IDW has just released their October 2019 solicitations with synopses and covers for all their titles. There will be three new Trek titles for the month. This includes the 3rd and final entry in the Star Trek: Discovery: Aftermath mini-series, the seventh entry in the Star Trek: Year Five series and the Star Trek: Voyager: Mirrors and Smoke one-off announced at SDCC.
October 2019 Star Trek comics
Star Trek: Discovery: Aftermath #3 (of 3) (32 pages • $3.99)
Written by Kirsten Beyer & Mike Johnson, art by Tony Shasteen.
You saw the stunning conclusion of the second season of Star Trek: Discovery—now prepare yourselves for the ending of the Aftermath! With the fragile peace between the Klingons and the Federation hanging by a thread, Spock, Captain Pike, and Chancellor L’Rell make a last stand against the forces threatening to ignite a new galactic war!
Two covers: A by Angel Hernandez, and a retail incentive photo cover.
A cover by Angel Hernandez
Star Trek: Year Five #7 (32 pages • $3.99)
Written by Jackson Lanzing & Collin Kelly, art by Stephen Thompson.
Just as the crew is finally able to communicate with their Tholian passenger, the Enterprise runs into a new obstacle—a Tholian web! But as the crew works with other trapped ships to figure out how to escape, new questions about what the Tholian Assembly is planning darken the horizon.
Two covers: A by Stephen Thompson, and retail incentive variant by J.J. Lendl.
A cover by Stephen Thompson
Star Trek: Voyager: Mirrors and Smoke (36 pages • $4.99)
Written by Paul Allor, art by J.K. Woodward.
Stranded far from the ruins of the Terran Empire, Captain Janeway of the rebel ship Voyager has crowned herself Pirate Queen of the Delta Quadrant! Of course, the locals won’t give in without a fight—especially not scavengers Neelix and Kes. And who is this apparent Terran who calls herself Annika Hansen? Find out in Mirror Voyager’s amazing comic book debut!
Two covers: A by J.K. Woodward, and retailer incentive cover by George Caltsoudas.
A cover by J.K. Woodard
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Interesting… so the Voyager comic is basically positing the rebellion that overthrew the Terran Empire occurred much more “recently” in future history than what’s implied by the DS9 episode “Crossover”. In that episode, it seemed as though the Terrans has been defeated for decades—certainly not recently enough that they would have had the ability to design an Intrepid-class starship like Voyager.
Indeed. Now I have to reconsider one of my recent answers on Quora (“what would Mirror Universe Borg be like?”) which, in passing, posits that given the date of the Terran Empire’s fall, no M-Intrepid class would exist, and for that matter, there wouldn’t be any M-Hansens, since “eccentric travelling xenoarchaeologist” isn’t a career choice for subjugated Terrans. (But unaffected by that fall: the Caretaker, and its long-distance efforts to find a successor.)
Well this HAS to be an alternate mirror universe timeline… seeing that Mirror Tuvok was back in the Alpha Quadrant in the DS9 Terran Resistance when Mirror Voyager would be in the Delta Quadrant. So the differing timelines on when the Empire fell in the Mirror Universe as well as other inconsistencies, can be explained that way. Methinks the term ‘Mirror Universe’ at this point needs to be traded in for ‘Mirror Multiverse’.
I wish they would have made more Voyager comics, It should have been a 6 part comic book run, rather than a one shot.
Is the guy on the far left Paris or Chris Pine’s Kirk?!
Funny, I thought it was Bashir.
J.K. Woodward’s artwork is just SO bad. *sigh*