I am all for Star Trek stories that eschew Big Crises and Continuity Reminders and just get on with telling proper stories featuring characters I like from the television. Unfortunately, Scott and David Tipton aren't particularly suited to this kind of thing. Across all the Star Trek stories they've done for IDW, they just seem to have an inability to do interesting done-in-one stories, and this is a whole book of them. You can tell a complex story in 20-page comics, but they cannot. So many of these were so easily resolved, I expected twists that there was something more going on, but it never came. Fun to see the classic characters here (they do have a good sense of voice), but little to this book beyond that.

Standard he-said, she-said culture clashing. ( )