Spoilers Star Trek: The Last Starship

[tenmei]

A thread to discuss the new ongoing comic from IDW - Star Trek: The Last Starship. There will be spoilers ahead for the title itself, Star Trek: Discovery and possibly other series.

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[tenmei]

Ships Lost in The Burn

Spoiler: Discovery

USS Giaconni
USS Yelchin
Gav'Nor

Spoiler: Last Starship

USS Brookfield
USS KTang
USS Antaka
USS Bolivar
USS Nog
USS Reznor

 

[Markonian]

TLS #1
I wonder if we’ll learn the registry numbers of the USS Sagan and USS Omega?
Unfortunately there were no new views of the Sagan. It looks inconsistent across the variant covers but only is seen in full once inside the comic, so I presume that’s its ‚real‘ look. I didn’t notice until now how it’s saucer resembles the 26th century Starfleet ships like Universe– and Sagittarius class.

31st century USS Enterprise referenced! No class or letter details.

Until proven otherwise, my mental continuity says that’s the Kirk–class USS Enterprise NCC–1701–P.

Thanks for setting up the thread, @tenmei!

 

[JD]

So they don't have every single starship besides the Omega being destroyed in The Burn?

 

[Markonian]

So they don't have every single starship besides the Omega being destroyed in The Burn?

96% of Starfleet.
That's a huge loss but there's still 4% of ships and stations out there.
We know from the DSC novel Wonderland that even docked starships become abandoned.
This comic reiterates that even with the Burn over, Starfleet cannot use warp drives anymore from now on.

 

[JD]

Well that's bit of a relief, from some of the promotional stuff they were making it sound like the Omega was going to be the only ship left.

 

[Markonian]

Well that's bit of a relief, from some of the promotional stuff they were making it sound like the Omega was going to be the only ship left.

Ah, I see.
At the end of the comic, the Omega is Earth's/Starfleet's only active ship because any others rely on warp drive. The Omega is built by hand, after the Burn, from repurposed USS Theseus bits.

 

[Christopher]

This comic reiterates that even with the Burn over, Starfleet cannot use warp drives anymore from now on.

I guess it makes sense that they'd think that right afterward, for fear that the remaining dilithium would also explode if used in an active warp core. By the time of Discovery, with a century passing with no more kaboom, people had started using warp drive again, but to a limited degree and only when necessary.

 

[Markonian]

I guess it makes sense that they'd think that right afterward, for fear that the remaining dilithium would also explode if used in an active warp core. By the time of Discovery, with a century passing with no more kaboom, people had started using warp drive again, but to a limited degree and only when necessary.

Agreed. I'm sure there'd be daredevils who'd warp no matter what. Like the Couriers.
I guess there has to be a reason for various resource scarcities. In STO, every shuttle and ship has access to the Khitomer Alliance's galactic transwarp network, Iconian gateway network, and have their own quantum slipstream drive...

 

[JD]

Ah, I see.
At the end of the comic, the Omega is Earth's/Starfleet's only active ship because any others rely on warp drive. The Omega is built by hand, after the Burn, from repurposed USS Theseus bits.

OK, that makes sense.
I was a little iffy on this after some of the promotional stuff, but seeing the positive reaction it's getting now, I might give it a try.

 

[Markonian]

OK, that makes sense.
I was a little iffy on this after some of the promotional stuff, but seeing the positive reaction it's getting now, I might give it a try.

You could await reactions to issues 2 or 3 before jumping in. That would also mean you get to read a chunk of the story at once.
Or flip through the pages if there's shops that sell the comics in your area?

 

[Tuskin38]

In STO, every shuttle and ship has access to the Khitomer Alliance's galactic transwarp network, Iconian gateway network, and have their own quantum slipstream drive...

These stories are in different continuities, so I'm not sure how STO is relevant here.

And the transwarp network is mentioned and used in Discovery, just rarely because it's full of debris.
Slipstream is also brought up in Discovery, Benamite crystals are mentioned as scarce so it's also rarely used.

 

[Bryan Levy]

I liked it, which is surprising for me given how tied to Discovery and Picard this is. I question how much Agnes would actually care about Captain Kirk, but I guess “500 years of Borg gobbledygook” is as good a way as any to bring him back. My big problem with the concept is bringing him back at all. I mean, it would be like resurrecting William the Conqueror after an EMP. His context for everything would be non-existent. Same with Jim Kirk. What would he know about life 1000 years after he died?

 

[Christopher]

It was Borg gobbledygook that brought Kirk back from the dead in the Shatnerverse's The Return. They couldn't think of an explanation that hasn't been done?

 

[FredH]

It was Borg gobbledygook that brought Kirk back from the dead in the Shatnerverse's The Return. They couldn't think of an explanation that hasn't been done?

Ah, but that was Borg/*Romulan* gobbledygook. This one is *just* Borg gobbledygook. Innovation!

 

[tenmei]

It was Borg gobbledygook that brought Kirk back from the dead in the Shatnerverse's The Return. They couldn't think of an explanation that hasn't been done?

As a technicality, it's not entirely Borg magic, its Project Phoenix from Picard S3, my read was that the Borg just use their wizardry to restore Kirks memory to a specific point in his lifetime.

OK, that makes sense.
I was a little iffy on this after some of the promotional stuff, but seeing the positive reaction it's getting now, I might give it a try.

The link to the artists instagram has the first few pages which will give you an idea of the jist, I'd definitely recommend it, but as Markonian says, worth waiting another issue to see how it pans out. All we have now is the first fifteen minutes of the pilot effectively.