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In this seventh issue, new artist Hernan Gonzalez brings an entirely new, more realistic aesthetic to Star Trek: The Last Starship.
All hope seems lost for Sato, Kirk, and their remaining crew as Starfleet loses hundreds of worlds to the Emerald Chain, but an intercepted message may hold the key to the survival of the universe.
There’s nothing wrong with exploring dark themes in the normally optimistic Star Trek universe, but The Last Starship seems hell-bent on making everything as dark and gloomy as possible. To be honest, it’s a little tiring. Even the colorful, retro aesthetic of previous issues loses out here to a heavy, dark look.
I’m not really interested in large portions of the instructions continuing to be delivered in text format. It feels like a lazy storytelling device for the comics medium.
I also have no interest in Captain Kirk continuing to exist. Captain Kirk has very little to do and is not involved in the plot at all. This has long felt like a Star Trek 60th Anniversary contraption, and nothing that happens here will deter me from that perspective.
At points in this issue, it even feels more like Event Horizon than Star Trek. Again, I don’t particularly have a problem with Trek exploring different themes and genres, but Cosmic Horror just didn’t work for me.
If IDW hadn’t released all the content they publish on GlobalComix Gold on the first day, I would have dropped this series a few issues back and I wouldn’t have missed it.
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