Star Trek: Voyager – Homecoming #5
(W) Susan Bridges, Tilly Bridges (A) Ángel Hernández
The conclusion we’ve all been waiting for! One last epic, soaring moment with the crew of the Voyager awaits… Captain Janeway and her crew are prisoners of Species 8472 on their organic, ever-changing ship, and the Voyager is similarly snared in its clutches.
Star Trek: Shaxs’ Best (& Worst) Day
Writer: Ryan North
Artist: Derek Charm
See the battle to stop the fascist, god-killing clone Kahless II from declaring war on nonfollowers across the galaxy through the eyes of the man, the myth, the legend, Lieutenant Junior Grade Shaxs! See the Bajoran’s beast-mode brawl showcasing all the behind-the-scenes Klingon-zealot butt-kicking in full animated glory!
Then, Shaxs had his best day, but now that the universe has been rewritten by the mad android Lore, he’s about to have his worst. Starfleet has been distorted into a machine of oppression antithetical to everything it once stood for, and Shaxs has been made into the one thing he despises most in the universe: a fascist. Once he’s free of Lore’s hold over his mind, it will be up to Shaxs to revert everyone in Starfleet back to their old selves and save the cosmos.
First Officer Wowie Carter was once called the child without fear. But with the Federation in freefall and Earth still reeling from a brutal Klingon assault, fear is all that remains—and Wowie is cracking under its weight. The U.S.S. Omega’s mission is clear: Gather the final delegates for the Babel Conference, the Federation’s last, fragile chance at unity. A future of peace still seems possible…on paper. But every time Wowie returns to Earth, the home they once loved slips further into despair. As alliances fracture and chaos spreads, Wowie faces a question no one dares ask: What’s left to save when hope is already gone? Star Trek: The Last Starship #4 does what Star Trek does best, reflect on the issues the world faces today.
Written by Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing, Star Trek: The Last Starship has been an interesting series. It’s not a Star Trek about exploration or discovery, but one of rebuilding a society that has collapsed. It’s about building a new order when the past one has collapsed. It’s a series that reflects debate that goes on today as the laws, processes, and agreements that have propped up the function of the world are torched on a daily basis.
Star Trek: The Last Starship #4 is particularly interesting as it focuses its sights in on the regressive politics that have taken over far too many countries today. The United States and more have turned xenophobic, waving the saber, and threatening claims of independence and rejecting the flawed system that has existed. After the Burn and the attack by the Klingons, Star Trek’s Earth has rejected the order of its past. It has become isolationist, fearful of what’s out there, and isolationist. It has closed off its “borders” to others including Starfleet. So, where do things go from there?
The comic explores this in an interesting way jumping through time as the U.S.S. Omega completes its mission to help rebuild the federation but suffers from the issue of time. While it moves slowly on the ship it speeds up elsewhere. A month of their travel on the Omega equals a decade for example. Using that, we see the progression of Earth as it rebuilds rejecting its allies to do so and becoming “self-reliant.” It’s hard to not read the comic and see the echoes of Donald Trump’s vision for the world or recent remarks by Canada’s Mark Carney’s recent speech at Davos about rebuilding new alliances and processes to replace what has been burnt down. It’s eerie timing that this comic was released the same day as that speech.
The art by Adrian Bonilla delivers an an unsettling sense as Wowie revisits his home and we see its progression over time. With color by Lee Loughridge and lettering by Clayton Cowles, the comic has a roughness to it that feels like it reflects that scratched nature of the Federation and its ideals. The art has a sadness to it like a dour memory that you pass through on reflection. It’s haunting in a way and matches Wowie as he takes in what has happened to his home and parents.
Star Trek: The Last Starship #4 is a hell of a comic with a timing of release that’s far too perfect. It does, the series so far has done, an excellent job of what Star Trek has been great at and sci-fi does best, reflect and examine the state of the world and politics of our time. It’s an issue that should be read, examined, and ruminated upon. It highlights what makes Star Trek so great.
Story: Collin Kelly, Jackson Lanzing Art: Adrian Bonilla
Color: Lee Loughridge Letterer: Clayton Cowles
Story: 9.0 Art: 8.5 Overall: 9.0 Recommendation: Buy
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Star Trek: The Last Starship #4
(W) Jackson Lanzing, Collin Kelly (A) Adrián Bonilla
THE BEGINNING OF A NEW CHAPTER!
First Officer Wowie Carter was once called the child without fear. But with the Federation in freefall and Earth still reeling from a brutal Klingon assault, fear is all that remains — and Wowie is cracking under its weight.
The U.S.S. Omega’s mission is clear: Gather the final delegates for the Babel Conference, the Federation’s last, fragile chance at unity. A future of peace still seems possible… on paper. But every time Wowie returns to Earth, the home they once loved slips further into despair.
As alliances fracture and chaos spreads, Wowie faces a question no one dares ask: What’s left to save when hope is already gone?
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – The Seeds of Salvation #5
(W) Robbie Thompson (A) Serg Acuña
Make one last dive into the deep and tentacle-filled waters of the planet Poilant!
Lieutenant Commander Una Chin-Riley is no longer herself. Possessed by the ancient hivemind known as the Seed, she’s turned against her crew — and now, aboard a derelict alien ship, she’s raining destruction down on the Enterprise above Poilant. Captain Pike fights to hold the line, but the ship is slipping through his fingers.
