1273. Splashdown, Part OnePUBLICATION: Star Trek: Voyager - Splashdown #1, Marvel Comics, April 1998
CREATORS: Laurie S. Sutton (writer), Terry Pallot and Al Milgrom (artists)
STARDATE: Unknown (after Star Trek: Voyager #15)
PLOT: Voyager is already running low on power when it is attacked by a swarm of alien drones. Heading for their controlling signal's location, a volcanic planet in a nearby system, Janeway attempts to land the ship without lowering shields. The drones are burned up in the atmosphere, but Voyager crashes into an ocean and starts to sink. The ship takes in water, and engineering is all but flooded...
CONTINUITY: None.
DIVERGENCES: None.
PANEL OF THE DAY - Who left their cell phone on during the movie?
REVIEW: Basically a continuation of the Voyager series, with its usual creative team. Sutton has been hit and miss for me, but in this case, writes a crackingly suspenseful disaster movie. Essentially a faceless foe, the drones are no worse than the forces of nature itself once the ship makes splashdown. Pallot and Milgrom do some of their best work on a Star Trek series, I think, with strong likenesses and interesting panel transitions. Their ships look cool, the big crash especially, but the drone attack is a bit of a mess. They tried to replicate the show's special effects using coloring for phasers and shields and it's eaten up the art and made it hard to understand. Not a big complain, but there's a lot of it in the issue.
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