Infestation was an IDW Publishing crossover comic series, that included two Star Trek: The Original Series comics starting in January 2011. The entire series consists of ten comics: a two-issue framing story featuring IDW's own Zombie vs. Robots and Covert Vampire Operations series, and then four two-issue stories detailing zombie infestations of other realities from IDW held licenses; Star Trek, Transformers, G.I. Joe, and Ghostbusters.

The Star Trek issues of the series were released biweekly in February 2011, on alternate weeks to the Transformers issues of the series. The Star Trek issues were written by Scott and David Tipton, with art by Casey Maloney. While the framing story was written by Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning, with art by David Messina.

Description

The first-ever event in IDW Publishing’s history crosses over into the Star Trek universe with this two-part, bi-weekly series! A routine visit to a colony world takes a horrifying turn when Admiral Kirk, Mr. Spock and Dr. McCoy find themselves surrounded by hordes of the undead! Spinning out of the pages of last month’s INFESTATION, this series takes the crew of the USS Enterprise into a dark and deadly new direction!

Issues

The first "Infestation" covered two volumes.

• Volume 1
  • Zombies vs. Robots/CVO (Covert Vampiric Operations):
    • Infestation #1
  • Transformers:
    • Infestation #1
    • Infestation #2
  • G.I. Joe:
    • Infestation #1
    • Infestation #2
• Volume 2
  • Star Trek:
    • Infestation #1
    • Infestation #2
  • Ghost Busters:
    • Infestation #1
    • Infestation #2
  • Zombies vs. Robots/CVO (Covert Vampiric Operations):
    • Infestation #2

The second series of issues was under "Infestation 2" and released utilizing Transformers, Dungeons and Dragons, Team-Up, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, G.I. Joe, and 30 Days of Night.

Appendices

Background

• The "Original series" of crossovers as a collection was followed by an "Epilogue series" in April 2011 and also a "Second series" in early 2012.
• The Infestation Omnibus, which collected both the first "Infestation" series and "Infestation 2" series was released August 12, 2014.

Connections

IDW Publishing miniseries
TOS	Klingons: Blood Will Tell • Year Four • The Enterprise Experiment • Assignment: Earth • Mirror Images • Romulans: The Hollow Crown • Crew • Mission's End • The Wrath of Khan • Romulans: Schism • Leonard McCoy, Frontier Doctor • Burden of Knowledge • Khan: Ruling in Hell • Infestation • Star Trek—Legion of Super-Heroes • Harlan Ellison's The City on the Edge of Forever • The Primate Directive • Star Trek vs. Transformers • The Motion Picture: Echoes
	Star Trek (2009) tie-in:	Countdown • Spock: Reflections • Nero • The Official Motion Picture Adaptation • Countdown to Darkness • Khan • Starfleet Academy • The Spectrum War • Manifest Destiny • Stranger Worlds
TNG	The Space Between • Intelligence Gathering • The Last Generation • Ghosts • Assimilation² • Hive • Deviations • Mirror Broken • Through the Mirror • Terra Incognita • The Mirror War • Warriors of the Mirror War • Holo-Ween
DS9	Fool's Gold • Too Long a Sacrifice • The Dog of War
VOY	Seven's Reckoning • Homecoming
DSC	The Light of Kahless • Succession • Aftermath • Adventures in the 32nd Century
PIC	Picard: Countdown • Stargazer
LD	Lower Decks • Second Contact
SNW	The Illyrian Enigma • The Scorpius Run
SA	Lost Contact
Other	Turnaround • Alien Spotlight • Alien Spotlight II • Captain's Log • Waypoint • The Q Conflict • Aliens • Resurgence • Defiant • Picard's Academy • Sons of Star Trek

External links

• Infestation article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
• Infestation (comics) article at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Download:

• Star Trek: Infestation at Comixology

Articles:

• IDW press release annoucing the series.
• Comic Book Resources article previewing the series
• io9 interview about the series.