“The Last Starship” picks two of the biggest opportunities in “Star Trek” modern

When IDW announced the latest Star Trek comic, The last championshipand A lot of focus The fact was that the series, in one way or another, was reviving Captain James T Kirk for a specific story in the 31st century schedule Star Trek: discovery. Now the series is here; The hypothesis is much more than Hanin creative a trip Captain, but instead a great way to explore one, but two of the different major jaws that were developed in contemporary Star TrekThe Age of Flotion – this Star Trek Bigly abandoned on TV.

The first issue of The last championshipJackson Lanzeng and Colin Kelly wrote, with art by Adrian Bonella and Head Moore, and messages from Clayton Kaogs – in the first two chances: “The Burn” in the early thirty -first century. The catastrophic stability of the catastrophic dealumium, at the level of the galaxy (and with it, is that the breach near all the active warp) formed a major back element across discoveryIn the third season after the ship He shot her distant future In the middle of the thirty -third century, a galaxy is already wrestling largely with the new current situation of the greatly decreasing union and the limited FTL travel between the stars.

But while discoverySeason Three It greatly formed itself About solving the problem of burning and its mysterious origin (it allowed the ship to cancel the problems related to the FTL travel to a large extent with alternative -based alternative systems), preparation The last championship In the aftermath of the direct burning it gives the chain a great feeling of drama. The first is the fact that, regardless of what is happening, we know to a large extent that the Starfleet crisis will not be resolved, because this is it discoveryJobs after a century of all of this happens, without a dramatic or two time jump.

The other is that we gave us a great opportunity to see Starfleet officers wrestling in an actual time with the loss of a Star Trek The current situation that was present for thousands of years and what this loss could do, even the best and brightest. The last championship It does not give us a stagnant union in moments before it is placed low, but it was completely ascending: the problem opens with USS Sagan In the pursuit of the Gorky ship, but not for any regular issue, but because the ship’s crew has an opportunity to persuade Journal to join the union k last The well -known species in the galaxy. Even if we know that everything is about to go to hell for Captain Delacort Sato and his crew, the shortest moments, Star TrekThe Federation of the Federation is on the threshold of a full Utobi community, which is the final achievement of the goals that the privilege wanted as all of the 60 years, which is an idea of Star Trek Without an external conflict, the series has rarely seen before.

Of course, things do not last: at the moment that Sagan It achieves this moment of diplomacy, the burning occurs. the SaganBesides Starfleet Fleet and hundreds of thousands, if not millions, from ships, starfleet or other, across the galaxy. Sato and three Bridge crew are some of the small number of Starfleet employees who are still alive and become major figures in the Federation’s response to almost destroy the Hungarian civilization in a moment. Unlike discoveryThere is no flash forward to a variable position, but it is still very similar in the current situation. There are no people here accustomed to this; There is not yet the prosperous pockets of society or the isolation world that we see through the series, pending the hope of unity in the union that will be provided in the end before discovery The mission of the crew.

Everything in The last championship It is raw and at the present time, even more perfect for Starfleet members is alive. And not only we sit with this horror, however The last championshipAlmost the first number of attachments, Bonella and More technician in thick, sneezing and shades are greatly ink. The last championship He almost feels a horror comic as it is Star Trek One, but existential awe: horror in the collapse of a society that has been displayed in almost every work Star Trek From ever.

This is what people suddenly want to do in this type of terrifying position that leads to The last championshipAnother touch and her brave on Star Trek an opportunity. While the remains of the Starfleet leadership on the ground moved on what comes after that to the galaxy, it is interrupted by the arrival of a familiar envoy: a convincing, electronic personality, which revolves around it, which ultimately reveals its name, face and identity … Star Trek: PicardAgnis GrouatiBorg Cooperookive Ambassador, who has not been seen nearly a thousand years ago, is ready again to work with the federation as it was in its beginning.

One of the largest and strangest disappointments about moving from PicardSeason 2 To the third, the amount of the capabilities that were dissipated in its sudden step to a Nostalgia Next generation reunion (Although he was, in the end, a No good reunion). The comprehensive imagination of a completely new faction of Borg is not only ready to be in peace with the union, but it was likely to join it is a kind of bold thinking Star Trek He has not thought for years – not since then Tng She turned herself klingons from The opponents of the allies. But the show never did anything with him: Jurati was one original Picard A character is among many who did not appear in the third season, which brought up Tng A crew to face the threat of Burg that we already knew and we saw many times before.

Burg-Juraati role in The last championship It is just like its short appearance in Picard The second season was. While Starfleet had largely eliminated Borg Collective, Ashnis Cooperative is a completely different monster, as it is presented to help Starfleet residue in building a new pioneer to try to bring hope to the galaxy, and works on Borg Transwarp technology instead of the FTL on Delthome. On the surface, it is friendly, and has pushed a desperate union to an alliance to upgrade the highest level of ideals it represents for thousands of years – it is not there to kick Starfleet while it is present or end the task. But it is clear immediately at the end The last championship #1 The cooperative has its own goals instead of just going to Starfleet in the Latin position where its mouth is: not evil or heroic, but it plays a longer game through the new series.

There is only the captain of Kirk, all of which plays his role. After I helps Starfleet almost literally to reach the new pioneer – USS OmegaHybrids of dozens of Hulls Hulls and Jurati Transwarp Transwarp – Deroes reveals its reward from the deal is only a blood sample of Kirk stored at the Daystrom Station for centuries. Using the advanced Borg Borg, the sample Jim Kirk is completely real. Not memories in a new body, or cloning, as she refused, but Kirk in his pride, Kirk breathes, and remembers as if his last moments were in Star Trek: Generations It was not final at all. The way you tell the resurrection of the Resurrection, as it was, optimistic: It believes that this moment is in Star Trek It requires a person like Kirk, a border diplomat, who is boldly exploring and fought for the future of the union, instead of being trapped in comfort on the glories of its past as a sorrow of Sherfelite. But there is something, again, it was presented as almost terrifying what you did: Borg plays God with one Star TrekEven if it is in an hour of great need.

how The last championship It builds on this from here to see. The first issue is closed to a tease from a very familiar struggle for this Reborn Kirk and OmegaThe confrontation crew, in a faction of Klingons using the chaos of burning to try to return their people to the roots of their ancestors and end Starfleet once and for all. What will remain interesting is not how it was able to reshape a familiar Star TrekHistory, but how it builds on the vast capabilities, began to get rid of it Star TrekA newer era to create something new and exciting instead.

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