"The Hunger" is the 19th issue of John Byrne's Star Trek: New Visions comic series. It was published in December 2017.
Description
Summary
Log entries
- Captain's log, stardate 6619.2... USS Enterprise on an exploratory mission into intergalactic space.
- Captain's, log, stardate 6620.3... The planet is just as Spock described it—cold, dead, with dust whistling around us. The filters in our respirator units will last only a few hours in this environment.
- Captain's, log, stardate 6624.9... We have arrived at what First Officer Spock believes to be the most recently attacked planet.
- Captain's log, delayed entry. The sudden shift in gravity threw me against and through the wall. But I no longer had any idea of how long ago that was. Falling like that left me with no sense of time or distance. However, there was one thing I did know. I was not alone! Given the speed and ease with which they dispatched Lt. Bachman... I saw nothing to be gained by resisting them. Docility was my best gambit. My "hosts" abandoned me, leaving me to be moved ever deeper by a levitation device.
References
Characters
- Bachman • Christine Chapel • Pavel Chekov • James T. Kirk • John Kyle • Leonard McCoy • Montgomery Scott • Spock • Hikaru Sulu • Tommy • Nyota Uhura
Starships and vehicles
Locations
- intergalactic space • Milky Way Galaxy • Rohrbough Maelstrom • unknown planets
- Referenced only
- Earth (Ohio)
Races and cultures
States and organizations
Science and technology
- antimatter • black hole • class M • coordinates • galaxy • gravity • impulse power • intensive care unit • intermix • Leiber-Kurtzberg Theory • life energy • maintenance robot • mathematics • mummification • nacelle • negative energy • pattern buffer • respirator • robot • scanner • sensor array • slingshot • structural integrity • tricorder • warp signature
Ranks and titles
- biologist • captain • chief engineer • commander • doctor • first officer • lieutenant • planetary scientist
Other references
- 21st century • animal • assignment patch • atmosphere • atom • bacteria • bridge • briefing room • century • city • concrete • dark star • distress signal • engineering • fairy • farm • Federation Starfleet ranks (2260s) • galaxy • gas • ghost • ghoul • grass • kitten • landing party • millimeter • minute • mummification • ocean • standard orbit • philosophy • poetry • planet • rogue planet • science • skeleton • soil • space warp • star • Starfleet uniform (2265-2270) • star system • suicide • third-degree burn • transporter room • turbolift • war • warp factor (warp one • warp five • warp eight • warp nine • warp ten) • year
Timeline
Chronology
- This story took place shortly after Pavel Chekov had been promoted to lieutenant. The one-page story "R.H.I.P.", the previous story by John Byrne, cited the promotion. (Chekov was promoted in 2269, according to the Chekov article at StarTrek.com.)
Production history
- December 2017
- First published by IDW Publishing
- August 2018
- Reprinted in the omnibus New Visions, Volume 7. (IDW Publishing)
- October 2019
- Reprinted in hardcover in Graphic Novel Collection premium subscription photonovel #4. (Eaglemoss Collections)
Appendices
Background
- Pavel Chekov quoted lyrics, "And they all lived in little boxes, and they all look just the same." The lyrics were from "Little Boxes", a song made popular by singer Pete Seeger in 1963. (Little Boxes article at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.)
- Consistent with his promotion, Chekov and Hikaru Sulu addressed each other by their first names while on duty.
Related stories
- TOS - New Visions comic: "The Hollow Man" – The malevolent, telepathic entity S'uora was trapped within the core of Tau Beta IV.
- TOS comic: "The Final Truth" – The hollow planet Tristas contained a complex, benevolent life energy entity known as The Presence.
- TOS comic: "It's a Living" – The hollow planet Argus IV hatched the Argus IV cosmozoan.
- TOS comic: "The Brain-Damaged Planet" – A large Giant Brain cosmozoan lived within the Giant Brain asteroid.
Images
Connections
| published order | ||
|---|---|---|
| Previous comic: #18: R.H.I.P. |
TOS comics (New Visions) |
Next comic: #20 Isolation |
External links
- The Hunger article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
- The Hunger article at StarTrek.com.
- The Hunger article at the Flickering Myth blog.