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"Subtext"
Star Trek: Boldly Go #9
IDW
Written by Mike Johnson and Ryan Parrott
Art by Tony Shasteen
Colors by JD Mettler
Letters by Andworld Design
Cover by George Caltsoudas
June 2017 |
Lt. Uhura begins to have strange visions on
New Vulcan.
Read the story summary of this issue at Memory
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Characters appearing in this
issue
Sarek
Spock
Lt. Uhura
Amanda Grayson (mentioned only, deceased)
Nanil
Raheem (mentioned only)
T'Ven
Didja Know?
This issue does not have an individual title. I chose the title
"Subtext" as the story is about Uhura discovering the subtext of
Vulcan behavior and that of the psychic echoes of the empathic
ancient former inhabitants of the planet during her stay on New
Vulcan.
This ends with a "To be continued" slug on the last page, but
this is just a single-issue story. The next issue features
another standalone, spotlighting Scotty and Kevin.
Didja Notice?
On page 1, Sarek has prepared plomeek
soup from his late wife's recipe. He says her plomeek soup
was better than any he's ever tasted that was made by a
Vulcan. In "New Frontiers",
Spock remarked to Uhura that his father had prepared a
special plomeek soup of his own recipe; was it really his
wife's recipe he had prepared at the time?
Spock informs his father that he has been invited to
accompany an expedition to the Voroth Massif near the south
pole of New Vulcan. The Voroth Sea was
mentioned on Vulcan in the Voyager episode "Innocence";
presumably both gained the "Voroth" name from the same
source.
On pages 2-3, Spock and Uhura bring up the possibility of
marriage.
On page 4, panel 3, Uhura is seen training with a lirpa,
a Vulcan ceremonial weapon first seen in the Star
Trek TV
episode "Amok Time".
On page 6, Uhura mentions an uncle
Rahem. This is a misspelling of "Raheem", Uhura's uncle
whose death was seen in flashback in
"The Voice of a
Falling Star".
On page 7, Uhura suddenly seemingly finds herself in her old
home town, with her parents nearby. Her home town was established to
be Kitui, Kenya in the United States of Africa in
"The Q Gambit" Part 1.
Uhura's parents have been named as
Alhamisi and
M'Umbha Uhura in various expanded universe sources and were
seen previously in
"The Voice of a
Falling Star".
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The monitor arm and monitor seen on page 15, panel 3 is from
an image of a Humanscale M8
Single Monitor Arm. It appeared previously in
"Legacy of Spock" Part 4 (also by artist Tony Shasteen). |
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| Monitor arm |
Humanscale M8
Single Monitor Arm |
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