by Kevin Gaussoin, Editor-in-Chief
Red Alert! Damn the Temporal Prime Directive and head back to Stardate 51758.3 for a story set in the middle of the Dominion War. Taking place in the back half of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 6 (prior to “In the Pale Moonlight” to be precise), our heroes have just recovered space station Deep Space Nine from the Cardassians, and they’re searching the station for anything left behind that might aid them in their fight against the Dominion.
IDW Publishing presents: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine #1 “The Dog of War: Part One”
Quark has a purebred corgi, worth its weight in latinum! Vic Fontaine has a huge dog park in holosuite four! Also some part-Borg computer neural interface device? What exactly is it? What does it for? What does it do? Shouldn’t we name the space corgi Einstein?
This issue is written by Mike Chen (Star Wars Brotherhood) and art by Angel Hernández (Star Trek – Green Lantern: The Spectrum War) with colors by Nick Filardi (Powers, Deadpool) and lettering by Neil Uyetake (Star Trek: Picard – Stargazer). Cover A is by interior artists Hernández and Filardi, Cover B is a Lower Decks baseball cover by Chris Fenoglio, Cover C is a painted Quark and corgi portrait by Andy Price and the Retailer Incentive covers the line art version of cover A.
Long time ComicsOnline fans know I want every last Star Trek comic to be drawn by JK Woodward, but I acknowledge that just isn’t practical. The important thing is that the art on a Star Trek book evoke the tone of the series and capture the likenesses of the characters. Hernández and Filardi do exactly this to a degree that will please any Star Trek fan, cementing Star Trek: Deep Space Nine “The Dog of War” seamlessly into Trek canon.
As for Mike Chen’s writing, The story fits, the voices fit, and I’m ready for issue two already. How will these events affect the Federation’s war with the Dominion? I can’t wait to find out!
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ComicsOnline gives Star Trek: Deep Space Nine #1 “The Dog of War: Part One” 4/5 strips of latinum.
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