Review of Star Trek: The Last Starship

Ambitious, I’ll certainly give it that, to take a story and have it combine aspects from most of the different star trek series out there, and have it somehow be coherent?

It starts with the Burn, and the cataclysmic event that it was, leading to the remains of the universe as it became, and the possibility for what would come afterwards.  By all accounts, not much, to have a civilisation as dependent on warp technology as the Star Trek Universe is, it’s akin to removing all the fuel on earth and asking us to figure it out over the course of a day.

Where this excels is in the bringing together of the different universes, the return of Kirk (TOS era, not films) not as a time ripped version of himself but as something more, of Agnes Jurati and her Borg, still trying to make the best peace in a universe gone mad, and to the other races, the ones that didn’t rely on warp technology and how they chose to behave when it became clear that the Homo Sapiens Only club was in decline.

The artwork befits the universe, it’s both scrappy and evocative, which works very well for the chaotic nature of what the story is, and the story doesn’t rely on any of the characters being effortlessly awesome, character relations are believable, you can see when they don’t get on with each other and more importantly, why they don’t get on with each other.

By the end of the second book, it’s clear that there’s much more to go with, but this is a solid start to something that could very well be far more entertaining than the individual parts that made it up.

Thanks to IDW and the authors for the free ARC in return for the review.  My thoughts and words are my own, no incentive has been offered or accepted.