I’d certainly give a DS9 comic a shot. Given a choice, I’d prefer stories set in the “Relaunch” (post TV show) period since the continuity of the series proper was pretty tight, but perhaps a mix of the two wouldn’t be a bad thing.

I followed the Relaunch books for awhile and really enjoyed them. I read the Avatar two-parter, Rising Son, and then Unity. All must-reads for DS9 fans. After that I didn’t keep following the series, for whatever reason (parenthood, and life in general just got in the way I guess).

I should go back and see what I’ve missed in the years since I stopped reading DS9 (and Trek in general). I found very few of the DS9 books written during DS9’s run on TV to be good reads, but those Relaunch books (set after the TV show) were great. I’d recommend them to any DS9 fan. Andy (Garak) Robinson’s “A Stitch in Time” is a fine book too! I don’t think that was officially a Relaunch book, but it was also set after the TV show ended.

As a huge DS9 fan who feels like there’s so much untapped potential for that series and characters (but knows we’ll probably never see those characters again), I think a DS9 comic is about the only thing that would get me to give IDW another try.

Although I think it’s still possible to get some of DC Comics’ old TOS collections (and I thought they were generally quite good, check Amazon), IDW Publishing is currently doing a Star Trek: Year Four title. The idea being the series covers (right now) year four of the original five year mission (of which, only three years were covered on the TV show).

I tried it out, as I did the TNG mini-series that kicked off IDW’s line of Trek comics, and I was really unimpressed. Dull stories, inconsistent artwork, little to no character depth, and skimpy dialogue. For $3.00 a book, I want something that will take me more than five minutes to go through. But that’s just my opinion, others seem to like what IDW’s doing. You can find IDW’s Trek stuff at your local comic shop, or else go to idwpublishing.com and see for yourself.

I have always admired comics from afar. I wouldn’t know a good one from a bad one. I was hoping to get into some TOS comics, to share with my son. Is there a good series to start with? Is there somewhere online (preferably a Canadian site) that I can buy them? Thanks in advance for any help/guidance!

15: The Cage? Well, from what I’ve read from Paramount, everything televised and in theatres is considered “canon”. Except TAS. And even they’re leaning toward that being canon. So… yes. The Cage is canon.
The Menagerie just has “flashbacks” to that “episode”.

18: Worf’s wife was “K’Ehleyr”. Pronounced… well… almost like “Kaylar” :)

Also, sorry I didn’t put any pictures of Ro’s comic-enlargements… I just couldn’t think of any really good captions for them. The last image there, which shows Ro, was the most amusing one that had her in it.