Quick impressions: a nice story overall. Basically feels like watching an extended episode of the show. The Enterprise start out with a call to assist Daystrom One, which houses a giant archive. The A.I. of the archive has developed consciousness, or so it seems. From there, the ship and crew go through a series of missions, all with various degrees of risk and distress. The missions seem unrelated, but they soon find out there is a common connection.

As I said, feels very much like an extended episode of the show. It was entertaining, but one of those you read once and move on. The art to be honest is not that good. The volume includes a covers gallery, and the art on that was good. If they had made the same effort with the art in the story as they did in the alternate covers, this would have been a better comic.

I will be posting a review to my blog later. ( )

The Enterprise D get caught in a series of traps.

2/4 (Indifferent).

There isn't anything particularly bad about it. There's just nothing interesting enough to make it worth reading. ( )

The most consistently enjoyable Star Trek comics from IDW have been those written by the Tipton brothers with art by David Messina, and this was no exception. While no epic triumph, it's one of those kind of works that the word "solid" was coined to describe. The collection's plot is a little strange-- that level of access to Federation facilities and all the Romulans try to do is kidnap Data to help them with their science project?-- but at least there are no moments of utter bafflement as in IDW's previous tNG story, The Space Between. The highlight is the Tiptons' ability to capture the tNG characters, from Picard to O'Brien, most especially Riker and Data, who repeatedly shine throughout this collection. On the other hand, the chapter that focuses on the women of the Enterprise-D (Troi, Crusher, and Ro) strangely has them all under alien mind control! So what's the point? David Messina's characteristic artwork is also as strong as ever. Looking forward to this team's next collaboration, Mirror Images.