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Star Trek: Ongoing, Volume 1 by Mike Johnson

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


For the Start of the Kelvin Universe Star Trek books, we get a re-telling of two stories from the original series in the new Universe.

The first is, "Where No Man Has Gone Before" where an old friend of Jim's obtains incredibly dangerous powers and must be dealt with. This one is almost exactly like the original story except for losing the romance angle and emphasizing on how Gary had helped Kirk.

The second is, "Galileo Seven," in which the shuttle "Galileo Seven" is brought down during a side-trip while the Enterprise has a pressing engagement they have to get to with lives on the line. On the positive note, I think the Federation Commissioner is a lot more reasonable and a lot less annoying than in the TV show. On the negative, it highlights how insane it was to send out a Shuttle with the first officer, ship's doctor, and chief engineer while the ship is on a vital mission. Further, it messes with the overall tone of the story. The TV show highlighted was a character spotlight on Spock that highlighted how he, as a Vulcan, related to a largely human crew and what his style of command might be, and it was Spock's story of how he found a way to save the day. Instead, another character (who wasn't even on the shuttle) became a Mary Sue and we got a cheesy bit of innuendo from Kirk instead.

These aren't bad stories, but they are rather pointless, particularly if you've seen the original series. Retelling stories with very minor alterations isn't a good way to run this comic book series and looking ahead, they do get away from this, but overall, this is a lackluster start for the Kelvin Comic universe.



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