The Star Lost

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''&trade;, 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.

Issues Collected

 * #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