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Marvel is a sequel to the classic Trek episode of the same name. In that
episode, an ion storm caused Capt. Kirk and several members of his ship to be
whisked away to a mirror universe in which everybody is evil. For those of you
who aren’t Trekkers, it’s the episode in which evil Spock had a goatee because
everyone know that facial hair makes one evil in a parallel universe.
This issue
occurs right after the good and evil Kirk’s swap place back into their prospective
universes. Now a power play between Evil Kirk and Evil Spock is waged on the
many decks of the Enterprise. But while they play their deadly game of cat
& mouse, there’s a squadron of Klingon Birds of Prey approaching ready to
blow the entire ship into smithereens.
I really enjoyed
this issue. Written by former Marvel editor, Tom Defalco, though published in
the 90s, the issue and the art is timeless. I can believe what occurs in the
book really happened after the classic Star Trek episode ended. And from what I’ve
read in this book, I see it as a canonical segue way between the classic Trek
episode and the revisiting of the Mirror Universe decades later on Deep Space
Nine. This is required reading for any Trek fan!
Worth Consuming.
Rating: 9 out of
10 stars.
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