Interesting reads for anyone who likes comic books. The first six in the series are re-hashes of three popular 1st season episodes. They follow the same general lines as the 1st season episodes, but there are noticeable changes. The most prominent change is of course the ship and the crew of the ship. As all three of these are season 1, Mr. Chekov had not yet joined the crew in the originals. Not going to give away too much, as these can still be picked up, although you'll have to request them in a lot of stores as they sold out their allotments quickly, I had to request IDW #6 twice.
IDW #1 and 2 - Where No Man Has Gone Before. Real changes: In the original episode only three of the original cast were in their traditional roles, Kirk, Spock, and Scotty. (Sulu was on board, but he was not helmsman at that time) In McCoy's case that makes it really interesting when they start looking for an answer to Mitchell's problem, as Dr. Dehner didn't want to serve under an ex-boyfriend.
IDW #3 and 4 - The Galileo Seven. Real changes: Spock's SECOND chance at command, and a chance to prove himself. Also Uhura and Spock's relationship.
IDW #5 and 6 - Operation: Annihilate! There was not a lot of changes to this premise of this story, a bit of technology that wasn't there before was added to make their challenge bigger.
In all three, only the details really change, but they are intended to be used to set up whatever they have planned for next year's movie. If there is some collusion between them, nothing in the first season of TOS will be covered in the next movie. I know there's been speculation that the next movie may be a re-hash of Space Seed, but I think that's been shot down. Obviously there's some collusion, they were told that they could do those episodes, but how much they are in the loop is anyone's guess.
Overall, I feel that these three were very well done, kinda questioning why Operation:Annihilate! was changed the way it was, as all the other two were changed by what the movie did to them, the change to Operation:Annihilate! seemed more external, and unrelated to the movie. Although it does cover the effect of losing a father you never knew had on James Kirk, so maybe that's why they changed it the way they did. With these "episodes" though, I feel like I have a bit more appreciation for the 2009 movie, perhaps enough that I might watch it again sometime. Maybe a real re-hash of The Doomsday Machine, will be the 2013 movie. That would be a good one, IMO.
Topic: IDW's Trek Reboot series (Read 4868 times)