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"Murder at Babel" Part 2
Star Trek: Boldly Go #8
IDW
Written by Mike Johnson and Ryan Parrott
Art by Megan Levens
Colors by Sarah Stern
Letters by Andworld Design
Cover by George Caltsoudas
May 2017 |
The tension between Romulan and Federation parties at Babel
comes to a head over the murder of the Romulan ambassador.
Read the story summary of this issue at Memory
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Characters appearing in this
issue
Captain Kirk
Ambassador Joltair (mentioned only, deceased)
Lt. Commander Sulu
Lt. Zahra
Pilok
Cadet Shev Akria
Spock
Lt. Uhura
Dr. McCoy
Valas
Ambassador Sarek
Cadet Vel K'Bentayr
Cadet Lucia Gonzales
Cadet T'Laan
Cadet Grace Chen
Jaylah
Lt. Chekov (mentioned only)
Ambassador Kintro
Andorian ambassador (Shev's father, unnamed)
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.
Didja Notice?
I've noticed the writer(s) like to begin the captain's logs
with "supplemental" these days. Supplemental to what? The
supplementals are supposed to be logs appended to an
existing log we've already seen/heard that has a stardate
attached. Of course, by making all logs "supplemental", they
don't have to screw up the stardate as they otherwise almost
always do! I don't know what is so hard about
stardates...they're a set of numbers. They arrive in
chronological/numerical sequence. If your story takes place
after a previously stated stardate, the new stardate is
simply slightly "higher" than that previous one! End rant.
(Temporally yours--webmaster.)
Kirk's captain's log states that the mystery ship has taken
refuge in the Lotonian Asteroid Belt. But in
"Murder at Babel" Part 1,
it was stated to be the Stellonian Asteroid Belt!
On page 8, Kirk identifies the mystery ship as an Altinian
Marauder, Rapier-class. This appears to be the
first mention of such a vessel in the ST universe.
On page 10, Dr. McCoy bribes the guard watching over
Ambassador Joltair's body with a bottle of, presumably,
liquor of some kind, saying it's regards from their Russian
navigator. Obviously, the Russian navigator he refers to is
Chekov. The liquor does not seem to be vodka as might be
expected, as the liquid in the container is brown in color.
Star Trek Beyond
does also suggest in one scene that Chekov is fond of
alcohol besides vodka, again with a bottle found by McCoy
that had belonged to Chekov!
On page 11, a portion of a space ship seen in Joltair's
memories appears to be similar to a Romulan D'deridex-class
warbird, previously seen in the Kelvin Timeline in
"Legacy of Spock" Part 2 and
"Resistance is Futile".
For some reason, Spock seems to be the one in charge of the
Federation delegation at Babel. Shouldn't it be someone with
more seniority within the Federation government? Maybe
Sarek?
On page 17, Spock refers to Pilok as "Ambassador", implying
that she has become the new Romulan ambassador after the
death of Joltair in
"Murder at Babel" Part 1.
On page 19, Sulu's dialog in panel 4 has been given to
McCoy!
Cadet Shev's relationship with his father in this two-part
story is reminiscent of that between Spock and Sarek in
the original series episode that inspired it, "Journey to
Babel".
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