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Sons of Star Trek #4 review








With Dukat dead Mariner assumes command.  Alexander is ordered to Sickbay but refuses and runs off.  Jake and Nog go after him and the three end up in the Holodeck where Jake begins a Klingon program.  Jake engages Alexander in combat and attempts to reason with him.  It works and Alexander goes to Sickbay while, on the Bridge, QJ apologizes to Jake and Nog for putting them in their current situation.  The Breen attack the ship.  Again.  Slowly, QJ's powers return and he solves the Breen problem.  The scene shifts and judge Q applauds his son.  In a brief epilogue Jake, Nog and Alexander are reunited with their families.  

It feels like this comic needed another issue to wrap things up.  The end comes at almost a breakneck speed.  QJ's powers start to return, he gets rid of the Breen and we shift to Q congratulating his son.  After that, a very brief epilogue with our three other characters.  They were all to have learned a lesson... but did they?  It all feels very Saturday morning cartoon and not very Star Trek.  Mariner in command was fun, but with such a mixed crew of familiar faces the rest feel very underutilized.  The Breen are... nothing really.  Just a threat to hold over the heads of our main characters.  You could replace them with anyone and it would have the same feel.  The Gorn.  Tholians.  They attack when it is convenient for the story.  

six out of ten.

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