The people whom J.J. Abrams is trying to get out to see Star Trek are probably not the people who will be reading Star Trek: Countdown. It's a comic book that's an official prequel to the movie, and sets up a number of the storylines that will take place over the course of the movie, which comes out May 7.

But for the die-hard Trek fans, the comic apparently calms a lot of fears that Abrams' movie will ditch Trek mythology in favor of courting a wider audience. AICN has given a thumbs-up to the comic and what it entails about the movie, writing "Say what you will about the failings of the studio-hammered Transformers script; I feel now that the [Trek screenwriters] Kurtzman-Orci team supplies geekitude sufficient enough to keep the new movie honest."

Check out the AICN article for the details of what's in the book, and speculation on how they lead up to the state of the Trek galaxy when the movie began. Wondered why the Enterprise in the movie looks different? Or why Chekhov outranks Kirk? Your geek speculation can now run wild.