Star Trek: The Last Starship Resurrects Captain Kirk in the 31st Century

The Star Trek franchise is resurrecting William Shatner's Captain James T. Kirk for a caller comic publication bid called Star Trek: The Last Starship. Building connected a crippled constituent introduced successful the live-action bid Star Trek: Discovery, The Last Starship sees Kirk instrumentality bid of a caller vessel successful the Federation's darkest hour.

The Last Starship is acceptable successful the aftermath of The Burn, the 31st Century catastrophe which involves the demolition of each progressive warp halfway successful the postulation and the deaths of trillions. With the Federation successful shambles and abstraction becoming a genuinely lawless No Man's Land, the mysteriously rejuvenated Kirk volition person to assemble a caller unit to support the occurrence of Starfleet burning.

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The Last Starship is written by Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing, who precocious wrapped up the Star Trek: Lore War crossover astatine IDW. The bid features creation by Star Trek seasoned Adrián Bonilla and colors by Heather Moore (Doctor Strange). The archetypal contented features covers by Francesco Francavilla, Skylar Patridge, Michael Cho, and Malachi Ward.

This isn't the archetypal clip the Trek franchise has resurrected its astir celebrated captain. 1994's Star Trek Generations bridged the spread betwixt the archetypal bid and Star Trek: The Next Generation by concisely pairing Shatner's Kirk with Patrick Stewart's Jean-Luc Picard. Though Kirk dies successful Generations, Shatner himself resurrected the quality again via a bid of non-canon novels that person since been dubbed "The Shatnerverse." But this time, The Last Starship's Kirk appears to beryllium the much youthful TOS version.

"Forget everything you cognize astir Star Trek,” said Lanzing successful a statement. “The Last Starship is simply a caller crew, a caller era, and a wholly antithetic tone; our purpose is to beryllium literary, intense, innovative, and astir of all, accessible. We're bringing you into the Federation's darkest hr done the brilliant, noir-soaked lens of creator Adrián Bonilla with zero homework required.”

Lanzing continued, “Longtime Trek fans volition person a heavy and fascinating speechmaking experience, to beryllium definite - this is simply a pivotal infinitesimal successful Trek past that's ne'er been adjacent glimpsed earlier - but supra all, The Last Starship is simply a acheronian and analyzable sci-fi you tin manus to anyone. We’ve spent the past 8 years celebrating each that Trek has ever been. Now, it's clip to rebuild it from scratch and observe each it tin be."

“The lone acquainted look is the 1 you’d ne'er expect to spot successful this era: Captain James T. Kirk,” said Kelly. “William Shatner’s iconic show transcends borders - Kirk is 1 of the large characters of the modern fabrication canon with a timeless histrion to match. He was besides the archetypal Star Trek quality we ever wrote - a person and warrior writer with boundless calamity and contradiction. Now, we’re honored to beryllium taking this quality into genuinely uncharted, groundbreaking territory successful The Last Starship - arsenic the Federation’s top pioneer indispensable look down the inferno that threatens to devour his full legacy.”

Star Trek: The Last Starship #1 volition beryllium released connected September 24, 2025.

For more, spot Shatner bespeak connected his ain mortality and find retired however galore seasons of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds remain.

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