Kahless Talking

Sharpen your knives as IDW's Star Trek crossover Day Of Blood arrives

- STEPHEN JEWELL

DESCRIBED BY STAR TREK: Defiant scripter Christopher Cantwell as "our Infinity Gauntlet", Star Trek: Day Of Blood sees the crew of Worf's stolen starship join forces with Star Trek's Benjamin Sisko-led USS Theseus in a blockbuster comic book crossover, as they take on the mounting threat of the immortal Klingon Emperor Kahless II.

"It's at the centre of our plans for the line," says Jackson Lanzing, who co-writes Star Trek, IDW's flagship Trek title, with his regular writing partner Collin Kelly. "We set out on this path with the north star of treating Star Trek with the same wild storytelling, interlocking structure and epic objectives as our favourite superhero comics - and nothing allows for comics storytelling quite like a gigantic summer event.

"The thread of Kahless II and the Red Path is simply too large, too powerful and too devastating to be traded between Star Trek and Defiant forever. At some point, a reckoning would have to come, and that's what Day Of Blood is all about."

BLOODY KLINGONS

Beginning with an oversized one-shot by Cantwell, Kelly, Lanzing and Star Trek artist Ramon Rosanas, before continuing for the next two months in the pages of both Star Trek and Star Trek: Defiant, the five-part storyline has been a long time in the making. "We've been building up to Day Of Blood since August 2020 when Star Trek: Year Five 13 was released," recalls Lanzing.