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Star Trek: Waypoint
An anthology series that offers every fan a stopping point on the wonderful 50-year Star Trek journey. Reflect on stories of what’s come before and look ahead to the next half-century of Trek. Short stories that run the gamut of Star Trek‘s history, set during the Original Series, The Next Generation, Voyager, Deep Space Nine, Enterprise, and more, featuring all your favorite characters.
164 pages, ebook
First published November 28, 2017
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Dayton Ward
106 books318 followersDayton is a software developer, having become a slave to Corporate America after spending eleven years in the U.S. Marine Corps. When asked, he’ll tell you that he left home and joined the military soon after high school because he’d grown tired of people telling him what to do all the time.
Ask him sometime how well that worked out.
In addition to the numerous credits he shares with friend and co-writer Kevin Dilmore, he is the author of the Star Trek novels In the Name of Honor and Open Secrets, the science fiction novels The Last World War and The Genesis Protocol, and short stories which have appeared in the first three Star Trek: Strange New Worlds anthologies, the Yard Dog Press anthology Houston, We’ve Got Bubbas, Kansas City Voices Magazine and the Star Trek: New Frontier anthology No Limits. Though he currently lives in Kansas City with wife Michi and daughters Addison and Erin, Dayton is a Florida native and still maintains a torrid long-distance romance with his beloved Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Ask him sometime how well that worked out.
In addition to the numerous credits he shares with friend and co-writer Kevin Dilmore, he is the author of the Star Trek novels In the Name of Honor and Open Secrets, the science fiction novels The Last World War and The Genesis Protocol, and short stories which have appeared in the first three Star Trek: Strange New Worlds anthologies, the Yard Dog Press anthology Houston, We’ve Got Bubbas, Kansas City Voices Magazine and the Star Trek: New Frontier anthology No Limits. Though he currently lives in Kansas City with wife Michi and daughters Addison and Erin, Dayton is a Florida native and still maintains a torrid long-distance romance with his beloved Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
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May 10, 2019
God. This comic anthology gave me FEELINGS. Porthos being Archers guardian!? The one about the holiday of women on Bajor during the occupation??? JUST END ME IT WOULD BE LESS PAINFUL!!!
If you're like me and have properly sold your soul to Star Trek then you really really REALLY gotta read this.
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If you're like me and have properly sold your soul to Star Trek then you really really REALLY gotta read this.
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March 9, 2018
There are a lot of good ideas in this book, but with a few exceptions, they're ideas that would have been better explored as short stories rather than graphically. The format doesn't permit a lot of backstory or exposition, and with so many of the stories starting in medias res, the reader is left confused, flailing for some familiar context to latch on to. In some cases, familiarity with specific Trek episodes is assumed, and readers who've not seen the episodes are left behind.
Perhaps it's a personal failing of my own, but I found the graphic format to be hard to follow. The artists are talented, but many of them seem to focus more on creating beautiful panels than on presenting the action in a clear and understandable manner.
Too many of the stories jump around both visually and narratively, presenting flashbacks and scene changes without any signifiers of the change in context. Small details critical to understanding the plot are hidden in the artwork instead of highlighted.
Also, while some of the stories are good and solid additions to the canon, others seem to come out of left field, or take a decided turn toward same partway through. I admire the desire to push the envelope and say something novel about the human condition, but I fear many of the writers have overshot the mark.
While it's nice to revisit these characters, I'm afraid the uneven execution sinks the overall effort.
Perhaps it's a personal failing of my own, but I found the graphic format to be hard to follow. The artists are talented, but many of them seem to focus more on creating beautiful panels than on presenting the action in a clear and understandable manner.
Too many of the stories jump around both visually and narratively, presenting flashbacks and scene changes without any signifiers of the change in context. Small details critical to understanding the plot are hidden in the artwork instead of highlighted.
Also, while some of the stories are good and solid additions to the canon, others seem to come out of left field, or take a decided turn toward same partway through. I admire the desire to push the envelope and say something novel about the human condition, but I fear many of the writers have overshot the mark.
