Warning: contains preview images for Star Trek Discovery: Adventures in the 32nd Century #3!
A new Star Trek comic will introduce the weirdest version of the Starship Enterprise to the franchise. In a recently revealed variant cover for Star Trek Discovery: Adventures in the 32nd Century, fans see Lieutenant Commander Keyla Detmer riding a tiny version of the iconic USS Enterprise. And even more surprising, this variant cover is not a goofy one-off, but apparently relevant to the plot. The issue is written by Mike Johnson & Kirsten Beyer and drawn by Angel Hernandez.
Since acquiring the rights to publish Star Trek comic books, IDW Publishing has created a number of exciting titles based on the venerable franchise. The most recent is a four-issue miniseries Star Trek Discovery: Adventures in the 32nd Century, focusing on individual members of Discovery’s crew as they attempt to navigate the distant 32nd Century. Previous issues have focused on Grudge, Book’s cat and Linus, Discovery’s science officer. Now, Lt. Commander Keyla Detmer gets the solo treatment in issue three and a special variant cover shows Detmer riding a tiny Enterprise, the weirdest version of the ship yet.
In a recent tweet, artist Aaron Harvey unveiled his variant cover. On an alien world, a tentacled monster arises from the ground, and far above him, Detmer can be seen riding a tiny version of the Enterprise, complete with flames shooting out of the back. Harvey prefaced the image by saying that the tiny Enterprise will actually make sense once fans read the story. One astute fan noticed the flames emanating from the nacelles, and Harvey commented it was a call-out to the Gold Key Star Trek comics from the ’60s and ’70s, which were notorious for their lack of faithfulness to the source material.
Excited to reveal the variant cover for issue #3 of the #StarTrekDiscovery Adventures in the 32nd century comic staring Lt Cmdr Detmer! Yes she is riding a tiny Enterprise and *yes* it will make sense once you read the comic…which is out May 4th! pic.twitter.com/dBnjK9DFZ6
— GeekFilter🖖🏳️🌈 Not going to Chicago (@GeekFilter) March 21, 2022
The cover to the issue seems like a cute visual at first, but according to Harvey, it actually factors into the story. Shrinking technology has been glimpsed only once in the Star Trek franchise, in the episode “One Little Ship” in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’s sixth season. This leads to the question: how did that Enterprise get so tiny? Was it built that way? Although shrinking tech has been rare in the Star Trek universe, Discovery now operates in the 32nd century, and as seen in that show, the tech is far beyond anything glimpsed in the 22nd-24th centuries. Has the Federation perfected the technology at long last, or is this some kind of dream or fantasy sequence? Lt. Commander Detmer served under Enterprise captain Christopher Pike in Discovery’s second season, making this cover a nice shout-out to that as well.
Star Trek fans have grown accustomed to seeing weird and amazing aliens and ships each week, but this new cover still finds a freaky new way to present the Enterprise, inviting fans to ask questions that will only be answered when the issue releases in print and digital March 4.
Source: @GeekFilter
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