Star Trek: The Next Generation #28
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeStar Trek: The Next Generation #28 — titled 'The Remembered One' — stands as one of the more emotionally ambitious single issues in DC's long-running TNG ongoing, tackling Worf's unresolved grief over K'Ehleyr's death (depicted in the television episode 'Reunion') through a science-fiction conceit: an alien energy lifeform that assumes her form to probe his mourning. At a moment when the monthly comic was running parallel to the show's fifth season and actively honoring television continuity, this standalone issue demonstrated that the licensed comic format could pursue genuine character interiority rather than simply recycling action plots. It also serves as the conclusion of a four-part arc centered on the returning fan-favorite character Okona, giving writer Michael Jan Friedman room to weave two distinct emotional threads — Worf's grief and Okona's courtship dilemma with Beverly Crusher — into a single issue resolution.
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Issue #28 was produced by the creative team that anchored the DC TNG ongoing through most of its 1991–1993 stretch: writer Michael Jan Friedman, penciller Peter Krause, and inker Pablo Marcos, with a cover by Jerome Moore and Tom McCraw. Friedman, who would go on to write approximately 77 or 78 of the series' 80 issues by his own account, landed the gig after befriending DC's Star Trek editor Bob Greenberger at a Pocket Books event — a connection forged through Friedman's simultaneous career as a TNG novelist. The ongoing series itself had launched in October 1989, spinning out of a successful 1988 six-issue miniseries, and by early 1992 was well into its stride as a companion publication running roughly in step with the broadcast fourth and fifth seasons.
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- Cover-dated February 1992; published as part of DC Comics' Star Trek: The Next Generation ongoing series, Vol. 2 (1989–1996).
- Story title: 'The Remembered One.' Serves as the conclusion (Part 4 of 4) of a story arc that began in issue #25.
- Written by Michael Jan Friedman; pencilled by Peter Krause; inked by Pablo Marcos; cover art by Jerome Moore and Tom McCraw.
- The central plot has Worf mourning K'Ehleyr — dead since the TV episode 'Reunion' — approximately one year after her death, with an alien energy lifeform manifesting as K'Ehleyr to interact with and challenge Worf emotionally.
- A secondary subplot involves the returning TV guest character Okona, who decides he cannot pursue Dr. Beverly Crusher romantically because of his friendship with Wesley Crusher.
- Both the direct edition and a newsstand edition were published for this issue.
- Michael Jan Friedman wrote the vast majority of this 80-issue ongoing run, describing the experience as akin to writing 'a second Star Trek TV show,' with stories structured in arcs of one to four issues.
- The DC TNG ongoing series ran from 1989 to 1996, outlasting the television series itself, and was one of the few outlets for original TNG stories during the show's broadcast years.
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