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Star Trek: Voyager – Mirrors & Smoke                                One-shot Comic
Writer: Paul Allor
Artist: J.K. Woodward
Letterer: Neil Uyetake
Editors: Anni Perheentupa & Denton J. Tipton
Cover by: J.K. Woodward

To Boldly Go Where No Man Has Gone Before.Star Trek is an American space opera media franchise based on the science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry. The first television series, simply called Star Trek and now referred to as “The Original Series”, debuted in 1966 and aired for three seasons on the television network NBC. It followed the interstellar adventures of Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) and his crew aboard the starship USS Enterprise, a space exploration vessel, built by the United Federation of Planets in the twenty-third century. The Star Trek canon of the franchise includes The Original Series, an animated series, five spin-off television series, the film franchise, and further adaptations in several media. This variant cover is limited to 1,000 copies and was only available at the Fan Expo Canada Comic Convention. From Star Trek writer/producers Roberto Orci & Alex Kurtzman and the creative team behind the best-selling prequel comic Star Trek: Countdown comes an all-new story set within the events of the hit film! Not an adaptation, this exclusive story follows the villainous Nero as he seeks to destroy the Federation.

Star Trek: Voyager is an American science fiction television series created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, and Jeri Taylor. It originally aired from January 1995 to May 2001 on UPN, lasting for 172 episodes over seven seasons. The fifth series in the Star Trek franchise, it served as the fourth sequel to Star Trek: The Original Series. Set in the 24th century, when Earth is part of a United Federation of Planets, it follows the adventures of the Starfleet vessel USS Voyager as it attempts to return home after being stranded in the Delta Quadrant on the far side of the Milky Way galaxy. Set in a different part of the galaxy from preceding Star Trek shows, Voyager gave the series’ writers space to introduce new alien species as recurring characters, namely the Kazon, Vidiians, Hirogen, and Species 8472. During the later seasons, the Borg—a species created for The Next Generation—were introduced as the main antagonists. During Voyager’s run, various episode novelisations and tie-in video games were produced; after it ended, various novels continued the series narrative. Voyager was the first Star Trek series to feature a female captain, Kathryn Janeway (Kate Mulgrew), as the lead character. The U.S.S. Voyager is commanded by Captain Kathryn Janeway and is staffed by first officer Commander Chakotay, second officer/security -Tuvok, Helmsman/medic – Tom Paris, Chief engineer – B’Elanna Torres, Chief medical officer – Human hologram doctor, Nurse/ Botanist – Kes, Morale officer/cook – Neelix, and Astrometric lab crewman – Seven of Nine. And Star Trek: Voyager was the first Star Trek series to use computer-generated imagery (CGI), rather than models, for exterior space shots.

The mirror universe is a parallel universe where the patterns of events move in similar manners to that of the primary universe, but the intentions and characterizations are different, often showing “evil” characteristics in place of “good”, and vice versa. Starfleet Intelligence, by the year 2267, referred to this reality as “Terran Empire parallel”. The mirror universe shares a similar history to that of the primary universe, and many of the same people exist in this reality, but they and the galaxy they live in are skewed versions of their “normal” counterparts. (Star Trek Adventures module: Core Rulebook)

Now, IDW Publishing presents, Mirror Voyager’s amazing comic book debut! Stranded far from the ruins of the Terran Empire, Captain Janeway of the rebel ship Voyager has crowned herself Pirate Queen of the Delta Quadrant!

2372. Rebel ship Voyager – captained by Kathryn Janeway, an escaped slave from a brutal Cardassian mining facility – is flung halfway across the universe. Stranded in the Delta Quadrant, Janeway and her ragtag rebel crew are faced with a choice. Find their way home or quietly forge a new life far away from Klingons, Cardassians, and the Rebellion? Janeway choses the third option. The Voyager will stay. The Voyager will plunder. The Delta Quadrant will be hers, and she will be its Pirate Queen. A year later, she is well on her way…

Story/Spoilers
In the mirror universe, in the lawless Delta Quadrant, the ISS Voyager trades shots with the Baxial, crewed by the scavengers Neelix and Kes for the shuttlecraft held in its tractor beam. When the shuttle tries to break free of the beam, Kathryn Janeway orders Harry Kim to fire on the tractor beam emitter. At Janeway’s command, the shuttle’s sole occupant is beamed onto the bridge. Disheveled, Annika Hansen materializes, assuming that the crew is here to save her. In sickbay, the Doctor identifies Hansen as the daughter of two Terran scientists with the woman confirming that, when she was five, her parents were assimilated by the Borg. Speaking with Chakotay, Janeway scoffs at the existence of the beings that Hansen described before the ship drops out of warp. This proves but the first of many faults as the replicators and the gravity generators turn against the crew with a variety of injuries piling up in sickbay, the injured turning suspicious glances toward Annika. In a senior staff meeting, while Janeway is reluctant to execute Annika, the first Terran that they’ve seen in years, she is prepared to do it before ordering Aaron Cavit to investigate other potential causes of the malfunctions. While in a shuttle bay, the airlock closes before the bay vents, Chakotay kicking Cavit out of the ship. Determined, Chakotay stalks to the sickbay, convinced that Annika is the cause of everything and demanding to know who her accomplice is before he is knocked out by the Doctor who contemptuously corrects the man. Annika is his accomplice. Seizing control of the whole ship, the Doctor reveals himself as a fully sentient being, having gained his awareness thanks to the crew carelessly leaving him on, and that he’s turning on the crew given how they’ve treated him like a tool and Annika hasn’t. As the Doctor and Annika, wearing a space suit, shut down the life support, Janeway crawls to a panel and sends out an SOS to the Baxial. Beaming aboard the ship, Kes’ powers quickly wreak havoc before she distorts the Doctor’s light-based form, resetting his program. Though Annika tries to avenge her partner, she too is quickly subdued. When Neelix tries to call in a favor from Janeway, she casually enacts “Protocol Seven” summoning the reset EMH to her location who subdues Kes. Thanking Neelix for resetting the holo-program, Janeway orders him taken to the brig where Annika offers an alliance. With two vessels under her command, Commodore Janeway wonders where they should head next. Inspired by Tuvok’s suggestion of augmenting their defensive capabilities, Janeway orders a hunt for the Borg that Annika mentioned.

Comic is bagged & triple boarded and will be carefully / securely packaged then shipped via USPS Priority Mail to ensure that it arrives to you perfectly and quickly.

First Printing
Publisher: IDW Publishing
Publication Date: October 2019
Format: FC, 32 pages, Comic, 10.20″ x 6.65″
UPC: 827714018738

Collectible Entertainment note: One-shot Comic is in Fine condition.  Nice!  Please See Scans!!  A must have for any serious Star Trek Voyager collector and/or enthusiast.  A fun & entertaining read.  Very Highly Recommended.

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