Eight years before "The Cage," the young woman who would become the Starship Enterprise's "most experienced officer" was a lowly cadet assigned to the shakedown cruise of an uncommissioned starship. But that supposedly pedestrian mission may prove the most dangerous of her life. John Byrne begins an all-new, six-part miniseries torn from the Federation's beginnings!
Date Available: 03/18/2009
BONUS REVIEW by GARY OWENS
IDW brings along John Byrne for the maiden flight of the Starship Enterprise. The Enterprise is going on a fun, safe test ride around the solar system, with only a small crew on board. But when scanner readings become strange, the maiden voyage turns into something more. John Byrne is at his best here, with Byrne art, and a Byrne type of story, ones that suit him well. Since all of these characters don’t appear in the television series anywhere (none that I recall, anyway), he has the room to do with them as he pleases, which just heightens the quality of the story. Only interesting note is how IDW puts the PG-13 rating in the UPC box; find it, if you can. Highly recommended to science fiction (and Star Trek) fans everywhere.
