Mirror Images
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| COMIC COLLECTION | |
| Mirror Images | |
 Cover by Joe Corroney | |
| Attribution | |
| Series: | The Original Series & The Next Generation |
| Author(s): | Scott & David Tipton |
| Illustrator(s): | David Messina |
| Publication information | |
| Publisher: | IDW Publishing |
| Original format: | 5 comics (July-November 2008) |
| Omnibus: | Paperback - 4 February 2009 |
| Pages: | 132 |
| ISBN: | ISBN 1-6001-0293-X |
Star Trek: Mirror Images is a five-part comics miniseries published by IDW Publishing starting in June 2008, the omnibus will be released in February 2009. The series was written by Scott and David Tipton and illustrated by David Messina.
Contents |
[edit] Overview
The main story of the series is a four-part TOS story depicting events in the mirror universe prior to the episode "Mirror, Mirror", showing the rise of James T. Kirk through his plots to unseat Captain Christopher Pike from command of the ISS Enterprise. The third issue of the series was a flash-forward to the 24th century, showing how Jean-Luc Picard took command of the ISS Starbreaker.
The series was originally announced as a four-part series, and was to have Chris Ryall as a third writer. Additionally their were plans for a second Mirror Images miniseries set in the TNG era[1], this eventually evolved into the Myriad Universes miniseries The Last Generation and the addition of a fifth issue to this miniseries, putting a TNG flash-forward midway through the otherwise TOS story.
There was a one month gap in the release of the series, pushing the third issue back to a September release, and bumping back the release of the rest of the series, with the fifth issue finally out in November.
Prior to the publication of the series, author Keith R.A. DeCandido suggested efforts were being made between IDW and Pocket Books to keep the series consistent with the prose mirror universe fiction recently released by the Pocket. [2] However the short story "The Greater Good" published a few months after the completion of this series gives a contradictory account of Kirk's rise to captaincy.
[edit] Issues
| Title/Number | Issue 1 | Issue 2 | Issue 3 | Issue 4 | Issue 5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Writers | |||||
| Artist | |||||
| Published | | | | | |
| Cover A (Joe Corroney) |  |  |  |  |  |
| Cover B |  |  | |||
| RI photo cover |  |  | |||
[edit] Appendices
| IDW Publishing miniseries | ||
|---|---|---|
| Completed series | The Space Between • Klingons: Blood Will Tell • Year Four • Alien Spotlight • Intelligence Gathering • Turnaround • The Enterprise Experiment • Assignment: Earth • Mirror Images • Romulans: The Hollow Crown • The Last Generation • Countdown | 
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| Current series | Crew • Alien Spotlight II • Mission's End • The Wrath of Khan | |
| Future series | Spock: Reflections • Nero • Romulans: Schism • Assignment: Earth II • Probability Factor | |
[edit] External links
- Star Trek: Mirror Images article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
- Mirror Image page at the Star Trek Comics Checklist