While it's nice to revisit these characters, I'm afraid the uneven execution sinks the overall effort.
March 31, 2020
A Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration
The stories vary in quality but, taken as a whole, this collection is a great way to indulge in some 'Star Trek' short fiction.
Particular highlights are the "Ensign Wild-Man" chapter, which is whimsical funny and has a great punchline, and the "Gold Key" segment, which perfectly captured that era.
The stories vary in quality but, taken as a whole, this collection is a great way to indulge in some 'Star Trek' short fiction.
Particular highlights are the "Ensign Wild-Man" chapter, which is whimsical funny and has a great punchline, and the "Gold Key" segment, which perfectly captured that era.
March 13, 2019
I was hoping for something more... consistent from this. I know that's not entirely fair considering this is an anthology, but while a couple of the stories kept my interest, overall it didn't do much for me.
January 23, 2018
Uma divertida coleção de histórias curtas, que explora diversas fases do universo Star Trek. Sempre em evidência, a premissa-base do universo: a expansão da força espacial como uma força para o bem, apostada na estabilidade, com oficiais capazes de colocar o bem comum acima dos impulsos individuais. De certa forma, uma variante progressista do white man's burden, apesar de reconher a importância de um universo multi-étnico, aqui com a metáfora dos alienígenas que compõem a federação.
January 3, 2019
I'm actually rating this 2.5 stars and rounding up since there aren't halves in Goodreads. Anyway, these stories are fun little snippets from the various crews featured in Star Trek. I've gotten more familiar with them, though I still haven't met the Voyager crew or the characters from STE. The stories from the crews I knew were wonderful, and the stories from those I didn't know intrigued me and made me eager to know them.
However, there were some unsatisfying stories. There was one with Uhura and an alien that ended very abruptly-- though maybe that was the intent-- and others where I wished more was told. A lot of them did feel like they concluded well enough, but I would've also liked to know more. And while the art style changing for the little girl's story was cute, I wish it'd been more consistent over all. I get there were different artists, but it was still a little jarring when reading it all together.
Still, I love Star Trek and love the stories of the crews. I'll come back to read more any time.
However, there were some unsatisfying stories. There was one with Uhura and an alien that ended very abruptly-- though maybe that was the intent-- and others where I wished more was told. A lot of them did feel like they concluded well enough, but I would've also liked to know more. And while the art style changing for the little girl's story was cute, I wish it'd been more consistent over all. I get there were different artists, but it was still a little jarring when reading it all together.
Still, I love Star Trek and love the stories of the crews. I'll come back to read more any time.
December 31, 2021
Very creative
A nice mix of styles, covering all the known Trek stories, and adding to them. Fun romps through old favorites.
A nice mix of styles, covering all the known Trek stories, and adding to them. Fun romps through old favorites.
December 27, 2018
In an anthology like this I don’t expect to like every story, but unfortunately most of these were pretty bad and even the ones I liked were too short to have much impact. Disappointing.
March 1, 2019
Normally I'm pretty strictly TNG, but I also tend to avoid expanded universe stuff for Trek (or most other major franchises I enjoy, like Star Wars or Stargate or Babylon 5).
But then a humble bundle came along and I decided the price of admission wasn't that high. I started with this comic just because it seemed like it would be unique.
I was right, it's an anthology comic.
The thing about anthology comics is I tend to find myself wrinkling my nose at inconsistent quality. Sometimes I wonder where the editors get certain artists to do certain comics. Not to say my illustrating skills are even remotely close to a comics artist, but some seem to have poor storytelling skills and weird, challenging illustrations.
Not so in this case. Sometimes the stories are a little weird even for Trek but honestly the quality is pretty consistent with a standard Trek episode. If anything I feel like it's a little better simply because instead of relying on special effects or costumes they're drawn right in. Everything can look if not realistic at least less like a rubber mask and stage makeup.
The one thing I did have against it is each story felt extremely breif, some with barely a resolution at all, but I suppose if each is supposed to be a few pannels in an issue it's not that surprising. Getting it all as one volume I can only assume that was the case rather than knowing exactly what constraints each artist was under.
