Star Trek #48

DC's Star Trek #48 brings the third chapter of "Deceptions!" to a head, and the cover by Rod Whigham sets the tension perfectly — a Starfleet officer in dress reds squares off face-to-face with a snarling Klingon warrior, a trident-like weapon caught between them and the Klingon insignia looming large in the glowing background. The standoff crackles with barely contained aggression, suggesting that whatever deceptions have been unfolding across this arc, things are coming to a very personal flash point. Howard Weinstein, Whigham, and inker Arne Starr deliver a 1993 Trek tale that promises high stakes between two very different warriors.