2025 Comics Thread

[tgiokdi]

Star Trek: Voyager: Homecoming #3

Cover A by: Angel Hernandez
MSRP: $4.99 USD
UPC: $82771403455400311

Cover B by: Elizabeth Beals
MSRP: $4.99 USD
UPC: $82771403455400321

Cover C by: Elizabeth Beals

Written by Susan Bridges and Tilly Bridges.

To save the Federation—and the entire Alpha Quadrant—Captain Janeway made the ultimate sacrifice: deleting Species 8472’s data on opening a singularity into normal space. Now, Voyager is stranded in fluidic space…and 8472 wants them dead.
Hunted by a relentless alien fleet, Janeway and her crew go on the run, weaving through planets and asteroid fields in a desperate bid to survive. But just as hope begins to fade, Voyager’s sensors detect something unexpected: the wreckage of a Borg cube.
Is it a lifeline back to the galaxy they call home…or the beginning of an even greater threat?

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[tgiokdi]

Star Trek: Red Shirts #5

Cover A by: Chris Shehan
MSRP: $4.99 USD
UPC: $82771403430100511

Cover B by: Joe Corroney
MSRP: $4.99 USD
UPC: $82771403430100521

Cover C by: James Biggie
MSRP: $No MSRP
UPC: $82771403430100531

Written by Christopher Cantwell.

Only two red shirts remain. The other ten crewmembers on Mission Squawkbox have plummeted hundreds of feet to the ground, been eaten alive by giant alien insects, or been exploded into a million tiny bits by falling torpedoes. Each death has dealt a blow to Ensigns Raad’s and Miller’s morale… Is Starfleet really the paragon of cooperation it claims to be? Or is it willing to expend its members’ lives for the sake of peace? With both Klingons and Romulans breathing down their necks, Raad’s and Miller’s loyalty will be tested. Are they for Starfleet? Or themselves?

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

 

[JD]

Just borrowed and read Red Shirts #5, and all I will say is that there is one hell of a twist which I did not see coming at all.

 

[Elwro]

Ooooooooh. Aha. A good one! A really well-told story altogether. Perhaps people reading the trade will enjoy it even more without having to recall the details after the monthly breaks...

 

[DarKush]

Really enjoyed the finale for Redshirts. I'm thinking of buying it when it comes out as a trade. I was iffy for most of the series, but it had a great ending and is one of the best Trek stories I've read in a while.

I did have some quibbles with the finale issue though.

Spoiler

-I wish they had stuck with the Original Series idea that the Romulans were honorable. But they went with the TNG depictions of the Romulans in terms of behavior and the Klingons in terms of looks.
-I did think the TNG Klingons looked good in Original Series garb, though I would've been fine with seeing Original Klingons here. And maybe a Discovery Klingon thrown in the background.
-I would like to see a sequel to this story, but also a Red Shirts anthology set in the 24th century and beyond.

 

[Elwro]

In #5 (I forgot if not earlier) one of the characters is identified as

Spoiler

Neral

. Is this the character we know from other Trek appearances, or is this a coincidence?

Sorry if this is a dumb question, the monthly breaks hamper understanding on my part;-)

 

[tenmei]

Spoiler: THAT character

Memory Beta is saying it is that character from TNG and DS9

 

[Elwro]

Spoiler: THAT character

Memory Beta is saying it is that character from TNG and DS9

Thanks!

 

[Enterprise1701]

In #5 (I forgot if not earlier) one of the characters is identified as

Spoiler

Neral

. Is this the character we know from other Trek appearances, or is this a coincidence?

Sorry if this is a dumb question, the monthly breaks hamper understanding on my part;-)

I thought you liked my post two months ago.

Huh. Quite the continuity link in Red Shirts #3

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for the author to show what Commander Revo and Chairman Neral were up to a century before their deaths in Defiant #20 / #21.

But no QuchHa' Klingons!

Star Trek: Red Shirts acts as a distant prequel to Star Trek: Defiant, itself a more direct sequel to Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

 

[Elwro]

I thought you liked my post two months ago.

Oh boy. You're absolutely right. And here I had the impression I was reading the name for the first time in #5, this morning... that's what lack of sleep does to you.

 

[Enterprise1701]

Oh boy. You're absolutely right. And here I had the impression I was reading the name for the first time in #5, this morning... that's what lack of sleep does to you.

Happens to the best of us!

 

[Allyn Gibson]

Steve Erwin was a DC Comics artist and did a fair amount of Star Trek comic work. He passed away in 2023 and I recently completed a short documentary about his work.

Steve Erwin died in 2023? I did not know this.

 

[JD]

Really enjoyed the finale for Redshirts. I'm thinking of buying it when it comes out as a trade. I was iffy for most of the series, but it had a great ending and is one of the best Trek stories I've read in a while.

I did have some quibbles with the finale issue though.

Spoiler

-I wish they had stuck with the Original Series idea that the Romulans were honorable. But they went with the TNG depictions of the Romulans in terms of behavior and the Klingons in terms of looks.

Yeah, I was a little surprised to see nothing but bumpy headed Klingons. It seems like most TOS era books and comics go with either all smooth headed or a combination of smooth and bumpy headed Klingons.
As for their behavior, it seems like most stories have pretty much use their TNG era depictions even in the TOS era.

-I did think the TNG Klingons looked good in Original Series garb, though I would've been fine with seeing Original Klingons here. And maybe a Discovery Klingon thrown in the background.

At this point I think the Discovery Klingons have pretty much been retconned out of existence, other than one joke appearance in Lower Decks. Even when they did Disco era flashbacks on Strange New Worlds we only saw their version of the bumpy headed Klingons.

-I would like to see a sequel to this story, but also a Red Shirts anthology set in the 24th century and beyond.

I like this idea, but would you switch to gold shirts and continue to focus on security for the 24th Century+ stories or switch over command officers?

 

[Enterprise1701]

Just borrowed and read Red Shirts #5, and all I will say is that there is one hell of a twist which I did not see coming at all.

My feelings on the series did a 180 when I finished the issue!

I now almost forgive the authors for the excessive American-ism character tropes as well as trying too hard with Chinese representation that they butchered the goal.

 

[Tosk]

Even when they did Disco era flashbacks on Strange New Worlds we only saw their version of the bumpy headed Klingons.

Unless you count the Previously Ons.

 

[Christopher]

as well as trying too hard with Chinese representation that they butchered the goal.

Oh? How so?

 

[JD]

Unless you count the Previously Ons.

Did they do recaps of Discovery on Strange New Worlds? I've watched it twice, and just finished my second a few months ago, and I don't remember them doing any recaps with Discovery footage.

 

[Tosk]

Did they do recaps of Discovery on Strange New Worlds? I've watched it twice, and just finished my second a few months ago, and I don't remember them doing any recaps with Discovery footage.

We see T'Kuvma in at least one of the recaps. I think it was Under the Cloak of War.

Edit: Confirmed.

Under the Cloak of War (episode)

Captain Pike and his crew welcome a Klingon defector aboard the USS Enterprise, but his presence triggers the revelation of some shocking secrets. The USS Enterprise arrives in the Prospero system, which has been under Federation jurisdiction since the end of the Klingon War, to rendezvous with...

memory-alpha.fandom.com

 

[JD]

Oh, OK, I guess I just forgot or missed the recap last time I watched it.

 

[ToddKent]

Steve Erwin died in 2023? I did not know this.

Yes it was very sudden and unexpected.