: will something in this comic contradict something that I missed in that one episode I never saw? Thankfully the answer is no, because the entire LOWER DECKS team - both at IDW and Paramount - has been so amazing - supportive, clever, brilliant. We're making a big funny heartfelt book with huge sci-fi ideas, important character developments, tons of that Trek flavor, and a bunch of jokes, too. If you love LOWER DECKS, you'll love this comic!"
The ongoing series will feature episodic storytelling with each tale presented by a different artist. North cannot wait for fans to see how the book looks, and he's thrilled to have Charm drawing the debut story. "I get to team up with some of my favorite artists for this book, starting with DEREK CHARM, who we last teamed up with on the Eisner-winning Unbeatable Squirrel Girl and on the Eisner-nominated SHAXS' BEST DAY. He is: the best."
"Just when you thought we couldn't go lower… we're BACK with the first ever ONGOING LOWER DECKS series," proudly stated IDW Group Editor Heather Antos. "Just like the fans out there, we too want more LOWER DECKS and this time we're giving it to you tenfold! Ryan North is showing us just how deep of a Trek nerd he is with these stories, and paired with the comedic geniuses of Derek Charm, Jack Lawrence and more on art duties for a rotating cast of 'episodic' issues, this series is a mission so fun that even the Lower Deckers themselves won't want to miss it!"
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Issue 1
All-New Ongoing Series! Wherein Dr. T'Ana saves the crew from a virulent, purple-boiled disease that is sure to--Wait, no, everyone's cured pretty quickly, actually. Okay… wherein Deep Space 2's distress call is mysteriously cut off and the crew has to—Wait, nope, they just needed some help resetting their comms systems. All right, wherein Mariner gets so totally frustrated with the lack of thrills aboard the Cerritos that she drags her friends into a holodeck adventure that would definitely kill them in reality! Should totally provide them all with a sense of purpose and well-being, right? Right. Or at least it would have. If the U.S.S. Bonaventure hadn't shown back up from the Delta Triangle to provide them with a real challenge. It's time to explore a ghost ship, baby! |
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Writer: Ryan North
Artist: Derek Charm
Letters: Clayton Cowles
Edits: ??
Cover Artist: Derek Charm
Cover Price: $4.99
Issue Date: 13 November 2024 |
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Cover Artist: Megan Huang
Cover Price: $4.99 |
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Cover Artist: Chris Fenoglio
Cover Price: NONE |
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Issue 2
Mariner, T'Lyn, Rutherford, and Tendi have beamed off the mysterious USS Bonaventure and onto an equally mysterious surface of an unknown world, significantly raising the statistical likelihood of death and injury! Finally, the crew is up to their necks in adventure. There's the senior staff's safety to confirm, a weird planet to escape, and an alien race that wishes to learn more about mentorship… through a battle royale! Enter Jadzia Dax, Montgomery Scott, Kathyrn Janeway, T'Pol, and Jean-Luc Picard as the mentors and the Lower Deckers as the mentees. May the best student live! |
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Writer: Ryan North
Artist: Derek Charm
Letters: Clayton Cowles
Edits: ??
Cover Artist: Derek Charm
Cover Price: $4.99
Issue Date: 18 December 2024 |
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Cover Artist: Philip Murphy
Cover Price: $4.99 |
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Issue 3
The crew of the U.S.S. Cerritos have just received their personality guidance reports from the counselors of the planet Clarew, and Rutherford feels guilty he's not engineering at a higher capacity with his implants. He should be operating above 134 percent nominal at least. The Cerritos' next mission is a supply run to Tavela Minor, but they first need to stop by the Alecto system to get some supplies to, uh, supply them with. However, just before they warp, they see the Alecto system isn't only missing; it doesn't exist. Like at all. Now they have a space mystery at hand: What could cause a whole star system to disappear? |
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Writer: Ryan North
Artist: Jack Lawrence
Letters: Clayton Cowles
Edits: ??
Cover Artist: Jack Lawrence
Cover Price: $4.99
Issue Date: 15 January 2025 |
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Issue 4
Rutherford to bridge. We're not dead! However, after escaping a vacuum collapse of the Alecto system, the U.S.S. Cerritos is lost inside a new space-time that's expanding away from us in every direction at the speed of light. To make matters worse, an alien intelligence made of pure energy has possessed Tendi and my bodies, shunting our consciousnesses into the ship's computer. While it's a fun, flirty energy, we'd very much like our bodies back so we can pop the expanding time bubble and save our universe! |
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Writer: Ryan North
Artist: Jack Lawrence
Letters: ?
Edits: ??
Cover Artist: Jack Lawrence
Cover Price: $4.99
Issue Date: 12 February 2025 |
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Issue 5
Suspicious after the Cerritos docks for its second baryon sweep in the same year, Mariner sneaks into a command meeting. There, the Department of Temporal Investigations tasks the crew with finding a time traveler who is rewriting Federation history at an alarming rate. Mariner finds her friends and tells them what's really going on&hell] only for the timeline to change around them! Obviously, something has gone wrong with Command's mission, and per usual, it's now up to Mariner, Tendi, Rutherford, and Boimler to save the day. |
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Writer: Ryan North
Artist: Jack Lawrence
Letters: ?
Edits: ??
Cover Artist: Jack Lawrence
Cover Price: $4.99
Issue Date: 12 March 2025 |
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Issue 6
When Mariner asked the Krulmuth-B portal to send her, Rutherford, Tendi, and Boimler to the moment when they could make the biggest impact on history, she meant, like, to the time period where they could help their crew the most. But they've ended up on board the Titanic! Yes, THE Titanic, and that's just the tip of the iceberg. The time traveler who's responsible for a deadly wave of Federation rewrites is still at large, and the Lower Deckers are now further than ever from stopping them. |
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Writer: Ryan North
Artist: Jack Lawrence
Letters: ?
Edits: ??
Cover Artist: Jack Lawrence
Cover Price: $4.99
Issue Date: April 2025 |
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Issue 7
There's nothing quite like a mother-daughter relationship. There's also nothing quite like finding out your monolith of a captain used to be a carefree ensign who accidentally vanished her whole crew in an experiment gone wrong. Lucky for Beckett Mariner, she gets to soak up both experiences all on the same day as her mother, Captain Freeman, regales her with a throwback tale of how she was "just like you when she was young," and "mistakes help us grow, blah, blah." Meanwhile, all Mariner wants to know is how could Freeman let Pulaski get away with hair like that? |
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Writer: Tim Sheridan
Artist: Robby Cook
Letters: ?
Edits: ??
Cover Artist: Robby Cook
Cover Price: $4.99
Issue Date: May 2025 |
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Collected Editions |
Lower Decks Second Contact - TPB
Collects issues 1-4 of the ongoing series |
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Writer: Ryan North
Cover Artist: Derek Charm
Cover Price: $??
Issue Date: ? September 2025
ISBN: 9798887243030 |
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