In any case, this actually makes me want to look into more extended universe works to see how good they are. As far as comics and Star Trek goes I give at least this one my approval.
But then a humble bundle came along and I decided the price of admission wasn't that high. I started with this comic just because it seemed like it would be unique.
I was right, it's an anthology comic.
The thing about anthology comics is I tend to find myself wrinkling my nose at inconsistent quality. Sometimes I wonder where the editors get certain artists to do certain comics. Not to say my illustrating skills are even remotely close to a comics artist, but some seem to have poor storytelling skills and weird, challenging illustrations.
Not so in this case. Sometimes the stories are a little weird even for Trek but honestly the quality is pretty consistent with a standard Trek episode. If anything I feel like it's a little better simply because instead of relying on special effects or costumes they're drawn right in. Everything can look if not realistic at least less like a rubber mask and stage makeup.
The one thing I did have against it is each story felt extremely breif, some with barely a resolution at all, but I suppose if each is supposed to be a few pannels in an issue it's not that surprising. Getting it all as one volume I can only assume that was the case rather than knowing exactly what constraints each artist was under.
In any case, this actually makes me want to look into more extended universe works to see how good they are. As far as comics and Star Trek goes I give at least this one my approval.
February 20, 2018
As with most Anthology comic collections, this can be pretty uneven. But in this case it's less because of misfired stories than it is because the collection does quite a good job of matching the different tones and aspects of the shows, and some of them I'm not 100% into. Like the comic that's about matching the overthetop, exposition heavy, DRAMATIC tone of the original series. Not so much for me. I'm more about Naomi Wildman drawing a comic about her adventures in which she saves Voyager by getting coffee to a comatose Captain Janeway so she and B'elanna can save the ship with a SCIENCE BOMB. (Also all about Sam Maggs giving a backstory to the only female ensign killed during the enterprise's original 5-year mission, Kira rediscovering a Bajoran tradition stamped out by the Cardassians.)
March 3, 2018
Mir gefiel sehr Legacy mit der Ensignstory (TOS), die Naomi-Wildman-Story (VOY) und dass Mr. Xon (Phase II) kennenlernen konnte. Die Data-Story (TNG) mochte ich, aber ich konnte sie zeitlich nicht einordnen und vermisste eine seiner Eigenschaften. Der Protagonist der Enterprise-Story ist sympathisch, während Archer hier erst mal nicht so gut wegkommt (weil er plotbedingt an einen Punkt kommen muss, was man auch anders hätte erreichen können). Und auf DS9 hat Kira Geburtstag.
Es gibt mehr als die hier von mir erwähnten Kurzstories und das Augenmerk liegt, wie man schon an den Beispielen erkennen kann, nicht zwingend auf dem Captain. Nicht unerwartet ist es ein Mix an Stil und Qualität, was mich eher störte war ein kleines Ungleichgewicht: Ich wünschte, es hätte zu jeder Show mindestens zwei Geschichten gegeben.
Es gibt mehr als die hier von mir erwähnten Kurzstories und das Augenmerk liegt, wie man schon an den Beispielen erkennen kann, nicht zwingend auf dem Captain. Nicht unerwartet ist es ein Mix an Stil und Qualität, was mich eher störte war ein kleines Ungleichgewicht: Ich wünschte, es hätte zu jeder Show mindestens zwei Geschichten gegeben.
March 3, 2020
A real mixed bag, with stories that should get 4 to 5 stars alongside stories that don't merit 1. As it happens the best stories here are all very woman-centred. "Legacy", as well as "Mother's Walk", both hit home with some real depth. "The Wildman Maneuver" was unexpected and sweet. You could just read those three stories. Optional extra: "Puzzles" offers a weird take on an alternate future for Data with Captain Geordi La Forge.
But the quality varies wildly. Frontier Doctor is paint-by-numbers schlock. Mirror, Mirror, Mirror, Mirror is like someone taking very seriously a single gag in a Rick & Morty episode, a protracted mess of a throwaway concept, especially given that several stories are simply too short. Daylily in particular feels like it's about to go somewhere interesting, then abruptly ends.
