There’s an interesting error on the cover of Malibu Comics’ Star Trek: Deep Space Nine #7. Though Mike W. Barr, as the regular writer on the series until issue 6, is credited on the cover, he’s not actually the writer of the story.

That honour goes to Len Strazewski, who was also responsible for the disastrous and extremely short-lived, 1993 Street Fighter comic series, also published by Malibu.

This issue of Deep Space Nine, featuring a done-in-one story named Working Vacation, thankfully shows a much better understanding of the source material than Strazewski demonstrated in his three issues of Street Fighter.

When Major Kira’s anger threatens a negotiation taking place on Deep Space Nine, Sisko orders her to take a vacation on a pleasure planet on the other side of the wormhole. It’s not long before Kira notices a great deal of injustice in the relationship between the Master and Servant classes on the planet she visits, however – and soon enough, she’s unable to resist helping the Servants in their ‘negotiations’ with the Masters.

This issue is a welcome one, with its strong focus on Kira and her history – which provides the perfect justification for breaking the Prime Directive in helping out the planet’s mistreated, downtrodden underclass.

Perhaps the aforementioned Barr was getting bored or running out of steam with Deep Space Nine; his last few issues weren’t all that great, so changing the writer seems to have worked wonders here. Though I didn’t have a lot of faith in Strazewski on another licensed comic, given that my only previous experience of his work was with Street Fighter, he excels here, and the Star Trek universe feels like a more natural fit for him.

From this issue onwards, there’s a bit of a rotating cast of writers, but this mirrors the TV show, which of course also has a team of various creatives on scripting. It’s not a problem, and it does stop any one writer struggling to come up with new material, as this issue proves.

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