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The Return of the Archons / The Truth about Tribbles, from Star Trek vol. 1 #9-12 (May-Aug. 2012)
written by Mike Johnson; art by Stephen Molnar and Claudia Balboni; colors by John Rauch, Ilaria Traversi, and Arianna Florean; letters by Neil Uyetake; creative consultant: Roberto Orci
If you're the kind of person determined to imagine that the "Kelvin timeline" is just the "Prime timeline" altered by the events of the 2009 movie, I think The Return of the Archons
is one of the stories that makes that impossible. At least, Mike
Johnson doesn't see it that way—I think it's pretty hard to buy that all
the stuff we're told here about Landru and the Archon could
somehow also be true in the original series episode, unnoticed by Kirk
and company. Anyway, like a lot of these stories it's ultimately pretty
pointless. The ending points at some ominous stuff about Pike reporting
to an unseen figure (Admiral Marcus, I assume) that never really pays
off as far as I remember.
Like with Mirrored, I'm a bit surprised David Gerrold gets a credit on The Truth about Tribbles,
because there's nothing this has in common with the original episode
other than the tribbles themselves. He even does an intro to the
collected edition, which I assume was a friendly way of throwing him
some extra money. I thought this story had some fun bits (Earth being
overrun by tribbles) but required the characters to do some very stupid
things to make it happen, and the depiction of transwarp beaming is, I
suppose, consistent with the first movie... but very easily done, enough to potentially ruin the setting, which is I guess why Into Darkness walked it back a bit.
This is the sixth in a series of posts about the Kelvin timeline Star Trek comics (and novels). The next covers Countdown to Darkness. Previous installments are listed below:
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