Star Trek Annual 2023

I haven't been reading IDW's Star Trek. It's an all-star series that takes place sometime after the events of the last episode of Star Trek: Voyager, with Benjamin Sisko returning from his time with the Bajoran prophets. Captain Montgomery Scott has designed a revolutionary starship, the Theseus. It has a warp core that utilizes a contained neutron star and the entire computer system is a neural link-based network that runs through the entire craft.

In this 2023 annual, Mr. Scott receives a distress call from the one person he would never expect in a million years: Captain James T. Kirk! The engineer had designed a holographic fail safe to activate if ever the Theseus's computer was in danger of failing. To help Mr. Scott best address the issue, the program took the form and consciousness of Kirk and is advising him to destroy the computer core. 

Sisko believes that there is something more behind the computer's seeming deactivation protocols and advises his team to get to the ship's central CPU to isolate the problem. Suddenly, the crew is split up. They find themselves on not just different Federation ships, but in different timelines with classic and modern crew members with a dwindling timer on the ship's self-destruct.

The only series missing is Lower Decks, unless there's someone from that animated series in the background, but illustrated to look real life. A great anniversary issue. Or it would be if 2023 was an anniversary year for Star Trek. 

Rating: 8 out of 10 stars.