Mini-Review: A Lower Decks Comic Coda

After starting out strong with Ryan North writing, IDW’s Star Trek: Lower Decks comic series took in a limited series, a comic book gamebook, and a regular series. North would write the first six issues of the latter before handing over the baton to Tim Sheridan, who’d write the remainder of it – issue 18 being the final comic in the series. Last time I got as far as Mixed Signals, the collection that gathers the first six Sheridan-penned issues; Second Second Contact, the final trade paperback, collects the latter six. These are illustrated throughout by Vernon Smith, bringing a welcome aesthetic consistency, and also see the format of the regular series shifting significantly. Previously, it had gone for tight two-issue story arcs; for this final phase of the run, Sheridan shifts to a six-issue story arc, telling an epic Lower Decks story to bid farewell to the Cerritos and its crew. The concept revolves around the titular second second contact – a mission to visit the world of…

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