Broken Frontier

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Star Trek, TOKYOPOP, the leader of the Global Manga Revolution, and CBS Consumer Products, have joined forces to produce an intriguing and unforgettable look at the Final Frontier with Star Trek: The Manga, based on the original Star Trek TV series. Like that television classic, these new journeys venture into the terrain of social politics, personal reflection...and bare-knuckled brawls between the dashing Captain Kirk and the galaxy's most cunning alien species. Vulcan science officer Spock's unflappable logic, Doctor "Bones" McCoy's flare for drama, chief engineer Scott's perpetual struggle to keep the warp engines online, and the never before told origin story of one of the Star Trek universe's most popular adversaries, all come at you in a fresh, new style.

Top artists and writers from around the galaxy have gathered to create five Star Trek episodes in the distinctive manga format. Featuring the interstellar talents of Joshua Ortega (Top Cow Comics, The Necromancer), Jim Alexander (DC Comics, Birds of Prey), Chris Dows (Malibu Comics, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine(r)), Rob Tokar (Comiculture Magazine), Mike W. Barr (DC Comics, Star Trek), Jeong Mo Yang (Chronicles of Koryo), EJ Su (Transformers), Gregory Giovanni Johnson (Rising Stars of Manga), Michael Shelfer (Rising Stars of Manga), and Makoto Nakatsuka (Juror 13), Star Trek: The Manga offers something for everyone-hard-core Trekkers, avid manga readers, comic book fans, and anyone who enjoys a great story.

Five all-new "episodes" take you "where no one has gone before":  The last survivors of a gender war live on as spirits in machinery and take control of the Starship Enterprise; in an attempt to combat a fatal disease, a dying race unwittingly creates an unstoppable villain that may seem eerily familiar to readers; a small colony tries to cheat death by uploading their consciousness into a satellite and reconstructing their bodies on another planet; warring planets exchange peace offerings via the Enterprise, but one "gift" may be more than what it seems; and lastly, a group of teen, warrior-robot pilots becomes restless in times of peace, turning to pillaging for thrills.

According to TOKYOPOP editor Luis Reyes, "We've tried to make the individual stories resonate with the spirit of the original show, with Gene Roddenberry's interest in social and political dynamics, with the fan fascination in the idiosyncrasies of these characters, and with the way the original series used science fiction as a sounding board for larger ideas."

In a salute to the 40th anniversary of Star Trek, TOKYOPOP has created three different collectible manga covers for Star Trek: The Manga:  one for the retail book chains, one for the independent comic book stores, and one exclusively for Star Trek convention-goers.

Star Trek: The Manga will be available on stardate 9.5.06, wherever books are sold.