1063. Reductions & DeductionsPUBLICATION: Star Trek: The Next Generation #53, DC Comics, November 1993
CREATORS: Michael Jan Friedman (writer), Pablo Marcos (artist)
STARDATE: Unknown (follows the last issue)
PLOT: Q shrinks Worf and Troi to the size of dust and places them in the clothes of the humanoid cannonball, to die either in the ring of fire or the shallow receiving pool. He requires Picard to solve the Dixon Hill scenario before they are killed. Somewhere else, Data and Louvois' shuttle passes through radiation that necessitates repairs on the craft. Back in the holodeck, Picard has interviewed three suspects and thinks he can solve the mystery, just as the cannonball is about to be fired...
CONTINUITY: See previous issue.
DIVERGENCES: None.
PANEL OF THE DAY - Yeoman Rand is not the saddest secretary in the Star Trek universe.
REVIEW: Q's plan is pretty random, if you ask me. So now the circus subplot has become a ridiculous issue of the Silver Age Flash, Data's little trip grows more boring by the page, and the Dixon Hill adventure relegated to a Murder Mystery Night(TM) where the reader appears to be asked to figure it out just as Picard has from the three stories we've been told. With nothing to grab me about this story, I'm in no hurry to try to figure it out. Pablo Marcos has peppered Q's head all over the place, which sometimes adds fun (the corkscrew) and sometimes is just disturbing (on a woman's body). R&R stories are probably best kept to a single issue.
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