Bob Ingersoll

Love the concept of this Star Trek/Perry Mason mash-up, and the murder mystery is definitely Gardner-esque, full of potential suspects and courtroom theatrics, but the Trek references are somewhat belaboured. Borrowing Samuel T. Cogley and Areel Shaw was enough for me - the brief scenes with the Enterprise crew were, sadly, overkill. Cogley's assistant Peter Lawrence is more like Archie Goodwin than any of Perry's legmen, however, which earns Isabella and Ingersoll extra bonus points! If show more they should come up with any new mysteries, and lighten up on the Trek trivia, I will definitely read on. show less

Samuel T. Cogley defends a Klingon accused of killing the Federation administrator of a mining colony. Lt. Areel Shaw is the prosecutor, eager for a rematch with Cogley. Both originally appeared in TOS episode “Court Martial”. This is a well-paced and entertaining courtroom mystery, as well as a tribute to Earl Stanley Gardner’s Perry Mason, down to the book’s design and red-dyed edges. Sam Cogley is familiar enough after more than 35 years of reruns that I can easily see him in a show more series of mystery novels. The authors also effectively use TOS and Enterprise tube history to paint the background.

I got the impression that authors Bob Ingersoll and Tony Isabella, both veterans of Star Trek comics and novels, have something more in mind for Lt. Areel Shaw in a future story.

Published in paperback by Pocket Books. show less

This was my second experience into Star Trek comics. The last was 20 years ago for a reason, and this one was just as bad. I got it primarily due to the center Story: "Star Trek Deep Space Nine: N-Vectro" While the story was OK, the drawings where horrible. characters had very little resemblence to the actors who played them on TV. Add to that the idea that a "vectoid" an intellegent virus that can infect anything: people, computers, etc. and then replecate itself to make a fake DS9 show more somewhere is stretching the imagination even for Star Trek.

The first story was better, but there was no transitions at all and sub plot just fixed itself with little explanation. Add to it the completely out of character James T. Kirk lecturing others about violating the prime directive, are you kidding? However the mirror universe idea would have been better than the crap they came up with.

Lastly some new Star Trek and probably the only real "Other Relaties" included tried so hard to give back story on characters in a short amount of time that it gave nothing to the actual plot.

Pass on this one. Pick up Batman if you want a comic and stick to the DS9 re-launch novels going forward. show less

The first and last stories were fun, but the middle was was terrible. Mind you, the art was much worse than the story itself. I do believe the middle story had the worst comic book art I've ever seen.