But the quality varies wildly. Frontier Doctor is paint-by-numbers schlock. Mirror, Mirror, Mirror, Mirror is like someone taking very seriously a single gag in a Rick & Morty episode, a protracted mess of a throwaway concept, especially given that several stories are simply too short. Daylily in particular feels like it's about to go somewhere interesting, then abruptly ends.
October 17, 2021
STAR TREK: WAYPOINT is an anthology of stories about the various Star Trek series ranging from The Original Series (done in classic Marvel style) to Voyager to Deep Space Nine and so on. They're all generally very entertaining with my favorite being a home-made comic by Naomi Wildman on Voyager where she's a ninja working with Seven of Nine. I also had a great fondness for Kira Nerys talking about the importance of a Bajoran religious ritual. Captain Kirk having a mech fight with Klingons is another story that deserves to be mentioned.
A couple are also surprisingly sad like a Redshirt ensign talking about how she died pointlessly and is remembered that way versus her life. Another is Uhura making first contact but getting beamed away before anything permanent. Some of the stories are better than others but I don't think there was any one I generally disliked.
A couple are also surprisingly sad like a Redshirt ensign talking about how she died pointlessly and is remembered that way versus her life. Another is Uhura making first contact but getting beamed away before anything permanent. Some of the stories are better than others but I don't think there was any one I generally disliked.
March 28, 2018
Definitely a mixed bag, as all anthologies are ... with stories ranging from the clever and moving to "WTF was THAT?" A riff on the "Gold Key" Trek Universe is a highlight, with our beloved Enterprise crew acting in bizarre ways as could only be captured by a sixties comic written and illustrated by creators who had never seen the series, but there are also quieter moments (Uhura gets a short solo tale) and transcendent ones (a future version of Data that moves past mere his existence as a physical being into something much larger). All versions of Trek are covered - from Classic to Next to DS9 to Voyager to Enterprise - with varying degrees of success. Lots of fun for Trek fans, but not a title for the uninitiated.
August 3, 2018
I enjoyed this anthology that was a celebration of Star Teen's 50 years. One of my personal favorites is the story that spotlighted in Uhura that was great because she rarely gets the spotlight on self contained story. Another favorite is the Vovager story from the perspective of Naomi Wildman who was the only child aboard the vessel. What really stood out was the story set in DS9 featuring Major Kira about family. I enjoyed the other stories too and wished it was a year long anthology lasting 12 issues. It was still enjoyable to read and a reminder of the lasting appeal of Star Trek and a must read for Star Trek fans.
April 6, 2018
Usually anthology collections are uneven (Ultimate Deadpool Vol. 20, your ears are burning) but somehow we have here a dozen uniformly excellent stories that build on and complement each other.
Poignant, thoughtful stories. Dialogue that rings true from characters both familiar and new. A wide variety of colorful, detailed artwork. Everything I could have wanted from this book was there and then some. I laughed, I cried, I want a Volume 2!
Poignant, thoughtful stories. Dialogue that rings true from characters both familiar and new. A wide variety of colorful, detailed artwork. Everything I could have wanted from this book was there and then some. I laughed, I cried, I want a Volume 2!
May 21, 2019
As a diehard Trekkie I have never gotten enough new stories. This first graphic novel in the Waypoint series features stories set in all the series except discovery and the Kelvin timeline.
I loved it because not only were there new adventures but many featured secondary characters as the main protagonist. We had stories that features Christine Chapel, Naomi Wildman and Xon.
There is an excellent Borg story featuring Picard, Data and Seven.
I can't wait to read the rest.
I loved it because not only were there new adventures but many featured secondary characters as the main protagonist. We had stories that features Christine Chapel, Naomi Wildman and Xon.
There is an excellent Borg story featuring Picard, Data and Seven.
I can't wait to read the rest.
