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Star Trek: Waypoint (2017)
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Fiction Review by The Gravedigger
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04.22.21
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This anthology series, which spans 50 years of Star Trek and all the various series, is one of the better Star Trek graphic novels to come out in the past few years. The first story takes place in a future of The Next Generation, with LaForge the Captain of the Enterprise. His only crew is Data, who has managed to meld his mind/personality with the ships computer and can create holographic copies of himself to do all the crew's tasks. There's also a solo Uhura tale from the original series and even a Gold Key type Star Trek story that emulates one of those stories perfectly. Plus, we get a Naomi Wildman story from Voyager as well as a point-of-view of the late Yeoman Leslie Thompson from the original series. Perhaps the strangest tale is the Star Trek Phase II one (Phase II was planned as a new Star Trek series before STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE), an alternate reality in which a young Vulcan named Xon is Kirk's science officer since Spock never returned after the original five-year-mission. Kirk is hard on him and McCoy is surprisingly to the Vulcan's defense. My favorite, and only ENTERPRISE story, concerns a young Jonathan Archer during a winter in New York State. A time-traveling Suliban assassin tries to kill him and he gets help from an unexpected hero.
Writers/Artists: Various
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Rating: nan out of 10.0 - votes cast total
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