2023/2024 comic releases

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Star Trek Volume Two: The Red Path

by: Mike Feehan
Hardcover MSRP: $24.99 USD
Diamond Code: SEP231286

TPB MSRP: $19.99

Written by Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing.

The second arc of the critically acclaimed Star Trek flagship comic series continues with Benjamin Sisko’s quest to stop celestial genocide! Sisko returns to Deep Space 9, and it’s the family reunion we’ve all been waiting for-or is it? As Sisko reckons with the sins of his past, the Theseus travels to a mysterious corner of Cardassian space to uncover the secrets of the Prophets…and learn how far the Red Path have infiltrated the galaxy! Collects Star Trek #7-10 and the 2023 Star Trek Annual.

Images are hosted on www.startrekbookclub.com a site I operate myself and hotlinking is permitted.

 

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Star Trek #25

Cover A by: Ramon Rosanas
MSRP: $4.99 USD
UPC: $82771403084602511
Diamond Code: AUG241252

Cover B by: Liana Kangas
MSRP: $4.99 USD
UPC: $82771403084602521
Diamond Code: AUG241253

by: Jake Bartok
MSRP: $4.99 USD
UPC: $82771403084602531
Diamond Code: AUG241254

Written by Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing.

The android Lore has done the unthinkable: He has detonated the Orb of Destruction, unmaking the universe. After an extra-galactic tumble on the ensuing shockwave, the Theseus sinks into fluidic space. There, the crew melds in and out of a manifold of realities. Benjamin Sisko is against a godkiller once again, but this time it’s up to him alone to save reality itself!

Images are hosted on www.startrekbookclub.com a site I operate myself and hotlinking is permitted.

 

[Extrocomp]

Liana Kangas is a much worse artist than Angel Unzueta, Marcus To and Megan Levens. It's especially unfortunate because issue 25 features Species 8472, which require a very skilled artist to get right. Kangas makes them look like scribbles.

 

[tgiokdi]

Lower Decks – Warp Your Own Way

Standard Cover by: Chris Fenoglio
MSRP: $24.99
Diamond Code: AUG241259

Written by Ryan North.

Mariner just wants to have a normal day, but no matter what side of the bed she wakes up on, the world is ending. Literally. If she has coffee, Borg attack! If she has raktajino, cue the Romulan boarding party! And in each scenario, Mariner and her friends end up dead, sometimes the ship is destroyed—and the day starts all over again.
But by exploring the different paths, you, the reader, can discover things that Mariner can’t. There are inconsistencies that don’t make sense—putting aside the fact that Mariner’s choice of drink each morning shouldn’t affect which alien races attack the ship, other facts of her world seem to change too. Something is definitely off. It’s up to you to discover!

Images are hosted on www.startrekbookclub.com a site I operate myself and hotlinking is permitted.

 

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Star Trek: Defiant #20

Cover A by: Angel Unzueta
MSRP: $4.99 USD
UPC: $82771403137902011
Diamond Code: AUG241255

Cover B by: Marcus To
MSRP: $4.99 USD
UPC: $82771403137902021
Diamond Code: AUG241256

by: Declan Shalvey
MSRP: $No MSRP
UPC: $82771403137902031
Diamond Code: AUG241257

Written by Christopher Cantwell.

The Romulans are descending on Antara, and Worf must lead his militia to victory against the warship Ran’Kara. When the battle turns against the Antarans, Worf is forced into a duel with one of the best Romulan fighters ever seen: Maiek. Has the battle already been lost, or will Maiek finally meet the edge of Worf’s bat’leth?

Images are hosted on www.startrekbookclub.com a site I operate myself and hotlinking is permitted.

 

[Tosk]

I just had a flick through Defiant #20. What the heck is going on with those Cardassians in the flashback? It's like the artist used the wrong photo reference or something. The first page they all have funky non-Cardie faces, regular "human" ears, and no neck ridges at all. Second page the main Cardie has gained proper ears, neck ridges, and most of his facial ridges, but the main forehead is still jacked-up.

Very odd. It's like the artist has drawn so many Antarans for this arc that they forgot these aren't Antarans.

 

[Extrocomp]

It looks like Defiant is following the Star Trek: Discovery approach to visual continuity.

 

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Star Trek: Year Five Deluxe Edition: Book 2

Standard Cover MSRP: $39.99 USD
Diamond Code: AUG241260

Written by Brandon Easton and Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing.

Embark on the critically acclaimed final chapter of the U.S.S. Enterprise‘s five-year voyage. The crew left Earth four years ago. Since then, they’ve traveled to strange new worlds, defeated impossible foes, and made universe-changing decisions. But now, with the end in sight, they’ll have to face their biggest challenge yet. Step aboard the Enterprise with Kirk, Spock, Bones, Uhura, Sulu, Scotty, and Chekov as they begin the end of their original five-year mission and boldly go into an uncertain future. This deluxe hardcover edition collects issues #15-25 and the Star Trek: Year Five Valentine’s Day Special.

