948. (A Little Adventure...) ...Goes a Long Way! The Conclusion!PUBLICATION: Star Trek v.2 #43, DC Comics, February 1993
CREATORS: Howard Weinstein (writer), Gordon Purcell and Arne Starr (artists)
STARDATE: 8915.1 (follows the last issue)
PLOT: The Binzalan engineer is badly hurt by the latest radiation leak, leaving Scotty in charge of a ship in massive disrepair. Meanwhile, the mother of the splinter religion's "saviour" is prematurely in labour. The child is born aboard the ship even as the Binzalan authorities arrive and attack to get back, not the pilgrims per se, but the heir to the throne, the baby's father who faked his own death to escape his former life. The Enterprise arrives in a nick of time to beam everyone aboard the ship as it detonates from the leak, and Kirk and Spock mediate matters between the Binzalans. The prince is happy to be exiled from his homeworld, and the faithful are not to be told the baby was born before reaching the colony. As for the Binzalan engineer, she is inspired by Scotty to perhaps join Starfleet.
CONTINUITY: None.
DIVERGENCES: None.
PANEL OF THE DAY - When you have only so much money to spend on trade paperbacks.
REVIEW: The plot turns out to be much ado about nothing, with the bad guys giving the good guys exactly what they want as "punishment", and the issue using up half the page count to get us up to speed from the previous issue (at least, nothing new happens). Scotty and McCoy are still well used, but the Enterprise provides a deus ex machina that doesn't give them their due. Mildly disappointing despite some good dialogue here and there. Weinstein is getting better at characterization, but not at plotting.
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