10 Star Trek Comics Fans Need To Read

A prequel set eight years before "The Cage", this series follows the adventures of a young Number One, starting when she was a cadet and moving through her early Starfleet career.

Yet, while it is made abundantly clear who she is meant to be, her name is never said out loud, likely because the writers weren't entirely clear on what to call her, the name of this character being a matter of some debate before Discovery officially referred to her as Una.

The team behind this comic took painstaking efforts to make this feel not only like the original series but like the pilot episodes of the original series, not just in the look but in the dramatic pacing and even in the jargon, with ample uses of the term 'laser' instead of 'phaser', 'lithium' instead of 'dilithium' and so on.

Each issue feels very much like a classic stand alone episode of Star Trek. It's high stakes adventure with the young Una going from one hopeless situation to the next. After being present for a disastrous shakedown cruise for the Enterprise, she moves to a new posting with each issue until she makes her way back to Robert April's Enterprise.

With a high body count and a sense of ever-present danger, this series emphasizes how truly frightening a life in space can be, especially when you aren't in command and don't know what's happening. Number One rolls with the punches and with intellect and guile helps to pull each crew from disaster.