Star Trek: The Next Generation Annual

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Editors:	Robert Greenberger
Publisher:	DC Comics
Published:	1990-1996
Issues:	6
Timespan:	2366 to 2371 (approximate)
Stardates:

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Premise

Star Trek: The Next Generation had six "annual" comic book issues published by DC Comics in the United States, a part of DC's second TNG series, running for 6 issues from 1990 until 1996.

Main Characters

• Jean-Luc Picard
• William Riker
• Data
• Beverly Crusher
• Geordi La Forge
• Deanna Troi
• Worf

Creators

• Based on Star Trek: The Next Generation created by Gene Roddenberry
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• Pencilers:
• Inkers:
• Colorists:
• Letterers:
• Cover artists:
• Editors:
  • Robert Greenberger (#2)

Issues

The Gift

Issue #1

1990. SUMMARY HERE.

BACKGROUND INFO.

Thin Ice

Issue #2 (1991)

Stardate 44612.3. The Enterprise-D proceeds through space when a distress call from Captain Lyrinda Halk of the USS Marco Polo, attacked by unknown assailants and near destruction. The Enterprise races to the scene, and Will Riker reveals Captain Halk is a childhood friend, with whom he shared an intimate relationship. The Enterprise is briefly waylaid by a super-string phenomenon -- long energetic gravity anomalies in their path. The crew then finds the Marco Polo adrift, and rescues Captain Halk and a few survivors, before the robot-controlled starships come about and chase the ships apart. The vessels, programmed by the long-dead Darzun civilization, are designed to attack anything within a certain radius from their fleet and home system. Riker, cut off aboard Marco Polo, leads the robot ships into the super-strings, where they are destroyed.

Several points in Riker's past were illustrated in this story: his childhood, Academy dys, and as a junior officer on the Hood. This story had a reference to a variant of a Constellation-class starship (with a Refit Constitution engineering hull attached in place of the lower two nacelles. In the story it was called the Challenger-class. This reference created some confusion with Michael Okuda's writings assigning that name to one of the Battle of Wolf 359 wreckage models. Some fans believed that the Challenger-class model built for that scene might be of the configuration shown in the comic, but later photos of the actual model, of a different configuration, were shown by Mr. Okuda at a convention. Other starships in this issue were designs taken from FASA's role-playing games and the Ships of the Star Fleet series.

References

Alaska; Beta Marada; USS Caspian (NCC-5507); Darzun; Far-Pel VII; Lyrinda Halk; USS Marco Polo (NCC-7219); training vessel; Valdez

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