IDW Publishing
Mike Johnson, writer
Stephen Molinar, artist
Roberto Orci, creative consultant
Previous issues of this series set in the rebooted "Star Trek" film universe have given readers mostly familiar retellings of adventures from the original television show. For instance, "Where No Man Has Gone Before" is the original series' second pilot episode wherein a crew member and close friend of Captain Kirk's mysteriously develops god-like powers and tries to take over the starship. An entire character critical to the plot of the original series episode was completely removed for the comic version set in the rebooted universe, but much of the rest of story plays out the same. Another story arc from the comic is based on the episode "The Galileo Seven," and similarly, events unfold in the comic a bit differently than in the television episode, but the overall story progresses much the same.
These two issues of the comic series, however, present a drastically different version of the original series episode "The Return of the Archons." And beginning with these two issues, advanced solicitation information began playing up the fact that this series is not only considered canon within the rebooted movie universe, but the comic series is being created with input and oversight from Roberto Orci, connected with the film franchise.
The Archons from the title of the episode and the comic arc refers to the crew of the Federation starship Archon, which disappeared near Beta III 100 years in the past. In the episode, the Enterprise is on a mission to discover what happened to that crew. In the comic, the very existence of the Archon is believed to be just a rumor told to cadets at Starfleet Academy, and Kirk, coincidentally finding his crew in the vicinity of Beta III, decides to snoop a little to satisfy his own curiosity. What the crew finds on Beta III in the comic is very similar to the conditions from the television show, but the source of those conditions and the Enterprise crew's response to them is very different. Both a prologue, which seems to have little connection at first to the overall story presented in these two issues, and an epilogue, which is the direct result of the events in these issues, seem to point to a clandestine group within Starfleet Command. That is a plot point which may or may not play a factor in the upcoming sequel to the first J.J. Abrams Trek film.
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