IDW Announces ‘Star Trek: Lore War’ In Which Data’ Evil Brother Twists Reality
by Olly MacNamee
IDW has announced its latest Star Trek comic book crossover saga with Star Trek: Lore War, featuring Data’s evil brother, Lore, who has remade the universe to his own twisted vision of reality and placed himself as God to look over it and control it all.
“The single most devious mind in the universe has won. Commander Data’s evil brother, Lore, has used the Orb of Destruction to obliterate all of reality and remake it in his image while declaring himself its God. Now that Lore has claimed the ultimate victory, what happens next?”
Starting with Star Trek: Lore War #1 from acclaimed creators Collin Kelly, Jackson Lanzing, Christopher Cantwell, and Davide Tinto, this crossover event, coming in March 2025, will include the Star Trek: Defiant, the flagship ongoing series and special one-shot tie-in issues.
“This is it. The moment we’ve been building to since the Theseus left spacedock and theDefiantwas stolen,” remarked Lanzing. ”The ultimate STAR TREK comics crossover event – as the heroes and villains of the galaxy must band together to defend its very existence.”
Cantwell added:
“Since the line’s inception, our grander story in both titles has dealt withSTAR TREK’s concept of godlike beings and the rejection of those godlike beings — order and entropy as it exists throughout the four quadrants of the galaxy. Who pulls the strings and who dares to cut them? LORE WAR is quite literally the apotheosis of that shared theme, two years in the making.”
Kelly also added:
“The gods are dead, and only one mad android holds the reins of our universe. With absolute power comes absolute corruption… but does it come with absolute control?” stated Kelly. “Featuring the incredible art of Davide Tinto – a newcomer to the Trek world – we’re not settling for anything less than the most impressive and world-endingSTAR TREKevent that comics can contain.”
Group Editor, Heather Antos, concluded:
“It’s all been building to this moment. No, literally. From the original prelude in STAR TREK#400 two years ago the road map has always led to LORE WAR. When Collin, Jackson, and Christopher first embarked on this mission we asked the question ‘Can a man be both man and a god?’ Well now Lore is answering.”
Star Trek: Lore War #1 comes out on March 26th, 2025, and the crossover features primary covers by artist Malachi Ward.
