IDW Publishing
Mike Johnson, writer
Stephen Molnar, artist
This is a fun little done-in-one issue of IDW's ongoing Star Trek comic that takes the Trek conceit of a red shirt being a death knell for low level crew members and dispels it handily for this new incarnation. The premise of the story is a letter home recorded by Hendorff, the crew member introduced in the 2009 movie first as the lead cadet in the bar fight against Jim Kirk in Iowa and later seen as a security crew member aboard the Enterprise when Kirk and Scotty beam aboard the ship from Delta Vega.
Hendorff is answering a message from his parents in which they relate the death of a family friend killed while serving aboard another starship. Hendorff's parents are concerned by this death and the rumors they've heard about how dangerous it can be to be a red shirt aboard a starship. Hendorff relates some of the Enterprise crew's recent missions in brief detail (missions are classified, you know), explaining that while danger is part of the job, he is serving aboard a fine ship with a fine crew who watch out for each other. A few scenes from the original series that saw red-shirted away team members die are included in the snippets Hendorff relates to his parents, but in each snippet, things are changed in this reality so that the aforementioned red shirt does NOT die.
A truly fun read from a consistently good book. Kudos all around!
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