IDW Creating Sequel Story To Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Not many Trekkies consider the original 1979 Star Trek movie to be among their best. The flick was more concerned with extremely long shots of the environment the VFX team built than with telling an engaging story. IDW must think they can do better because they just announced Star Trek The Motion Picture: Echoes, a sequel to the movie. And by that we don’t mean The Wrath Of Khan, but a direct follow-up to the events of the original, with the cast in their extremely late-1970s uniforms.
When a space anomaly thrusts a criminal mastermind—pursued by a very determined pilot on a mission—into our universe, the Enterprise must stop them from unintentionally starting a war with the Romulans and unleashing a superweapon of foreign technology into the system. But things get infinitely more complicated when these newcomers to our reality remove their helmets, revealing that they’re doppelgängers of our beloved heroes!
That doesn’t seem to have much to do with VGER….or does it? We’ll have to wait and see.
Perhaps the most interesting thing about this is that it’s being written by Marc Guggenheim, aka one of the main men responsible for The CW’s Arrowverse. He wrote many episodes of both Arrow and Legends of Tomorrow, so if anyone can make a fun time out of this miasma, it’s Marc.
“Despite watching the occasional fragment of a Star Trek episode here and there with my father, my true introduction was going to see Star Trek: The Motion Picture with my grandparents—I was entranced,” Guggenheim confesses. “I’m thrilled that IDW and Paramount Global have allowed me to revisit that time period, which was so impactful to me and my love of Star Trek,” says Guggenheim. “Almost all Trek stories are told from the point of view of the Enterprise crew, but I was interested in telling a story from the perspective of an outsider as a means of recapturing how it felt for me when I first saw Star Trek: The Motion Picture.”
Star Trek The Motion Picture: Echoes will have several variant covers, as comics tend to do, but we’re only focusing on one, because we are amused by the nonchalant response Spock has to getting strangled from behind.
“Hmm. This is highly illogical.”
The first issue of Star Trek The Motion Picture: Echoes will go on sale this May.
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