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TheStar Trekuniverse is adding fresh fibre and revive one-time ones in its quest to deliver " the best Star Trek account ever tell , " and with its new headline - make chapter , the IDW comic serial publication is pulling no punch to achieve that end .
With the latest issue of the series drop more than one traditional knowledge - changing bombshell in the reliable , ' divine ' nature of Sisko ’s Vulcan bunch member T’Lir , a new twist in the shadowed operations of plane section 31 , and Captain Benjamin Sisko ’s own mission from the Prophets , fans are reeling . So Screen Rant ask the writers themselves , Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing , to break down the newest reveals .
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SR : One of the raw series ' fully grown mysteries has in the end been solved : the true personal identity ( and nature ) of the Vulcan T’Lir . When did you adjudicate to land the Organians back into this story ? What was it about their late appearances in Trek ?
Jackson Lanzing : Finally , it can be told ! T’Lir has secretly been an Organian from the very first outline - if we were going to make this a story about “ gods , ” it was extremely important for there to be a character on the ship who represented what that word actually meant . Incarnating them in a Vulcan body was also extremely of import to us , as Star Trek always feel more like Star Trek with a Vulcan in the room , but it also gave us a great stereotype to commence erupt down - either as T’Lir cries when they see the crystalline entities for the first time , or when they keep repeating their mantra to stay grounded and corporeal . The audience could slowly be let into the secret … so that by the time we got to this reveal , it feel like it did n’t invalidate the type you knew , but rather enhance them .
Collin Kelly : That interrogative sentence of whether T’Lir is the person the audience has grown to care about - and how much their Organian identicalness entail to them - is right at the center of what makes this story tick . They did n’t just * become * a full grownup Vulcan - they were born , they were raised , they ’ve lived a full life , all with the memory of another sprightliness - another person - under their cutis . To help clew the audience in , every issue of this electric discharge will sport a page from T’Lir ’s personal journal , one they were continue when they were still one of the Organians that were really on the planet to fulfill Kirk and Spock during that species ’ first appearance in “ Errand of Mercy . ” In those , reader will find a full story for T’Lir … one that will have huge consequences as we get to the end of this electric discharge .
SR : So with one gigantic twisting comes another : a journey to the Pleroma , why Sisko is forbidden from attend , and even a search for Wesley Crusher … what made these strands of god - levelTreklore stand out for you to dig into , and find blank space within the existing timeline to further flesh out ?
Jackson Lanzing : That fundamental interaction between advance beings and evolved manhood is at the very core of what makes Star Trek , well , Star Trek . It ’s been there since the first two episode - “ The Cage ” tells us all about how engineering science might be used to dominate us and exchange our very reality , while “ Where No Man Has last Before ” take us what it mean for a human being to attain that form of reality - falsify power . We knew from the outset that this would be the center of our run .
Collin Kelly : precisely . These were plot lines that we have want to plunge into since the very first scheme - in fact , of all the account we planned to state , “ Pleroma ” is the tale most crucial to paying off the first arc and base impulse for what comes next . As for Wesley , we owe that wholly to PICARD - while we always know that Wesley became a Traveler , the populace only recently learned that the Travelers are ALSO part of the Supervisors , which we launch in Star Trek : Year Five as the leaders of the metre - and - space caretaker hump as Aegis . Now , Aegis was our villain in Year Five - which folk music can read in the extraordinary hardback IDW has begun releasing - but their linguistic context has changed after that narrative . Are they friend , enemy , or something in between ? With Beverly on our gang , and the benediction of Paramount , the opportunity to reunite mother and ( first born ) child was too in force to slip by up .
Jackson Lanzing : As for why Sisko * very specifically * is n’t invited to this gathering of Gods … read on .
Bringing in a new plot involving Section 31 is a bombshell on its own , but to name that character " Sloan , " and recruiting one of Sisko ’s crew ? ! For the fans who already know the group ’s deal , what about this new crease do you require fans to be require , speculating , or vex about until the next issue ?
Jackson Lanzing : As with everything Section 31 , that is extremely classified . What I ’ll observe is the character ’s not distinguish Sloan - they just employ Sloan ’s authorisation . Maybe he ’s gained a certain notoriety among the Section 31 broker community of interests ? Maybe there are those who wish he ’d been capable to go further ?
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Collin Kelly : As for what ’s going on with surgical incision 31 , fans might in reality find more of a hint in the distant past than in their recent natural process in the Dominion War …
SR : Your editor Heather Antos has teased that the next chapter of yourStar Trekopus will go " beyond the human mind ’s wildest imagery . " That ’s a gilded range , so any further detail or teases you’re able to volunteer about where these next chapter fit out into the largerTrektapestry ?
Collin Kelly : First you need about Section 31 , then you ask about secrets ? Is this a lot up ! ? What we can say is that this arc is the get-go of something unbelievable - not just for our account book , but for the stamp of Star Trek : Defiant and Sons of Star Trek as well . This line is really telling an interwoven story - and the metre is draw near to disclose the secret shape of what ’s to come .
Star Trek is one of pop culture’s biggest multimedia franchises, spanning multiple movies, TV shows, books, comics, video games, and various other media. The franchise was created by Gene Roddenberry and started with the 1960s TV series starring William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy. Over the decades, several equally popular series have come out since as Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Discovery.
Jackson Lanzing : You do n’t say a story about the delicate nature of spacetime without breaking a few realities . shoulder strap in - there ’s never been a Star Trek story as grand , as unified , or as ruinous as the one we ’re build up to . You thought Day of pedigree was a expectant event ? You ai n’t see nothing yet .
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Star Trek is one of pop culture ’s biggest multimedia franchises , sweep multiple pic , video appearance , books , comic strip , video game , and various other media . The dealership was created by Gene Roddenberry and started with the 1960s TV series starring William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy . Over the decades , several equally pop serial publication have come out since as Star Trek : The Next Generation and Star Trek : Discovery .
