Not that Star Trek Vol. 2: The Red Path lacks action nor consequence, but in comparison to Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing’s first volume, or Christopher Cantwell’s Star Trek: Defiant debut, Red Path (at four main issues) feels smaller overall.

I had wondered, finishing Star Trek Vol. 1: Godshock — with its very direct sense of what this Trek series' “mission” would be, at least for this “season” — whether Kelly and Lanzing would ever treat themselves and the crew of the USS Theseus to any traditional Trek stories: episodic, “distress signal from an alien planet”-type stories. Red Path is still not quite that, but in Captain Benjamin Sisko embedding himself in Cardassian culture, and in the story largely relitigating controversies from the latter episodes of Deep Space Nine, it feels like more of an hour of Trek than Godshock’s ongoing saga.