 

[Dukhat]

I just had a flick through Defiant #20. What the heck is going on with those Cardassians in the flashback? It's like the artist used the wrong photo reference or something. The first page they all have funky non-Cardie faces, regular "human" ears, and no neck ridges at all. Second page the main Cardie has gained proper ears, neck ridges, and most of his facial ridges, but the main forehead is still jacked-up.

Very odd. It's like the artist has drawn so many Antarans for this arc that they forgot these aren't Antarans.

The other flashback contains several inconsistencies. I'm not super-anal-retentive about it because it's a comic book, but I will point them out.

1. The comic seems to go under the assumption that the battle of Setlik 3 took place in the year 2347 (the date in the Encyclopedia extrapolated by Okuda from when O'Brien started working with transporters.) However, DS9's 'Tribunal' gives the date as 2362. So to extrapolate from that...

2. The Starfleeters are wearing the STV commando uniforms, which would have been sorely out of date by both 2347 and definitely by 2362.

3. O'Brien looks like he does in TNG/DS9. In 2347 he would only have been 19 years old.

4. The Cardassians are wearing their newer DS9 uniforms, when technically they should have been wearing 'The Wounded' uniforms.

5. The Starfleeters are using the later TNG cobra head phasers and the phaser rifles from the TNG films. They are anachronistic; they should at the least be using the TNG season 1 dustbuster phasers, or any phaser from the TOS films.

6. While the Cardassian phasers and rifles are the same kind used in DS9, we don't know how old they actually are, so we can't with 100% accuracy be able to say that they're anachronistic. But really they, like the Starfleeters, should probably be using older-style weapons than what is depicted in the comic.

 

[Stevil2001]

4. The Cardassians are wearing their newer DS9 uniforms, when technically they should have been wearing 'The Wounded' uniforms.

None of the flashbacks in DS9 ever used "The Wounded" uniforms, did they?

 

[Dukhat]

None of the flashbacks in DS9 ever used "The Wounded" uniforms, did they?

Now that you mention it, no they didn’t.

 

[Yistaan]

I'm trying to get into these but Sisko seems to have taken a serious level in jerk in them (not to mention his open presence seems to contradict Lower Decks' claim he's still missing as of the 2380s). Also, we know Avery had some serious issues with a black man leaving behind his wife and new kid in the DS9 finale, so the story promising Sisko woiuld return was meant to fix that. But what's the point if these new comics shows Sisko seemingly spends no time with them when he actually does come back?

There's no explanation on how clone Kahless suddenly becomes a psycho with a vendetta against god level aliens either. Not to mention that his genocide of the crystalline entities (a key plot point in the comics when the heroes realize a chemical residue must've been from Kahless' weapon stealing the crystalline entities' powers and not from the entities themselves because Kahless killed them all) contradicts Lower Decks again when a crystalline entity shows up in that show, despite taking place after the comics they supposedly were genocided in.

For a comic series where the author brazenly and without authorization declared they were canon at a convention some time back, you think they'd actually do a better job of trying to keep it in line with actual screen canon.

 

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Star Trek: Sons of Star Trek TPB

Standard Cover by: Jake Bartok
MSRP: $17.99 USD
Diamond Code: SEP241290

Written by Morgan Hampton.

In the aftermath of Kahless’ harrowing Day of Blood, Jake Sisko struggles to find his place in the universe now that his family has been reunited and his father, Benjamin Sisko, has once again saved the Galaxy. Meanwhile, Nog faces the challenges of being the first Ferengi in Starfleet and Alexander Rozhenko is recovering mentally and emotionally from his time as one of Kahless’ devout followers. Although his father, Worf, was able to break him away from the Red Path cult, Alexander is haunted by his actions during the bloody coup and is unsure of his ability to atone for the devastation he caused. Jake, Alexander, and Nog find their stories intertwined as they’re thrust into an alternate reality full of lessons that may be just what the doctor ordered!

Images are hosted on www.startrekbookclub.com a site I operate myself and hotlinking is permitted.

 

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Star Trek: Lower Decks #1

Cover A by: Derek Charm
MSRP: $4.99 USD
UPC: $82771403368700111
Diamond Code: SEP241287

Cover B by: Megan Huang
MSRP: $4.99 USD
UPC: $82771403368700121
Diamond Code: SEP241288

Cover C by: Chris Fenoglio
MSRP: $4.99 USD
UPC: $82771403368700131
Diamond Code: SEP241289

Written by Ryan North.

Hot off their Eisner nomination for Lower Decks tie-in Shax’s Best Day, stellar duo Ryan North and Derek Charm are kicking off a brand-new ongoing series that’s a big fun adventure on a big fun ship……wherein Dr. T’Ana saves the crew from a virulent, purple-boiled disease that is sure to- Wait, no, everyone’s cured pretty quickly, actually.
Okay…wherein Deep Space 2’s distress call is mysteriously cut off and the crew has to- Wait, nope, they just needed some help resetting their comms systems.
ALL RIGHT, WHEREIN Mariner gets so totally frustrated with the lack of thrills aboard the Cerritos that she drags her friends into a holodeck adventure that would definitely kill them in reality! Should totally provide them all with a sense of purpose and well-being, right?
Right.
Or at least it would have. If the U.S.S. Bonaventure hadn’t shown back up from the Delta Triangle to provide them with a real challenge. It’s time to explore a ghost ship, baby!

