{"id":34239,"date":"2023-02-15T23:30:39","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T04:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/?p=34239"},"modified":"2023-02-15T23:30:39","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T04:30:39","slug":"hard-copy-the-u-s-s-enterprise-faces-familiar-terrors-in-idws-star-trek-the-motion-picture-echoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/?p=34239","title":{"rendered":"Hard Copy: The U.S.S. Enterprise Faces Familiar Terrors in IDW\u2019s Star Trek: The Motion Picture\u2014Echoes"},"content":{"rendered":"

IDW is excited to announce that acclaimed \"\"<\/a>screenwriter, producer, and comic book writer Marc Guggenheim (CW\u2019s television series Arrow and DC\u2019s Legends of Tomorrow, Star Wars: Han Solo & Chewbacca) will assume the captain\u2019s chair for an all-new, five-issue comic book series, Star Trek: The Motion Picture\u2014Echoes, set immediately after the events of the momentous 1979 film.<\/p>\n

Featuring spectacular artwork by Oleg Chudakov and colors by DC Alonso, Echoes pits the venerated Captain James T. Kirk and his crew against enemies both terrifying and shockingly familiar! When a space anomaly thrusts a criminal mastermind\u2014pursued by a very determined pilot on a mission\u2014into our universe, the Enterprise must stop them from unintentionally starting a war with the Romulans and unleashing a superweapon of foreign technology into the system. But things get infinitely more complicated when these newcomers to our reality remove their helmets, revealing that they\u2019re doppelg\u00e4ngers of our beloved heroes!<\/p>\n

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\u201cDespite watching the occasional fragment of a Star Trek episode here and there with my father, my true introduction was going to see Star Trek: The Motion Picture with my grandparents\u2014I was entranced. I\u2019m thrilled that IDW and Paramount Global have allowed me to revisit that time period, which was so impactful to me and my love of Star Trek,\u201d says Guggenheim. \u201cAlmost all Trek stories are told from the point of view of the Enterprise crew, but I was interested in telling a story from the perspective of an outsider as a means of recapturing how it felt for me when I first saw Star Trek: The Motion Picture.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhat does it mean to draw this new Star Trek adventure? It\u2019s like revisiting my childhood, but at the same time learning something new. It\u2019s amazing!\u201d says Chudakov.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhen everything in life feels like it\u2019s moving too fast towards the future, it\u2019s always important to step back and revisit where it all came from. And that\u2019s exactly what we\u2019re doing with this comic focusing on the Star Trek: The Motion Picture time frame,\u201d says series editor Heather Antos. \u201cNo one knows more about this period in Trek history than Guggenheim, we\u2019ve learned\u2026and we could think of no one better suited to take Captain Kirk and his crew on this wild adventure. Paired with Chudakov\u2019s energetic, character-driven inks, this is one mission that the crew of the Enterprise soon won\u2019t forget. Oh, and did we mention that there are possible easter eggs to some of our other Trek books, too?\u201d<\/p>\n

Arriving in stores this May, Star Trek: The Motion Picture\u2014Echoes #1 will be available with multiple cover variants for retailers and fans to enjoy, including Cover A by Jake Bartok, Cover B by series artist Oleg Chudakov, and retailer incentive variants by Luke Sparrow and Rod Reis.<\/p>\n