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''Star Trek: Countdown'' is a four-issue comic book prequel to the 2009 film ''Star Trek'' by IDW Publishing. It follows the characters of Spock and the Romulan Nero during the year 2387, detailing the events that cause them to travel to the 23rd century. The story serves as both a lead up to the film and as a continuation of the ''Star Trek: The Next Generation'' franchise. ==Publication history== The comic came about because Anthony Pascale, editor of TrekMovie.com, kept requesting to the film's co-writer Roberto Orci a way of having ''The Next Generation'' characters "pass the baton" back to the originals. When asked whether the filmmakers' involvement in the comic made it canonical, Orci stated he was in no position to declare whether it was, though he felt it could easily remain as such unless it was contradicted in a future film. Writers Tim Jones and Mike Johnson were fans of ''The Next Generation'' and worked for Orci and Kurtzman's production company. They were allowed to read parts of the script and watch parts of the film to understand Nero more. They chose to give his Romulan crew informal dialogue to reflect that they are miners, not politicians or warriors. In figuring out where ''The Next Generation'' characters would be eight years after ''Star Trek Nemesis'', Jones and Johnson decided if Picard had left the ''Enterprise'', then Data – whose resurrection in B-4's body was heavily hinted at the end of ''Nemesis'' – would become captain since he is Starfleet's most capable strategist. The writers made an error of Spock stating he had lived on Romulus for forty years, which the writers tried to explain by saying Spock might have visited the planet before "Unification". The word ''forty'' was later changed to ''twenty'' in the trade paperback. The Starfleet uniforms seen in the comic resemble those developed for ''Star Trek Online''. Cryptic Studios is tying into the comic by including Picard's promotion to ambassador to Vulcan and Data's resurrection and promotion in the backstory to its game. Another in-joke in the comic is the inclusion of the mascot from Bad Robot Productions – J. J. Abrams' production company – in Picard's quarters. The third issue of ''Star Trek Countdown'' was the first comic to be released in stores and on the iPhone on the same day. The four-issue comic series ''Star Trek: Nero'' takes place shortly after the events in ''Countdown''. IDW published the official ''Star Trek Into Darkness'' prequel in 2013. The 4-issue mini-series was called ''Star Trek: Countdown to Darkness''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Star Trek: Countdown」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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