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IDW - Star Trek: Lower Decks Monthly |
After earning a prestigious Eisner nomination for their work on STAR TREK: DAY OF BLOOD - SHAXS" BEST DAY, writer Ryan North and artist Derek Charm reunite to kick-off this can"t-miss comic ride featuring the beloved characters from the hit animated series.
This is a dream opportunity for the award-winning writer. "LOWER DECKS is my favorite STAR TREK, and I have seen every single STAR TREK there is to see, except for one episode I will never reveal," commented North. "This raises the obvious question: will something in this comic contradict something that I missed in that one episode I never saw? Thankfully the answer is no, because the entire LOWER DECKS team - both at IDW and Paramount - has been so amazing - supportive, clever, brilliant. We're making a big funny heartfelt book with huge sci-fi ideas, important character developments, tons of that Trek flavor, and a bunch of jokes, too. If you love LOWER DECKS, you'll love this comic!"
The ongoing series will feature episodic storytelling with each tale presented by a different artist. North cannot wait for fans to see how the book looks, and he's thrilled to have Charm drawing the debut story. "I get to team up with some of my favorite artists for this book, starting with DEREK CHARM, who we last teamed up with on the Eisner-winning Unbeatable Squirrel Girl and on the Eisner-nominated SHAXS' BEST DAY. He is: the best."
"Just when you thought we couldn't go lower… we're BACK with the first ever ONGOING LOWER DECKS series," proudly stated IDW Group Editor Heather Antos. "Just like the fans out there, we too want more LOWER DECKS and this time we're giving it to you tenfold! Ryan North is showing us just how deep of a Trek nerd he is with these stories, and paired with the comedic geniuses of Derek Charm, Jack Lawrence and more on art duties for a rotating cast of 'episodic' issues, this series is a mission so fun that even the Lower Deckers themselves won't want to miss it!"
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Issue 1
All-New Ongoing Series! Wherein Dr. T'Ana saves the crew from a virulent, purple-boiled disease that is sure to--Wait, no, everyone's cured pretty quickly, actually. Okay… wherein Deep Space 2's distress call is mysteriously cut off and the crew has to—Wait, nope, they just needed some help resetting their comms systems. All right, wherein Mariner gets so totally frustrated with the lack of thrills aboard the Cerritos that she drags her friends into a holodeck adventure that would definitely kill them in reality! Should totally provide them all with a sense of purpose and well-being, right? Right. Or at least it would have. If the U.S.S. Bonaventure hadn't shown back up from the Delta Triangle to provide them with a real challenge. It's time to explore a ghost ship, baby! |
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Writer: Ryan North
Artist: Derek Charm
Letters: Clayton Cowles
Edits: ??
Cover Artist: Derek Charm
Cover Price: $4.99
Issue Date: 13 November 2024 |
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Cover Artist: Megan Huang
Cover Price: $4.99 |
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Cover Artist: Chris Fenoglio
Cover Price: NONE |
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IDW Classic Reprint Full Art Foil Cover |
Cover Artist: Derek Charm
Cover Price: $1.99
Issue Date: ? March 2026 |
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Cover Artist: Derek Charm
Cover Price: $??
Issue Date: ? March 2026 |
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Issue 2
Mariner, T'Lyn, Rutherford, and Tendi have beamed off the mysterious USS Bonaventure and onto an equally mysterious surface of an unknown world, significantly raising the statistical likelihood of death and injury! Finally, the crew is up to their necks in adventure. There's the senior staff's safety to confirm, a weird planet to escape, and an alien race that wishes to learn more about mentorship… through a battle royale! Enter Jadzia Dax, Montgomery Scott, Kathyrn Janeway, T'Pol, and Jean-Luc Picard as the mentors and the Lower Deckers as the mentees. May the best student live! |
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Writer: Ryan North
Artist: Derek Charm
Letters: Clayton Cowles
Edits: ??
Cover Artist: Derek Charm
Cover Price: $4.99
Issue Date: 18 December 2024 |
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Cover Artist: Philip Murphy
Cover Price: $4.99 |
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Issue 3
The crew of the U.S.S. Cerritos have just received their personality guidance reports from the counselors of the planet Clarew, and Rutherford feels guilty he's not engineering at a higher capacity with his implants. He should be operating above 134 percent nominal at least. The Cerritos' next mission is a supply run to Tavela Minor, but they first need to stop by the Alecto system to get some supplies to, uh, supply them with. However, just before they warp, they see the Alecto system isn't only missing; it doesn't exist. Like at all. Now they have a space mystery at hand: What could cause a whole star system to disappear? |
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Writer: Ryan North
Artist: Jack Lawrence, Chalrlie Kirchoff
Letters: Clayton Cowles
Edits: ??
