Star Trek: Year Five: The first six issues (IDW)

Star Trek: Year Five: The first six issues (IDW)

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These are the final voyages of the Star Ship Enterprise in the last of her five year exploration of space where no man has gone before.  Summing up the series in one sentence isn't easy but that's what these comics are all about. This review covers the first six issues which will probably form the contents of the first trade paperback shortly so if you can't find some of these don't panic a collected edition is inevitable!

These six comics give us three stories in which the Enterprise and her crew confront one old very alien opponent  return to the copy cat world (The one where Dr McCoy managed to forget his communicator) and it's not always a good idea to take alien artefacts on board

In the first story the crew are embarked on a mission to contain the energy burst of a giant star which will extinguish all life for 10,000 light years. When completed they receive a distress call...and it's Tholian. The crystalline creatures from the Web of Fear.

 

Kirk discovers a colony wiped out the creatures killed by pure cold. Only a child now survives following their run in with one now dispatched Tholian adult. Who killed them and who had the technology? A chase ensues when a Tholian vessel appears.....

Next up you will recall the world that copies the 1920's American gangsters and organised themselves along that patter. Now the crew detect a warp drive and find themselves on the doorstep of Stigma Ioata not a place they want to be after breaking the Prime Directive.

An amusing tale that sees Spock run in an election.

The final tale sees the Enterprise take part in an archeological expedition i which something happens on board the ship as they return to Star Base. Meanwhile Lt Uhura tries to communicate with the you Tholian refugee.

Rating: 4 Stars (Fun series)