After more than a decade since its six-issue Star Trek: Year Four comic run concluded back in 2008, IDW Publishing is returning to the comic adventures of the classic Star Trek crew with its new Star Trek: Year Five series coming in April.

Announced today through The Hollywood Reporter, this new comic series kicks off in April and will be written by a team of scribes including Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing, who lead off the “opening arc” of the storyline, along with Brandon Easton, Jody Houser, and Jim McCann.

In a statement to THR, Lanzing said the series will be a “a vital, hard-hitting, character-focused look at Captain Kirk on his last year in command,” and that the storyline will “have huge ripple effects, from the outbreak of war in the Alpha Quadrant to an unprecedented strain of trust with Spock. We’ll turn a mirror on modern society, just as [Trek] did in the 1960s, and go boldly towards meaningful, heartfelt stories.”

Also joining the IDW team for this series will be legendary illustrator Greg Hildebrandt, who has been well known for his work on Lord of the Rings and Star Wars artwork. This project will be his first involvement with Star Trek.

While we don’t have many more details yet on the length of the comic series, THR says that Year Five will be “the first extended storyline set definitively during the conclusion of the original mission” and is being planned with a set beginning, middle, and end.