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Star Trek #500 review




Our first story is told from the perspective of a Tribble during the episodes The Trouble with Tribbles (Star Trek: The Original Series: Season 2, Ep 15) and Trials and Tribble-ations (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Season 5, Ep 6).  It is... extremely silly but also fun at the same time.  Our second story is from Strange New Worlds and has La'an Noonien-Singh dealing with her feelings for Kirk after the episode Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow (Strange New Worlds: Season 2, Ep 3).  She talks with his brother Sam at great length.  It is fine but it doesn't really add any anything in the end.  It feels like a rehash of things we've already seen.  Our third story is set in the future of Discovery.  Michael Burnham brings a lost girl back to her mother.  Simple as that.  

Our next story is set during season seven of Deep Space Nine and features Quark's dog Latinum playing baseball with the senior staff.  It is also silly and fun.  The story itself is very short but seeing everyone in their baseball jerseys again brings a smile to my face. The next story is from Lower Decks and it is fine I guess.  I'm sorry, I'm just not a big fan of Lower Decks.  I've tried.  The next story has Q Junior getting a cold.  It is a meta thing with his dad's text narration boxes becoming visible and malleable.  It is perfectly fine as a story, though I feel it borrows a bit too much from a certain Daffy Duck cartoon.

Our final story features Lore and Data reshaping the universe.  Lore is ultimately bored with the universe Data has created and desires something... more.  This serves as a preview for an upcoming Star Trek/Defiant crossover next year.

The Discovery story is a waste.  It simply has no impact of me, though I must admit I'm not a fan of that series at all.  The DS9 segment was fun but so terribly short.  TOS was fun, but as stated, extremely silly.  It reminds me of all these pitched Enterprise episodes where the POV was from Porthos.  The Lore and Data future crossover tease is very intriguing.  I'm curious to see where this will go.   I think I'd rather have a TNG or Voyager story than Discovery.  Especially since they want to hype up next year's event.  

six out of ten.


“I Knew You Were Tribble When You Walked In”
Script by Jordan Blum & Patton Oswalt
Based on the episode “The Trouble with Tribbles” written by David Gerrold 
Art by Leonard Kirk
Colors by Lee Loughridge

“Yesterday’s Shadow”
Script by Jody Houser 
Art by Vernon Smith 
Colors by Charlie Kirchoff 

“The Unexpected Mentor”
Script by Stephanie Williams 
Art by Tench
Colors by JP Jordan 

“Latinum Glove”
Script by Mike Chen 
Art by Angel Hernandez 
Colors by Nick Filardi 

“Go See Cal!”
Script by Magdalene Visaggio
Art by Megan Huang 
Colors by Charlie Kirchoff

“What’s a Q to You?”
Script by Morgan Hampton 
Art by Megan Levens 
Colors by Charlie Kirchoff

“The Final Masterpiece”
Script by Jackson Lanzing, Collin Kelly & Christopher Cantwell 
Art by Davide Tinto
Colors by Lee Loughridge

“Star Trek #500: The Continuing Comics Voyages”
An essay by Dayton Ward





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