December 14, 2017
Príbehy v tejto antológii prinášajú naozaj pestrú zmes žánrov, prístupov, tém a jednotlivých ST období. Ako to už u antológií býva, kvalita kolíše. Sú tu skvele vypointované príbehy, ale nájdu sa aj slabšie, ktoré nemajú skoro žiadnu pridanú hodnotu. Najviac táto zbierka poteší fanúšikov ST, ktorý si môžu užívať detaily a odkazy. Pre bežného čitateľa to asi bude nuda, ktorá mu nič nedá.
June 24, 2018
It was okay. I never totally got into it. These are all standalone stories, so pretty quick reads. None truly captured my interest though. The Gold Key style story was fun, though! It really did remind me of those comics. If you stuck that in with a batch of actual Gold Key comics, I’m not sure anyone could tell that it was new.
July 11, 2018
Absolutely enjoyed this. At first, I wasn't too happy with the art style used for the Voyager chapter. With its childlike art style I felt like they were mocking the only female Captain. But after reading it through it began to make more sense and I appreciated the cleverness more. Out of all of the chapters though I believe the "Mother's Walk" was by far the best in my opinion.
September 16, 2018
Such a wonderful compilation of stories from across all the Star Trek worlds! I think my two favorites were the Naomi Wildman one (from Star Trek Voyager) and the Deep Space Nine one that brought me to good tears because it was just beautiful and truly resonates with how a family can be built, no matter where you are.
March 2, 2019
3.5 Stars.
A nice try to celebrate 50 years of Star Trek, but some stories in the anthology were week, & one was short & didn't seem to have an ending. I triple checked to make sure that pages weren't stuck together.
I greatly liked several stories.
Recommendation for big fans of Star Trek, causal viewers might find it a waste of time.
A nice try to celebrate 50 years of Star Trek, but some stories in the anthology were week, & one was short & didn't seem to have an ending. I triple checked to make sure that pages weren't stuck together.
I greatly liked several stories.
Recommendation for big fans of Star Trek, causal viewers might find it a waste of time.
April 14, 2019
A solid anthology of comic stories from throughout Trek's history (excepting the reboot films). There's even one story in the Gold Key continuity, and one in the Phase II continuity. The TNG stories probably worked the best for me, but none of them are bad, if generally shorter than I'd prefer. (Though I will note that "Come Away, Child" could easily have been a non-Trek story.) (B+)
September 21, 2020
That’s a cool collection of stories from different Trek shows, but they’re uneven. The best one is Mother’s Walk (DS9), written by Cecil Castellucci. Daylily (written and drawn by Sandra Lanz) has the most beautiful artwork, Uhura is simply stunning there. And The Wildman Maneuver is a really funny Voyager story told and drawn from a perspective of Naomi Wildman.
January 15, 2018
Some ok stories in this one, but it's worth it for the ones with true heart (Legacy would be the best one for my money). A neat Trek comic diversion, even if Enterprise does get short shrift with only one (fairly mediocre) story.
April 20, 2018
Star Trek short comics! I am down :) Nothing truly astounding, but a fun read nevertheless. Bit miffed that TOS got so much attention while some series received only one story. However, the Voyager tale might was the best in the whole book, so take that haters :)
July 31, 2018
This has been an absolute pleasure to read as it contains short stories across all the various timelines and incarnations of "Star Trek" in homage to the 50th anniversary of the beloved franchise. Fans of the series will absolutely adore this.
December 7, 2020
This was fun.
Yes, artwork and quality of writing vary a bit and this collection is far from perfect.
But it is fine for some Star Trek light entertainment.
And I absolutely adored the Wildman Manoever.
It made me laugh out loud because it was so meta.
Yes, artwork and quality of writing vary a bit and this collection is far from perfect.
But it is fine for some Star Trek light entertainment.
And I absolutely adored the Wildman Manoever.
It made me laugh out loud because it was so meta.
January 19, 2021
A quick and fun anthology of trek stories. VERY TOS heavy. Only one VOY and one ENT story, two DS9 stories, two TNG stories and like five TOS stories. Lots of cute, heartfelt moments. A couple made me almost cry.
November 3, 2017
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