Following on from the recent news that the TV show’s second season will be its last, IDW Publishing launches the first Star Trek: Starfleet Academy comic series next week, and you can get yourself a sneak peek at the opening issue of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy – Lost Contact below with the official preview…
Caleb, Genesis, Jay-Den, Kyle, and Tarima are all students of Starfleet Academy, the illustrious school responsible for the Federation’s best. One day, they dream to serve as great leaders on board ships of their own, to study the cultural intricacies of sentient life amongst the Galaxy, or to go where no person has explored before. But today, their mission is simply to execute a survey simulation on a lifeless, low-oxygen planet. Or at least, it seems simple… until a huge storm cuts off their contact with their teachers aboard the Athena… and something impossible appears: an alien. Now, they’ll have to work together and use everything they’ve learned in class about first contact to make it off the planet alive!
IDW Publishing · Releases May 27, 2026
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy – Lost Contact #2
A massive transvectous ozone storm has hit S’Eekay II, stranding Jay-Den, Genesis, Tarima, and Kyle away from their teachers aboard the Athena! What was meant to be a routine survey simulation on an abandoned planet has turned deadly: An unknown life-form’s hunting them, they’re trapped in a mysterious force field preventing them from beaming out, and to make matters worse, the cadets have completely lost their ability to speak to one another… not that they were doing great at working together beforehand.
Luckily, Genesis has a plan to get them out. Only no one is listening to her. And if the cadets all don’t grow into their Starfleet shoes fast, their first mission will become their last.
Comic · 32 pages · $4.99
IDW Publishing · Releases Jun 24, 2026
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy – Lost Contact #3
**Cadets Jay-Den and Kyle have gone missing — and if Genesis, Caleb, and Tarima weren’t battling against the harsh environment of S’Eekay II conducting a search-and-rescue of one of their hastier instructors, and creating a whole new form of communicating with each other in the silencing force field around the planet, they might have noticed sooner.
Now they’ll need to make a choice: Wait for the Academy to come rescue them all… or go save their crewmates and friends from what surely is a hostile alien kidnapping.**
Comic · 32 pages · $4.99
IDW Publishing · Releases Jul 22, 2026
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy – Lost Contact #4
Things are looking bad for the cadets: They’re stranded on a desolate planet with low oxygen reserves, a hostile civilization, and a force field that’s cutting off their comms to the U.S.S. Athena.
After an explosive misunderstanding with the aliens of S’Eekay II, they make a run for it, carrying injured Jay-Den back to their base. His wounds are severe, and he’s the only member of their ragtag crew with medical experience. If he’s to survive the day, he’ll need to talk one of the other cadets through his own life-saving procedure.
Then, through the silence, comes a clang. Pop. The aliens are back to finish what they started.
Meanwhile, Chancellor Nahla forms a plan to reach her stranded students! There has to be some way through the storm…
Comic · 32 pages · $4.99
