TrekInk: June 2013 Star Trek comics, digital comics and recent releases

So does it mean anything that the image of the E on the cover doesn’t look all that different than the JJverse one that has caused such an uproar.

I’ve read it. The usual. Klinglons seem to be the true villains there, but Robert April is totally insane. Lot’s of talking on this one, It seems to take a long more to read than the others. But I liked. Mudd is actually daughter MUDD. :)

You can see the first 3 pages of CTD on iTunes now, doesn’t give much away though!

So in Robert April we have a guy with a noble cause, with which the audience would sympathise (saving an entire race) who has reason to hate Starfleet (& specifically Kirk & Spock) for allowing the genocide to happen in the name of the ‘Prime Directive’, he also hates the Klingons for arming the other side & causing the genocide in the first place.

Sounds like a good reason to terrorise London & Starfleet & then go to Kronos to start a war with the Klingons! Admittedly that would be quite difficult for a man in his 70’s, but if he found out about a secret ‘Section 31’ program to use banned ‘Augmentation’ technology & used it to ‘regenerate’ himself, then it might be possible!

4. So, do you think April’s in this movie?

Was there some twist — like the guys April says are bad weren’t really bad? Although, he did have video evidence…

Yeah. I’m totally cool with these comics being spoiled. The movies, no. But the comics, I’m personally okay with finding out before reading. It’s a comic. It takes 2 minutes to read, anyway. But I understand that others wouldn’t want to be spoiled…

2. “So does it mean anything that the image of the E on the cover doesn’t look all that different than the JJverse one that has caused such an uproar.”

I’m willing to be that the E is not destroyed in this film. She just comes very, very close.

@11. Jack

On the IDW Star Trek Ongoing website, the solicitation for #21 states “The hit ongoing STAR TREK series picks up right where this year’s blockbuster sequel STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS leaves off! Don’t miss the all-new adventures of the crew as they go boldly into the unknown, in a story overseen by STAR TREK writer/producer Roberto Orci!”

I’m anxious to see the #trek issue next week. Wonder if April has a son?? There could be 2 Aprils…. Crazy old one dies, son goes off seeking vengence…

@theGiez

@10. Jack,
“4. So, do you think April’s in this movie?”

Here’s what I think — because STID opens mid-mission on Nibiru, my feeling is the mission where he meets April is long over and put to bed. The fourth comic will tell us for sure, but it seems to me it can end only one of a couple of ways, and have Kirk on to his new mission.

1) April is killed … Kirk learns Prime Directive should be taken with a grain of salt, which influences his decision in Nibiru.
2) Depsite April being insane, Kirk leaves him alone to continue to fight his battle against the Klingons, and learns about the PD, etc. wouldn’t be the first time (shades of Space Seed).

If the second instance, Kirk as well as Spock would have to lie about discovering April and his PD violation, or else Starfleet would hightail it out there and put a stop to it. We already know Spock is not the lying type. Therefore, the most logical solution is that April is killed, Starfleet is informed and they get involved anyway.

Perhaps it’s what happens after Starfleet gets involved, and that’s where Harrison comes into play. Alternately, Starfleet could be told about April by Kirk and Spock and they get involved with April alive, sending Kirk onto the Nibiru mission. However, that means April then has to do whatever he’s going to do to de-age himself, which begs the question — why hasn’t he already done it when Kirk finds him. Maybe that’s where Mudd comes into play, she sells him de-aging formula/device. God if that’s what they end up doing I will be physically sick. But one side effect will be: No Khan.

Considering we know even more about the prequel now, it’s looking pretty slim that the Botany Bay is going to get introduced before the movie starts. No Khanection yet with only one issue to go.

Fingers crossed that we will see some Klingons in the final trailer coming at the end of the month.

@21 Killamarshtrek,

Way to put me off my breakfast …

While there may be a Khanection, what I meant was April won’t be Khan, or an augment from Botany Bay, nor is the movie likely to deal with them in any way — seems like they have more than enough to deal with just explaining Harrison, especially if he turns out to be April, now they have to explain who Khan is in order to explain how April gets de-aged. That’s a lot of ‘splanin’.

Who knows, maybe the big guy in the pod scene is Mudd himself who discovered the Botany Bay and is manufacturing the super juice to pedal to the would be Lance Armstrongs of the 23rd century. But again, this plays more as a cliff hanger to a third film, and gives Harrison no motivation in this film. In fact once you extract Khan’s essence, by this theory you kinda don’t need Khan anymore since anybody who takes it turns into Khan — in which case no cliffhanger, but surprise reveal and one mainly for the fans which doesn’t do much for the general audience.

So if I have to accept a de-aged April and watch a rip-off of the worst TNG episode ever, I’m comforted by the fact Khan won’t likely be an integral part of it.

The guys who believe in de-aging April are the same who defended with passion Gary Michell. It’s Kahn or something related, folks.

Just like to say, I advocate the de-aged April theory (or a younger relative) but I’ve never advocated or defended anything about Gary Mitchell.

By the way, has anyone noticed how similar this CTD story is to TOS episodes ‘A Private Little War’ and ‘Bread and Circus’?

ummm… Here’s a wild guess: what if John Harrison is actually that kid child Kirk passed by in the 2009 film while driving the Corvette? The kids name was Johnny… true, it was said that kid was his brother… so what? That would actually make more sense… a man waging war against Starfleet to protest his brother’s being stripped of command due to violating a policy (The Prime Directive) that’s frequently used to justify genocide. Hence Cumberbatch’s line in the trailer: ‘Is there anything you would not do for family’ and the ‘I am better. At what? At everything.’ exchange between Kirk and Harrison in the brig in the trailer, too. Harrison attacks Starfleet to defend his brother, then tries to tear down Kirk’s world out of jealousy from Kirk having saved Earth and The Federation from from Nero, when Kirk decides to hunt Harrison down for attacking Starfleet. True, the Ongoing series already dealt with Kirks brother, but whether those comics are NuCanon or not is iffy at best.

My copy of Ongoing Volume #4 arrived today, in fact. I particularly enjoyed the when Keenser met Scotty segment, although it seems to show a bit of divergence with TOS – I don’t remember Doohan’s Scotty being overly loquacious?

On a related note, will the rest of the pre-STID Ongoing comics (and the Countdown to Darkness comics) have their collected volume releases before the new film comes out? I would like to be all up-to-date before stepping into the cinema! :)

Robert April is most probably not going to regenerate. But he certainly has links to John Harrison. My guess would be that John Harrison is someone from the other/older Enterprise, the one we know nothing about. That would explain how he will attack so many ships too. Maybe that Enterprise is still operational and was rescued by him. So far this comic book has so little in common with the movies other than Marcus that makes me wary.

@29

True – forgot that one!

@ 25

We introduce the Cumberbatch character in the final issue of the comic, and we directly say who he is.

LLAP,
mj