Freelance writer and independent comic book creator.
It’s finally here — the moment of reckoning where two timelines, movie and comic book, collide in a massive explosion of chronological chaos. DC Comics Star Trek #9 (New Frontiers Chapter 1: …Promises To Keep) is the first issue immediately following the theatrical run and comic adaptation of ‘Star Trek… read more »
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DC Comics Star Trek #8 (Saavik’s Story Chapter Two: Blood Fever) picks up immediately where the previous issue’s cliffhanger left off, which means Saavik is doing her best to destroy the Enterprise using a ship she stole from Vulcan that, surprisingly, seems to be more than a match for one… read more »
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DC Comics Star Trek #7 (Saavik’s Story Chapter One: Pon Far!) gives readers their first taste of in-series character building with a deep dive into Lt. Commander Saavik, the half-Romulan, half-Vulcan officer who was the protégé of Mr. Spock. For once, writer Mike W. Barr builds on, rather than borrows… read more »
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DC Comics Star Trek #6 (Who Is…ENIGMA?) is the second quasi-original tale in a row from a series that is maybe, finally, starting to find its own legs. Still, much of what shifts this issue’s plot away from being a mirror image of Star Trek stories we’ve seen before seems… read more »
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DC Comics Star Trek #5 (Mortal Gods) directly answers my criticisms about the previous issue by giving us a story that, if not wholly original, is at the very least non-derivative of an episode from The Original Series. That being said it does pose a number of chronology problems that… read more »
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DC Comics Star Trek #4 (Deadly Allies) offers the kind of story I’ve been dreading since I first began reading this run. It only took a handful of issues before Mike W. Barr decided it was time to start mining past episodes of The Original Series for entire plotlines. (I’m… read more »
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DC Comics Star Trek #3 (Errand Of War!) picks up immediately on the bridge of the Enterprise, where readers had just witnessed Klingon Emperor Kahless IV declaring war on the Federation at the end of Star Trek #2. Naturally, it’s all been blamed on Captain Kirk, who had the misfortune… read more »
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DC Comics Star Trek #2 (The Only Good Klingon…) is the second half of the series-starting two-parter, and as such it serves to conclude our introduction to this imagining of the Enterprise’s crew and the new cast of characters who are also along for the ride, as well as confirm… read more »
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I’ve been a huge Star Trek fan my entire life. I got started down that path by my mother, who loved the Original Series, and who would watch it with me in syndication of CBC – which would soon move it to the after-school time slot and cement its status… read more »
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