IDW is following up Wednesday’s release of their 500th issue of Star Trek comics by announcing the next big comics crossover event, bringing together their ongoing flagship Star Trek series and the ongoing Star Trek: Defiant series. The new crossover event focuses on Data’s brother Lore, once again threatening the universe.
Star Trek: Lore War
Kicking off in March 2025 with Star Trek: Lore War #1, the story will continue through the spring and into the summer across multiple issues of both the Star Trek and Defiant series as well as special one-shot tie-in issues. The first issue is written by Collin Kelly, Jackson Lanzing, and Christopher Cantwell with art by Davide Tinto.
Here is how IDW describes the upcoming crossover event:
The single most devious mind in the universe has won. Commander Data’s evil brother, Lore, has used the Orb of Destruction to obliterate all of reality and remake it in his image while declaring himself its God. Now that Lore has claimed the ultimate victory, what happens next?
The upcoming crossover event is something that has been in the planning for a while, as explained by editor Heather Antos in a statement: “It’s all been building to this moment. No, literally. From the original prelude in Star Trek #400 two years ago the road map has always led to Lore War. When Collin, Jackson, and Christopher first embarked on this mission we asked the question ‘Can a man be both man and a god?’ Well now Lore is answering.”
The primary covers for the crossover will be from artist Malachi Ward.
A cover for Lore War #1 by Malachi Ward
In a statement, the team behind the crossover explain how it all ties into the current Star Trek comics:
“This is it. The moment we’ve been building to since the Theseus left spacedock and the Defiant was stolen,” remarked Lanzing. ”The ultimate Star Trek comics crossover event – as the heroes and villains of the galaxy must band together to defend its very existence.”
“Since the line’s inception, our grander story in both titles has dealt with Star Trek’s concept of godlike beings and the rejection of those godlike beings — order and entropy as it exists throughout the four quadrants of the galaxy,” added Cantwell. “Who pulls the strings and who dares to cut them? Lore War is quite literally the apotheosis of that shared theme, two years in the making.”
“The gods are dead, and only one mad android holds the reins of our universe. With absolute power comes absolute corruption… but does it come with absolute control?” stated Kelly. “Featuring the incredible art of Davide Tinto – a newcomer to the Trek world – we’re not settling for anything less than the most impressive and world-ending Star Trek event that comics can contain.”
Star Trek: Lore War #1 arrives in comic book stores on March 26, 2025. To get you started, the brand new “Star Trek #500” special issue released yesterday contains a prelude story for Lore War titled “The Final Masterpiece.” You can pick up Star Trek #500 at TFAW or get the digital edition at Amazon/comiXology.
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No thank you.
Hard pass. This sounds *awful*.
So a ripoff of DC Comics’ Emperor Joker miniseries, then.
How many times will we have “The ultimate Star Trek comics crossover event – as the heroes and villains of the galaxy must band together to defend its very existence.””
seems like every couple of years….
IDW keeps saying this for every new title, and the stories don’t live up to the hype.
Considering that the level of discussion of ‘gods’ in Star Trek rarely transcends ‘all religion is superstition’ or ‘this people’s god is a literal, provable, scanable, demonstrable being whose abilities have been clearly demonstrated but I’m still going to be skeptical for some reason, because anything related to religion Starfleet is unreasonably superstitious against,’ I don’t especially trust these comics can offer any meaningful answers to its philisophical questions… :-)
also…what is happening w/ Jax and Yar(?) in that image….