Star Trek: Year Five, Issue 8
Real world article
(written from a production point of view)
Star Trek: Year Five, Issue 8 is the eighth issue in the Star Trek: Year Five miniseries, written by Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly, with art by Stephen Thompson. Published by IDW Publishing, it was released in December 2019.
Summary
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- As a fleet of Tholian vessels closes in, Kirk and the rest of the crew struggle to free the Enterprise from the Tholian Web before it's too late. And with the destruction of the ship hanging in the balance, Bright Eyes will have to make a choice between their Human friends or going home. The final voyages of the original mission continue here!
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Background information
Creators
- Writers:
- Jackson Lanzing
- Collin Kelly
- Artists:
- Stephen Thompson (interior art, cover A)
- Charlie Kirchoff (color art)
- Neil Uyetake (letter art)
- J.J. Lendl (retail incentive cover)
- Editors:
- Chase Marotz
- Anni Perheentupa (assistant editor)
- Denton J. Tipton (group editor)
- Star Trek created by Gene Roddenberry
- Special thanks to Risa Kessler, Marian Cordry, and John Van Citters at CBS Consumer Products.
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 TOS characters.
Regular and recurring characters
- James T. Kirk (β)
- Captain of the USS Enterprise
- Spock (β)
- Enterprise XO/Chief science officer
- Leonard McCoy (β)
- Enterprise Chief Medical Officer.
- Montgomery Scott (β)
- Enterprise Chief Engineer.
- Hikaru Sulu (β)
- Enterprise helmsman.
- Uhura (β)
- Enterprise communications officer.
- Pavel Chekov (β)
- Enterprise Navigator.
- Beauregard (β)
- Isis (β)
Cover gallery

Retail incentive cover
External link
- "Star Trek: Year Five, Issue 8" at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
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