Received this lovey hardcover this past week.
Published by IDW, this is the first authorized
CONTINUATION of Berman Era in comic book form. Up to now, the Berman era IDW stories have been "in-between episodes" stories or alternate universe adventures.
Set in 2373, three years after the DS9 finale and before the NEMESIS movie of 2379.
It is the story of Sisko's returns from the Celestial Temple with a mission from the Prophets to save them (and the other God-like beings of the Trekverse) from an unknown enemy with the power to kill Gods.
Sisko, with the aid of Picard, receives his own (experimental) starship for the mission and assembles his crew of old and new faces, including Scotty, Data, Beverly and Worf.
The book collects the first six issues, which basically comprises the quest to identify the Godkiller.
And I liked it.
A lot.
As much as I loved the majority of the now defunct Trek Novelverse, the one character the editors and writers never seemed to know what to do with was Sisko. So much so, as soon as they brought him back, they essentially sidelined him.
But writers Kelly and Lanzing clearly "get" the character and give him a story that is worthy of him.
This is the first volume in IDW's planned Berman Era Cinematic-Style Universe, with the main flagship STAR TREK comic being joined by the expansion titles DEFIANT and DAY OF BLOOD. And based on this first entry, I really looking forward to reading them all.
Thumbs Up.