Comic Vibes: All-new Star Trek: The Next Generation Episodes Planned

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From idwpublishing.com:

All-new Star Trek: The Next Generation Episodes Planned

IDW Publishing's Intelligence Gathering comics reprise Next Gen crew with five brand-new adventures

San Diego, CA (December 21, 2007)—Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise-D will return with five new journeys as told by the hit team that created Klingons: Blood Will Tell-writers (and brothers) Scott and David Tipton, and artist David Messina. The new miniseries Intelligence Gathering promises to feel like a slice of the hit series in its prime, reading like "lost" episodes that fans never saw.

Set toward the end of the show's fifth season, Intelligence Gathering from IDW Publishing examine as yet unexplored sides of the Star Trek: Next Generation characters who meant the most to fans. There's plenty of action and suspense as the familiar crew faces both old adversaries and new threats-all in self-contained stories that are connected by a broader, unfolding plot.

Kicking off the series is an issue that revolves around one of the Federation's mission-critical facilities-a four-dimensional database that amasses all Federation data storage but is beginning to act erratically. Has it become sentient? And must the Federation shut it down?

"The task raises moral questions for Commander Data regarding cybernetic murder," says IDW Star Trek editor Andrew Steven Harris. "Data questions what would happen if he began acting differently. It's the kind of moral-question-within-science-fiction storyline that made Star Trek so popular."

Star Trek: The Next Generation: Intelligence Gathering debuts in January.