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"The Spectrum War" Part 1
Star Trek/Green Lantern #1
IDW
Written by: Mike Johnson
Art by: Angel Hernandez
Colors by: Alejandro Sanchez
Letters by: Neil Uyetake
Cover B (pictured) by: Francesco Francavilla
July 2015 |
The Enterprise
discovers a strange skeleton and six colored rings on a dead
planet.
Didja Know?
The Spectrum War is a 6-part
Star Trek story set in the Kelvin Timeline created by the
Romulan Nero's incursion into the past in the 2009 Star Trek
movie (starting with
"Rebirth" in the PopApostle ST chronology). It was published
by IDW as the 6-part mini-series Star Trek/Green Lantern
(2015) a
cross-over of the characters of Star Trek and those of
the various Lantern Corps from the DC Universe of comic books
published by DC Comics.
This mini-series takes place in an
alternate timeline than the one followed in the main PopApostle
Star Trek chronology
of the Kelvin Timeline.
Characters appearing in this
issue
Ganthet
Captain Kirk
Spock
Science Officer
0718
Lt. Sulu
Lt. Uhura
Lt. Zahra
Dr. McCoy
Scotty
Keenser
General Chang
Lt. Chekov
Hal Jordan
Didja Notice?
This issue opens in the DC Universe on the planet Mogo, with
six colored rings flying after Ganthet, one of the Guardians
of the Universe. In various stories
published by DC Comics,
Mogo is a sentient planet and a member of the Green Lantern
Corps; the Guardians of the Universe are a group of nearly
omnipotent beings who created the Green Lantern Corps and
Ganthet is one of its most prominent members; the six rings
following him here represent the Lantern Corps outside of
the Green Lanterns (the yellow Sinestro Corps, the violet
Star Sapphire Corps, the Red Lantern Corps, the Orange
Lantern Corps, the Blue Lantern Corps, and the Indigo
Lantern Corps).
In the Star Trek universe, it is stardate 2262.67.
And, in keeping with IDW's
determination to screw up the stardates in its Star Trek
comics, the conclusion of the mini-series in
"The Spectrum War" Part 6 ends on stardate 2262.247, so
the story ends before it even began! (And, no, the
Enterprise did not travel back in time.)
Kirk's captain's log states the Enterprise is en route to
Nodell-16, an unexplored system at the edge of the Alpha
Quadrant on the galaxy's outermost ring. The system is named
for Martin Nodell (1915-2006), the creator of the original
Green Lantern character in 1940.
On page 8, Scotty asks Kirk for permission to bathe the
discovered rings in a tachyon field to see what effect it
has on them. Tachyons are hypothetical
particles in the study of special relativity that travel
faster than light and can never reach a speed equal to or
less than the speed of light.
This issue introduces the Klingon General Chang to the new
timeline. General Chang was the
prominent antagonist in the original timeline story of the
1991 film Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country.
Chang's ship is a Klingon Bird of Prey, the first Kelvin
Timeline appearance
of the classic-look Bird of Prey first seen in Star Trek: The Search
for Spock in the original timeline.
"The Spectrum War" Part 2 reveals that the ship's name
is Muqtovor.
On page 11, Keenser speaks for the first recorded time,
saying, "Did!" in response to Scotty's command to shut off
the tachyon field effecting the Lantern rings.
On page 18, Chang is chosen as a member of the Sinestro
Corps, Chekov as a member of the Blue Lantern Corps, Uhura
as a member of the Star Sapphire Corps, and Dr. McCoy as a
member of the Indigo Tribe.
The Green Lantern seen on the last page of this issue is Hal
Jordan, the Green Lantern of Sector 2814 (including Earth)
in the DC Universe.
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