IDW’s Star Trek: Year Five Valentine’s Day Special comic now available
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It’s Wednesday, which means it’s new comic book day, and thanks to a new Star Trek comic out today from IDW, you won’t be disappointed!
The Star Trek: Year Five Valentine’s Day Special is now available, and Syfy Wire has a preview for you to peruse before you head out to your local comic shop. Quoting the Syfy Wire piece, “The Cupid-kissed plotline [of this issue] centers on Kirk's intergalactic reputation as a smooth operator around the ladies [...]. Here he's hit with the chubby cherub's magic arrow when he meets Laura Rhone, a young Starfleet Captain of the USS Drake with a stormy romantic heart to compete with Kirk’s. Has he finally met his match or will this encounter take Captain Kirk where he's never gone before?”
Writer Paul Cornell told Syfy Wire, “Every now and then Star Trek: The Original Series would give one of the major cast a love interest of the week, often, given the overriding importance of duty to the Enterprise crew, in a way which set up romance in dramatic conflict with their regular lives and careers. [...] This one-shot, Captains of Sea and War, flirts with the opposite idea — that this time, because the romance is with a fellow Starfleet Captain, and because we’re approaching the end of the Five-Year Mission, Kirk could have this. But will he let himself?”
IDW’s Star Trek: Year Five Valentine’s Day Special, which features art by Christopher Jones and colors by Charlie Kirchoff, is available in comic shops now.
