Star Trek: New Visions photo-comics

New Visions is a unique series of Star Trek: The Original Series comics created by John Byrne and published by IDW, starting in 2013. Each issue is painstaking created using stills from the television series, to create new episodes in comic-book form, using all the original actors, sets, props and more, exactly as they appear on-screen. The books are perfect bound, and also about twice the length of a typical comic, with each issue normally featuring a forty-two page story (a few have comic in slightly longer or shorter).

The series began as an experiment on Byrne's part, who set out to create a photo-comic adaptation of the first aired TOS episode, The Man Trap. Realising he had hit on something, Byrne then began to work on an original story, and soon enough IDW picked up the idea, with the first story published as a one-off annual (IDW's first Star Trek annual in fact). The series gained it's title in the second story, issue one of New Visions, although later reprints of the annual also used the New Visions title. New Visions became IDW's second ongoing Star Trek comic series (following the nuTrek series), and is released on a roughly bimonthly basis; although has been subject to frequent shuffling on the release schedule that has led to it not quite keeping up to that release frequency.

As the series has progressed so has Byrne's technique, while early issues typically used sets as available from screencaps, Byrne quickly began to expand his options by creating new CGI environments, ships, and even characters. Similarly his photo-manipulations have become ever more complex as he seeks to create unique scenes with characters and poses that do not exist straight from the screen. Occasionally Byrne has also made use of new photography to add in guest characters using new actors.

The list below is of all the New Visions issues, in release order. In addition to the individual issues, the second omnibus book of the series also features a bonus story, Eye of the Beholder, in which Captain Kirk visits both the Gold Key and TAS realities.

Annual: Strange New Worlds

• Notes: Byrne's first photo-comic, released as a stand-alone annual. The story is a sequel to Where No Man Has Gone Before, featuring the return of Gary Mitchell, several years after the events of the episode. Later reprints added the New Visions title.
• Published: December 2013.
• Coverage: First details and sample pages, excerpt.
• Purchase: Amazon.com.

#1: The Mirror, Cracked

• Notes: First issue of the New Visions series, and a sequel to the original mirror universe episode, Mirror, Mirror.
• Published: May 2014.
• Coverage: First panels, more panels, Klingon interiors, title and tease page, panel breakdown and virtual sets, ongoing series, author comments and virtual set, solicitation cover and blurb, press release and updated cover, excerpt.
• Purchase: Amazon.com, Things From Another World, iTunes. 

Star Trek comic strips omnibuses

Some of the rarest and least known Star Trek comics were published as strips, as part of other publications. Thanks to the way they were distributed, and the relative obscurity of those publications (either only printed in the UK, or a handful of US newspapers), these strips were largely lost to time. Until the 2010s when IDW's Library of American Comics imprint started work to resurrect them. The result is a series of high quality reproductions of those long lost prints, in large hardcover volumes. This is a list of those books.

In the UK, in the late-60s and early-70s, some of the first ever Star Trek comics were published in weekly issues of magazines such as Joe 90: Top Secret, TV21, and Valiant, printed alongside other sci-fi and adventure series. This series started before Star Trek had even aired in the UK, and like their US contemporaries, the Gold Key Comics, often didn't have the strongest grasp on the themes and styles of Star Trek, often seeming quite out of character with the series we now know.

Later in the US, in the late-70s and early-80s, another series of strips was brought to life, syndicated to various newspapers. These strips were mostly set in the then present day of Star Trek, in the period of The Motion Picture.

Star Trek: The Newspaper Comics, Volume 1

• Notes: First of two books reprinting the US newspaper strips, this volume contains the first ten story arcs, originally published from 1979 to 1981. Also included are several artist audition strips and adverts for the series, as well as reproductions of a series of strips uniquely originally published in McDonalds Happy Meals.
• Writers: Thomas Warkentin, Tom Durkin, Peter Jacoby, and Sharman DiVorio. Artists: Thomas Warkentin, and Ron Harris.
• Published: December 2012.
• Coverage: Excerpt.
• Purchase: Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.fr, Amazon.es, Amazon.it, Amazon.co.jp, Things From Another World.

Star Trek: The Newspaper Comics, Volume 2

• Notes: Second book of the US newspaper strips, containing the final ten story arcs, frst published from 1981 to 1983. Also includes several artist audition strips, and a lexicon of subjects from the entire series.
• Writers: Sharman DiVono, Larry Niven, Martin Pasko, and Gerry Conway. Artists: Ron Harris, Padraic Shigetani, Bob Myers, Ernie Colon, Dick Kulpa, Alfredo Alcala, and Serc Soc.
• Published: September 2013.
• Coverage: Excerpt.
• Purchase: Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.fr, Amazon.es, Amazon.it, Amazon.co.jp, Things From Another World, Forbidden Planet.

