February 13th, 2012
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IDW Star Trek /Doctor Who: Assimilation2 #1
First Ever Star Trek®/Doctor Who Comic Book Crossover Coming in May
In conjunction with BBC Worldwide Consumer Products and CBS Consumer Products, IDW Publishing will make history when two of the greatest science-fiction properties of all time come together in a comic book for the first time. The world’s most popular time traveler teams up with the U.S.S. Enterprise crew in STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION/DOCTOR WHO: ASSIMILATION2, taking fans on an adventure where no man has gone before.
“By joining these two sci-fi powerhouses, fans will be taken on the ultimate adventure through time and space,” said Liz Kalodner, executive vice president and general manager of CBS Consumer Products.
Launching in May, STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION/DOCTOR WHO: ASSIMILATION2 will feature fan-favorite villains the Borg and the Cybermen as they create an unholy alliance resulting in potential disaster for all humanity. Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise find themselves joining forces with the Doctor and his companions, with the fate of the galaxy hanging in the balance.
“We are excited about this new adventure for the Doctor and the fact that he will be travelling with Captain Jean-Luc Picard and his iconic crew. This is a perfect partnership for not only Doctor Who’s incredible fans, but also for the brand. We have just celebrated our most successful year yet. Doctor Who’s latest season delivered record ratings for BBC AMERICA and it was most downloaded full TV seasons of 2011 in the U.S. on the iTunes Store,” says Soumya Sriraman, executive vice president Home Entertainment and Licensing.
This eight-issue series will be written by Scott and David Tipton, the authors of critically acclaimed Star Trek: Infestation, with a helping hand from longtime Doctor Who writer Tony Lee, and will feature fully painted artwork by J.K. Woodward (Fallen Angel).
Fans are encouraged to ask their retailers about the rare wraparound photo cover. Plus, artist Joe Corroney (Star Trek Ongoing) will provide a variant cover featuring the Doctor and friends aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise.
Doctor Who and Star Trek are two hugely successful franchises that began as television series, and have expanded into a number of other media, including comic books, which continue to captivate fans all over the world. Nearly five decades and 1,500 episodes in the making, this is the moment that both Trekkers and Whovians have waited for all their lives!
STAR TREK TNG/DOCTOR WHO: ASSIMILATION2 ($3.99, 32 pages, full color) will be available in stores in May 2012.
With thanks to IDWPublishing.com
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Mels
March 3rd, 2012 - 12:23pmThis is now available to preorder through Previews, for those people who order through comic stores.
ultimate character building fan 00001
February 17th, 2012 - 11:37pmguys theres going to be star trek kreo, hasbro took the rights from playmate 😥
Doctor who bladuun
April 9th, 2012 - 11:22amWell there should be a star trek site to tell you this!?
Doctor who bladuun
April 9th, 2012 - 11:25amSorry for being aggresive
doctorwhofan27
May 10th, 2012 - 10:31amsame can be said about many things on this site, plus it might be in dwa.
TNDNR
February 16th, 2012 - 12:49pmI’m not a massive Trek fan but this could be good. Will depend on how it’s handled by the writers and artists. If it’s handled well then I think it will be good but if it’s handled badly then it’ll be an embrassment to both franchises and it’ll be best to pretend it never happened :P. Although Assimilation(squared) is an awful awful title.
CatManWho
February 17th, 2012 - 11:42amThere was a STTNG episode called Time Squared (the first one I ever saw before they were shown in the UK in 1990) which it might partly be paying homage to, or referencing the added dimension of another series.
I really hope this is subtly done. STTNG is one of the most disciplined, structured and consistent programmes. The crew of the Enterprise need to be the crew of the Enterprise without the faster paced TARDIS crew running rings around them. The Doctor is probably more suited to outsmarting Data and La Forge than Picard.
doctorwhofan27
May 10th, 2012 - 10:33amthe artist is great. i’ve met him.
forever dalek 1323
February 15th, 2012 - 7:26pmi am sooooooooooooooo exited i love star treck as mutch as doctor who, and even better the cyberman are there toooo. i am soooooooooooo
over the moon
the astronaut of death
February 15th, 2012 - 3:25pmplease will someone give me instructions to make a link
whofan4ever
February 15th, 2012 - 7:02pmdo you know what a URL is??? if you do copy and paste that into the comment box and it will come up saying http://merchandise.thedoctorwhosite.co.uk/star-trek-doctor-who-comic-book-crossover/
John Locke
February 15th, 2012 - 9:23amYes of course. I love Trek and Who. This would make me a happy fanboy.
alex
February 14th, 2012 - 9:51pmStar trek is great, but dr who and star trek would not work.
CatManWho
February 15th, 2012 - 7:33amSome very senior people who take branding very seriously seem to think it will; if there was any doubt it would not happen.
I don’t think the the faster-than-any-human pace of the eleventh Doctor and his working alone/keeping everyone else in the dark will cut any ice with the structured and disciplined leadership team of the Enterprise bridge, so perhaps it will be a collaboration where each ship “captain” fights/resolves the issues with the menace they know best.
doctorwhofan27
May 10th, 2012 - 10:35amfourth doctor’s in issue three along with the crew of tos. double flashback.
Whofan#1
February 14th, 2012 - 9:41pmsure why not a crossover that would be really brillent