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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds — The Seeds of Salvation TPB (Review)
Christine Chapel leads a rescue mission into an ancient prison hidden beneath the frozen world of Poilant in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds — The Seeds of Salvation. Robbie Thompson delivers a thoughtful horror-flavoured Star Trek adventure with strong character work, impressive artwork, and a satisfying Trek conclusion, even if a mid-book art change and a few familiar tropes stop it short of greatness.
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I Read the First Seven Chapters of Star Trek: Stargazers and It Just Didn’t Work for Me (Bleak Reading)
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.
