2025 Comics Thread

[Danlav05]

Spoiler: Uhura

Novels also had her making Admiral. IIRC.

Spoiler

Yes the last Sherman/Schwartz Spock saga also had Admirals Chekov and Uhura.

So I guess it's only Sulu who didn't reach the late 24th Century? Unless he's had his feet up sipping a cocktail on Risa the whole time

 

[Christopher]

Spoiler

Yes the last Sherman/Schwartz Spock saga also had Admirals Chekov and Uhura.

So I guess it's only Sulu who didn't reach the late 24th Century? Unless he's had his feet up sipping a cocktail on Risa the whole time

Spoiler

The DS9 Day of Honor entry, Armageddon Sky, features an elderly Starfleet officer who goes by the alias of "George" and is very strongly implied to be Sulu.

 

[JD]

They've run out of fresh ideas completely.
By the looks of it even the comics aren't selling, NuTrek or not.
So they gotta go back to the tried and tested vault of James T.Kirk, again.
Nauseating.

I don't know if I'd say that, exploring The Burn is a pretty fresh idea, and the concept behind Red Shirts is pretty interesting. I'm also curious to see how their versions of Voyager's return home compares to Pocket's/Gallery's.

 

[Tuskin38]

I half expect the ship in Last Starship to be the Theseus, the shop on the covers certainly gives Theseus silhouette vibes

Oh yeah, I can see that.

 

[Danlav05]

So Last Starship and Redshirts are on my pull list.

I half expect the ship in Last Starship to be the Theseus, the shop on the covers certainly gives Theseus silhouette vibes

From startrekcomics.info

For seven centuries, the United Federation of Planets brought together the entire Galaxy with peace, stability, enlightenment, and the promise of mutual protection. And then, in one terrible moment, it all crumbled in an event known as THE BURN, a Galaxy-wide disaster in which dilithium has gone inert, causing the detonation of every active warp core. The only ship remaining is a hack-and-slash Enterprise-Omega and its ragtag crew. Facing a true Wild West in space, the crew will need to make use of what few resources they have to uphold Starfleet's mission of unity across the universe... and Captain Kirk will have to face a future without the Federation he loved so dearly...

 

[Avro Arrow]

I half expect the ship in Last Starship to be the Theseus, the shop on the covers certainly gives Theseus silhouette vibes

Really? I'm not seeing that at all, TBH. I will spoiler code this for those hoping to go in blind.

Spoiler: The Last Starship

It looks like an old, broken-down Constitution class that they pulled out of a scrapyard somewhere. Because Kirk's coming back, so why not go all-in on that TOS nostalgia, you know?

For seven centuries, the United Federation of Planets brought together the entire Galaxy with peace, stability, enlightenment, and the promise of mutual protection. And then, in one terrible moment, it all crumbled in an event known as THE BURN, a Galaxy-wide disaster in which dilithium has gone inert, causing the detonation of every active warp core. The only ship remaining is a hack-and-slash Enterprise-Omega and its ragtag crew. Facing a true Wild West in space, the crew will need to make use of what few resources they have to uphold Starfleet's mission of unity across the universe... and Captain Kirk will have to face a future without the Federation he loved so dearly...

I actually think this could be a pretty good story... but I think it would be even better without shoehorning Kirk in.

 

[JD]

While I have mixed feelings on the whole Kirk part of The Last Starship, I am curious how they're bringing him into it. The most likely scenarios to me are that it's a time travel thing and they'll just send him back to the 23rd century at the end, or he's some kind of clone or something like that.

 

[Tuskin38]

Really? I'm not seeing that at all, TBH. I will spoiler code this for those hoping to go in blind.

Spoiler: The Last Starship

It looks like an old, broken-down Constitution class that they pulled out of a scrapyard somewhere. Because Kirk's coming back, so why not go all-in on that TOS nostalgia, you know?

we're referring to this one

Spoiler

 

[Avro Arrow]

The most likely scenarios to me are that it's a time travel thing and they'll just send him back to the 23rd century at the end

I'm a little fuzzy on the timeline, but wasn't the time travel ban in place by the time of the burn? If so, if Kirk time-travelled to that era, then Starfleet probably wouldn't be able to send him back. I guess Carl could always make a visit, though.

While I have mixed feelings on the whole Kirk part of The Last Starship, I am curious how they're bringing him into it.

So here's my prediction.

Spoiler: Prediction on how they get Kirk into the Burn era

I think they're going to take advantage of that Picard S3 easter egg (which I still dislike, BTW). The Burn happens, and suddenly Starfleet finds themselves in total disarray, and they complain it's just like being thrown back to the earliest days of the Federation, and they have no idea how to handle it. And then somebody is like, "what if I told you we have one of the greatest heroes from that era on ice over on Daystrom Station?". Then they use their 30th-century technology to Lazarus Project him back to life, and the story begins in earnest.

It's kind of thematically similar to how the writers brought Sisko out of the Celestial Temple to deal with the godkiller crisis in the recently-ended Star Trek title.

I'll just leave that there, and then in a few months we can all have a good laugh about how wrong I was.

ETA:

we're referring to this one

Spoiler

Spoiler: Tuskin38's spoiler

That one looks like it's starting to blow up? I would guess that's supposed to represent a modern ship getting destroyed in the Burn, similar to that other one that has a bunch of ships blowing up at once. I could certainly be wrong, though. I guess we'll all know in September!

 

[JD]

Oh yeah, I forgot about the time travel ban. I could see your idea being a good possibility though.

 

[Tuskin38]

I wonder if they'll tie it to the daystrom thing from Picard S3