Deep Space Nine

Seven chapters into Star Trek: Stargazers, Leon, the lead, looks up from a fantasy novel his class is dissecting and connects the book’s tyrant to the Borg. Assimilation, he says, is just the annihilation of the self. It is a real Trek thought, the kind the franchise has built entire stories on, and for a second I sat up. Then the class went back to deciding which of the novel’s elves are secretly Vulcans, the moment closed, and it struck me that one line was the most Star Trek the comic had managed in seven chapters.