2025 Comics Thread

[tgiokdi]

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: The Seeds of Salvation #4

Cover A by: Travis Mercer
MSRP: $4.99 USD
UPC: $82771403454700411

Cover B by: Miasmatik Trahan
MSRP: $4.99 USD
UPC: $82771403454700421

Cover C by: Photograph
MSRP: $4.99 USD
UPC: $82771403454700431

Cover D by: Travis Mercer
MSRP: $No MSRP
UPC: $82771403454700441

Written by Robbie Thompson.

The Seed has taken hold—body, mind, and soul. Now under its control, Una and Jinare have become relentless drones, driven by vengeance. As Chapel struggles to untangle the lies binding them together, La’An, Spock, Scotty, and D6 fight to reconnect with the Enterprise…but first, they must survive the crushing abyss—and a colossal sentient squid guarding the way to the surface.
Aboard the Enterprise, Uhura intercepts a strange signal pulsing from Poilant’s surface—faint, fragmented, and impossible to trace. But Ortegas spots something else: a glowing red light spreading across the terrain, its shape disturbingly familiar. Is it…a ship? Or something far more dangerous?

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[tgiokdi]

Star Trek: Lower Decks #14

Cover A by: Vernon Smith
MSRP: $4.99 USD
UPC: $82771403368701411

Cover B by: Chris Fenoglio
MSRP: $4.99 USD
UPC: $82771403368701421

Written by Tim Sheridan.

The Cerritos away team begin their investigation on Laapoonia to find out what happened to the Laapeerians. (Don’t get Laapeeria and Laapoonia twisted—it’s not that hard.) Despite their best efforts, and much to Tendi’s chagrin, everyone on the crew except T’Lyn manages to offend the Laapoonians before they can get any answers… How will the Cerritos ever make second contact with the Laapeerians if they can’t even get their first contact with the Laapoonians right?

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[tgiokdi]

Star Trek: The Last Starship #3

Cover A by: Francesco Francavilla
MSRP: $4.99 USD
UPC: $82771403458500311

Cover B by: Rahzzah Murdock
MSRP: $4.99 USD
UPC: $82771403458500321

Cover C by: Francesco Francavilla
MSRP: $4.99 USD
UPC: $82771403458500331

Written by Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing.

The U.S.S. Omega launches into battle! Its adversary? A chaotic Klingon cult whose bloodred path is focused purely on obliterating the remaining vestiges of Starfleet. What’s left of the Federation is falling apart by the moment. Captain Sato, who once dreamed of uniting the galaxy, is now living his worst nightmare. He was raised in a time of peace…but no progress comes without a fight. While the Klingons might be his enemies after centuries of peace, he has Kirk as his ally…and no one knows how to defeat a Klingon better than the Federation’s greatest hero.

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[Extrocomp]

I've finally read Shaxs' Worst Day and I'm sad to say, it may be even worse than Shaxs' Best Day.

It has the same Looney Tunes-style humor that feels extremely out of place in a Star Trek story, even a Lower Decks comic.

Shaxs still rants about fascists constantly. While he did mention fascism twice on the show, it was never a central part of his character. As a Bajoran, it's unlikely that he would even know what fascism is unless he studied Earth history at the Academy. Even then, he would probably treat it as a historical footnote, not as something that means anything to him.

The key plot twist is that Shaxs manages to recreate the "spatial scission" effect from the Voyager episode "Deadlock" to generate an entire fleet of Cerritos duplicates and uses them to invade Earth. That's not how spatial scission works. The duplicates are supposed to occupy the same space, but in slightly different dimensions. Also, Voyager's duplication resulted from a random space anomaly, so it's unlikely that Shaxs who has no scientific background, would be able to recreate it, even if he read about it in a Starfleet report. Finally, Shaxs crashes all the Cerritos duplicates into Earth and blows up the planet by detonating their warp cores, even though it was clearly stated that spatial scission can't duplicate antimatter.

 

[Tuskin38]

As a Bajoran, it's unlikely that he would even know what fascism is unless he studied Earth history at the Academy.

Translated from a equivalent or similar Bajoran word.

it was never a central part of his character

His hate of the Cardassians was shown several times.

 

[Avro Arrow]

Shaxs still rants about fascists constantly. While he did mention fascism twice on the show, it was never a central part of his character. As a Bajoran, it's unlikely that he would even know what fascism is unless he studied Earth history at the Academy. Even then, he would probably treat it as a historical footnote, not as something that means anything to him.

The Cardassian Union is largely considered to be fascist, so Shaxs would have grown up under such a system, and should be quite familiar with what it is. As @Tuskin38 noted, "fascist" is probably just the Federation Standard/English word used to describe such a state.