This Wednesday, April 15th, IDW Publishing is releasing STAR TREK: Starfleet Academy – Lost Contact #1! Join us for a brand-new adventure featuring cadets from Paramount’s Starfleet Academy, streaming January 2026!
Here’s a look at the covers, the storyline, and preview pages
for this week’s new release from IDW Publishing!
STAR TREK: Starfleet Academy – Lost Contact #1
Written by Layne Morgan
Art by Corali Espuña
Colors by Nora Serrano
Letters by Neil Uyetake
Covers & Cover Artists:
Corali Espuña (Cover A)
Photo Variant (Cover B)
Liana Kangas (Cover C)
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 low-oxygen, lifeless planet.
Or at least, it seems simple…until a huge storm cuts off their contact with their teachers aboard the Athena…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!
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