Cover Artist: Jack Lawrence
Cover Price: $4.99
Issue Date: 15 January 2025 |
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Issue 4
Rutherford to bridge. We're not dead! However, after escaping a vacuum collapse of the Alecto system, the U.S.S. Cerritos is lost inside a new space-time that's expanding away from us in every direction at the speed of light. To make matters worse, an alien intelligence made of pure energy has possessed Tendi and my bodies, shunting our consciousnesses into the ship's computer. While it's a fun, flirty energy, we'd very much like our bodies back so we can pop the expanding time bubble and save our universe! |
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Writer: Ryan North
Artist: Jack Lawrence, Chalrlie Kirchoff
Letters: Clayton Cowles
Edits: ??
Cover Artist: Jack Lawrence
Cover Price: $4.99
Issue Date: 12 February 2025 |
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Issue 5
Suspicious after the Cerritos docks for its second baryon sweep in the same year, Mariner sneaks into a command meeting. There, the Department of Temporal Investigations tasks the crew with finding a time traveler who is rewriting Federation history at an alarming rate. Mariner finds her friends and tells them what's really going on&hell] only for the timeline to change around them! Obviously, something has gone wrong with Command's mission, and per usual, it's now up to Mariner, Tendi, Rutherford, and Boimler to save the day. |
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Convention Cover - Island Fancon 2025 and Vulcon 2025 |
Writer: Ryan North
Artist: Jack Lawrence, Chalrlie Kirchoff
Letters: Clayton Cowles
Edits: ??
Cover Artist: Jack Lawrence
Cover Price: $4.99
Issue Date: 12 March 2025 |
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Cover Artist: Andrew Thomas
Cover Price: $4.99
Issue Date: 28 March 2025 |
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Issue 6
When Mariner asked the Krulmuth-B portal to send her, Rutherford, Tendi, and Boimler to the moment when they could make the biggest impact on history, she meant, like, to the time period where they could help their crew the most. But they've ended up on board the Titanic! Yes, THE Titanic, and that's just the tip of the iceberg. The time traveler who's responsible for a deadly wave of Federation rewrites is still at large, and the Lower Deckers are now further than ever from stopping them. |
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Writer: Ryan North
Artist: Jack Lawrence, Chalrlie Kirchoff
Letters: Clayton Cowles
Edits: ??
Cover Artist: Jack Lawrence
Cover Price: $4.99
Issue Date: 9 April 2025 |
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Issue 7
There's nothing quite like a mother-daughter relationship. There's also nothing quite like finding out your monolith of a captain used to be a carefree ensign who accidentally vanished her whole crew in an experiment gone wrong. Lucky for Beckett Mariner, she gets to soak up both experiences all on the same day as her mother, Captain Freeman, regales her with a throwback tale of how she was "just like you when she was young," and "mistakes help us grow, blah, blah." Meanwhile, all Mariner wants to know is how could Freeman let Pulaski get away with hair like that? |
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Writer: Tim Sheridan
Artist: Robby Cook
Letters: Clayton Cowles
Edits: ??
Cover Artist: Robby Cook
Cover Price: $4.99
Issue Date: 14 May 2025 |
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Issue 8
In a moment of mother-daughter bonding, Captain Freeman continues the story of how she was once a nobody screw-up just like Mariner! Where she last left off, Dr. Katherine Pulaski had taken the helm of the U.S.S. Illinois in its clash with a Romulan warbird-but, as feared, Pulaski's brilliant track record of crashing spacecraft isn't doing her any favors in the encounter. Freeman and Durango are called upon to save the day. If the crew is to survive, the two ensigns need to rise to the challenge of command… and fast! |
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Writer: Tim Sheridan
Artist: Robby Cook
Letters: Clayton Cowles
Edits: ??
Cover Artist: Robby Cook
Cover Price: $4.99
Issue Date: 11 June 2025 |
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Issue 9
On a mission to collect gormangander excrement, the U.S.S. Cerritos is attacked by a Ferengi warship! The Ferengi are hot on the tail of a debt dodger who owes them a fortune--D'Vana Tendi. But as a member of Starfleet, Tendi has no way to earn the money to pay them back, and if she tells her family in the Orion Syndicate, they'll simply murder her to clear the account. One thing is for certain: If Tendi can't devise a way to clear her ledger, the Lower Deckers are going to find themselves in deep doo, regardless of whether they find any gormaganders. |
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Writer: Tim Sheridan
Artist: Vernon Smith, Charlie Kirchoff
Letters: Clayton Cowles
Edits: ??
