Star Trek: Lower Decks may be over on Paramount+ but the animated series lives on in IDW’s new ongoing comic series, with the the issue arriving this week. The new issue kicks off the “Natura Abhorrent” episode/mini-arc . Ryan North, who wrote the excellent 2022 Lower Decks mini-series for IDW, writes the new series, teamed up with artist Jack Lawrence for the new mini-arc. We have the covers, details, and a 5-page preview of issue 3.
Star Trek: Lower Decks #3
Synopsis:
The crew of the USS Cerritos have just received their personality guidance reports from the counselors of the planet Clarew, and Rutherford feels guilty he’s not engineering at a higher capacity with his implants. He should be operating above 134 percent nominal at least. The Cerritos‘ next mission is a supply run to Tavela Minor, but they first need to stop by the Alecto system to get some supplies to, uh, supply them with. However, just before they warp, they see the Alecto system isn’t only missing; it doesn’t exist. Like at all. Now they have a space mystery at hand: What could cause a whole star system to disappear?
Covers:
Setup/credits (featuring Badgey):
Five-page preview:
Star Trek: Lower Decks #3 available Wednesday
Star Trek: Lower Decks #2 arrives on January 15. You can order issue 32 or upcoming issues at TFAW. Or pick up individual digital editions at Amazon/comiXology.
Here is a quick look at covers for the next two issues coming in February and March…
More Lower Decks fun
If you want more Lower Decks, check out Star Trek: Lower Decks – Warp Your Own Way, IDW’s interactive graphic novel, also written by Ryan North with art by Chris Feoglio. It was released in October and strongly recommended in the TrekMovie review. You can pick it up at Amazon in paperback for $19.99 or Kindle/eBook for $7.02.
Keep up with all the Star Trek comics news, previews and reviews in TrekMovie’s comics category.
That was actually a bit funny to read.
The art is a bit of …
I’d rather the comic pick up where the show left off, with Ransom as captain.