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"Murder at Babel" Part 1
Star Trek: Boldly Go #7
IDW
Written by Mike Johnson and Ryan Parrott
Art by Megan Levens
Colors by Sarah Stern
Letters by Andworld Design
Cover by George Caltsoudas
April 2017 |
The Romulans agree to a Federation
conference at Babel to hear proposals of mutual defense against
another Borg attack, should it occur. But the murder of the
Romulan ambassador puts a crimp in the proceedings.
Read the story summary of this issue at Memory
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Characters appearing in this
issue
Scotty
Jaylah
Cadet T'Laan
Cadet Grace Chen
Cadet Shev Akria
Cadet Vel K'Bentayr
Cadet Lucia Gonzales
Captain Kirk
Andorian ambassador (Shev's father, unnamed)
Lt. Uhura
Spock
Sarek
Captain Terrell
Ambassador Joltair (dies in this issue)
Pilok (not named until
"Murder at Babel" Part 2)
Valas
Dr. McCoy
Lt. Commander Sulu
Lt. Darwin
Lt. Murcia
Collins (mentioned only)
Didja Know?
This issue does not have an individual title. IDW identified the
title of the entire 2-issue storyline as "Murder at Babel" in
its solicitations of the issues.
"Murder at Babel" is a reference to the title of the original
series episode "Journey to Babel", which has a somewhat similar
storyline.
Didja Notice?
Captain Kirk proclaims to Scotty that it's good to have him "back
onboard, even if it's not the Enterprise." Scotty
was seen teaching at Starfleet Academy in
"New Frontiers", but he has
already been "back" aboard the Endeavour in the
previous issue in "Hila"!
On page 1,
K'Bentayr's name is misspelled as "K'Bentyr" when Kirk speaks
to him. Still, it might be construed as Kirk mispronouncing
the Monchezkin's name.
Also on page 1, Kirk remarks on the cadets' rescue of the
U.S.S. Slayton, which "made headlines fleet-wide". This
occurred in the Starfleet Academy story which began in
"Crossed Signals". Though
the other Academy guests aboard the
Endeavour
participated in this adventure, Jaylah did not, still being
stranded on
Altamid at the time and not yet having signed on to the
Academy (see Star Trek Beyond).
On page 3, Shev's father remarks
on his son's having missed the Festival of Uzaveh, in favor
of remaining on Earth at Starfleet Academy.
Uzaveh is an Andorian god who was mentioned in the novels
ST: Enterprise: The Good That Men Do and ST:
DS9: Andor - Paradigm (this is also alleged to be the
Andorian god who was seen in an image presented by Sha Ka
Ree in the 1989 film Star Trek: The Final Frontier).
Kirk's "supplemental" captain's log on page 4 states that
the Romulans have agreed to a conference at Babel after the
recent Borg incursion. The Borg incursion occurred in the
4-part story that began in
"New Frontiers".
On page 6, Lucia remarks that you could cut the tension at
the conference with a bat'leth. The
bat'leth is the traditional Klingon sword of honor
seen in stories of the Next
Generation era Star
Trek TV series.
The pair of aliens seen in the foreground
of page 6, panel 5 are Tellarites, first seen in the
original series episode
"Journey to Babel". It is likely that the shorter of the two
is Ambassador Kintro, revealed to be the murderer in
"Murder at Babel" Part 2.
On page 15, Dr. McCoy asks the Romulan ambassador's
assistant, "Are you out of your Romulan mind?" McCoy is
known throughout his appearances in Star Trek for
asking incredulously of Spock, "Are you out of your Vulcan
mind?"
On page 18, the mysterious ship that raced out of Babel
drops out of warp near the Stellonian Asteroid Belt. This
appears to be the first mention of this region of space in
the ST universe.
On page 19, one of the guards on Shev's cell remarks to the
other that "Collins is dating a Tellarite..." Could this be
the same Collins (then an ensign) who appeared in
The Gemini Agent?
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