Hey everyone! How's it going? I'm doing pretty well. I started watching Power Rangers Zeo last night so look out for that review on Monday. I know, it's Halloween but I'm not a big Halloween person, so I don't have any other plans that day. So here I'll be, talking about a 26 year old season of television from my childhood instead. But that's on Monday. Today I'm here for the penultimate part in my DC Comics's Star Trek overview where I'll be talking about the three Special issues for Star Trek: The Next Generation. This is actually the last segment to focus on a particular comic book series. For the finale I'll be talking about various miscellaneous mini-series for both TOS and TNG that came out during the twelve years that DC Comics had the Star Trek comic book license. But for now, let's dive into TNG on it's own one final time. Let's do it.
Star Trek: The Next Generation Special #1 is the only one I've ever owned. Same with Star Trek Special #1, which I talked about in an earlier post. And because I still have it in my collection, I can talk about it at a much greater length than I can the other two issues. There are three stories in the issue. The first has an away team from the Enterprise-D dealing with problems on a Federation colony where these little ape-like creatures use their telepathic powers to ignite the worst fears and desires in the colonists as well as the away team which consists of Commander Riker, Doctor Crusher, Lieutenant Worf, and Guinan. As well as two officers, one in medical and the other in security, who are one off characters for this story. The second story has Worf and his son, Alexander, on shore leave so that Alexander can go through a Klingon rite of passage, which are always interesting to see. There are also two pin-up pieces of art. One is of the Enterprise-D and her crew, and the other is of Tasha Yar facing off with Armus, the alien being made of an oil slick that killed Tasha in the season 1 episode, "Skin of Evil". The final story is about Spot, Data's cat, and his journey around the corridors of the ship after escaping from Data's quarters during Data's conversation with Worf.
The second issue also has three stories. The first story has to do with Ensign Ro saving Riker's life in a situation similar to what she went through prior to her debut in the season 5 episode, "Ensign Ro". The second story is basically a follow-up to the one-shot graphic novel, Star Trek: Debt of Honor, as it features two of the main characters of that book, Jamie Finney, the daughter of Kirk's friend Benjamin Finney, and Commander Kor from the TOS episode, "Errand of Mercy". According to the synopsis on Memory Alpha, the two of them have to redeem their honor in the 24th Century. The third story is about Captain Morgan Bateson, played by Kelsey Grammer in the TNG season 5 episode, "Cause and Effect", having difficulty adjusting to life in the 24th Century. He ends up getting some help from Montgomery Scott, who has also recently found himself living in the 24th Century after being rescued by the crew of the Enterprise-D in the season 6 episode, "Relics". Since I never owned this issue, that's all I have to say about it.
The final issue only has two stories. The first one is a typical story you'd see in a TNG novel or comic published in the '90s. There's a murderer running around, killing all of the officers who had been the chief engineer of the Enterprise-D and Geordi is the next target. Meanwhile Picard is trying to negotiate a trade agreement. According to Memory Alpha this story is based off of an unused story considered for the TV series sometime in the early '90s, as this issue came out in 1995, after the TV series had ended and Star Trek Generations (1994) had been released in theatres. It was also written by Michael DeMeritt, who was a second unit director on Star Trek: Voyager (1995-2001), so that's cool. The final story, according to Memory Alpha, has Lieutenant Robin Lefler, Wesley Crusher's girlfriend, showing Scotty around the Enterprise-A, which is in the Starfleet Museum at Starbase 122, but they have to deal with Captain Koloth, who wants revenge on Scotty for the Tribbles thing in the TOS episode, "The Trouble with Tribbles". Memory Alpha says this story takes place between "Relics" and the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode, "Blood Oath", which, spoilers, saw the deaths of both Koloth and Kang.
That's it for this part of the overview. There's one more part to go but that'll have to wait until next week. Until then look forward to my review of Power Rangers Zeo on Monday, and I'll probably have one or two other posts this week and next week too. So until then have a great evening and I will talk to you all later. Take care.
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