Cover Artist: Vernon Smith
Cover Price: $4.99
Issue Date: 9 July 2025 |
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Cover Artist: Jack Lawrence
Cover Price: $4.99 |
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Issue 10
D'Vana Tendi has only just begun to dig herself out of the mountain of student loan debt she owes Ferengi swindlers, and already she's feeling burnt out. Despite Freeman brokering her a deal, and the help of fellow Lower Deckers, the Ferengi's demands are becoming more intense and overwhelming by the day. So, Tendi decides to put her Starfleet education to use… and work smarter, not harder.. |
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Writer: Tim Sheridan
Artist: Vernon Smith, Charlie Kirchoff
Letters: Clayton Cowles
Edits: ??
Cover Artist: Vernon Smith
Cover Price: $4.99
Issue Date: 13 August 2025 |
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Cover Artist: Jack Lawrence
Cover Price: $4.99 |
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Issue 11
Squeak, squaw, sssskkkaaa, eh, eee. [Translation: Cetacean Ops here! Matt and I have brought the crew of the U.S.S. Cerritos back to the year 1987 for a top-secret mission of great import.] HHHkkkeeeeee, ska, ska, EeeEEAaa. Squaw, squaw. Click, cliiiiick [Translation: That's right, Kimolu. We need their help to fix what that blowhole Kirk messed up by bringing the whales George, Gracie, and Ronald to Earth without a way for them to repopulate its oceans. What was Ronald supposed to do, have babies with his mother?] Skkkesaw. Eehhh, ee, ee, AaaaaAa. AH, AH, EeeEE! Sqqqqaw. [Translation: But the remaining humpbacks have all heard freaky conspiracy theories about what happened to the last pod who went to Earth. To save the species, the Lower Deckers will have to dissuade them of the rumors and convince them Earth is worth inhabiting. Ah=yikes.] This issue kicks off the penultimate arc of this season's run, so be sure to order whale ahead of time! |
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Writer: Tim Sheridan
Artist: Philip Murphy, Charlie Kirchoff
Letters: Clayton Cowles
Edits: ??
Cover Artist: Phil Murphy
Cover Price: $4.99
Issue Date: 10 September 2025 |
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Cover Artist: Kendall Goode
Cover Price: $4.99 |
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Issue 12
The Lower Deckers and Cetacean Ops officers Kimolu and Matt continue their mission to replenish Earth's population of humpback whales! The krill situation is getting out of control, and the songs they sing are just too good to let them die out. There's also the pesky situation where Ronald (the last whale!) has to occasionally talk that uptight space probe (whenever it shows up) into sparing the Earth from doom and destruction. But Ronald's getting on in age and won't be around forever… so the crew needs to find him a love match, stat, or Earth might face its end. |
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Writer: Tim Sheridan
Artist: Phil Murphy
Letters: ?
Edits: ??
Cover Artist: Phil Murphy
Cover Price: $4.99
Issue Date: 8 October 2025 |
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Cover Artist: Kendall Goode
Cover Price: $4.99 |
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Issue 13
It's time for a long-overdue second contact with the species with whom the U.S.S. Cerritos made its first first contact: the Laapeerians. But when the crew arrives on Laapeeria bearing gifts, Freeman and company are shocked to discover the entire planet has been abandoned! While all the dwellings and infrastructure remain, there isn't a soul to be found… Where have all the Laapeerians gone? And do the Laapoonians on the planet next door know anything about it? |
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Writer: Tim Sheridan
Artist: Vernon Smith
Letters: ?
Edits: ??
Cover Artist: Vernon Smith
Cover Price: $4.99
Issue Date: 12 November 2025 |
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Cover Artist: Chris Fenoglio
Cover Price: $4.99 |
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Issue 14
The Cerritos away team begin their investigation on Laapoonia to find out what happened to the Laapeerians. (Don't get Laapeeria and Laapoonia twisted—it's not that hard.) Despite their best efforts, and much to Tendi's chagrin, everyone on the crew except T'Lyn manages to offend the Laapoonians before they can get any answers… How will the Cerritos ever make second contact with the Laapeerians if they can't even get their first contact with the Laapoonians right? |
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Writer: Tim Sheridan
Artist: Vernon Smith
Letters: ?
Edits: ??
