Star Trek has crowned its most important captain of all time–and it is not James Kirk nor Jean-Luc Picard. Recently, in issue 25 of IDW’s Star Trek comic, the evil android Lore destroyed the universe, and now, in a first look at issue 28, the destruction has spread to the entire multiverse. Only one Starfleet hero can save it: Deep Space Nine’s Benjamin Sisko.
IDW shared their January solicitations, including Star Trek #28. The issue, which will be written by Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly and drawn by Tess Fowler, is part four of the “When the Walls Fell” story arc. The solicitation for the issue reads as follows:
Lore has destroyed the multiverse, and its fate now lies in Benjamin Sisko's hands. But after the U.S.S. Theseus slingshots into the Celestial Temple, Sisko finds himself without his crew... or any technology... on a Bronze-age Bajor. The ancient Bajorans don't know what to make of him: Is he a terrifying threat or the prophet they've been waiting for? If Sisko is to save life itself from the Orb of Destruction, he must first save himself...
“When the Walls Fell” has so far seen Sisko and his crew visit Fluidic Space, barely surviving an encounter with Species 8472, and a future issue will see them encounter the Kelvin Universe Enterprise.
Captain Benjamin Sisko Saved the Galaxy Twice
Sisko Fought the Dominion and a God Killer
Ben Sisko was played by Avery Brooks.
Captain Benjamin Sisko, who led Deep Space Nine, is one of Starfleet’s greatest captains. He saw the spaceship and its ragtag crew through some of the most turbulent years of the 24th century, namely the Dominion War. Deep Space Nine ends with Sisko traveling to the Celestial Temple, to live with the Bajoran Prophets. Just a few years later, in Star Trek #1, Sisko returned to our reality, charged with a new mission: stop whoever is slaughtering the universe’s god-like beings. Starfleet gave Sisko a new ship: the Theseus, as well as a new crew.
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When the dust settled, Sisko was instrumental in stopping the god-killer, revealed to be none other than the Klingon Emperor Kahless. Sisko stopped cosmic genocide, but in its wake, Data’s evil brother Lore rose to threaten all creation. Taking the same technology that was being used to kill the gods, Lore traveled to their home realm. Sisko was forced to watch as the android used the Bajoran Orb of Destruction to destroy the universe, creating a wave of chaos that now threatens the entire Star Trek multiverse–including the Kelvin and Mirror universes.
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Sisko helped save the galaxy once, and now he must save the entire multiverse.
IDW’s solicitation for Star Trek #28 makes it clear: saving the multiverse now falls on Ben Sisko’s shoulders. Sisko and the Theseus crew are the sole survivors of Lore’s attack. Sisko and his crew must fight their way across the multiverse, seeking allies for the coming war with Lore. Lore was not content to destroy the universe, he also wanted to remake it in his own image. Captain Sisko is the first line of defense against Lore’s plans–just as he led the charge against the Dominion. Sisko helped save the galaxy once, and now he must save the entire multiverse.
And it is this new mission that makes Captain Sisko Star Trek’s most important captain, and puts him in a league beyond Kirk and Picard. Picard and Kirk are regarded, rightfully, as two of Starfleet’s greatest captains. They have saved Earth, the Federation, the galaxy and, occasionally, the entire universe. Yet Kirk and Picard have never had a mission as grave as the one Captain Sisko now faces: to not only destroy the greatest evil Star Trek universe has ever known, but to also save the multiverse from a fate worse than death.
Star Trek #28 is on sale January 22 from IDW Publishing!
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