Real world article
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The Star Lost was a comic book arc, spanning issues 20-24 of the DC Comics Star Trek: The Next Generation series, and was later compiled as a graphic novel under this title.
Summary[]
- From the back cover
- A routine shuttlecraft mission goes awry, leading Captain Picard to believe half his command crew has perished. Faced with continuing the mission of the U.S.S. Enterprise™, the captain and crew must deal with their grief on their own time.
- Unknown to the crew, though, is that the shuttle crew is not dead – just on the other side of the galaxy! Their epic struggle to survive and ultimately find their way home fuels this power-packed story with dynamic artwork.
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Issues[]
- #20: "The Flight of the Albert Einstein"
- #21: "Mourning Star"
- #22: "Trapped"
- #23: "The Barrier"
- #24: "Homecoming"
Background information[]
- An introduction was written for the collection by Ronald D. Moore.
- In this series, the lost crewmembers are piloting a shuttlecraft named the Albert Einstein. Since there were over half-a-dozen crew and cargo, this would likely be one of the NCC-1701-D's larger personnel shuttles, but series artists used the wrong design reference and drew a Type 15 shuttlepod in all exterior views. The Type 15 pod has a maximum of 3 crew and a small cargo space, and could not use a warp drive as featured in this story. However, this could be construed reference to the never-seen type-16A shuttlepod featured in the Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual, which has an identical platform to the Type 15, but is scaled up to a larger proportion.
Creators[]
- Based on Star Trek: The Next Generation created by Gene Roddenberry
- Writer: Michael Jan Friedman
- Artists:
- Peter Krause (pencil art)
- Pablo Marcos (inking)
- Juliana Ferriter (color art)
- Bob Pinaha (letter art)
- Jason Palmer (cover art)
- Veronica Carlin (publication design)
- Editor: Robert Greenberger