Cover Artist: Vernon Smith
Cover Price: $4.99
Issue Date: 10 December 2025 |
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Cover Artist: Chris Fenoglio
Cover Price: $4.99 |
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Issue 15
When Commander Jack Ransom promised Boimler command of the away team on Laapoonia in the event that both he and Sun-Sanchez—his Number One—were taken out of commission, he didn't think it'd, like, actually happen. But now, Boimler is in charge, and things have gone full- blown Crisis Royale: A planet's missing population, a big-ass alien warship, and a team at each other's throats threaten to explosively end the Cerritos' second-contact mission with Laapeeria. The name's Boimler. Brad Boimler. And he's got a license to… mildly delegate while panicking under pressure. |
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Writer: Tim Sheridan
Artist: Vernon Smith
Letters: ?
Edits: ??
Cover Artist: Vernon Smith
Cover Price: $4.99
Issue Date: January 2026 |
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Cover Artist: Chris Fenoglio
Cover Price: $4.99 |
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Issue 16
Just as the case of the missing Laapeerians was about to come together, the Cerritos was heavily damaged in a dogfight against an unidentified vessel and forced to return to Federation space…without the away team. Repairs on the Cerritos are bound to take weeks, but Captain Freeman and Mariner aren’t about to sit around and wait when they have an abandoned away team to rescue—especially one under Boimler’s command. Together, they formulate a heist to steal a decommissioned starship and mount a daring rescue before their unknown assailants blast Laapoonia, and their crew members, away. |
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Writer: Tim Sheridan
Artist: Vernon Smith
Letters: Clayton Cowles
Edits: Heather Antos, Cassandra Jones
Cover Artist: Vernon Smith
Cover Price: $4.99
Issue Date: February 2026 |
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Cover Artist: Chris Fenoglio
Cover Price: $4.99 |
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Connected covers for issues 13 to 16 |
Issue 17
Captain Freeman and Mariner take the fight straight to the skies in the stolen U.S.S. Illinois, charging headlong into an old-school showdown against a mysterious wave of space invaders surrounding Laapoonia! Somewhere in the chaos, Boimler and his away team may be trapped—if they're even still alive. But as the missing Laapeerians' fate grows more uncertain and Starfleet closes in on its rogue crew, the clock is ticking faster than a falling pixel. Can the Lower Deckers outmaneuver both their enemies and their own command before it's game over? |
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Writer: Tim Sheridan
Artist: Vernon Smith
Letters: ?
Edits: ??
Cover Artist: Vernon Smith
Cover Price: $4.99
Issue Date: March 2026 |
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Cover Artist: Chris Fenoglio
Cover Price: $4.99 |
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Issue 18
The thrilling conclusion to the mystery of the vanished Laapeerians! The Enterprise has joined the tumultuous space battle between Captain Freeman and her crew against their dangerous alien assailants. Starfleet might not know who these invaders are, but they're certain they have something to do with the missing population of Laapeeria… It's up to the Lower Deckers to not only defeat the superpowered ship but recover a whole planet's worth of people and reunite with Boimler and his away crew while doing it. And then they'll all hug and stuff, $&#@!*. |
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Writer: Tim Sheridan
Artist: Vernon Smith
Letters: ?
Edits: ??
Cover Artist: Vernon Smith
Cover Price: $4.99
Issue Date: April 2026 |
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Cover Artist: Chris Fenoglio
Cover Price: $4.99 |
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Connected covers for issues 17 & 18 |
Collected Editions |
Star Trek: Lower Decks vol. 1: Second Contact - TPB
Collects issues 1-6 of the ongoing series |
Star Trek: Lower Decks vol. 2: Mixed Signals - TPB
Collects issues 7-12 of the ongoing series |
Writer: Ryan North
Artists: Derek Charm, Jack Lawrence
Colorists: Derek Charm, Charlie Kirchoff
Cover Artist: Derek Charm
Letters: Clayton Cowles
Cover Price: $19.99
Issue Date: 17 September 2025
ISBN: 9798887243030 |
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Writer: Tim Sheridan
Cover Artist: Robby Cook
Cover Price: $19.99
Issue Date: ? April 2026
ISBN: 9798887243917 |
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Star Trek: Lower Decks vol. 3: Second Second Contact - TPB
Collects issues 13-18 of the ongoing series |
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Writer: Ryan North
Artists: ?
Colorists: Derek Charm, Charlie Kirchoff
Cover Artist: Vernon Smith
Letters: Clayton Cowles
Cover Price: $19.99
Issue Date: ? September 2026
ISBN: 9798887245027 |
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