Images are hosted on www.startrekbookclub.com a site I operate myself and hotlinking is permitted.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

Star Trek: Lower Decks #1

Cover A by: Derek Charm

This is the cover I ordered. It reminds of Jerome K. Moore's Star Trek #56 and Star Trek #1. Which may be deliberate, considering the story...

Spoiler

...features "footage" from the Animated Series! From one of the footnotes: "Kirk sometimes liked to unwind in his quarters by making a fanvid of his own day. This is canon."

The footnotes! OMG, the footnotes!

 

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Star Trek #26

Cover A by: Ramon Rosanas
MSRP: $4.99 USD
UPC: $82771403084602611
Diamond Code: SEP241281

Cover B by: Angel Hernandez
MSRP: $4.99 USD
UPC: $82771403084602621
Diamond Code: SEP241282

Cover C by: Jake Bartok
MSRP: $No MSRP
UPC: $82771403084602631
Diamond Code: SEP241283

Written by Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing.

In its escape from the Delta Quadrant, the U.S.S. Theseus has landed in an unknown sector of space that appears safer-if not a hundred years younger-than their own. There, the crew receive a signal from an oncoming ship: the U.S.S. Enterprise.Captain James T. Kirk is hailing.
The two crews join together in the race against Lore’s wave of destruction, convinced there must be some countermeasure that will save their universes from complete annihilation. But will their combined bravery and brainpower be enough? Or is it already too late for both their timelines?

Images are hosted on www.startrekbookclub.com a site I operate myself and hotlinking is permitted.

 

[Yistaan]

Spoiler

This comic sort of undermines all of Ambassador Spock's scenes in the Kelvin movies. Per this comic he now knows all along that he's going to end up trapped in the past of the Kelvin timeline. I guess that's why with this feeling of invincibility he decides to handle the Romulan supernova on his own (he knows he can't die yet) but it's still pretty strange. Furthermore his urging Quinto-Spock to stay aboard the Enterprise is just going through the motions for Ambassador Spock as he now already knows what decision Kelvin Spock will make.

We get some more hints on how Scotty invented transwarp beaming, with him implying that he reverse engineered it from Borg technology. So it was definitely already invented by Star Trek Nemesis. One wonders why it wasn't used at all in that movie--might've been useful

 

[Allyn Gibson]

In a number of ways, the way the story in #26 was told reminded me of DC's TOS/movie-era crossover in Star Trek #33--the Theseus crew get little scenes with their Enterprise counterparts.

Also...

Spoiler

This is post-Star Trek Beyond -- it's the Enterprise-A. When I realized that, it was nice to see Chekov.

 

[Danlav05]

Spoiler

This comic sort of undermines all of Ambassador Spock's scenes in the Kelvin movies. Per this comic he now knows all along that he's going to end up trapped in the past of the Kelvin timeline. I guess that's why with this feeling of invincibility he decides to handle the Romulan supernova on his own (he knows he can't die yet) but it's still pretty strange. Furthermore his urging Quinto-Spock to stay aboard the Enterprise is just going through the motions for Ambassador Spock as he now already knows what decision Kelvin Spock will make.

We get some more hints on how Scotty invented transwarp beaming, with him implying that he reverse engineered it from Borg technology. So it was definitely already invented by Star Trek Nemesis. One wonders why it wasn't used at all in that movie--might've been useful

The fact these comics are set between Voyager and Nemesis

Spoiler

yes it's 18 months but do you think they can stretch it (technically they are with parallel universe stuff) or is it limited should they have an end point

 

[Christopher]

Spoiler

We get some more hints on how Scotty invented transwarp beaming, with him implying that he reverse engineered it from Borg technology. So it was definitely already invented by Star Trek Nemesis. One wonders why it wasn't used at all in that movie--might've been useful

I've never understood why people assume interstellar beaming was something Scotty had to invent, when we saw that it already existed in the Trek universe in TOS: "The Gamesters of Triskelion," "Assignment: Earth," and "That Which Survives," TNG: "Bloodlines," and VGR: "Displaced," as well as being experimented with unsuccessfully as far back as the 22nd century in ENT: "Daedalus." (Also probably in "Arena," since Spock said the Metrons teleported Kirk "somewhere in a thousand cubic parsecs of space," which would be a sphere 20 light-years in radius. Also possibly "Allegiance," since the Enterprise-D traveled at warp 7 for about half an hour between the time the alien experimenters beamed Picard off the ship and the time they returned him.) The technology was always known, it was just considered impractical (according to "Bloodlines") because of the power demands and risks involved. (And '09 is consistent with the risk part, because Kelvin Scotty almost drowns thanks to the greater aiming error over such a distance. So one can't even assume that Scotty Prime invented a safer advance on the technology.)

Also, even Into Darkness's writers forgot that in '09, "transwarp beaming" wasn't used to mean beaming across interstellar distances, but specifically beaming onto a ship at warp, hence "transwarp" in the sense of "across a warp" rather than "faster than warp."