Miles beneath the ice, Spock and D6 seek answers from leviathan squids, while Chapel and Jinare battle a blizzard to save what’s left of a shattered research team. The cold is merciless. The Seed is watching. And hope is fading.
But Chapel won’t back down. If death is coming for her crew… it’s going through her first.
Star Trek: Lower Decks #15
(W) Tim Sheridan (A) Vernon Smith
When Commander Jack Ransom promised Boimler command of the away team on Laapoonia in the event that both he and Sun-Sanchez — his Number One — were taken out of commission, he didn’t think it’d, like, actually happen. But now, Boimler is in charge, and things have gone full-blown Crisis Royale: A planet’s missing population, a big-ass alien warship, and a team at each other’s throats threaten to explosively end the Cerritos’ second-contact mission with Laapeeria. The name’s Boimler. Brad Boimler. And he’s got a license to… mildly delegate while panicking under pressure.
Star Trek: Lore War
Written by Christopher Cantwell, Collin Kelly & Jackson Lanzing
January 13, 2026
Lore War shows us a universe rebuilt in Lore’s image. The crews of the Theseus and the Defiant are scattered across the universe with no memory of who they once were—some even worship Lore as their God. Lore has won; his rule is absolute. But the Sisko remains, and there are forces who wish to remind him of his power.
From the Eisner-nominated writers of Star Trek, Jackson Lanzing & Collin Kelly; the critically acclaimed writer of Star Trek: Defiant, Christopher Cantwell; the Eisner-nominated writer of Shaxs’ Best Day, Ryan North; and artists Davide Tinto and Derek Charm comes the next big Star Trek event!
Star Trek: Voyager – Homecoming #4
(W) Susan Bridges, Tilly Bridges (A) Ángel Hernández
Stuck between a rock and a hard place, Captain Janeway and the Voyager crew agree to ally with a collection of Borg deep in fluidic space, and Seven plunges into the collective. They may be Borg, but there’s something… strange about them. Something alluring. Especially when it comes to a particularly individualistic member, Nine. Together, Nine and Seven might be able to build a deflector and help their crew members escape back to normal space — but that’s assuming they stay hidden from Species 8472 bent on their elimination.
The U.S.S. Omega launches into battle! Its adversary? A chaotic Klingon cult whose bloodred path is focused purely on obliterating the remaining vestiges of Starfleet. What’s left of the Federation is falling apart by the moment. Captain Sato, who once dreamed of uniting the galaxy, is now living his worst nightmare. He was raised in a time of peace…but no progress comes without a fight. While the Klingons might be his enemies after centuries of peace, he has Kirk as his ally…and no one knows how to defeat a Klingon better than the Federation’s greatest hero. Star Trek: The Last Starship #3 ups the shock factor as the Klingon fleet battles the Federation.
When it comes to this take of Star Trek, writers Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly seem to be tearing everything down before it can be rebuilt. The series opened with “The Burn,” an event that saw the death of billions. Now, they up that by millions in a shocking Star Trek: The Last Starship #3 that’s full of tension and moments you won’t see coming.
Lanzing and Kelly deliver a little something for every Trek fan with Star Trek: The Last Starship #3. There’s a lot that’s new but also something that feels rather old-school about it all. Captain Sato has to turn to Kirk for advice and as Kirk does his thing, there’s a certain suave factor as he gives orders to try to win the day. Add in a final panel that screams classic Kirk, the comic feels like it attempts to blend various eras in its delivery. There’s something rather old-school in Kirk’s depiction by Sato and others take to battle in a different direction delivering moments that are both cool but also a bit head scratching visually.
The visuals are full of surprises and shocking moments from Adrian Bonilla, colorist Heather Moore, and lettering by Clayton Cowles. There’s some aspects that feel on part with the first issue’s meltdown of so much delivering moments that I have never seen in Star Trek. A battle to the death feels epic and leaves you guessing as to how it’ll end. There’s some visuals that are a bit muddled like some actions in space that might be references to other things but for new readers isn’t explained quite enough. Even reading the dialogue multiple times, I wasn’t quite sure what characters were doing, though could make some guesses. It’s not a major negative and doesn’t take away from the overall experience of the issue.
Star Trek: The Last Starship #3 takes some big swings in the narrative with moments that’ll make readers gasp. It further shakes things up keeping everyone on their toes as far as what comes next. If you thought the first issue brought chaos, this third issue delivers even more. Will future issue deliver even more unexpected bomb drops that further reshape the Star Trek universe? This issue will leave you guessing.
Story: Jackson Lanzing, Collin Kelly Art: Adrian Bonilla
Color: Heather Moore Letterer: Clayton Cowles
Story: 8.5 Art: 8.5 Overall: 8.5 Recommendation: Buy
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Star Trek: The Last Starship #3
(W) Collin Kelly, Jackson Lanzing (A) Adrián Bonilla
The U.S.S. Omega launches into battle! Its adversary? A chaotic Klingon cult whose bloodred path is focused purely on obliterating the remaining vestiges of Starfleet. What’s left of the Federation is falling apart by the moment. Captain Sato, who once dreamed of uniting the galaxy, is now living his worst nightmare. He was raised in a time of peace… but no progress comes without a fight. While the Klingons might be his enemies after centuries of peace, he has Kirk as his ally… and no one knows how to defeat a Klingon better than the Federation’s greatest hero.
