1159. Fadeout!PUBLICATION: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine #21, Malibu Comics, April 1995
CREATORS: Dan Mishkin (writer), Rob Davis and Bruce McCorkindale (artists)
STARDATE: Unknown (between The Search and The House of Quark)
PLOT: An alien ship tries to break its moorings from the station after stealing hallucination-inducing artifacts, and they use their advanced transporter technology to phase out of our universe. Unfortunately, they can't rematerialize, and various parts of the station start phasing out as well. As crewmen and civilians are hit with fearsome hallucinations, the crew finds the aliens conspiring to cross over to DS9 to get control of the station's transporters. They defeat the aliens, rematerialize their ship and arrest them.
CONTINUITY: Rom and Keiko appear.
DIVERGENCES: None.
PANEL OF THE DAY - Inking accident.
REVIEW: Dan Mishkin delivers another script low on character development and high on technobabble... and fails miserably. None of the main characters have hallucinations and it's hard to care about the fears of people you don't know. The physics don't really make any sense, with a ship transporting ITSELF, and the nonsense geography of the phased blots. Even the art is lackluster, with the alien ship looking like a Federation design. Mishkin seems to be the writer for a while, so I really hope he does a different type of story in the near future. Hard to care about these techno plots filled with cardboard stand-ins.
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