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Spoilers Star Trek: The Last Starship

Interesting issue

So the ship is still officially the Omega, and the Borg Slipstream doesnt protect them from time dilation, its a more traditional FTL drive, so twenty years on Earth = 4 months on the Omega.

We dont actually get to Babel, but it looks like part of the mission has been to ferry Starfleet back to their homeworld once Earth turns xenophobic.

We meet Carters predecessor as XO, Solara, who isn't Human and may turn out to be our Big Bad. Its a shame weve sped through the events of this issue as I could have seen each trip to pick up diplomats being an issue on its own.
 
The galaxy map in this issue is almost the same as the one previously used by the authors in Lore War #1. And I find fault with it.

This issue labels the implied Kazon homeworld as just "Kazon" instead of "Kazari" from Lore War #1. I could not tell you which is supposed to be the error as I do not believe anything before Kelly, Lanzing, and Cantwell at IDW ever named the Kazon homeworld.

Recurring, the Borg homeworld is called "Borg Prime", a generic descriptor which I think was first used in Star Charts, instead of an actual name like "Arehaz" from the Destiny novel trilogy.

Recurring, the Founders' current homeworld is called "The Great Link" instead of an actual name like "Empersa" from Star Trek Online.

Recurring, the Wadi homeworld is called "Wadis" in contrast to "Oason" from Star Trek Adventures by Modiphius Entertainment or "Tomerela IV" from Last Unicron Games, which is valid but surprising given how much surface-level Memory Beta research the authors have repeatedly done.

Why is "Vulcan" labeled as such? The first issue had the lead admiral mention "Ni'Var", per DIS 3.07 implying reunification had happened well before the Burn.

The long-destroyed "Romulus" is still indicated on the map. Given the obvious status of Ni'Var society, this feels extremely pointless to me unless it indicates a future story in this series.

The long-sterilized "Organia" is still indicated on the map. Also feels pointless to me unless it indicates a future story in this series, which would be a highly questionable narrative choice given that the Star Trek: Omega coda one-shot specifically had Lily Sato comment T'Lir would look great aging into grey hair.

Why wouldn't this map include Babel, the focus of the current arc?

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tenmei said:
Interesting issue

So the ship is still officially the Omega, and the Borg Slipstream doesnt protect them from time dilation, its a more traditional FTL drive, so twenty years on Earth = 4 months on the Omega.

We dont actually get to Babel, but it looks like part of the mission has been to ferry Starfleet back to their homeworld once Earth turns xenophobic.

We meet Carters predecessor as XO, Solara, who isn't Human and may turn out to be our Big Bad. Its a shame weve sped through the events of this issue as I could have seen each trip to pick up diplomats being an issue on its own.
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didn’t early press material call it “Enterprise-Omega”, so spoiler wise a bit of a clumsy trip?

As far as we’re concerned right now it is just USS Omega, not the Enterprise [\SPOILER]
 
Aha, it took me a while to realize that
the symbol on Solara's armband is the future Emerald Chain insignia.

memory-alpha.fandom.com

Emerald Chain

The Emerald Chain was a capitalist syndicate of Orions and Andorians, though it also included many other species. Described as a "federation of mercantile exchanges", it rose in the wake of the Burn in the 31st century and achieved the power of a de facto state. (DIS: "Die Trying", "There Is A...
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Okay, I have some thoughts about reading Issues 1-4.
This is definitely going to be a series that people either love or hate. I write both space opera and post-apocalypse science fiction (albeit not together). I also have really felt the Burn was underdeveloped. So, I am really the audience for this.

However, this is going to be and has so far been an unrelentingly grim story.

The death toll tops the Dominion War by magnitude. People not only stop believing in the Federation but they revert to their worst instincts. Our heroes are in full triage mode as opposed to being able to save the day. Main characters killed.

Some people may also reject the Shatnerverse style resurrection of James T. Kirk and the fact it is so heavily entwined with Picard. But I think this is really picking up all of the discarded plotlines of the shows that really deserved to be used like the Jurati Borg and the preserved corpse of JTK.

I think issue #4 was the best of them and showed the sheer consequences of the failure in issue #3. Unfortunately, the time dilation depends on the idea the Borg don't have a way around it, which is absolutely ridiculous. Earth reviving the sanctuary districts as alien ghettos makes me genuinely disgusted with the humans of the Burn era and thinking that the idea of it ever being the Federation capital again as shameful.

Still, I love Wowie Carter as an example of the "New Humans" that Roddenberry envisioned existing but rarely ever showing up even in spin off media. Captain Sato is also a fascinating Andorian-human hybrid (?) that is an angry atheist pacifist which really makes him a good contrast to Kirk.
 
A question about tech and story in Issue #4
I get that the crew of the Omega was going to experience time dilation on their way to Babel, but how was Wowie Carter able to be present on earth during the voyage? At first I though it was a hologram of Wowie interacting with his family but he hugs his mother. Is he able to transport himself from the ship to Earth during the voyage? Is he using the "hard-light hologram" technology? Otherwise, I thought the story was very good.
 
tenmei said:
Star Trek: The Last Starship #5

Authors: Jackson Lanzing, Collin Kelly
Cover Art: Francesco Francavilla
Illustrators: Adrián Bonilla
$4.99 USD | 36 pages | 6-5/8 x 10-3/16 | Comic Book | 82771403458500511

In-Store Date: 2026-02-18

The Federation’s delegates have gathered. The Babel conference is on. Together, they aim to save Starfleet and bring peace to all quadrants. But while Captain Sato and the crew of the U.S.S. Omega have only experienced the passage of time as four months within their transwarp bubble, for the rest of the galaxy, it’s been 23 years.For 23 years, the delegates have been left to their own devices, to stew in their own machinations and to make new allegiances…and while the U.S.S. Omega may have brought them all together, the Burn has forced them apart. Not all want to broker peace, and someone who was once closest to Starfleet may become its greatest adversary…
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Enterprise1701 said:
Aha, it took me a while to realize that
the symbol on Solara's armband is the future Emerald Chain insignia.

memory-alpha.fandom.com

Emerald Chain

The Emerald Chain was a capitalist syndicate of Orions and Andorians, though it also included many other species. Described as a "federation of mercantile exchanges", it rose in the wake of the Burn in the 31st century and achieved the power of a de facto state. (DIS: "Die Trying", "There Is A...
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Given that we now know that The Emerald Chain is in play, I imagine that the whole "and someone who was once closest to Starfleet may become its greatest adversary…" bit in the issue 5 description refers to the Andorians.
 
Which makes it all the more disappointing
the series is using this flimsy transwarp time dilation excuse to speedrun the first 23 years of the galactic dark age.

Like, seriously. The authors play up Kirk's face to the disgruntled Klingon terrorist who doesn't believe it's really Kirk, but not to any leaders of United Earth who are never actually shown with their doubts about the continued existence of the Federation? Come on!
 
Spoiler for the latest SA episode:
The Blackest Fleet dumping their warp cores on 29 Klingon worlds in TLS#3 is part of why the Klingons, a multiplanetary species, is facing extinction in the 32nd century? That works for me.
 
Markonian said:
Spoiler for the latest SA episode:
The Blackest Fleet dumping their warp cores on 29 Klingon worlds in TLS#3 is part of why the Klingons, a multiplanetary species, is facing extinction in the 32nd century? That works for me.
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Nobody expects the Black Fleet, our chief weapon is fear ... and surprise ... fear and surprise. Our two main weapons are fear and surprise ... and bloody Gagh ...
 
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