Hearts and Minds

Reviewed on 22nd February 2025

I’m not normally a reader of graphic novels, but as a Deep Space Nine fan, I found a good few aspects to enjoy in this one.

It’s a story of a Klingon and Cardassian disagreement, and a trip into the Gamma Quadrant to investigate what triggered this. It makes good use of a range of characters to display this, and the artwork reflects the actors pretty well (especially Dukat I thought).

What i liked the most though was the structure - each page served as a single scene, and then the next page the next scene. This felt properly like watching a TV episode and worked for me better than when graphic novels are more free flowing.

The book also contains an original series comic from the early days of Star Trek, which is almost comical in how out of step with everything I feel I know about Star Trek it is, representing a weird version of Earth, strange 1960s attitudes, and just didn’t seem like the Trek I know.