New Star Trek Comic Spotlights Lieutenant Uhura for Black History Month

IDW Publishing has been debuting a batch of caller Star Trek books successful caller months, and that inclination volition proceed successful 2026. IGN tin exclusively uncover IDW's latest Trek project, an Uhura-focused one-shot called Star Trek Deviations: Threads of Destiny.

The Deviations enactment is fundamentally IDW's reply to Marvel's What If comics - exploring alternate universes wherever acquainted stories play retired precise differently. For example, the archetypal Star Trek Deviations comic from 2017 was acceptable successful a beingness wherever the Romulans made archetypal interaction with Earth alternatively than the Vulcans. Threads of Destiny offers an alternate instrumentality connected the beloved The Original Series occurrence "The City connected the Edge of Forever," this clip with Lt. Uhura being the 1 to beryllium dragged backmost successful clip to the 20th Century. Uhura volition find herself thrust into the mediate of the Civil Rights Movement.

Art by Mark Alvorado. (Image Credit: IDW/Paramount)

Star Trek Deviations: Threads of Destiny is written by Stephanie Williams (Nubia and the Amazons) and illustrated by Gregory Maldonado and Mark Alvarado. Here's IDW's authoritative statement for the issue:

This peculiar one-shot features Lieutenant Nyota Uhura. In the 23rd century, she explores far-flung prima systems with her unit connected the Enterprise arsenic portion of her ngo to pass and physique bridges with beingness recovered crossed the Galaxy. But successful the 20th century, humankind was moving to physique knowing among themselves, with African Americans connected Earth championing the Civil Rights Movement and utilizing their voices and acts of protestation to extremity radical segregation and discrimination.

Now, by mode of the Guardian of Forever, Uhura is yanked backmost done clip to 1963. There, she’ll articulation each those warring for equality and justness and reconnect to wherefore her enactment arsenic a communications serviceman is possibly the astir important enactment of all.

Image Credit: IDW/Paramount

Star Trek Deviations: Threads of Destiny volition beryllium released connected February 25, 2026, conscionable successful clip for Black History Month. This contented has a preorder deadline of January 19, 2026. You tin bid a transcript astatine your section comic shop.

In different Trek news, Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley are reportedly lined up to write, produce, and nonstop a caller Star Trek movie for Paramount Pictures, 1 that won't beryllium connected to immoderate existent oregon erstwhile projects.

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