The Star Trek comedian e-book sequence imagines one thing totally different, partly due to plot factors from different exhibits. Within the Subsequent Technology season six episode “Rightful Inheritor,” we meet a clone of Kahless the Unforgettable, the legendary warrior king commemorated by Klingons. That episode ends with a query of religion, indicating that the clone and people concerned with creating the parable perceive that Kahless will not be a god. Nevertheless, within the comedian, every thing has modified. The Kahless clone has determined to show his price by slaughtering the god-like beings of the Star Trek universe. And, as anybody who has watched The Authentic Sequence can inform you, Star Trek has loads of god-like beings.
As god-like beings themselves, the Prophets fear about Kahless’ rampage, and they also carry Sisko again to the mortal aircraft to take care of the destroyer.
Quite a lot of what follows might be dismissed as mere fan-service. On his new ship, the appropriately-named USS Theseus, Sisko assembles a workforce of all-stars, together with Dr. Crusher and Knowledge, Tom Paris from Voyager, and Scotty from TOS (nonetheless within the twenty fourth century after the TNG episode “Relics”). Even Enterprise is represented within the type of Ensign Sato, a human-Andorian associated to Hoshi. Throughout the problems that comply with, the workforce meets different fan favorites—which finally results in a sister sequence referred to as Star Trek: Defiant, following a workforce led by Worf that features Lore, Spock, Ro Laren, and B’Elanna Torres.
And, in fact, the sequence makes time for interpersonal moments that one would anticipate. Sisko’s disappearance on the finish of Deep House 9, wherein he abandons not simply Jake, but additionally his new spouse Kasidy Yates and his new child daughter, at all times rubbed some individuals the flawed approach, notably Brooks himself. Situation #1 of Star Trek addresses that downside, making “Jake” the primary phrase that the reconstituted Sisko speaks. Not solely will we get a greater thought of how little company Sisko had in his disappearance, however we get a wonderful reunion between father and son within the type of a hug the 2 share on the station’s promenade.
Have been Star Trek simply moments corresponding to these, it will be an pleasurable, however cloying comedian. However the fan-service moments are secondary to a satisfying Star Trek journey, one that mixes the promise of exploration with the philosophical quandaries that made the franchise nice.
As demonstrated of their work for DC and Marvel, particularly the Guardians of the Galaxy and Kang the Conqueror runs they did for the latter, Kelly and Lanzing perceive tips on how to pepper their huge, high-concept tales with loads of motion. The “When the Partitions Fell” arc that runs throughout points 25 by means of 30 is a specific spotlight. The storyline takes full benefit of a rift and time and area to additional play with Trek lore, bringing aboard a younger Kirk and even taking a dip into the Kelvin timeline, whereas staying centered on Sisko’s conflicted emotions about his allegiances to the Prophets and Starfleet.
