[1] IDW's first title, Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Space Between, is a six-issue limited series launched January 2007.
The second series Star Trek: Klingons: Blood Will Tell, launched in April, focusing on the Klingons' point of view on various episodes from the original series - the first four issues based around "Errand of Mercy", "The Trouble with Tribbles", "A Private Little War" and "Day of the Dove", respectively, and features a framing story based around the events of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.
In 2009, IDW began to publish their first Star Trek: Deep Space Nine comic, the four-part Fool's Gold.
[8][9] The series explored new situations such as "Kirk, McCoy, Sulu, and Chekov [transferring] over to the USS Endeavor, while Spock and Uhura settled on New Vulcan.
[10] The Borg were a reoccurring villain in the series[11] and the last arc dealt with "multiversal chaos" which brought "together the Enterprise crews from several different realities".
[10] In September 2012, IDW began a four-issue miniseries "Star Trek: The Next Generation - HIVE" about the return of Locutus of Borg.
In 2014, IDW worked with Harlan Ellison to publish a graphic novel based on his original screenplay for "The City on the Edge of Forever".
[13] To coincide with the launch of Star Trek: Discovery, IDW published a 4-issue prequel series in 2018 entitled "The Light of Kahless," chronicling T'Kuvma's backstory and rise to Klingon warrior.
[16] Jared Mason Murray, for Screen Rant, highlighted that the creative team "have rendered what feels like the most accurate spiritual continuation of the beloved sci-fi television show.
[15] Jamie Lovett, for ComicBook.com, highlighted the "near-anthology" and episodic format of series with a rotating creative team with change as the "overarching theme".
Often, these titles have little new or exciting to offer fans of their source material and even less for those who aren't familiar, ultimately feeling redundant or vestigial.
[20][21] Mirror Broken was included on Screen Rant's 2022 "The 10 Best Star Trek Comics" list — the article states "one of the strengths of the miniseries is its ability to impart a lot of information in a digestible and fun-to-read manner.
[24] Star Trek, the flagship comic by Jackson Lanzing, Kelly, Marcus To, Loughridge and Clayton Cowles, is set in the period between Voyager and Nemesis.
To reuse the character after the events of the Deep Space 9 finale, it was retconned that the prophets released him back into the physical world.
[25] Both series made IDW's first comic-book crossover of the Star Trek franchise, Day of Blood.
[25] A spin-off miniseries titled Sons of Star Trek explored an alternate timeline where Jake Sisko and Alexander Rozhenko joined Starfleet.
[26] Unrelated to the plots of the aforementioned comics, Star Trek: Holo-Ween (released near Halloween 2023) is set in TNG era and shows a holodeck malfunction that creates monsters.
[25] In 2012, IDW published a six-issue limited series crossover featuring the Legion of Super-Heroes from DC Comics.
Both were collected in Pawns of War (2010), which included a special issue, Balance of Terror, an adaptation of the episode of the same name as told from the Romulan perspective.
Infestation is a multi-franchise crossover series depicting a zombie invasion from the CVO: Covert Vampiric Operations universe of The Transformers, G.I.
A reprint collection of a 1980s DC Comics story arc which picks up after Star Trek III: The Search for Spock.