1304. Old TricksPUBLICATION: Star Trek: Voyager - Planet Killer #2, Wildstorm Comics, April 2001
CREATORS: Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith (writers), Robert Teranishi and Claude St. Aubin (artists)
STARDATE: Unknown (follows the last issue)
PLOT: Voyager escapes the Planet Killer's maw, but fails to save the uninhabited planet it was going after. Now it's going for Tam's homeworld, and Harry Kim remembers Kirk's mission against the weapon. Tam volunteers to pilot his ship into the Planet Killer to create the same kind of explosion Kirk used to deactivate one. He and Seven do so, and are beamed up at the last second, but it doesn't work...
CONTINUITY: See previous issue (Planet Killer). There is an extended flashback to The Doomsday Weapon.
DIVERGENCES: None.
PANEL OF THE DAY - Ensign Kim sure did like his Starfleet panel wallpaper.
REVIEW: I have very little to add from the first issue's review because nothing much IS added. In fact, the cliffhanger for issue 2 is pretty much the same as issue 1's. In the middle, we have several pages given over to a recap of The Doomsday Weapon, you know, for the Voyager fans who have never seen a TOS episode (the heathens). It's otherwise large panels and splash pages. But again, the art is beautiful. I just wish the artists had something new to show. We've seen their Voyager, their Rekced aliens and their Planet Killer. And while they look great, the story has little else for them to do!
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