Star Trek: Countdown
| Star Trek: Countdown | |
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Advert for Countdown displaying the cover of each issue. Clockwise: Nero, Data, Picard, and Spock.
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | IDW Publishing |
| Schedule | Monthly |
| Format | Limited series |
| Genre | |
| Publication date | January–April 2009 |
| No. of issues | 4 |
| Creative team | |
| Created by | Gene Roddenberry |
| Written by | Script: Mike Johnson Tim Jones Plot: Roberto Orci Alex Kurtzman |
| Artist(s) | David Messina |
| Letterer(s) |
Chris Mowry Neil Uyetake |
| Colorist(s) |
Paolo Maddaleni Giovanna Niro Ilaria Traversi |
| Editor(s) | Andy Schmidt |
| Collected editions | |
| Star Trek: Countdown | ISBN |
Star Trek: Countdown is a four-issue comic book prequel to the 2009 film Star Trek by IDW Publishing. It follows the characters of Spock and the Romulan Nero during the year 2387, detailing the events that cause them to travel to the 23rd century. The story serves as both a lead up to the film and as a continuation of the Star Trek: The Next Generation franchise.
The comic came about because Anthony Pascale, editor of TrekMovie.com, kept requesting to the film's co-writer Roberto Orci a way of having The Next Generation characters "pass the baton" back to the originals. When asked whether the filmmakers' involvement in the comic made it canonical, Orci stated he was in no position to declare whether it was, though he felt it could easily remain as such unless it was contradicted in a future film.
Writers Tim Jones and Mike Johnson were fans of The Next Generation and worked for Orci and Kurtzman's production company. They were allowed to read parts of the script and watch parts of the film to understand Nero more. They chose to give his Romulan crew informal dialogue to reflect that they are miners, not politicians or warriors. In figuring out where The Next Generation characters would be eight years after Star Trek Nemesis, Jones and Johnson decided if Picard had left the Enterprise, then Data – whose resurrection in B-4's body was heavily hinted at the end of Nemesis – would become captain since he is Starfleet's most capable strategist. The writers made an error of Spock stating he had lived on Romulus for forty years, which the writers tried to explain by saying Spock might have visited the planet before "Unification". The word forty was later changed to twenty in the trade paperback.
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