IDW Publishing is from Star Trek: The Last Starship, The Last Starship, a bold new comic book series released on September 24, 2025, authors Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing (Star Trek, Captain America), and Artrián Bonilla and Colors by Heather Moore.
Set during Burn, a devastating event that destroyed the warp cores throughout the galaxy, the series discovers Captain James T. Kirk has been mysteriously revived in a crushed Federation. Now, along with a new ship and crew, Kirk must rise to the challenge of restoring hope in the Otopian universe, lawlessly.
Lanzing describes the final spaceship as a darker, more literary vision of Star Trek’s universe, promising both accessibility to newcomers and a rich, undiscovered chapter for long-time fans. “It’s a new era, a new crew, a very different tone,” he says, noting that the story is rethinking the franchise from scratch. Kelly adds that Kirk is the only familiar face of this future, and exploring his legacy in a broken world will provide “an unknown groundbreaking territory” to one of the fiction’s most iconic captains.
