1158. Last RemainsPUBLICATION: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine #20, Malibu Comics, March 1995
CREATORS: Dan Mishkin (writer), Ken Penders and Jack Snider (artists)
STARDATE: Unknown (follows the last issue)
PLOT: EM pulses start interfering with the station, make a ship crash into its shields, and threaten to rip Bajor out of its orbit. The crew finds an ancient derelict Romulan ship in the Wormhole whose prototype singularity drive is losing containment. O'Brien and Dax try to tractor the ship out, but fail, so Dax tries a desperate maneuver, inverting the Wormhole, making it disappear while leaving whatever was inside in normal space. They then destroy the ship and the Wormhole returns on cue.
CONTINUITY: This is the first issue to make use of the Defiant. The Romulan designs are closer to those of Balance of Terror than of TNG era episodes.
DIVERGENCES: Romulan captains? Should that be commanders?
PANEL OF THE DAY - Engineers of every species talk like Scotty.
REVIEW: An action "episode" with little in the way of character development except through that action, but the inclusion of flashbacks to the ancient Romulans and Penders' excellent retro designs make up for it a lot. I don't know if Dax's solution is at all rooted in real physics, but I hope it is. Why? Because I don't understand it at all! Comics and televised SF might have a use for gonzo science and technobabble after all. Might be more dramatic.
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