by Kevin Gaussoin, Editor-in-Chief
“Set phasers to nostalgia, because Voyager just punched back into our orbit and this time nobody’s making us wait a week between episodes.”
That’s ’cause comics come out monthly!
After twenty-plus years of fans yelling “But what happened next?” we finally have the answer, and it turns out it wasn’t buried in some Paramount vault, it was waiting for Susan and Tilly Bridges to give us the goods. Star Trek Voyager Homecoming #1 is exactly what you wanted after “Endgame”… unless what you wanted was clip show of Delta Quadrant reruns. This book wastes zero panels on unnecessary rehash (we do have two pages of unwasted and fully worth-it Captain’s Log). Instead, Star Trek Voyager Homecoming #1 rockets straight into the messy business of coming home to a Federation that isn’t quite ready to receive its wayward starship full of trauma and Borg nanoprobes. Strap in, ’cause this is celebrating Star Trek: Voyager’s 30th anniversary
Captain Kathryn Janeway led her Voyager crew from seventy thousand light years into the delta quadrant of the galaxy back home to sector 001 of the alpha quadrant, but we never quite saw them reach Earth, did we? It seems we have time for one more adventure before Harry finally gets his pip…
Official Description:
(W) Susan Bridges, Tilly Bridges (A/CA) Angel Hernandez
Captain Kathryn Janeway and her crew are back for one last adventure in celebration of Voyager’s 30th-anniversary! Picking up where the series finale left off, Voyager has just returned to Earth. Everyone is looking forward to reuniting with their friends and family after the crucibles they’ve faced-but there is a deadly secret in store, one that takes the crew far from home. Voyager delves back into the breach, all those aboard determined to make it back to their loved ones no matter what, even if there’s hell to pay.
“Hell Toupée” is coincidentally, the name of The Doctor’s metal band.
Angel Hernandez’s art gives Voyager the visual look it deserves. It’s cinematic, expressive, and keeping those famed likenesses from sliding into uncanny valley territory. Hernandez makes Janeway look like she could still bark an order that’d make a Klingon flinch. The Doctor looks his best. And Tuvok looks like he’s succumbing to Bendii syndrome. The pacing is pure new TV episode energy, except you don’t have to sit through UPN commercials for Buffy or long-distance phone service.
Seeing the Earth just in view is momentarily just as beautiful as it was in the series finale, but then suddenly it’s time to make the donuts. It’s comfort food we’ve been craving, because this is the version of the Voyager crew we left behind back in 2001, but just as we ease the fork to our mouths for the first new bite in 24 years? An old adversary slaps it out of our hands and drags us off to one more adventure. I know, I know, this is not at all what we were looking for, but seeing Janeway go straight to her zero-effs-given “Year of Hell” outfit is frankly giving us a little tingle. It’s like the universe is telling them, “Congrats on surviving seven years in the Delta Quadrant. Now try surviving the consequences before you get home.”
Rating: 
ComicsOnline gives Star Trek Voyager Homecoming #1 – five out of five nebulae full of nostalgia. This is the Voyager encore we deserved, and if you don’t beam aboard now, you’ll be stuck hearing spoilers from that guy at your local comic shop who still insists DS9 was the only real Trek.
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