949. Acceptable RiskPUBLICATION: Star Trek v.2 #44, DC Comics, March 1993
CREATORS: Howard Weinstein (writer), Gordon Purcell and Carlos Garzon (artists)
STARDATE: Unknown (follows the last issue)
PLOT: The Enterprise visits a colony outside Federation space and run by Kirk's risk-taking childhood friend. 12 people have recently died, not from the extreme pollution the colonists are producing, but from violent storms. Spock discovers the storms are caused by incorporeal life-forms trapped under the ionized layer created by the colony to make their climate more temperate. Kirk and his friend come to blows over it, and the colony votes in favor of the Enterprise zapping the ionized atmosphere, freeing the aliens and forcing the colony to move.
CONTINUITY: None.
DIVERGENCES: None.
PANEL OF THE DAY - The future is all about baggy pants.
REVIEW: A lame environmental fable with dodgier art than usual from Gordon Purcell. The bagginess verges on the disproportionate, and action-driven scenes are messy. The story is dull and doesn't make good use of Kirk's childhood connection with the antagonist, with a quick resolution thrown in so we don't need to stick around for another issue. The aliens that must be freed are never seen or heard from and the colonists not given a voice. Drab is as drab does.
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