Star Wars Icon Officially Leaves the Sci-Fi Franchise Behind for Star Trek
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IDW Comics is rolling out an impressive lineup of Star Trek comics from a wide variety of creators. Yesterday, they announced that The Next Generation star Gates McFadden will pen a new miniseries about the hidden life of her character, Dr. Beverly Crusher. Now, they’ve announced a new Trek graphic novel from a science fiction legend who’s closely associated with rival science fiction franchise Star Wars.
Novelist Timothy Zahn kickstarted the Star Wars revival of the 1990s with 1991’s Heir to the Empire, the first third of a trilogy that helped revive interest in the then-largely dormant franchise. The trilogy not only chronicled new adventures for established heroes like Luke Skywalker, Leia Organa, and Han Solo, but introduced a new galaxy of friends and foes, including ex-Imperial assassin Mara Jade, smuggling kingpin Talon Karrde, and, most of all, the mysterious alien Imperial mastermind Grand Admiral Thrawn. Zahn would go on to write many more novels and comic books set in the Star Wars universe, even after the old Star Wars Expanded Universe continuity was shuttered to make way for a new universe of spin-offs. Thrawn, especially, has been a presence in the new continuity, and has now appeared in animation and live-action.
Zahn is set to write a new graphic novel for IDW set in the world of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Star Trek: Roc’s Egg will feature art by Ángel Hernández, who previously worked on the IDW miniseries Star Trek: Voyager – Homecoming. The story will center around the Roc’s Egg, an artifact of incalculable value. One such artifact is on its way to the Deep Space Nine space station, but is destroyed in transit. A Starfleet JAG team is sent in to investigate, and they soon find that everyone onboard is a suspect, and that the case involves far more than a smashed bauble. The book is set to hit shelves in October 2027.
Collider Exclusive · Sci-Fi Survival Quiz Which Sci-Fi World Would You Survive? The Matrix · Mad Max · Blade Runner · Dune · Star Wars
Five universes. Five completely different ways the future went wrong — or sideways, or up in flames. Only one of them is the world your instincts were built for. Eight questions will figure out which dystopia, galaxy, or desert wasteland you’d actually make it out of alive.
💊The Matrix
🔥Mad Max
🌧️Blade Runner
🏜️Dune
🚀Star Wars
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You sense something is deeply wrong with the world around you. What do you do? The first instinct is often the truest one.
02
In a world of scarcity, what resource do you guard most fiercely? What we protect reveals what we believe survival actually requires.
03
What kind of threat keeps you up at night? Fear is useful data — if you’re honest about what you’re actually afraid of.
04
How do you deal with authority you don’t trust? Every dystopia has a power structure. Your approach to it determines everything.
05
Which environment could you actually endure long-term? Survival isn’t just tactical — it’s physical, psychological, and very much about where you are.
06
Who do you want in your corner when things fall apart? The company you keep is the clearest signal of who you actually are.
07
Where do you draw the line — if you draw one at all? Every survivor eventually faces a moment that tests what they’re actually made of.
08
What would actually make survival worth it? Staying alive is one thing. Having a reason to is another.
Your Fate Has Been Calculated You’d Survive In…
Your answers point to the world your instincts were built for. This is the universe your temperament, your survival instincts, and your particular brand of stubbornness were made for.
The Resistance, Zion
The Matrix
You took the red pill a long time ago — probably before anyone offered it to you. You’re a systems thinker who can’t help but notice the seams in things.
You’re drawn to understanding how the system works before figuring out how to break it.
You’d find the Resistance, or it would find you — your instinct for spotting constructed realities is the machines’ worst nightmare.
You function best when you have access to information and the freedom to act on it.
The Matrix built an airtight prison. You’d be the one probing the walls for the door.
The Wasteland
Mad Max
The wasteland doesn’t reward the clever or the well-connected — it rewards those who are hard to kill and harder to break. That’s you.
You don’t need comfort, community, or a cause larger than the next horizon.
You need a vehicle, a clear threat, and enough fuel to outrun it — and you’re good at all three.
You are unsentimental enough to survive that world, and decent enough — just barely — to be something more than another raider.
In the wasteland, that distinction is everything.
Los Angeles, 2049
Blade Runner
You’d survive here because you know how to exist in moral grey areas without losing yourself completely.
You read people accurately, keep your circle small, and ask the questions others prefer not to answer.
In a city where humanity is a legal designation rather than a feeling, you hold onto something that keeps you functional.
You’re not a hero. But you’re not lost, either.
In Blade Runner’s world, that distinction is everything.
Arrakis
Dune
Arrakis is the most hostile environment in the known universe — and you are precisely the kind of person it rewards.
Patience, discipline, and political awareness are your core strengths — and on Arrakis, they’re survival tools.
You understand that the long game matters more than any single victory.
Others come to Dune and are consumed by it. You’d learn its logic and earn its respect.
In time, you wouldn’t just survive Arrakis — you’d begin to reshape it.
A Galaxy Far, Far Away
Star Wars
The galaxy far, far away is vast, loud, and in a constant state of violent political upheaval — and you wouldn’t have it any other way.
You find meaning in being part of something larger than yourself — a cause, a crew, a rebellion.
You’d gravitate toward the Rebellion, or the fringes, or whatever pocket of the galaxy still believes the Empire’s grip can be broken.
You fight — not because you have to, but because standing aside isn’t something you’re capable of.
In Star Wars, that willingness is what makes all the difference.
What Is Deep Space Nine?
Originally built by the paranoid, militaristic Cardassian race around the occupied planet Bajor, the space station originally known as Terek Nor was abandoned after the planet’s liberation. The Federation took possession of it and renamed it Deep Space Nine, assigning Commander Benjamin Sisko (Avery Brooks) to take charge of it. It soon became more important than anyone had imagined when a wormhole to the distant Gamma Quadrant opened in its vicinity. Deep Space Nine thus became a focal point in the exploration of the Gamma Quadrant, and later a key territory in the Dominion War when the shapeshifting aliens who ruled the Gamma Quadrant declares war on the Federation.
Star Trek: Roc’s Egg will be released in October 2027. Stay tuned to Collider for future updates.
Release Date
1993 – 1999-00-00
Network
Syndication
Showrunner
Michael Piller, Ira Steven Behr
Directors
David Livingston, Les Landau, Allan Kroeker, Winrich Kolbe, LeVar Burton, Avery Brooks, Rene Auberjonois, Cliff Bole, Michael Vejar, James L. Conway, Alexander Singer, Kim Friedman, Paul Lynch, Reza Badiyi, Corey Allen, David Carson, Stephen L. Posey, Victor Lobl, Jesús Salvador Treviño, Jonathan Frakes, Michael Dorn, Alexander Siddig, Anson Williams, John T. Kretchmer
Writers
Ronald D. Moore, Michael Taylor, Bill Dial, Morgan Gendel, Cindy Marcus, Evan Somers, Flip Kobler, Gordon T. Dawson, Jane Espenson, Jim Trombetta, Joe Menosky, John Whelpley, Katharyn Powers, Mike Krohn, Sam Rolfe, Jill Donner, Steve Warnek, D. Thomas Maio, Martin A. Winer, Lisa Klink
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