by Kevin Gaussoin, Editor-in-Chief

Legacy plays an important part in many of our favorite stories: Star Trek: Picard, Justice Society of America, Super Sons, Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers: The Return, Fuller House… We love stories where the next generation steps up to go on their own adventures—to tell their own stories. We love stories where those old scientists of yore mix it up with the next generation, where old favorites undertake new enterprises, each prodigy voyager heading for a trek through deep space that leads to another new discovery. Uhh… LOW-ER DECKS! LOW-ER DECKS! Ahem.

Sons of Star Trek gives us what none of our beloved Star Trek television series can reasonably do this many years later: Tell a story featuring characters who were young not terribly long after Voyager returned to Earth and featuring characters some of whose actors have since passed on. 

Fans of sci-fi, Star Trek shows and movies, and even moreso fans of current IDW Star Trek comics, rejoice! Sons of Star Trek debuts here. 

Official Description:
From the pen of acclaimed Cyborg writer Morgan Hampton comes a new four-part miniseries spinning out of IDW’s Eisner-nominated Star Trek series and fan favorite Star Trek: Defiant series! In the aftermath of Kahless’ harrowing Day of Blood, Jake Sisko struggles to find his place in the universe now that his family has been reunited and his father, Benjamin Sisko, has once again saved the galaxy. Meanwhile, Alexander Rozhenko is recovering mentally and emotionally from his time as one of Kahless’ devout followers. Though his father, Worf, was able to break him away from the Red Path cult, Alexander is haunted by his actions during the bloody coup and is unsure of his ability to atone for the devastation he caused. Jake and Alexander find their stories intertwined as they’re thrust into an alternate universe where they followed their father’s footsteps into Starfleet stardom. As officers aboard the U.S.S. Avery, Jake and Alexander encounter alternate versions of other children of Starfleet legends who show them they all may have a bit more in common than it would seem.

This series picks up in the “current” era of IDW’s excellent Star Trek comic series (definitely check it out) shortly after the events of the “Day of Blood” story arc, and just as the official description says and the cover suggests: Q Junior shows up and throws Jake, Alexander, and Nog into an alternate universe. 

Remember how Voyager’s Season 7 “Q2” episode was so awesome because Keegan de Lancie pretty much out-Q’d his own father? Well, he’s back just as he was and it’s 2001 all over again. We’re all 23 years younger. We are, right?

*SPOILERS*

So our Trek-sons end up on a Starfleet ship wearing Starfleet uniforms that aren’t quite right. Are they in the future? As it turns out, it seems that they are in an alternate present, where things are more than a bit topsy-turvy. 

It seems that QJ has transported the sons of Star Trek to an alternate timeline where his dear “Aunt Kathy” never murdered Tuvix, where Dukat never murdered Jadzia Dax, and where Beckett Mariner never murdered her career. 

This issue is written by Morgan Hampton (Cyborg) and art by Angel Hernández (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine – The Dog of War) with colors by Nick Filardi (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine – The Dog of War) and lettering by Clayton Cowles (Daredevil, Batman). This is a very strong start for the story, and as I’ve mentioned before, Hernández snd Filardi are excellent at conveying the emotion, the action, and making sure the characters look like the actors that portray them. 

Our own Matt Sernaker posted “Can Sons of Star Trek be a new ongoing? Because it has everything I want from a Star Trek story.” I would likewise like to challenge IDW and Morgan Hampton to make this initial story arc so good that we can’t help but demand it return for more indefinitely. I want to see Jake become a man like Ciroc Lofton. I want to see Alexander be more than just an angry kid. I want to see Nog live long and prosper. 

I’m already looking forward to the rest of this 4-issue story. So join us on this trip into a previously unvisited alternate Trek reality with the Sons of Star Trek and enjoy a Star Trek universe that might have been, you know, with maybe less murder. 

Rating:
ComicsOnline gives Sons of Star Trek #1 – 4.5/5 surprise guest stars – Surprise, it’s not even just Tuvix. Like seriously there are a bunch of guest stars. Good ones. 

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