10 Perfect Star Trek Gifts For The Trekkie In Your Life

The blurb for Star Trek: Defiant, a direct spin-off from the multiverse Star Trek comic book series, set three years after What You Leave Behind, has the greatest ever hook: "Someone is killing the gods. But Benjamin Sisko's Prophets-guided dealings of the higher cosmos has led him to forget about the very real casualties on lower ground." That might be gibberish and borderline blasphemy for a non-Trekkie, but for a fan, it's frankly divine.

Now 12 issues and an annual, Star Trek: Defiant is, in fact, the story of Worf and a patchwork crew (including Spock, Ro Laren, B'Elanna Torres, and even Lore) aboard, well, the Defiant, obviously, as they hunt down not a higher power, but the head of a genocidal cult. Try saying that last bit after you've been on the sherry!

Because it is all part of the same fictional universe/multiverse, you might also want to buy (at least) volume one — Godshock — of the Star Trek comic series to read alongside. Godshock begins the story of Sisko's return home from the plain of the Prophets, whereupon he must assemble his own ragtag crew to stop the god-killer as the omnipotence he has retained begins to fail him.