A young red shirt nearly loses his eye to a Mugato. He walks away with a discoloured eye and some scars that he hopes will appear intimidating. Some time later he gets a new assignment with several other security officers. Someone has tapped into a Starfleet coms center and its their job to sort it out. They will offer bait, then cut the data feed and see who comes to investigate. The officers are fired toward the surface in torpedo casings, though two officers don't survive. As the remaining team members regroup with the embedded officer on the planet, a Romulan Bird of Prey approaches.
This is an interesting change of pace. A comic focused on Red Shirts. Of course fans know the joke. Red Shirts are disposable on the Original Series and we get multiple panels of Red Shirt deaths. Some gruesome, some funny. Having them be self aware, that few ever live past thirty, was a good choice I think. The story feels a bit more mature than most, especially with the first page being our main character getting his face horribly slashed by a Mugato. I just hope this book can walk the fine line between being mature and being self aware with its sense of humor. I enjoy the Romulans so I'm curious to see their involvement in this.
seven out of ten.
