About the Author John Byrne is a comic-book writer and artist. Since the mid-1970s Byrne has worked on many major American superheroes. Byrnes better-known work has been on Marvel Comics X-Men and Fantastic Four and the 1986 relaunch of DC Comics Superman franchise the first issue of which featured comics first variant cover. Coming into the comics profession exclusively as a penciller Byrne began co-plotting the X-Men comics during his tenure on them and launched his writing career in earnest with Fantastic Four (where he started inking his own pencils). During the 1990s he produced a number of creator-owned works including Next Men and Danger Unlimited. He scripted the first issues of Mike Mignolas Hellboy series and produced a number of Star Trek comics for IDW Publishing. In 2015 Byrne and his longtime X-Men collaborator Chris Claremont were inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame. The comic book tales of Star Trek have roamed the universe and spanned publishers but now Star Trek- The Stardate Collection collects the many iterations of Trek in order... by stardate!Helmed by Trek experts Scott and David Tipton and featuring special commentary and creator interviews volume 1 starts at the beginning to reveal the motives machinations and decisions that shaped the intrepid crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise. For new and old fans alike theres never been a Star Trek collection like this!Includes Star Trek- Crew issues #1-5 Star Trek Alien Spotlight- Vulcans and Star Trek- Early Voyages #1-6