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"I.D.I.C." Part 1
Star Trek: Boldly Go #13
IDW
Written by Mike Johnson
Art by Josh Hood
Colors by Jason Lewis
Letters by AndWorld Design
Cover by Tony Shasteen
October 2017 |
In an alternate universe, Captain Pike of
the Enterprise faces a Klingon foe with a familiar
face.
Read the story summary of this issue at Memory Beta
Characters appearing in this
issue
Captain Kirk
Mr. Spock
Lt. Uhura
Commander Sulu
Scotty
(mentioned only)
Lt. Chekov (mentioned only)
Lt. Ellix
Lt. Darwin
Commander Simon Grayson (alternate universe)
Captain Christopher Pike
(alternate universe)
Lt. Sulu
(alternate universe)
Lt. Chekov
(alternate universe)
Scotty
(alternate universe)
Dr. McCoy
(alternate universe)
Nyota Uhura
(alternate universe, mentioned only, deceased)
The Orphan
Sho'Tokh
(alternate universe)
Captain Jane Kirk (gender-swapped universe)
Ms. Spock
(gender-swapped universe)
Didja Know?
The title of this 6-part story,
"I.D.I.C.", stands for "Infinite Diversity In Infinite
Combinations", a Vulcan philosophy first introduced to us in the
original series episode "Is There in Truth No Beauty?" in 1968.
Each issue of this
6-part story
has a different artist providing interior art, except that
Josh Hood bookends the story with parts 1 and 6.
Writer Mike Johnson has made the ultimate antagonist of the
story Gary Mitchell (not revealed until
"I.D.I.C." Part 5). Since this was
the final storyline of the comics set in the Kelvin Timeline (at
least for now), it seems likely Johnson made this choice to
deliberately make a pair of bookends to his tenure as the main
writer of Kelvin Timeline comics since his first story was an
altered version of the original series episode "Where No Man Has
Gone Before" in
Star Trek #'s 1 and 2 from 2011, the introduction
of Gary Mitchell.
The look of the Klingons seen in this issue seems to be inspired
by those of the ST: Discovery TV series that premiered
in 2017. Later issues in the storyline depict the Klingons in a
more Kelvin Timeline manner.
Didja Notice?
On page 2, Captain Kirk speaks to Spock
and Uhura about how much of his old Enterprise
bridge crew are elsewhere currently while the new ship is
being built and he temporarily commands Endeavour.
He mentions that Scotty is teaching at the academy. Scotty
was seen teaching at Starfleet Academy in "New
Frontiers", but then was suddenly on the Endeavour
in
"Hila" and
"Murder at Babel". I
guess Starfleet is keeping Scotty hopping!
Kirk also mentions that
Chekov has just returned to Yorktown to work on the
Enterprise.
On page 5, in an alternate universe,
Captain Christopher Pike finds himself in nearly the same
situation of being chased by natives on the planet Nibiru
that Kirk found himself in in the Kelvin Timeline in
Into Darkness.
In the alternate universe, the son of Sarek and Amanda
Grayson has taken the name of Simon Grayson instead of
Spock, having been rejected by Vulcan society.
On page 6, Commander Grayson remarks to Scotty, regarding
Nibiru, "It's not like we stopped the volcano from
erupting." In the Kelvin Timeline in
Into Darkness, the
Enterprise crew
did exactly that in order to save the primitive civilization
developing there.
It seems that the Orphan (an orphaned James T. Kirk who was
raised by Klingons on Kronos) is taking the role that was
filled by
the albino Klingon called Sho'Tokh in the
"Manifest Destiny"
storyline.
On page 10, one of the Klingons remarks that the Orphan was
raised in the battle-slums of Kronos; in
"Manifest Destiny" Part
4, Sho'Tokh says he raised himself in the battle-slums
of the capital (First City on Kronos). On page 13, we learn
that the Orphan is the captain of the IKS Chonnaq,
which Sho'Tokh commanded in that
story. In our current story, in an alternate universe,
Sho'Tokh is the Orphan's first officer aboard the
Chonnaq.
The Orphan wears a bolted metal
patch over his left eye, similar to the one worn by Klingon
General Chang in the 1991 film, Star Trek: The
Undiscovered Country.
On page 13, a bat'leth is
seen hanging on the wall of the Orphan's quarters aboard the
Chonnaq.
On page 15, Grayson, commenting on the anomaly in space to
Pike, says he's never seen quantum entanglement like this.
Quantum entanglement is an observed phenomenon of quantum
particles that once the spin of a quantum particle is
entangled with another, they remain entangled even over
immense distances (one particle will react to a change by
the other particle).
On the last page of this issue, the gender-swapped crew of
the alternate universe Enterprise
previously seen in the
"Parallel Lives"
storyline appears.
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