{"id":1401,"date":"2008-11-25T12:48:39","date_gmt":"2008-11-25T12:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/countdown-to-star-trek\/"},"modified":"2008-11-25T12:48:39","modified_gmt":"2008-11-25T12:48:39","slug":"countdown-to-star-trek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/countdown-to-star-trek\/","title":{"rendered":"Countdown to Star Trek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/startrekcomics-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"startrekcomics.jpg\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"15\" \/>IDW Publishing will release a four-issue comic series intended as a prequel to JJ Abrams\u2019s new Star Trek movie, to be released from January 2009 onwards.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStar Trek: Countdown lays the groundwork for what happens in the movie,&#8221; said Roberto Orci, the screenwriter for the film who plotted the series with long-time collaborator Alex Kurtzman. &#8220;It&#8217;s our way of passing the baton from the Next Generation characters and their movies to the new film.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The series will be written by Mike Johnson and Tim Jones, with art from David Messina. The latest Star Trek film hits cinemas in May 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IDW Publishing will release a four-issue comic series intended as a prequel to JJ Abrams\u2019s new Star Trek movie, to be released from January 2009 onwards. \u201cStar Trek: Countdown lays the groundwork for what happens in the movie,&#8221; said Roberto Orci, the screenwriter for the film who plotted the series with long-time collaborator Alex Kurtzman. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/countdown-to-star-trek\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[400,96],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}