Joe Corroney

Great fun. It’s a non-canon remix of First Contact and some of best episodes of TNG and VOY beginning when Voyager returns to Earth. Time travel, Interdimensional aliens, Borg, Vulcan suicide commandos? Need I say more? No one knows these characters better than Braga due to his deep involvement with the franchise. Should I read into him excluding Troi entirely except for one wordless frame?

The art is good but not great, but I’m not sure I want an artist to overly stylize Trek show more characters. The penciller, Joe Corroney, has been an in house artist (hack?) for Lucas Arts since 1997 so I suppose he is good at not tainting someone else’s intellectual property. I’m picking on him but he does a good job here. Especially his paneling, which is particularly lively. Perhaps in compensation for the conservative character rendering? I don’t know. This is the first, new, genre, adventure, superhero-esque comic I have read in years. It is the first comic with glossy pages and digital coloring that I have enjoyed. Should some variation of this have been the last TNG movie? Probably. show less

This was rougher than normal for this series. The Shi crossover didn't interest me at all, neither her character or the story. The last two stories, focusing on Jude, are excellent, but the first has terrible art. Still, those stories are good enough for me to still recommend this volume.

A quick read, consisting of two stories as did volume 1. Operation Annihilate gets the alternative timeline treatment. It's not that different apart from the fact that in this timeline Kirk's father died and he was brought up by an apparently abusive uncle who took in his mother (the uncle was her brother) and Jim. Older brother Sam couldn't put up with it and left home, something Jim has never forgiven him for. In this version, Sam isn't killed by the creatures. There was also the oddity show more that the things enveloped people's heads like the creature in the Alien series rather than clamping onto their backs and injecting their spines. The things seemed to dwell just in the brain and not take over the rest of the nervous system. I found the whole thing rather perfunctory.

The second story was original, based on the conflict between Romulus and the destroyed (in this timeline) Vulcan or rather its survivors. I wasn't keen on this either. Although enjoying a Kindle Unlimited trial sub at the moment, I'm not sure I'll bother with any more of this series. So an "OK" 2 star rating. show less

I'm getting really into these comics. This is better than the first volume, in my opinion. We have two story lines, the first the reboot/alternate universe's version of Operation Annihilate!, and the second a sorta sequel to the movie.

If you at all liked the 2009 movie, and read comics (even just occasionally), read it. Read it read it read it read it. I recommend it over the first volume. You can honestly just skip that, though all the comics are done really well.