Klingons: Blood Will Tell

   

Klingons: Blood Will Tell

The complete miniseries was printed in anomnibus book inNovember2007 which included theKlingon language edition of the first issue and a gallery of the numerous covers for the series. InAugust2010, the entire miniseries was collected inStar Trek Omnibus: The Original Series, and inAugust2020 it was reissued byEaglemoss asGraphic Novel Collection, Volume 127.

Description[]

There are two sides to every argument, and this special collection looks at some of the most famous encounters between theUnited Federation of Planets and theKlingon Empire — from the Klingon perspective! Star Trek fans are used to theKlingons responding with "swift and blinding violence," and now the creative team that brought youAngel: Auld Lang Syne will show us why. Also includes a cover gallery by series artist David Messina and variant cover artist Joe Corroney.

Overview[]

Untold generations ago,Kahless the Unforgettable defeated his enemies and founded the gloriousKlingon Empire. Imparting to his people the laws of honor. Upon his departure, he said to them "You are Klingons. You need no one but yourselves." But times change...

The series looked at some of the most famous encounters between theUnited Federation of Planets and theKlingon Empire, from theKlingon's point-of-view. Each issue looked at a differentTOS episode with a framing story arc set around the events ofStar Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country tying the series together. Episodes featured were "Errand of Mercy", "The Trouble with Tribbles", "A Private Little War" and "Day of the Dove".

The first issue was also available translated intoKlingonese byMarc Okrand and theKlingon Language Institute, including a script in English for non-Klingon readers.

None of the issues (with the exception of the English script in the Klingon language edition of the first issue) had their titles published within the comic book, nor did the titles appear in the omnibus edition. Fortunately one of the writers, Scott Tipton provided the titles for all the issues onIDW's message boards.

Covers[]

Omnibus cover.

Cover art.

Graphic Novel Collection reissue.

Portuguese language edition.

Issues[]

Title	Against Their Nature	Beneath the Skin	The Order of Things	Blood Reign O'er Me	Losses
Number	1	2	3	4	5
Writer	Scott & David Tipton
Artist(s)	David Messina
Published	25 April2007	21 May 2007	3 July 2007	1 August 2007	5 September 2007
Cover A (David Messina)
Cover B
Retail incentive cover
Retail incentive cover (Joe Corroney without titles)		--		--
Setting	"Errand of Mercy"	"The Trouble with Tribbles"	"A Private Little War"	"Day of the Dove"	The Undiscovered Country

Each issue of the series was available in at least three covers. The A cover throughout series was byDavid Messina, however the B cover varied betweenJoe Corroney covers or photo-covers. The more limited availability retail incentive cover for each issue was typically the alternate B cover (eg. a photo-cover if a Corroney cover had been used for B and visa-versa), with the exception of the second issue which had a sketch version of the Corroney cover rather than any photo-cover. The first and third issues had an additional retail incentive cover, featuring the Joe Corroney artwork without any titles. On top of that the first issue was also issued with second photo-cover, exclusive to Comics Pro, and two additional covers for the Klingon language edition.

Additional "Against Their Nature" covers

Comics Pro exclusive photo-cover

Klingon language photo-cover

Klingon language foil cover

Appendices[]

Background[]

• TheGraphic Novel Collection front cover was fromDavid Messina's cover to "Losses", while its back cover featuredKoloth fromJoe Corroney's cover to "Beneath the Skin".

Connections[]

IDW Publishingminiseries
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
DSC	The Light of Kahless •Succession •Aftermath •Adventures in the 32nd Century
PIC	Picard: Countdown •Stargazer
LD	All in a Sea of Wonders •Second Contact
SNW	The Illyrian Enigma •The Scorpius Run
Other	Turnaround •Alien Spotlight •Alien Spotlight II •Captain's Log •Waypoint •The Q Conflict •Aliens •Resurgence •Defiant •Picard's Academy •Sons of Star Trek

Publication history[]

21 November2007

First omnibus edition released byIDW Publishing.

11 August2010

Collected inStar Trek Omnibus: The Original Series (IDW)

27 August2020

Reissued asGraphic Novel Collection, Volume 127 (Eaglemoss Collections)

Translations[]

November2008

Portugeuse: AsKlingons: Herança de Sangue (Devir)

External links[]

• Klingons: Blood Will Tell article atMemory Alpha, the wiki for canonStar Trek.
• Klingons: Blood Will Tell page at theStar Trek Comics Checklist
• Writers Scott and David Tipton discuss the series inthis article at Newsarama