"Puzzles" is the first Waypoint anthology comic story, a Star Trek: The Next Generation tale published in 2016 in "Waypoint, Issue 1". It was released by IDW Publishing in honor of Star Trek's 50th anniversary and focuses on Data and Geordi La Forge.
Description
- Unable to decipher a mysterious ship’s coded messages, Starfleet has enlisted its two greatest scientific minds, Captain Geordi La Forge and his best friend Data, to investigate. What they discover will alter the course of scientific human history as we know it!
Summary
Data's physical body has deteriorated. His mind has been uploaded into the computer core of the Chimer-class starship USS Enterprise, where he serves as La Forge's first officer. Data is able to project Data holograms to operate all of the ship's bridge stations, partly for the sake of interacting with La Forge.
The Enterprise intercepts the shipwrecked Federation timeship
, which has come from the far future and is repeatedly transmitting a coded message. Sakurazaka is also operated by an artificial intelligence, and Data translates the message as the Prime Directive. Data uploads himself to the timeship and engages the AI. However, the AI captain states that no commanding officer on record had ever broken the prime directive – which Data knows is untrue. He advises the AI to review the record of Admiral Jean-Luc Picard, but the AI is unconvinced and sets a self-destruct timer to avoid contamination of a lesser civilization. Data commits mutiny by merging with the timeship's mainframe, allowing its crew to be beamed to the Enterprise.
The Enterprise warps out as the Sakurazaka is destroyed. La Forge undergoes a court of inquiry at Starfleet Headquarters in San Francisco on Earth, and convinces Admiral Jean-Luc Picard to employ the Sakurazaka engineers in La Forge's next project, trying to reconstruct Data.
References
Characters
Starships and vehicles
Locations
Races and cultures
Science and classification
- anatomy • energy • galaxy • lifeform • matter • planet • quadrant • space • star • star system • technology • time • universe • weapon
Lifeforms
Materials and substances
- atmosphere • blood • gas
Technology and weapons
- android • hologram • starship • scanner • emergency beacon • shields • signal • positronic brain • month • transporter • warp drive
States and organizations
Ranks and titles
- admiral • captain • chief engineer • commanding officer • commander • engineer • first officer • command division • Federation Starfleet ranks • Federation Starfleet ranks (2360s-2370s) • number one • officer
Other references
- boot • bridge • captain's log • civilization • clothing • crew • government • jumpsuit • language • lifeform • light year • log entry • month • mutiny • nation-state • pants • Prime Directive • races and cultures • radiation • rank • science • second • sector • ship's log • Starfleet uniform • Starfleet uniform (2366-2373) • Starfleet uniform (2386-2409) • timeline • title • transporter bay • tunic • uniform
Appendices
Related media
- ST video game: Alien Domain – Activities of the USS Chimer and other Chimer-class starships.
Images
Connections
| Star Trek: Waypoint Comics |
| #1 ("Puzzles" & "Daylily") • #2 ("The Menace of the Mechanitrons" & "Legacy") • #3 ("The Wildman Maneuver" & "Mother's Walk") • #4 ("The Fragile Beauty of Loyalty" & "Mirror, Mirror, Mirror, Mirror") • #5 ("Frontier Doctor" & "Come Away, Child") • #6 ("The Rebound Effect" & "The Fear") • Special ("Only You Can Save Yourself" & "Consider Eternity" & "My Human is Not" & "Histories") • Special 2019 ("Hearts & Bones" & "Unfathom" & "The Swift Spoke" & "The First Year") |
External link
- Puzzles article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.