Christine Chapel is bored. Una Chin-Riley is bored, Erica Ortegas is not bored, and Spock is fascinated by a microbe they discovered from a previous planet.
The starship Enterprise has been on a planet survey mission for weeks, having found nothing but microbes. Chapel calls a friend who’s doing an expedition on an ice planet that happens to also be a far off star base that Pike is sending the ship to. When they arrive they find the science team have disappeared, so off into the abyss they go!
See now this is the kind of story that could fit in with the current season of Strange New Worlds. The story has what we want: planets being explored, a mystery to solve, and a reason to come back next issue.
The art, I’d say is at least up there with the now ended Star Trek/Star Trek defiant run. And it does leave with a reason to come back and see what happens.
I’m not sure why Chapel suddenly is a thrill seeker, but then original Chapel was a glorified background character. And for some reason Scotty has brown hair now.
Otherwise a good start to a tie in to a good tv show. 8.5/10