Star Trek ongoing cover and preview

Tim Bradstreet has released his cover artwork (sans titles) for the ninth issue of the Star Trek ongoing comic series (part one of Return of the Archons). It looks like this:

Meanwhile last week saw the release of issue six, the concluding half of Operation: Annihilate. If you didn't get it yet you can read a five page preview after the jump (via's Comic Continuum's previews for all last week's IDW comics). Or you can now pre-order the second omnibus of the series (due in July) which will contain Operation: Annihilate, and the first original story in the series, the soon to start, Vendetta Conspiracy.