Thursday, June 15, 2023

Star Trek: Defiant #1 (2023 Comic Book & Graphic Novel Reading Challenge)



Spinning off of IDW's 2022 Star Trek series, Star Trek: Defiant is almost like a dream team. The ship is the USS Defiant, fresh off the Dominion War that occurred in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. The Captain is the Federation Klingon officer, Worf. His crew is composed of Ambassador Space, B'elanna Torres, Ensign Ro and the evil android Lore! Not to mention the numerous cameos of fan favorite characters who make the comics of the Star Trek Universe finally feel like an interconnected community.

K'ahless II, the cloned founder of the Klingon Empire, has gone rogue. Leading a group of fanatics called The Red Path, K'ahless has declared himself the one true God! His zealots in response, are killing off the other god-like creatures that occupy the universe. The Red Path's most recent murder was of the crystalline entities that Lore used to destroy the colony on Omicron Theta on an early episode of The Next Generation.

In order to prevent another war between the Federation and the Klingon Empire, Worf's mission is clandestine. The Defiant has been reported stolen by Marquis separatists, with Ro Laren accused as having escaped prison and commandeered the Defiant. Worf's intentions are pure, not only as he tries to stop K'ahless from spiraling the Alpha Quadrant into a blasphemous holy war, but because Worf's son Alexander is one of the zealots of the Red Door!

Star Trek: Defiant is Eisner nominated writer Christopher Cantwell's first foray into the Star Trek franchise. Artist Angel Unzueta defects from Marvel's Star Wars books to pencil his Star Trek debut.

Familiarity with its sister series will help readers understand this opening salvo. Unfortunately, the main and variant sketch covers of this book spoil the big reveal at the end of this issue. Early reports project that Star Trek: Defiant will last 7 issues and that the events of the ongoing Star Trek will correspond with this miniseries in a 5 part crossover storyline titled 'Day of Blood.'

Worth Consuming!

Rating: 7 out of 10 stars.

Completing this review completes Task #49 (Is trending on the comicbookroundup.com top 20- Ranked 4th) of the 2023 Comic Book and Graphic Novel Reading Challenge.

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