The Khitomer Conflict
Begins.
Star Trek Into Darkness was built around the belief that war
with the Klingons was inevitable—at least in the eyes of Admiral
Marcus. The prospect itself served a plot focused on the inner
workings of Starfleet. And while the film didn't deliver this
galactic conflict, IDW's Star Trek Ongoing series will. The
big-screen story was continued in the uninspiring After Darkness
and now, with that out of the way, a new four-part story titled
"The Khitomer Conflict" begins in Ongoing #25. In this episode of
Literary Treks hosts Matthew Rushing and Christopher Jones dive
into the first part of this war story to find out just what is
going on between the Klingons and Romulans, how the Federation and
Section 31 are involved, and why this story should have been After
Darkness in the first place.
In our news segment we look at a flood of books and comics news
including John Jackson Miller's upcoming Titan novella Absent
Enemies, Michael A. Martin's Seasons of Light and Darkness, Scott
Harrison's Shadow of the Machine, and two yet-to-be-titled books
coming from Scott Pearson and the writing team of Paula M. Block
and Terry J. Erdmann. We also talk cover art for Dayton Ward's
Peaceable Kingdoms and the rest of The Fall, IDW's Stardate
Collection Volume 2, and we discuss Dayton's recent Ten For Ward
post about Star Trek novels for the new reader.
