Star Trek: Defiant
Real world article
(written from a production point of view)
Star Trek is a ongoing comic series from IDW Publishing that ran from March 2023 to May 2025 as a spin-off companion series to Star Trek. Set between Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek Nemesis, it details Worf being forced to lead a crew on black-ops missions for the Federation.
Summary
- Blurb
- A brand-new series comes spinning directly out of the hit Star Trek comic book!
- Someone is killing the gods. But Benjamin Sisko's Prophets-guided dealings of the higher cosmos has led him to forget about the very real casualties on lower ground.
- The enemy is a MAN, not a god. And Worf of House Martok has put together his own crew aboard the USS Defiant in hopes of defeating the dangerous messiah behind this genocidal cult.
- The Dirty Dozen meets Star Trek in this new series from the creative mind of Chris Cantwell (Iron Man, Namor, Star Wars: Obi-Wan) and drawn by Angel Unzueta (Iron Man, Star Wars: Poe Dameron, the Flash)! Star Trek: Defiant is the first expansion of IDW's exciting new Star Trek initiative that started with the 400th issue and carries on into a bold new storytelling future!
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Creators
Characters
- Canon characters listed below are linked to the main article about them. Non-canon characters are not linked, but those that recurred, appearing or being mentioned in more than one story, are defined further in IDW ST characters.
- Worf
- Spock
- B'Elanna Torres
- Ro Laren
- Lore
- Sela
- Kahless
- Alexander Rozhenko
- Tom Paris
- Benjamin Sisko
- Data
- Beverly Crusher
- Shaxs
- Montgomery Scott
- Kira Nerys
- Edward Jellico
- Alynna Nechayev
- Hugh
- Berlinghoff Rasmussen
- Korath
- Natasha Yar
- Harry Kim
- Morn
- Quark
- Nomad
- The Keeper
- Martok
- Christopher Pike (illusion)
- Kathryn Janeway (illusion)
- William T. Riker (illusion)
- Worf (log entry only)
- Jean-Luc Picard
- Revo
- Miles O'Brien
- Keiko O'Brien
- Koval
- Neral
- Julian Bashir
- Toq
- Hiren
Mentioned only
- Jackson Roykirk
- James T. Kirk
- Leonard McCoy
- Jadzia Dax
- Gorkon
- Gowron
- Kahless the Unforgettable
- Kruge
- David Marcus
- Mogh
- Miral Paris
- Noonien Soong
- John Torres
- K'Ehleyr
- Molor
- Owen Paris
- Deanna Troi
- Ishara Yar
- Dexter Remmick
- Ro Gale
- Morath
Issues
- "Star Trek: Defiant, Issue 1"
- "Star Trek: Defiant, Issue 2"
- "Star Trek: Defiant, Issue 3"
- "Star Trek: Defiant, Issue 4"
- "Star Trek: Defiant, Issue 5"
- "Star Trek: Defiant, Issue 6"
- "Star Trek: Defiant, Issue 7"
- "Star Trek: Defiant, Issue 8"
- "Star Trek: Defiant, Issue 9"
- "Star Trek: Defiant, Issue 10"
- "Star Trek: Defiant, Issue 11"
- "Star Trek: Defiant, Issue 12"
- "Star Trek: Defiant, Issue 13"
- "Star Trek: Defiant, Issue 14"
- "Star Trek: Defiant, Issue 15"
- "Star Trek: Defiant, Issue 16"
- "Star Trek: Defiant, Issue 17"
- "Star Trek: Defiant, Issue 18"
- "Star Trek: Defiant, Issue 19"
- "Star Trek: Defiant, Issue 20"
- "Star Trek: Defiant, Issue 21"
- "Star Trek: Defiant, Issue 22"
- "Star Trek: Defiant, Issue 23"
- "Star Trek: Defiant, Issue 24"
- "Star Trek: Defiant, Issue 25"
- "Star Trek: Defiant, Issue 26"
- "Star Trek: Defiant, Issue 27"
- Annuals
Collections
- Star Trek: Defiant, Volume 1 (issues 1-5)
- Star Trek: Day of Blood (issues 6-7)
- Star Trek: Defiant, Volume 2: Another Piece of the Action (issues 8-11, Annual)
- Star Trek: Defiant, Volume 3: Hell Is Only A Word (issues 12-16)
- Star Trek: Defiant, Volume 4: The Stars of Home (issues 17-21)
External link
- Star Trek: Defiant at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works