Star Trek: Gold Key Archives comic omnibuses

The Gold Key Archives is a series of Star Trek comic omnibuses published by IDW Publishing from 2014 onwards. Each hardcover book collects six issues from the first ever series of Star Trek comics, originally published by Gold Key Comics from 1967 to 1979.

The Gold Key Comics have previously been printed in omnibus books, by Golden Press in the 1970s, as Enterprise Logs, and Checker Books' The Key Collection, in the 2000s - Neither series managed to reprint the entire run. What sets the Gold Key Archives apart from both previous efforts is the substantial remastering of the artwork, replacing previously quite drab reproductions with vibrant, clean, and crisp new colouring.

Each book features new cover artwork by Michael Stribling, and new introductory texts from a variety of contemporary Star Trek comics experts. Some volumes also feature short biographies of the original creators.

Gold Key Archives, Volume 1

• Contents: Issues #1-6:
• The Planet of No Return
• The Devil's Isle of Space
• Invasion of the City Builders
• The Peril of Planet Quick Change
• The Ghost Planet
• When Planets Collide
• Contributors:
• Writer: Dick Wood. 
• Artists: Nevio Zeccara and Alberto Giolitti. 
• Introduction by Tony Isabella.
• Published: April 2014.
• Coverage: Excerpt.
• Notes: This is the only book in the series that doesn't feature new artwork for the cover; the image first appeared as a retail incentive cover for Burden of Knowledge #1.
• Purchase: Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.fr, Amazon.es, Amazon.it, Amazon.co.jp, Things From Another World, Hastings, Forbidden Planet, iTunes. 

Gold Key Archives, Volume 2

• Contents: Issues #7-12:
• The Voodoo Planet
• The Youth Trap
• The Legacy of Lazarus
• Sceptre of the Sun
• The Brain Shockers
• The Flight of the Buccaneer
• Contributors:
• Writers: Dick Wood and Len Wein. 
• Artist: Alberto Giolitti. 
• Introduction by Scott and David Tipton.
• Published: October 2014.
• Coverage: Excerpt.
• Purchase: Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.fr, Amazon.es, Amazon.it, Amazon.co.jp, Things From Another World, Forbidden Planet, iTunes.  

IDW's Star Trek (Kelvin timeline) ongoing comic series

IDW's Star Trek ongoing series is a series of Kelvin timeline comics, the first stories from the new timeline of the 2009 Star Trek movie set after the events of the film. The series began in 2011, and was the first continuous Star Trek comic series from the publisher (as opposed to the miniseries that made up all their previous Star Trek titles). The series eventually ran for sixty issues, concluding in 2016, by which time it had become the fourth longest running Star Trek comic series ever.

The series began with two-part reinterpretations of TOS episodes, and gradually introduced more entirely original stories as the series progressed. It has also had several flash-back issues filling in some of the back-story of the nuTrek characters. Several stories from the series also included crossovers with other Star Trek series, directly or in flashback, introducing elements of DS9, TOS, and TNG. As the series continued the format has varied more, with stories of different lengths, ranging from one to six issues long.

The series was written almost entirely by Mike Johnson, with Ryan Parrott contributing the only two issues not written by him. Numerous artists have worked on the series, with Tony Shasteen the most prolific, having illustrated most issues since issue thirty-five.

The first twenty issues of the series were set between the first nuTrek film and Into Darkness (or flashbacks to earlier), issue twenty-one picked up events following Into Darkness. From issue forty-two to fifty-two the series was given a subtitle, 5 Year Mission, reflecting the mission the Enterprise had embarked upon.

The series ended to coincide with the release of the movie Star Trek Beyond in 2016. A new ongoing series, Boldly Go, from the same creative team, launched later the same year, continuing the Kelvin timeline story after the events of the film.

#1: Where No Man Has Gone Before, Part 1

• Notes: First half of a two-part nuTrek version of the classic episode Where No Man Has Gone Before.
• Writer: Mike Johnson. Artist: Stephen Molnar.
• Published: September 2011.
• Coverage: Preview pages.
• Purchase: Amazon.com.

#2: Where No Man Has Gone Before, Part 2

• Notes: Second half of a two-part nuTrek version of the classic episode Where No Man Has Gone Before.
• Writer: Mike Johnson. Artist: Stephen Molnar.
• Published: October 2011.
• Coverage: Preview pages.
• Purchase: Amazon.com.