Star Trek: Countdown is a four-issue comic book prequel to the 2009
film Star Trek by IDW Publishing. It follows the characters of Spock
and the Romulan Nero during the year 2387, detailing the events that
cause them to travel to the 23rd century. The story serves as both a
lead up to the film, and as a continuation of the Star Trek: The Next
Generation franchise.The comic came about because Anthony Pascale,
editor of TrekMovie.com, kept requesting to the film's co-writer
Roberto Orci a way of having The Next Generation characters "pass the
baton" back to the originals.Writers Tim Jones and Mike Johnson were
fans of The Next Generation and worked for Orci and Kurtzman's
production company. They were allowed to read parts of the script and
watch parts of the film to understand Nero more. They chose to give
his Romulan crew informal dialogue to reflect that they are miners,
not politicians or warriors. In figuring out where The Next Generation
characters would be eight years after Star Trek: Nemesis, Jones and
Johnson decided if Picard had left the Enterprise, then Data â€" whose
resurrection in B-4's body was heavily hinted at the end of Nemesis
â€" would become captain since he is Starfleet's most capable
strategist. The writers made an error of Spock stating he had lived on
Romulus for forty years, which the writers tried to explain by saying
Spock might have visited the planet before "Unification". The word
forty was later changed to twenty in the trade paperback.The Starfleet
uniforms seen in the comic resemble those developed for Star Trek
Online. Cryptic Studios is tying into the comic by including Picard's
promotion to ambassador to Vulcan and Data's resurrection and
promotion in the backstory to its game. Another in-joke in the comic
is the inclusion of the mascot from Bad Robot Productions â€" J. J.
Abrams' production company â€" in Picard's quarters. Star Trek: Countdown Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter