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Preview: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – The Seeds of Salvation

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – The Seeds of Salvation

Written by Robbie Thompson
Art by Travis Mercer and Serg Acuña

After plodding through uneventful mission after uneventful mission, Christine Chapel is itching for a real adventure. So, when an opportunity to reunite with her old scientist friend Jinare for research on the planet Poilant crops up, Chapel is excited to finally do what Starfleet does best: explore strange new worlds. However, when the Enterprise arrives in Poilant’s space, they cannot get into contact with Jinare or any of her researchers. Chapel, Una, Spock, La’An, and Scotty beam down, and they are greeted by…nothing…no one…and no signs of what caused their disappearance, only a robot named D6 who urges them to descend into the planet’s depths in search of his friends. But there’s more than scientists lurking in the watery abyss. Ancient life-forms and behemoths await—and they might mean more adventure than even Chapel can handle.

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Preview: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – The Seeds of Salvation #5

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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.

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Preview: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – The Seeds of Salvation #4

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – The Seeds of Salvation #4

(W) Robbie Thompson (A) Serg Acuña

The Seed has taken hold — body, mind, and soul. Now under its control, Una and Jinare have become relentless drones, driven by vengeance. As Chapel struggles to untangle the lies binding them together, La’An, Spock, Scotty, and D6 fight to reconnect with the Enterprise… but first, they must survive the crushing abyss — and a colossal sentient squid guarding the way to the surface.

Aboard the Enterprise, Uhura intercepts a strange signal pulsing from Poilant’s surface — faint, fragmented, and impossible to trace. But Ortegas spots something else: a glowing red light spreading across the terrain, its shape disturbingly familiar. Is it… a ship? Or something far more dangerous?

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Preview: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – The Seeds of Salvation #3

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – The Seeds of Salvation #3

(W) Robbie Thompson (A) Serg Acuña

Aboard the Enterprise, chaos erupts as Poilant drones attack without warning. With the ship under fire, Ortegas must push her piloting skills to the limit to buy Uhura a narrow window — one last chance to reconnect with their stranded crew and unlock the deadly mystery hidden within Poilant’s strange, ancient symbols.

Meanwhile, on a desperate mission to locate a missing Starfleet research team — and their friend Jinare — Chapel, La’An, Una, Spock, Scotty, and their unlikely robotic ally D6 stumble into the clutches of a terrifying parasitic hive-mind known as the Seed. As the alien collective tightens its grip, one question looms: Is this the force behind Jinare’s vanishing… or just the beginning of something far worse?

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – The Seeds of Salvation #1 Teases an Interesting Mystery

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After plodding through uneventful mission after uneventful mission, Christine Chapel is itching for a real adventure. So, when an opportunity to reunite with her old scientist friend Jinare for research on the planet Poilant crops up, Chapel is excited to finally do what Starfleet does best: explore strange new worlds. However, when the Enterprise arrives in Poilant’s space, the crew cannot get into contact with Jinare or any of her researchers. Chapel, Una, Spock, La’An, and Scotty beam down, and they are greeted by…nothing…no one…and no signs of what caused their disappearance, only a robot named D6 who urges them to descend into the planet’s depths in search of his friends. But there’s more than scientists lurking in the watery abyss. Ancient life-forms and behemoths await—and they might mean more adventure than even Chapel can handle. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – The Seeds of Salvation #1 is a solid start that’s welcoming to Star Trek fans as well as new readers.

While I’ve seen all of the Star Trek films and watched a lot of the television shows, I’m not a Star Trek diehard. I know my basics and enjoy what I’ve seen but I haven’t watched the new shows on streaming (mostly because I don’t want to pay for yet another streaming service). So, I’ve never seen a full episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, but know enough about it, that it’s a prequel to the original Star Trek series. And even that knowledge is unnecessary.

Writer Robbie Thompson delivers a debut issue in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – The Seeds of Salvation #1 that’s easy for anyone to dive into. There’s little you need to know about the series to enjoy what is a fairly basic concept, a team arrives at a base to find it empty and only clues as to where everyone has gone. Add in a feeling of danger lurking and you have this comic. It’s straightforward but it works well.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – The Seeds of Salvation #1 isn’t a comic lost in Star Trek lore and details. Instead, it puts its focus on the characters and the mystery providing a read that plays into the puzzle as to what happened and playing with tropes like readers guessing what’s lurking in a shadow or around the corner. It keeps things focused and simple in that way.

Travis Mercer‘s art, along with color by JP Morgan and lettering by Jodie Troutman helps things out by really playing into that slight tension of the story. The characters feel a bit antsy in the beginning which then builds into the tension as the team begins to explore their destination. The art has fun with that at times focusing visuals elsewhere as the team explores off the page, instead focusing on what lurks in the shadows. It just dives right into what can make horror work and goes with it. Add in a nice take on the actors where they’re all easily recognizable, and it all comes together for a comic that looks good and is having fun visually with the already entertaining script.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – The Seeds of Salvation #1 is a nice start. Star Trek fans should enjoy this adventure of the crew while new readers can just enjoy a sci-fi mystery and not get caught up on it being based on an existing property. It’s the best of both worlds in that case as it explores a whole new world.

Story: Robbie Thompson Art: Travis Mercer
Color: JP Morgan Letterer: Jodie Troutman
Story: 7.75 Art: 7.75 Overall: 7.75 Recommendation: Read

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Preview: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – The Seeds of Salvation #1

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – The Seeds of Salvation #1

(W) Robbie Thompson (A) Travis Mercer

From Strange New Worlds season 4 writer Robbie Thompson (The Sin Bin, Marvel’s Silk) and Star Trek knockout artist Travis Mercer (Cyborg, Teen Titans) comes a Lovecraftian horror the likes of which the crew of the Enterprise has never seen before!

After plodding through uneventful mission after uneventful mission, Christine Chapel is itching for a real adventure. So, when an opportunity to reunite with her old scientist friend Jinare for research on the planet Poilant crops up, Chapel is excited to finally do what Starfleet does best: explore strange new worlds. However, when the Enterprise arrives in Poilant’s space, the crew cannot get into contact with Jinare or any of her researchers. Chapel, Una, Spock, La’An, and Scotty beam down, and they are greeted by… nothing… no one… and no signs of what caused their disappearance, only a robot named D6 who urges them to descend into the planet’s depths in search of his friends. But there’s more than scientists lurking in the watery abyss. Ancient life-forms and behemoths await — and they might mean more adventure than even Chapel can handle.

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